Title: My Neighbor Seki (Tonari no Seki-Kun) Genre: Comedy Publisher: Media Factory (JP), Vertical Inc (US) Artist: Takuma Morishige Serialized in: Comic Flapper Translation: Yoshito Hinton Original Release Date: January 13, 2015 It’s a great pleasure to jump back into the world that Seki himself created. I watched the anime last year, and it made ... Read more
“The level of idiocy of some people in this world surpasses imagination.” *** Okuda is a long time temp worker at a computer software company in 2008, and after suddenly realizing that he was never going to get a long term, stable position, he eventually got fired for being “fucking useless,” or bringing up the ... Read more
This past Saturday Kinokuniya and Vertical Inc held a Knights of Sidonia event, which turned out to preview the first episode of the Sidonia anime on Netflix, some brief talk on Vertical’s involvement with the anime staff, and a Q & A which revealed the anime was doing well on Netflix. After the event, Ed ... Read more
So not surprisingly, after I did my post where I discovered a trend where most manga publishers have started to stop including right to left diagrams in their manga volumes, I was curious about it. So I asked people working in the industry why this is the case, and if this is something we’re going ... Read more
[…] The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses attended Vertical’s recent Knights of Sidonia event at Kinokuniya bookstore and had a chance to ask Vertical’s Ed Chavez some questions. […]
Nice interview! It sounds like I really ought to check out Knights of Sidonia at some point; seems like an interesting series. Glad to hear the manga is selling well for Vertical.
And very nice to hear the Titan LN has already surpassed their expectations, even a month before release! I hope that series works out well for Vertical too.
The anime is actually pretty good. I was surprised though at how much success it had on Netflix tho, but then again, it is Netflix. It makes me wonder tho…
Yeah, that Titan keeps moving those money trains…will be interested to see how it’ll be when it does come out tho next month. That’ll definitely be the real test.