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18:03:39 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Thanks for coming out this afternoon, this is vertical inc
18:03:59 <bay|ANext|Vertical> If you've come to other events, you've probably seem some of this
18:04:22 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Will be going through the summer and fall list and new announcements for spring 2012 which don't get formalized finally
18:04:27 <bay|ANext|Vertical> till next week
18:06:16 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Start off with stuff that just came out
18:06:22 <bay|ANext|Vertical> The Lychee Light Club
18:07:00 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Usamaru Furuya, on sale 4/19/2011, $16.95
18:07:27 <bay|ANext|Vertical> The worry free kitchen: Everyday dishes without oil and butter
18:07:40 <bay|ANext|Vertical> written by Kumiko Ibaraki, 3/22/2011, $14.95
18:09:02 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Black Jack vol 14
18:09:19 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Osamu Tezuka, 4/26/2011 (says 2010, assuming thats a typo), $16.95
18:09:50 <bay|ANext|Vertical> back on schedule every 2 months
18:09:54 <bay|ANext|Vertical> On the See-Saw Bridge
18:10:03 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Yuichi Kimura and Koshiro hata
18:10:08 <bay|ANext|Vertical> first kids book, hard cover
18:10:21 <bay|ANext|Vertical> 6/14/2011, $14.95, 36 pages
18:11:03 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Chi's Sweet Home volume 6
18:11:15 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Konami Kanata, 6/28/2011,
18:11:20 <bay|ANext|Vertical> chi has been a tremendous success
18:11:38 <bay|ANext|Vertical> "The cash cat"
18:13:57 <bay|ANext|Vertical> chissweethome.net official website has bunch of chi's stuff, will be adding a new papercraft and internview when vol6 goes on sale
18:14:03 <bay|ANext|Vertical> A Caring Man
18:14:12 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Akira Arai, 7/05/2011, $24.99
18:14:19 <bay|ANext|Vertical> first novel in too long
18:16:47 <bay|ANext|Vertical> (the book was "re-written" after the earthquake to try and upstage that as some of the events in the book are pretty atrocious to begin with)
18:17:28 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Twin Spica vol 8
18:17:40 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Kou Yaginuma, 7/05/2011, $10.95
18:19:13 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Black Jack vol 15
18:19:21 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Osamu Tezuka, 7/27/2011 $16.95
18:21:14 <bay|ANext|Vertical> The Book of Human insects
18:23:07 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by osamu tezuka, 8/16/2011, $22.99 (hardcover)
18:23:22 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Velveteen and Mandala
18:23:32 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Jiro Matsumoto, 8/23/2011, $16.95
18:23:56 <bay|ANext|Vertical> with zombies for comedic relief...
18:26:22 <bay|ANext|Vertical> City of Refuge
18:26:36 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Kenzo Kitakata, 8/30/2011, $13.95
18:26:40 <bay|ANext|Vertical> keeps getting pushed back
18:28:12 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Number Place: Blue
18:28:23 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Tetsuya Nishio, 9/23/2011, $7.95
18:28:41 <bay|ANext|Vertical> borders situation has affected puzzle books
18:28:44 <bay|ANext|Vertical> for vertical
18:30:31 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Spica vol 9, 9/6/2011
18:29:18 <bay|ANext|Vertical> The Drops of God vol 1
18:29:26 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Tadashi Agi, 9/13/2011, $16.95
18:31:40 <bay|ANext|Vertical> No Longer Human vol 1
18:31:52 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Usamaru Furuya, 9/27/2011, $10.95
18:32:09 <bay|ANext|Vertical> based on the Osamu Dazai novel
18:32:47 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Black Jack vol 16, 9/20/2011
18:33:07 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Princess Knight, Part One
18:33:17 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Osamu Tezuka, 10/04/2011, $13.95
18:33:36 <bay|ANext|Vertical> All three volumes compiled into one omnibus
18:35:45 <bay|ANext|Vertical> doing edition that has 30 additional pages over the other editions from tezuka
18:35:45 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Edge
18:36:13 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Koji Suzuki, 10/11/2011, $24.95 (hardcover)
18:37:01 <bay|ANext|Vertical> (has math stuff)
18:37:26 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Pro Bono
18:37:41 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Seicho Matsumoto, 10/18/2011, $14.95
18:39:05 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Chi's Sweet Home vol 7 , 10/25/2011
18:39:21 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Twin Spica vol 10, 11/01/2011
18:39:28 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Cinema Cafeteria
18:39:44 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Nami Ijima, 11/08/2011, $14.95
18:39:48 <bay|ANext|Vertical> next cookbook
18:39:55 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Nami Ijima is a food stylist for movies
18:40:47 <bay|ANext|Vertical> No Longer Human vol 2, 11/22/2011
18:41:01 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Black Jack vol 17, 11/29/2011
18:41:27 <bay|ANext|Vertical> only 200 pages, may do a special edition
18:42:09 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Princess Knight part 2, 12/7/2011
18:42:13 <bay|ANext|Vertical> final part
18:42:27 <bay|ANext|Vertical> The Drops of God vol 2, 12/24/2011
18:42:44 <bay|ANext|Vertical> each volume is 2 volumes of the japanese edition
18:42:55 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Body
18:43:03 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Asa Nonami, 12/13/2011, $13.95
18:43:18 <bay|ANext|Vertical> horrific short stories, each focusing on a different body part
18:43:23 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Twin Spica vol 11
18:43:26 <bay|ANext|Vertical> jan 2012
18:43:46 <bay|ANext|Vertical> No longer human vol 3, jan 2012
18:44:15 <bay|ANext|Vertical> will be releasing in L-R format, drawn by Furuya that way
18:44:50 <bay|ANext|Vertical> GTO: 14 days in Shonan, vol 1
18:45:11 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Tohru Fujisawa Jan 2012
18:45:02 <bay|ANext|Vertical> $10.95
18:47:53 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Dororo (Complete Edition)
18:48:06 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Osamu Tezuka, 2/07/2012, $24.95, 880 pages
18:48:14 <bay|ANext|Vertical> vol 1 and 2 are now out of print in the first edition
18:48:35 <bay|ANext|Vertical> GTO the early years, vol 11
18:48:46 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by Tohru Fujisawa, feb 2012, $12.95
18:48:50 <bay|ANext|Vertical> prequel that never got finished by TP
18:49:16 <bay|ANext|Vertical> likely that after 1-15 are done, will go back and do 1-10 if there are enough sales
18:49:37 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Chi's Sweet home vol 8, feb 2012
18:49:45 <bay|ANext|Vertical> (Vertical is in vol 8)
18:50:19 <bay|ANext|Vertical> (All non-asian version will follow vertical version)
18:50:55 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Twin Spica Vol 12, last vol , march 2012
18:50:59 <bay|ANext|Vertical> 12 and 11 are both 400 pages,
18:51:02 <bay|ANext|Vertical> 7-10 are 300 pages
18:51:16 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Drops of God vol 3
18:51:16 <bay|ANext|Vertical> march 2012
18:51:30 <bay|ANext|Vertical> can go to times right now and see preview for Drops
18:51:33 <bay|ANext|Vertical> GTO 14 ays vol 2
18:52:08 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Enma the immortal, april 2012
18:51:44 <bay|ANext|Vertical> another golden elephant winner
18:51:46 <bay|ANext|Vertical> first light novel
18:51:48 <bay|ANext|Vertical> fumi nakamura
18:51:57 <bay|ANext|Vertical> $13.95, 280 pages
18:52:20 <bay|ANext|Vertical> comic book to be adapted by dark horse comics
18:52:27 <bay|ANext|Vertical> comic and book to have english and french simul release
18:53:18 <bay|ANext|Vertical> can actually find a rough t/l done for the contest on amazon currently
18:53:25 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Mr reaper
18:53:39 <bay|ANext|Vertical> by tatsuya miyanishi, april 2012, $16.95
18:53:47 <bay|ANext|Vertical> 40 pgs
18:53:51 <bay|ANext|Vertical> hardcover
18:54:13 <bay|ANext|Vertical> GTO early years vol 12, april 2012
18:54:07 <bay|ANext|Vertical> and that's it
18:55:52 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Q: picking up GTO?
18:56:08 <bay|ANext|Vertical> A: looking into it, we got the sequel before TP went under
18:56:54 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Q: top sellers?
18:56:58 <bay|ANext|Vertical> A: Chi...
18:57:06 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Ayako, 7 billion needles
18:58:04 <bay|ANext|Vertical> Q: Changes since TP went under?
18:58:44 <bay|ANext|Vertical> A: going to take the Vertical manga line to where I want it to go... like Chi was step 1, pepo choo was step 2... got is step 1.5
18:58:54 <bay|ANext|Vertical> now we are closer than ever than kodansha, and some other publishers
18:59:14 <bay|ANext|Vertical> so hopefully we can bring you some different titles and some you already know that you want to have
19:00:12 <bay|ANext|Vertical> end