Vertical
Vertical, Inc., headquartered in New York, United States, is a Japanese novel and manga company founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai. In February 2011 the company was bought by Kodansha (46.7%) and Dai Nippon Printing (46.0%). Its offices are on the seventh floor of the 451 Park Avenue South building in Midtown Manhattan.
Works they published:
Novels
- A Caring Man (Akira Arai)
- A Rabbit's Eyes (Kenjiro Haitani)
- Ashes (Kenzo Kitakata)
- Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (Ryō Suzukaze)
- The Blade of the Courtesans (Keiichiro Ryu)
- Body (Asa Nonami)
- The Cage (Kenzo Kitakata)
- The Cat in the Coffin (Mariko Koike)
- City of Refuge (Kenzo Kitakata)
- The Crimson Labyrinth (Yusuke Kishi)
- Edge(Koji Suzuki)
- ENMA the Immortal (Fumi Nakamura)
- Fallout (Tetsuo Takashima)
- The Flowers of Edo (Michael Dana Kennedy)
- Gray Men (Tomotake Ishikawa)
- Guin Saga (Kaoru Kurimoto)
- A Guru is Born (Takeshi Kitano)
- Innocent World (Ami Sakurai)
- Lala Pipo (Hideo Okuda)
- May in the Valley of the Rainbow (Yoichi Funado)
- The Mediterranean Trilogy (Shiono Nanami)
- Naoko (Keigo Higashino)
- Now You're One of Us (Asa Nonami)
- Outlet (Randy Taguchi)
- Paradise (Koji Suzuki)
- Parasite Eve (Hideaki Sena)
- The Poison Ape (Arimasa Osawa)
- Pro Bono (Seicho Matsumoto)
- Promenade of the Gods (Koji Suzuki)
- The Ring Trilogy (Koji Suzuki)
- Sayonara, Gangsters (Genichiro Takahashi)
- Shinjuku Shark (Arimasa Osawa)
- Summer of the Ubume (Natsuhiko Kyogoku)
- Translucent Tree (Nobuko Takagi)
- Twinkle Twinkle (Kaori Ekuni)
- Winter Sleep (Kenzo Kitakata)
- Zero Over Berline (Joh Sasaki)
Short story collections
- Birthday (Koji Suzuki)
- Boy (Takeshi Kitano)
- Dark Water (Koji Suzuki
- Season of Infidelity (Oniroku Dan)
Non-fiction & Miscellaneous
- A Slow Death (NHK-TV “Tokaimura Criticality Accident” Crew)
- Aranzi Aranzo
- The Honda Myth (Masaaki Sato)
- Iron Chef Chen's Knockout Chinese (Chen Kenichi)
- J-Horror (David Kalat)
- Nintendo Magic (Osamu Inoue)
- North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter (Sakie Yokota)
- Saying Yes to Japan (Tim Clark, Carl Kay)
- Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! (Toshio Okada)
- Slow Sex Secrets (Adam Tokunaga)
- The Toyota Leaders (Masaaki Sato)
- Walking Your Way to a Better Life
Manga
- 5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai, Yukiko Seike)
- 7 Billion Needles (Nobuaki Tadano)
- AJIN (Gamon Sakurai)
- Andromeda Stories (Ryu Mitsuse, Keiko Takemiya)
- Ayako (Osamu Tezuka)
- Apollo's Song (Osamu Tezuka)
- Black Jack (Osamu Tezuka)
- The Book of Human Insects (Osamu Tezuka)
- Buddha (Osamu Tezuka)
- Chi's Sweet Home (Osamu Tezuka)
- The Drops of God (Tadashi Agi, Shu Okimoto)
- The Flowers of Evil (Shūzō Oshimi)
- From the New World (Yusuke Kishi)
- Garden of Words (Makoto Shinkai)
- GTO: 14 Days in Shonan (Tooru Fujisawa)
- GTO: The Early Years (Tooru Fujisawa)
- The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi (Kaoru Kurimoto, Kazuaki Yanagisawa)
- Helter Skelter (Kyoko Okazaki)
- Heroman (Stan Lee, BONES, Tamon Ohta)
- In Clothes Called Fat (Moyoco Anno)
- Insufficient Direction (Moyoco Anno)
- Knights of Sidonia (Tsutomu Nihei)
- Limit (Keiko Suenobu)
- Lychee Light Club (Usamaru Furuya)
- Message to Adolf (Osamu Tezuka)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate)
- MW (Osamu Tezuka)
- My Neighbor Seki (Takuma Morishige)
- No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya)
- Ode to Kirihito (Osamu Tezuka)
- Paradise Kiss (Ai Yazawa)
- Peepo Choo (Felipe Smith)
- PINK (Kyoko Okazaki
- Princess Knight (Osamu Tezuka)
- Sakuran (Moyoco Anno)
- Sickness Unto Death (Takahiro Seguchi, Søren Kierkegaard)
- Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda)
- To Terra... (Keiko Takemiya)
- Tropic of the Sea (Satoshi Kon)
- Twin Knight (Osamu Tezuka)
- Twin Spica (Kou Yaginuma)
- Utsubora(Asumiko Nakamura)
- Velveteen & Mandala (Jiro Matsumoto)
- What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Fumi Yoshinaga)
- Witchcraft Works (Ryu Mizunagi)
- Wolfsmund