Monthly Archives: November 2019

Cyber Monday Sale: Featuring 15+ cyborg-related digital manga series up to 50% off! (ends 12/2)

Published: November 26, 2019
01000011 01111001 01100010 01101111 01110010 01100111 00100000 01001101 01101111 01101110 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01010011 01100001 01101100 01100101 ...or as you humans might say, Cyber Monday Sale! All your favorite manga featuring human-machine hybrids up to 50% off! It’s almost enough to make a robot emotional! This week only, over 15 series of our cyborg-themed series are now up to 50% off at our digital retail partners: BookWalker, Read More »

Check out our bundles at the Right Stuf Holiday Sale! Ends 12/28

Published: November 22, 2019
Didja know that Black Friday officially starts as "Black Friday Week" on November 24th? And something exciting's happening every week at our pals' at Right Stuf this holiday season! Visit Right Stuf and find the latest hit titles from Kodansha Comics and Vertical sold in bundles at special prices! Promotion ends on December 28th, 2019, though! Happy winter reading!    

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UPDATE 11/22: Our Anime NYC 2019 recap w/ announcements + VOFAN highlights!

Published: November 22, 2019

Our Anime NYC Recap Part 1: VOFAN!

This year at Anime NYC, Vertical was proud to welcome renowned Taiwanese artist VOFAN for his first trip to the largest city in America—New York City!  Know as the "Magician of Light from Taiwan," VOFAN has drawn characters for game magazines, light novels, and is best known as the star illustrator of the MONOGATARI series novels written by NISIOISIN. To celebrate the launch of his newly remastered art book, Read More »

UPDATED 11/20: New simulpubs HERO’S and The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm!

Published: November 20, 2019
Leave it to scientific advancements to save the day! Thanks to simulpub technology, we're releasing the latest chapters of HERO'S—Hiro Mashima's brand-new all-star manga crossover—and The Ghost in The Shell: The Human Algorithm the same day and time they hit newsstands in Japan! HERO'S Chapter 1-6 are now available for purchase and download on comiXology and Kindle and Read More »

Big comiXology Originals Sale! Save up to 70% on Drops of God, Initial D, BECK, MARS + more! Ends 12/5

Published: November 19, 2019
It's been all fun—and profit!—with our pals at comiXology Originals, as we continue to drop one digital manga hit after another—in most cases putting out an entire series run at once so you can binge-read 'em! All of the illustrious titles below are available for purchase only on Kindle and comiXology and streaming on Amazon Prime Reading, Kindle Unlimited and comiXology Unlimited. But now, you know what? Now we're putting them all on sale—a lot! Read More »

MONOGATARI Humble Bundle—pay what you want for NISIOSIN digital novels, manga, art & audiobooks until Dec 4!

Published: November 13, 2019
This is it! The MONOGATARI Humble Bundle is definitely our longest-running Humble Book Bundle ever, running for an epic 3 weeks—but it's also our most multidimensional: at its core, an up-to-minute collection of the mind-bending light novels of Japan's hottest literary phenomenon, NISIOISIN, rounded out into multisensory glory with feasts for the eyes (with manga by Mitsuru Hattori and Oh!great and an artbook by VOFAN) and Read More »

10 Years of Kodansha Comics—November Spotlight: CLAMP

Published: November 5, 2019

10 years of Kodansha Comics! The year 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the first Kodansha Comics manga published in English. Please join us in celebration as we select one classic Kodansha Comics series each month for exclusive content, promotions, and other surprises! Our November Spotlight is on the critically acclaimed manga team CLAMP and their expansive interconnected world including series like Read More »

Our first-ever CLAMP digital sale! Selected CLAMP series up to 40% off!

Published: November 5, 2019
Some of the most memorable moments in manga history are now on sale digitally! That's right, for the first time ever, all of our digital series by manga supergroup CLAMP are on sale! From now until November 11th, get up to 40% off on CLAMP titles at all of our digital retail partners: Apple Books, BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and nook. With the long-awaited Read More »