Publisher Ranking | EROMANGA HALL OF FAME

茜新社 www.akaneshinsha.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 37 176 books Works Hall 47 founded 1976 (year 51)

Founded in 1976 as the limited company Akane, Akaneshinsha (茜新社) is based in Kanda-Misakicho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. Its flagship magazine is COMIC LO, launched in 2002, yet most of the practical work on both its magazines and its book editions is handled by its parent company, the editorial production company Comic House — a close two-in-one arrangement largely invisible from the outside. The firm also runs general-audience and boys' love imprints. It has no capital ties whatsoever to Akane Shobo, the long-established children's book publisher. (Sources: [1])

エレクトさわる丸居まる東山翔前島龍高津 DISTANCE 大嘘源五郎鬼束直藤坂リリック彦馬ヒロユキあ~る・こがディビチグチミリ EB110SS Noise 無道叡智みさお。みなすきぽぷりポンスケぼっしぃたまちゆき嶺本八美高岡基文西安亀吉いちこスミヤまめぞう柚木N' 一弘 yam オオカミうお皐月芋網おおたたけししんどう Jun 佐々原憂樹

キルタイムコミュニケーション www.ktcom.jp ↗ Hall authors 36 147 books Works Hall 53 founded 1995 (year 32)

Kill Time Communication (キルタイムコミュニケーション) was born in 1995 out of the editorial production division of the advertising agency Micro House. Home to Comic Unreal and Nijigen Dream Magazine, it is a major stronghold of fantasy-oriented adult publishing; its sister company is Micro Magazine, known for light novels. In its early years the firm also published PC-building and video game magazines, and as of 2016 its best-selling title of all time was not an adult publication but a Pokémon strategy guide. (Sources: [1])

エレクトさわる丸居まる煌野一人しいなかずき chaccu 或十せねか × Rusty Soul DATE ほりとも藤坂リリックソメジマ奈塚Q弥ディビ無道叡智無望菜志まる寝子かいづかあまぎみちひと夢乃狸七瀬瑞穂吉田石野鐘音シン・普禅千葉哲太郎楠木りんさいもん皐月芋網歌麿おおたたけししょむ Jun ドリル汁太平さんせっと寒天ゴンざぶろー PIえろあらくれ

コアマガジン cmz.jp ↗ Hall authors 32 131 books Works Hall 9 founded 1985 (year 42)

Established in 1985 as Shonen Shuppansha, the company took its present name, Core Magazine (コアマガジン), in a 1995 renaming — at which point the name "Gokigen Shuppansha" was reportedly also proposed, only to be dropped in the face of objections from all sides. An affiliate of Byakuya Shobo, it assumed its current form by consolidating that company's adult and subculture divisions. From its own building in Takada, Toshima ward, it keeps both wheels turning — adult and subculture alike — with titles ranging from Comic HOTMILK and Megastore to Jitsuwa BUNKA Taboo. (Sources: [1])

岡田コウ月野定規如月群真前島龍高津 DISTANCE 藤坂リリック復八磨直兎田辺京 EB110SS 堀博昭蛹虎次郎 TYPE.90 ジョン・K・ペー太アガタみなすきぽぷり葵ヒトリ藤ます無望菜志かいづか七瀬瑞穂西安マイノリティ唄飛鳥しょうさん坊主シン・普禅千葉哲太郎一弘歌麿 Jun 佐々原憂樹あらくれ

ワニマガジン社 www.wani.com/adult ↗ Hall authors 29 162 books Works Hall 9 founded 1971 (year 56)

Wanimagazine (ワニマガジン社) was established in 1971 as a group company of KK Bestsellers and later became independent. It is known for a confusing coincidence: although it has no personal or capital ties to Wani Books, all three companies display a "reading crocodile" as their symbol. Its flagship magazine is COMIC Kairakuten, launched in 1994. Unusually art-minded for an adult publisher, the company also operates a gallery, a ristorante, and even a wine shop. (Sources: [1])

月野定規如月群真みちきんぐ高津 DISTANCE 新堂エルディビ Hamao Noise 堀博昭 TYPE.90 藤ます無望菜志ぼっしぃもじゃりん夢乃狸西安亀吉いちこ kakao かるま龍狼スミヤオクモト悠太メメ50 mogg あきのそら皐月芋網いーむす・アキ太平さんせっと雛原えみ

ジーオーティー gotbb.jp/adult ↗ Hall authors 16 75 books Works Hall 14 founded 1996 (year 31)

GOT (ジーオーティー) was founded in 1996 and is today a member of the DMM.com group. Alongside adult manga magazines such as comic Anthurium and COMIC E×E, it publishes the adult-video information magazine Monthly FANZA. In 2006 it took over the sales rights to eight magazines, including Bejean, from the venerable Eichi Shuppan. It also runs the all-ages web comic site COMIC MeDu, maintaining a channel into general-audience publishing. (Sources: [1])

丸居まるみちきんぐ DISTANCE ジョン・K・ペー太葵ヒトリ無望菜志かいづか唄飛鳥メメ50 やながわ理央あきのそら日月ネコ一弘おかゆさんさいもんしょむ

ティーアイネット web.mujin-ti.net ↗ Hall authors 15 86 books Works Hall 16 founded 1999 (year 28)

TI Net (ティーアイネット) was founded in 1999 by editorial staff of Ohto Shobo's COMIC Muga who struck out on their own — a publisher of the editor-spinout type. Based in Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa ward, it publishes titles such as COMIC Mugen Tensei. Its flagship magazine COMIC MUJIN long kept up a literati's game of giving each issue a subtitle in the form of a mock-classical four-character idiom, such as "Jinsoku Kadan." (Sources: [1])

煌野一人椿十四郎高津新堂エルあ~る・こが奈塚Q弥堀博昭 TYPE.90 ZUKI樹墓場チキコ柚木N' シン・普禅傷希レイしょむ

メディアックス www.mediax-co.com ↗ Hall authors 14 36 books Works Hall 1 founded 1990 (year 37)

Mediax (メディアックス) was born in 1990 as a subsidiary of Eichi Shuppan and became independent in 2001. Its hallmark is an omnivorous list: centered on ladies' comic magazines but extending to mooks on railways and film. It holds Issuisha, Kosai Shobo, and Akebono Shuppan as subsidiaries, and in its Kagurazaka building the parent company Mediax and the long-established Issuisha share the very same floor. (Sources: [1][2])

木谷椎ゼロの者オイスターあ~る・こがディビ EB110SS 葵ヒトリまる寝子たまちゆき西安マイノリティチキコ石野鐘音 RED-RUM

三和出版 www.sanwa-pub.com ↗ Hall authors 13 48 books Works Hall 1 founded 1976 (year 51)

Sanwa Shuppan (三和出版) was established in 1976 and is based in Sugamo, Tokyo. It is one of the publishers founded by alumni of Tokyo Sanseisha, the fountainhead of Japanese adult publishing. With titles such as Masyo and Mania Club, it has been a steadfast specialist — a boutique keeper of niche tastes the major houses do not touch. In 2023 a corporate reorganization brought a new structure that carried the trade name forward. (Sources: [1][2])

あ~る・こが復八磨直兎ジョン・K・ペー太みなすきぽぷりまる寝子たまちゆきマイノリティまめぞう柚木N' やながわ理央傷希レイ RED-RUM hal

ヒット出版社 www.hitpub.com ↗ Hall authors 11 110 books Works Hall 6 founded 1993 (year 34)

Hit Shuppansha (ヒット出版社) was established in 1993. After the bankruptcy of an earlier company called Hit Shuppan, located in Kudanshita in the 1980s, its founder started this new corporation afresh. Its flagship is the bimonthly COMIC Aun. The company is headquartered in Nakameguro, Meguro ward — a rather stylish address for a publisher. (Sources: [1])

師走の翁岡田コウ DISTANCE 鈴木狂太郎みなすきぽぷり井上よしひさ高岡基文夢乃狸石野鐘音ぽんこっちゃんしょうさん坊主

エンジェル出版 angelweb.jp ↗ Hall authors 11 58 books Works Hall 4 founded 1998 (year 29)

Angel Shuppan (エンジェル出版), established in 1998, is an affiliate that Futabasha — publisher of Manga Action — spun off as a separate corporation for its adult division. Its sales staff double as Futabasha employees and its president is a Futabasha director: a textbook example of a major general publisher handling adult material through a subsidiary. Its flagship is the monthly ANGEL Club, and since 2012 Futabasha-affiliated adult book editions have been consolidated under the company's handling. (Sources: [1][2])

奈塚Q弥 ZUKI樹大林森亀吉いちこやながわ理央一弘秋草ぺぺろん RED-RUM しょむドリル汁 PIえろ

富士美出版 Hall authors 10 31 books

Fujimi Shuppan (富士美出版) was the subsidiary that carried the adult division of the Tatsumi Publishing group. In 2012 it took over publication of COMIC Penguin Club, one of the industry's longest-running adult manga magazines, first launched in 1986. The corporation itself disappeared in subsequent group reorganizations, and its flagship magazine, after passing through Scholar Magazine, returned home to Tatsumi Publishing proper in 2021. (Sources: [1][2])

たまごろーあ~る・こが蛹虎次郎 TYPE.90 たまちゆき唄飛鳥やながわ理央 RED-RUM 天凪青磁ドリル汁

文苑堂 www.bunendo.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 10 28 books Works Hall 23 founded 1955 (year 72)

Bunendo (文苑堂) has an unusual second face: founded in Fukuoka in 1937, its core business is book wholesaling. It moved to Tokyo in 1955 and is now based in Jinbocho. Long primarily a distributor and sales agent, it entered adult comics publishing under its own name in 2013, and with the 2014 launch of COMIC BAVEL it made its presence felt at a stroke. It is a different company from Bunendo Shoten, the bookstore chain in Toyama. (Sources: [1][2])

しいなかずき或十せねか × Rusty Soul 大嘘みぞね復八磨直兎かいづか夢乃狸亀吉いちこ朝峰テルしおこんぶ

ジーウォーク gwalk.co.jp/main ↗ Hall authors 7 29 books Works Hall 7 founded 2002 (year 25)

G-Walk (ジーウォーク) was established in 2002. Its founder came from Ohto Shobo, and the company displays a diversified portfolio: the adult manga imprint Moog Comics and the magazine Kaen, plus photo books, the erotic-fiction imprint Beni Bunko, and even VR video distribution. It is based in Kamimeguro, Meguro ward — the same Kamimeguro 1-chome where its fellow trade publisher Oaks once kept its headquarters, a corner of the city where adult publishers stood within a stone's throw of one another. (Sources: [1][2])

丸居まる椿十四郎みぞねポンスケたまちゆき亀吉いちこてつ

一水社 Hall authors 6 43 books Works Hall 8 founded 1954 (year 73)

Trace its lineage back and Issuisha (一水社) arrives at Kaiyo Bunkasha of 1941 — a house, in fact, born in wartime. After the war it passed through the name Warai no Izumisha before becoming Issuisha in 1958. Its founder was Aiko Murata. The company specializes in adult titles and boys' love, and since Mediax acquired control in 2010 it has shared the same building — and the same floor — as its parent company in Kagurazaka. (Sources: [1])

木谷椎ゼロの者オイスター藤坂リリック葵ヒトリ石野鐘音

クロエ出版 shingeki.jp ↗ Hall authors 6 33 books Works Hall 1 founded 2003 (year 24)

Chloe Shuppan (クロエ出版) is a limited company established in 2003 and based in Toshima ward, Tokyo. Its flagship magazine is COMIC Shingeki. Roughly four times a year, on an irregular schedule, it holds the Shingeki New Artist Award — a small house that nonetheless pours its energy into discovering new talent. (Sources: [1][2])

堀博昭アガタしょうさん坊主しょむ hal ハルサワ

松文館 www.shobunkan.com ↗ Hall authors 6 15 books founded 1968 (year 59)

Shobunkan (松文館) began in 1968 as San Kikaku, passed through the name Ohayo Shuppan, and took its present name under the umbrella of Matsumoto Printing. At one time it produced juvenile publishing, including comic adaptations of Tatsunoko Production works. In the 2000s it entered publishing history as the defendant in the Shobunkan trial, in which the obscenity of manga was contested in court. Its head office sits in Higashikurume, away from central Tokyo, and its books are known for the odd trait of changing covers — and even titles — with each new printing. (Sources: [1])

あ~る・こが TYPE.90 たまちゆきかるま龍狼佐藤沙緒理てつ

双葉社 www.futabasha.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 6 9 books founded 1948 (year 79)

Futabasha (双葉社) is a general publisher established in 1948. Born in Gifu shortly after the war, it takes its name from the sumo grand champion Futabayama. Manga Action, launched in 1967, was Japan's first weekly seinen manga magazine. The company's involvement in the adult field runs through its subsidiary Angel Shuppan, making it a leading example of a major general publisher entrusting adult material to a separate corporation. (Sources: [1])

DISTANCE 堀博昭 ZUKI樹かるま龍狼柚木N' やながわ理央

竹書房 www.takeshobo.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 4 14 books founded 1972 (year 55)

Takeshobo (竹書房) was founded in 1972 by Kyoichiro Noguchi. As the birthplace of Gekkan Kindai Mahjong, Japan's first magazine devoted to mahjong, it stands as the headquarters of mahjong culture, while also publishing four-panel comic magazines, paperbacks, and adult titles. It is beloved, too, for its magnanimity in permitting its own headquarters to be repeatedly destroyed within the pages of Pop Team Epic. (Sources: [1])

ZUKI樹亀吉いちこかるま龍狼柚木N'

オークス Hall authors 4 12 books founded 2002 (year 25)

Oaks (オークス) was established in 2002 as a subsidiary of Oakla Publishing. It produced adult comics such as COMIC XO, but in 2017 it was absorbed into its parent company and its magazine SEPIA ceased publication. After the merger, Oaks-line works disappeared from Oakla Publishing's lineup. Its base was Kamimeguro, Meguro ward, where it was a neighbor — in the very same 1-chome — of its fellow trade publisher G-Walk. (Sources: [1][2])

藤坂リリックあ~る・こがたまちゆき唄飛鳥

辰巳出版 tg-net.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 3 5 books Works Hall 8 founded 1967 (year 60)

Tatsumi Publishing (辰巳出版) was established in 1967. Once strongly associated with adult magazines, it has since steered decisively toward pet magazines such as Neko Biyori and Shi-Ba, pachinko information magazines, and practical hobby books. At the same time it has never let go of COMIC Penguin Club, the long-running adult manga magazine launched in 1986. Absorbing group companies such as Fujimi Shuppan and Scholar Magazine along the way, it is headquartered in Hongo, Bunkyo ward. (Sources: [1][2])

たまごろー吉田ドリル汁

東京三世社 Hall authors 2 15 books founded 1968 (year 59)

The forerunner of Tokyo Sanseisha (東京三世社), Sanseisha, dates to 1952 and was founded by Yukio Ishizaka, proprietor of the remainder-book dealer Ichisando. Reorganized as Tokyo Sanseisha in 1968 and based in Misakicho, Chiyoda ward, it reigned as a pioneer of adult publishing. It was also a matrix of talent that gave rise to later firms in the trade, among them Sun Shuppan and Sanwa Shuppan. Sales reached 4.5 billion yen in 2005, but the company ceased operations in 2010, closing its history. (Sources: [1])

たまちゆき唄飛鳥

ジェーシー出版 Hall authors 2 10 books

JC Shuppan (ジェーシー出版) was a small publisher based in Kamiikedai, Ota ward, which issued Comic MAN-TEN (2001–2006) and its successor Comic CROSS. No new titles have appeared since July 2007, yet according to the registry of the Japan ISBN Agency its publishing activity was still confirmed as continuing as of March 2020 — a company that quietly lives on. (Sources: [1])

DISTANCE みなすきぽぷり

桃園書房 Hall authors 2 9 books founded 1948 (year 79)

Toen Shobo (桃園書房), founded in 1950, was a long-established house in Hatchobori. Its range ran from fishing magazines to Shosetsu Club and adult titles, and at its peak its annual revenue reached 2.1 billion yen. It is also remembered as the workplace of Takehiro Irokawa — the novelist known as Tetsuya Asada, author of Mahjong Horoki — who served there as an editor. In 2007 it went bankrupt together with its subsidiary Tsukasa Shobo and vanished. (Sources: [1])

ジョン・K・ペー太やながわ理央

司書房 Hall authors 2 7 books founded 1972 (year 55)

Tsukasa Shobo (司書房), established in 1948, was one of the trade's true veterans. As a subsidiary of Toen Shobo it was known for a mass-production operation that kept some thirty magazines in rotation, including Manga Eros and Comic Dolphin. Its former head office stood in Misakicho, Chiyoda ward — the dense quarter of adult publishing that also housed Akaneshinsha and Tokyo Sanseisha. In 2007 it went bankrupt along with its parent company. (Sources: [1][2])

高岡基文かるま龍狼

蒼竜社 Hall authors 2 5 books

Soryusha (蒼竜社) was a member of the Tatsumi Publishing group, producing everything from the pachislot magazine Pachislo 7 to ladies' comics and adult manga magazines. In the wave of group reorganizations of the 2010s it disappeared as a corporation, absorbed into the Tatsumi Publishing lineage. (Sources: [1][2])

あ~る・こが嶺本八美

ビブロス Hall authors 2 3 books founded 1988 (year 39)

Biblos (ビブロス) was established in Kagurazaka in 1988 as Seiji Biblos and renamed Biblos in 1997. With Magazine BE×BOY as its flagship, it was the central house that raised BL — boys' love — into a genre in its own right, while also producing adult manga such as Colorful Bee. Adept at generating buzz, it staged the National Unified Otaku Certification Test in 2005; but in 2006 the collapse of its affiliated vanity press Hekitensha set off a chain reaction that brought the company down. Its BL business passed to Libre Publishing, founded with investment from the Animate group, and its flagship magazine continues to this day. (Sources: [1])

月野定規西安

日本出版社 Hall authors 2 3 books founded 1966 (year 61)

Nihon Shuppansha (日本出版社) descended from a prewar house established in 1938 as the Sensen Bunko Hensanjo, which changed its name to Koa Nihonsha and then Nihonsha before becoming Nihon Shuppansha in 1966. Based in Yaraicho, Shinjuku, it published adult manga magazines such as Lemon Club and Peppermint COMIC while also serving as the publisher of the cat magazines Neko Biyori and Nekomaru. Under a president who professed himself "simply a cat lover," it was known for the breadth of its swing — concentrating on cat publishing from the 1990s onward — before closing its doors in 2012. (Sources: [1])

オイスターあ~る・こが

シュベール出版 Hall authors 2 3 books

Shubēru Shuppan (シュベール出版) was in substance the adult division of Leed Publishing, created in the early 1990s — when pressure on adult manga was mounting — by carving that business out of the parent as a regulatory buffer. It published adult magazines such as COMIC Zero-Shiki and Gokuraku-Oh, but went bankrupt and was dissolved in 2003, its assets folded back into Leed Publishing. The artists of its flagship magazines went on to find new homes in other publications. (Sources: [1][2])

高岡基文石野鐘音

フランス書院 www.france.jp ↗ Hall authors 2 2 books founded 1975 (year 52)

France Shoin (フランス書院), established in 1975, is a name synonymous with Japanese erotic fiction — yet it is in fact a wholly owned subsidiary of Mikasa Shobo, known for business and self-improvement books. At first it concentrated on translations of foreign erotica, shifting in 1982 to original work by Japanese authors, and built the France Shoin Bunko imprint, launched in 1985, into a major brand. It publishes for women under the separate name Printemps Shuppan and holds its Kanno Taisho prize for new writers twice a year, keeping erotic fiction running as an industry. (Sources: [1])

DISTANCE 墓場

ぶんか社 www.bunkasha.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 2 2 books founded 1948 (year 79)

Bunkasha (ぶんか社) descends from Nihon Bunkasha, founded in 1948 by a veteran of Bungeishunju, and took its present name in 1992. Under the banner of the "delightful and exhilarating publisher," it is strong in manga for women, from Manga Grimm Douwa to teens' love magazines, and in 2019 it transferred its men's business to a group company to specialize in the women's market. Since 2020 it has been under Beaglee, operator of the manga distribution service Manga Oukoku — a venerable print house turned subsidiary of a digital distributor, a microcosm of the industry's realignment. The BL publisher Kaiohsha is an affiliate. (Sources: [1])

あ~る・こが千葉哲太郎

シーズ情報出版 Hall authors 2 2 books

Shiizu Joho Shuppan (シーズ情報出版), formerly named Big City Times, is an information-magazine publisher known for the MAN-ZOKU series of adult entertainment guides. Yet it was also the publisher of the monthly Comic Tsuri-Oh, a magazine launched in 1997 and devoted entirely to fishing manga — a company that embodies the capaciousness of the magazine trade, where a nightlife guide and a fishing magazine share the same colophon. (Sources: [1][2])

高岡基文石野鐘音

ブラスト出版 blastpub.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 8 books founded 2017 (year 10)

Blast Publishing (ブラスト出版) is a publisher and seller of comics and media products, operating the imprint occupai. Its colophons take the form "published by Blast Publishing / distributed by Seiunsha." Seiunsha, established in 1979, publishes nothing of its own: it specializes in handling distribution for small and mid-sized publishers that lack trading accounts with the wholesalers. This division of labor between publisher and distributor is a standard industry mechanism that sustains small-press publishing. (Sources: [1][2][3])

かいづか

リイド社 www.leed.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 2 books Works Hall 1 founded 1974 (year 53)

Leed Publishing (リイド社) has a rare pedigree: it was born in 1974 when Saito Production, the gekiga studio behind Golgo 13, spun off its publishing division. Based in Koenji, it holds a near monopoly on period-drama and Sengoku-warlord manga through Comic Ran and Comic Ran Twins. It once handled adult material through its subsidiary Shubēru Shuppan, and for many years it was a strongly family-run firm, with the elder brother of Takao Saito serving as its head. (Sources: [1])

ジョン・K・ペー太

L.P.E.G. Hall authors 1 2 books

L.P.E.G. was the publisher of adult parody anthologies such as Houkago Dopyu Dopyu Time, based on the popular series K-On!. It was one of the bearers of the derivative-anthology genre that flourished in the 2000s, yet almost no record of the company itself survives; only its publications preserve its name, in the secondhand book market. (Sources: [1])

まる寝子

実業之日本社 www.j-n.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 2 books founded 1897 (year 130)

Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha (実業之日本社), founded in 1897, is one of the true elders of Japanese publishing. In 1909 it became the first in the Japanese book trade to introduce consignment sales to provincial retailers, and is counted among the companies that shaped the framework of publication distribution that endures today. In the Taisho era it flourished as a major house succeeding Hakubunkan; in manga it has run imprints such as Mansun Comics. Since 2016 it has been under the investment group Seedge — a firm with nearly 130 years of history making a fresh start under an investment company, itself a reflection of publishing's present. (Sources: [1])

嶺本八美

若生出版 www.wakoh-p.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 2 books founded 1977 (year 50)

Wako Shuppan (若生出版), established in 1977 and based in Kanda-Awajicho, is a long-standing publisher of men's gravure magazines such as Getchu and Zettai Bijin SECRET. In adult manga it published COMIC Purumelo from 2006 to 2014 and maintains the book imprint Wako Comics. It typifies a dual-trade style peculiar to this industry: a gravure magazine house that also publishes manga magazines. (Sources: [1][2])

夢乃狸

マックス Hall authors 1 2 books founded 2005 (year 22)

Max (マックス) was a consolidated subsidiary in Jinbocho that Shinyusha created to carve out its adult manga and adult-game-related publications. Launched in 2005, it published titles such as PUSH!! and COMIC Potpourri Club. In 2015, caught in the fallout of the collapse of the book wholesaler Kurita Shuppan Hanbai, it ceased operations and was absorbed into Shinyusha at the end of that year and dissolved — an ending that neatly illustrates the structure of the publishing industry, where it is the failure of distribution, not of the publisher, that stops a magazine. (Sources: [1][2])

七瀬瑞穂

晋遊舎 www.shinyusha.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 2 books founded 1995 (year 32)

Shinyusha (晋遊舎) was born in Jinbocho in 1995 as a spin-off from Taiyo Tosho, a publisher active in adult publishing. Once known for adult manga and underground titles, it transferred its adult manga business to its subsidiary Max in 2007 and steered the parent company decisively toward advertisement-free product-testing magazines such as MONOQLO, LDK, and Kaden Hihyo. From adult publishing to hard-nosed consumer review journals: among publishers, one of the most striking reinventions on record. (Sources: [1])

大林森

二見書房 www.futami.co.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 2 books founded 1960 (year 67)

Futami Shobo (二見書房), founded in 1941, is a long-established house in Kanda-Misakicho. It wears two faces: a general publisher with a string of bestsellers — novelizations of Columbo, Manga Nihon Mukashibanashi, and a kanji drill book that topped the annual Oricon chart — and, for many years, the keeper of the erotic fiction imprint Madonna Mate. It is also the publisher of the collected works of Georges Bataille; that a philosophy series and an erotic paperback line share the same house's shelves is precisely this company's character. (Sources: [1])

かるま龍狼

大洋図書 taiyohgroup.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 1 books founded 1952 (year 75)

Taiyo Tosho (大洋図書), founded in 1952, is based in Nishi-Kanda, close by Jinbocho. From true-story magazines such as Jitsuwa Knuckles to the BL magazine ihr HertZ, adult comics, puzzle magazines, and mooks of the gyaru magazine egg, this diversified house holds broad command of the bookstore's "risqué corner." It keeps several publishers under its umbrella, including Million Shuppan, and Shinyusha — known for its product-testing magazines — was itself born as a spin-off from this company. (Sources: [1][2])

丸居まる

久保書店 www.kuboama.com ↗ Hall authors 1 1 books founded 1953 (year 74)

Kubo Shoten (久保書店) is a venerable house begun in 1946 when Tokichi Kubo, who ran a bookbindery, entered publishing. Its path traces the risqué margins of postwar publishing history: the sexology magazine Amatoria, produced with the sexologist Tetsu Takahashi; the SM magazine Uramado; and Manhunt, a magazine of translated foreign crime fiction. Lemon People, launched in 1982, is regarded as the first bishoujo manga magazine in history; when the company adopted the then-unusual A5 format for its book editions, the choice took hold and became the standard format for bishoujo comics thereafter. This is the publisher that built the very vessel of the genre. (Sources: [1])

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東京漫画社 www.tokyomangasha.com ↗ Hall authors 1 1 books founded 2004 (year 23)

Tokyo Mangasha (東京漫画社) is a BL specialty brand operated by the limited company Softline. Built around the imprint MARBLE COMICS, it follows a distinctive rhythm, alternating the original BL anthologies Cab (even months) and Fig (odd months). It also runs the BL drama-CD label TM RECORDS and merchandise lines — a small yet thoroughly modern publisher handling manga, audio, and goods in a single integrated operation. (Sources: [1][2])

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桜桃書房 Hall authors 1 1 books

Ohto Shobo (桜桃書房) was a publisher housed in the Ohto Building in Kamimeguro, Meguro ward, producing books that included adult titles. Oakla Publishing, which had become independent from an affiliated company, later took over its business when the original house fell into financial crisis, absorbing it in 2004 — not a child succeeding a parent, but the branch house absorbing the main family: a reversal not uncommon in the world of publishing. (Sources: [1])

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スコラマガジン Hall authors 1 1 books founded 1999 (year 28)

Scholar Magazine (スコラマガジン) was founded to carry on the title of the men's magazine Scholar after its publisher Scholar — launched in 1981 with ties to Kodansha — ceased operations in 1999. In adult manga it produced titles such as COMIC Penguin Club Sanzokuban and Manga Lawrence. In 2021 it was absorbed into Tatsumi Publishing, becoming one more example of a lineage characteristic of the publishing world, in which a magazine outlives the company that bears it. (Sources: [1][2])

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フロム出版/東京三世社 Hall authors 1 1 books founded 1968 (year 59)

Tokyo Sanseisha (東京三世社) began with a magazine launch in 1952 and was incorporated in 1968, a long-established adult publisher whose SM Select, launched in 1970, set off a boom in SM magazine launches. From Shuppan (フロム出版) was a group company that published comics and other titles under its umbrella. The Sanseisha group produced many publishers that went on to independence, but the parent itself, after running deficits from 2006, ceased operations in 2010, closing a history of more than half a century. (Sources: [1])

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青磁ビブロス Hall authors 1 1 books founded 1988 (year 39)

Seiji Biblos (青磁ビブロス) is the former name of the later Biblos, established in Kagurazaka in 1988. It was under this name that the foundations of BL and yaoi publishing were laid, before the company was renamed Biblos in 1997. A book whose colophon reads "Seiji Biblos" is thus an artifact of the formative years in which BL was taking shape as a genre. (Sources: [1])

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コミックゼタ Hall authors 1 1 books

Comic Zeta (コミックゼタ) is a digital comic imprint operated by Zeta, an editorial production company that plans and produces content centered on manga. Holding no print magazine, it maintains its imprint directly on e-book stores, distributing works on the scale of several hundred titles — a "publisher without a magazine," a form native to the digital age. It also scouts new talent through its submission platform comicBro. (Sources: [1][2])

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海王社 www.gushnet.jp ↗ Hall authors 1 1 books founded 1986 (year 41)

Kaiohsha (海王社) is a BL specialty publisher founded in 1986 as High Score Media Work and renamed Kaiohsha in 1993. Its flagships are the BL magazine GUSH, launched in 2003, and the fiction imprint Gush Bunko. A member of the Bunkasha group, it is headquartered at the very same address as its parent Bunkasha in Ichibancho, Chiyoda ward — a fine example of a division of labor hard to see from outside: the BL-designated company within a women's manga group. (Sources: [1][2])

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