Vertical (publisher)

Vertical, Inc. is a Japanese novel and manga imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing. Founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai, in February 2011, the company was bought by Kodansha (46.7%) and Dai Nippon Printing (46.0%). The company was consolidated into Kodansha USA Publishing in 2020. Vertical, Inc. publishes books from a variety of genres, including prose fiction, manga, nonfiction, crafts, and cooking. A Caring Man (Akira Arai) A Rabbit's Eyes (Kenjiro Haitani) Ashes (Kenzo Kitakata) Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (Ryō Suzukaze) Attack on Titan: Harsh Mistress of the City (Ryō Kawakami) Attack on Titan: Lost Girls (Hiroshi Seko) 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) KIZUMONOGATARI: Wound Tale (NisiOisiN) Kubikiri Cycle (NisiOisiN) 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) Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen (Takaya Kagami) Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: World Resurrection at Nineteen (Takaya Kagami) Shinjuku Shark (Arimasa Osawa) Summer of the Ubume (Natsuhiko Kyogoku) Translucent Tree (Nobuko Takagi) Twinkle Twinkle (Kaori Ekuni) Winter Sleep (Kenzo Kitakata) Zero Over Berlin (Joh Sasaki) Birthday (Koji Suzuki) Boy (Takeshi Kitano) Dark Water (Koji Suzuki) Season of Infidelity (Oniroku Dan) 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.