Del Rey Manga

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Del Rey Manga (デルレイ, Del Rey Manga^?) is the manga-publishing imprint of Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books, which in turn is part of Random House, the publishing division of Bertelsmann. It was formed as part of a cross-publishing relationship with Japanese publisher Kodansha.^[1] Some of their titles, such as Tsubasa Chronicle and xxxHolic are published in the United Kingdom by a company called Tanoshimi.

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3 External links

[edit] Titles

Del Rey made their debut in May 2004 with four manga titles:

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED) - by Masatsuga Iwase
Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Mahō Sensei Negima!) - by Ken Akamatsu
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle - by Clamp
xxxHolic - by Clamp

They have since then licensed additional titles:

A Perfect Day for Love Letters (Koibumi Biyori) - by George Asakura
Air Gear - by Oh! great
Alive (manga) - by Tadashi Kawashima (story) and Adachitoka (art)
Basilisk - by Futaro Yamada (story) and Masaki Segawa (art)
Dragon Eye - by Kairi Fujiyama
ES (Eternal Sabbath) - by Fuyumi Soryo
Fairy Tail - by Hiro Mashima
Free Collars Kingdom - by Takuya Fujima
Gacha Gacha - by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi
Genshiken - by Shimoku Kio
Ghost Hunt - by Shiho Inada (story and art) and Fuyumi Ono (original novel)
Guru Guru Pon-chan - by Satomi Ikezawa
Kagetora - by Akira Segami
Kamichama Karin chu - by Koge-Donbo
Kitchen Princess - by Miyuki Kobayashi (story) and Natsumi Ando (art)
Kurogane - by Kei Toume
Le Chevalier D'Eon - by Tow Ubukata (original creator) and Kiriko Yumeji (art)
Love Roma - by Minoru Toyoda
Mamotte! Lollipop - by Michiyo Kikuta
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch - by Michiko Yokote (story) and Pink Hanamori (art)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny - by Masatsuga Iwase
Mushishi - by Yuki Urushibara
My Heavenly Hockey Club - by Ai Morinaga
Nodame Cantabile - by Tomoko Ninomiya
Othello - by Satomi Ikezawa
Parasyte (Kiseiju) - by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Pastel - by Toshihiko Kobayashi
Princess Resurrection (Kaibutsu Oujo) - by Yasunori Mitsunaga
Psycho Busters - by Yuya Aoki (story) and Akinari Nao (art)
Q·Ko-chan: The Earth Invader Girl
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei -by Koji Kumeta
School Rumble - by Jin Kobayashi
Shiki Tsukai
Shugo Chara!
Sugar Sugar Rune
Train Man (shōjo)
The Wallflower (also known as Perfect Girl Evolution or My Fair Lady)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (based on the Nintendo DS game series by the same name)

[edit] Mature line

In early December 2005 it was announced^[2] that Del Rey Manga would begin publishing a mature line of manga. It includes:

[edit] OEL Titles

Del Rey also publishes the following Original English-language manga titles:

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[edit] Marvel

At 2007's New York Anime Festival it was announced that Del Rey Manga would team up with Marvel Comics to produce manga versions of their titles, that would signal Marvel "whole-heatedly" moving into this area (previous attempts, like Marvel Mangaverse and X-Men: The Manga, having variable success).^[3] Titles confirmed^[4] ^[5] are: