Anime News

Yoshimoto Kogyo Enters Manga Field
Date: 1/16/2007
Daily Sports reports entertainment agency Yoshimoto Kogyo is "making a raid on the manga field". On January 4th firm president Isao Yoshino gave a speach at the Swiss hotel Namhae Osaka where the new Comic Yoshimoto magazine was announced. 20-25 different serials all penned by professional mangaka will be published therein. Seried plots will be based around member celebrities of the agency. The circulation will be a twice a month affair and 250,000 debut issues will be printed this spring. The predetermined price is 320-340 Yen per B5 sized magazine. The sales network will consist of such bookstores and convenience stores nationwide. Subsidiary Yoshimoto Books will be formed in March established by existing publisher "Crocodilian Books" and joint contributions for the new magazine will begin. Yoshino plans to have the company invest 500 million Yen on the project. So far, Keizo Ueda (Yaoh: Night King) has signed up to draw a serial. The target demographic are men 20-40-years old.
Source: Anime News Service