Kodansha Box is a publishing line from the major Japanese

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 publishing house

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

, Kodansha

Kodansha

, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

. Each book is packaged in a silver cardboard slip cover. Single-handedly edited by Katsushi Ōta

Katsushi Ota

is a Japanese editor for Kodansha. He is editor in chief for the literary magazine Faust and the Kodansha Box line.He is currently working with Del Rey Manga to bring both Faust and Kodansha Box to the US.- External links :*...

 who describes the lines as: "A collection of works on the theme of the adolescent mind. I hope it will become a sort of index of Japanese popular culture

Japanese popular culture

Japanese popular culture not only reflects the attitudes and concerns of the present but also provides a link to the past. Japanese cinema, cuisine, television programs, manga, and music all developed from older artistic and literary traditions, and many of their themes and styles of presentation...

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Kodansha Box began publishing in November 2006 with the slogan Everything is boxed, Kodansha Box.

Contributors

• Nisio Isin
  Nisio Isin
  , frequently written as NisiOisiN to emphasize that his pen name is a palindrome, is a Japanese novelist and manga writer. He attended and left Ritsumeikan University without graduating. In 2002, he debuted with the novel , which earned him the 23rd Mephisto Award at twenty years of age...
  
  
• Ryusui Seiryoin
  Ryusui Seiryoin
  is a Japanese novelist, active in mystery and various other fields. He was born in 1974, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. He won the 2nd Mephisto prize in 1996 while in Kyoto University, and started to work as a novelist. After that, Ryusui published over 60 novels. His works are always controversial...
  
  
• Kinoko Nasu
  Kinoko Nasu
  is a Japanese author, best known for writing the novel Kara no Kyoukai and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan.-Biography:...
  
  
• Otaro Maijo
  Otaro Maijo
  is a Japanese novelist from Fukui Prefecture. Winner of the 19th Mephisto Award for Smoke, Soil, and Sacrifices, and the 16th Yukio Mishima award for Ashura Girl...
  
  
• Ryukishi07
  Ryukishi07
  is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...
  
  

Pandora

In February, 2008, Kodansha Box began publishing a literary magazine, called Pandora. According to the slogan, you never know what will come out...

External links

Kodansha Box series