{"id":24835,"date":"2011-02-25T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=24835"},"modified":"2011-02-25T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:02:24","slug":"kodansha-dai-nippon-acquire-vertical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/kodansha-dai-nippon-acquire-vertical\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodansha &#038; Dai Nippon Acquire Vertical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/sitelogo-47x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vertical logo\" width=\"24\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24836\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese publisher and Dai Nippon Printing have announced joint acquisition of the Tokyo based manga publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertical-inc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vertical<\/a>. Kodansha now owns 46.7% of Vertical while Dai Nippon owns 46.0%. Vertical was founded in 2001 and expanded into publishing English translated manga for the American market in summer 2008. Vertical Marketing Director Ed Chavez <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Vertical_Ed\/status\/40619475317293056\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>, &#8220;We&#8217;re working on our Spring 2012 list, and that should have around 2-4 Kodansha series &#038; around 5-7 from other [publishers].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2011-02-23\/kodansha-dai-nippon-printing-buy-vertical\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese publisher and Dai Nippon Printing have announced joint acquisition of the Tokyo based manga publisher Vertical. Kodansha now owns 46.7% of Vertical while Dai Nippon owns 46.0%. Vertical was founded in 2001 and expanded into publishing English translated manga for the American market in summer 2008. Vertical Marketing Director Ed Chavez reports, &#8220;We&#8217;re working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24846,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24835\/revisions\/24846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}