Publisher’s Weekly is reporting that Vertical, the folks who brought you “To Terra” and “Ode to Kirihito,” will up their manga production by starting a new shojo line:
The imprint will focus broadly on shojo manga for teen readers. Mentzas acknowledged that acquiring licenses for these titles has become very competitive. “It’s nearly impossible to get good licenses now, but we’ll do it,” he said. Three of the new staffers will run the new imprint. The house will continue to publish classic manga under the Vertical imprint.
Vertical will publish about 30 books in 2007 and expects to eventually publish around 60 books a year once the new imprint is fully operational. Most of the increase will be manga.
via Brigid
