Del Rey Manga

Del Rey Manga, an arm of Random House Publishing (the publishing division of Bertelsmann AG), is a company that publishes manga in North America. Del Rey made their debut in May 2004 with four manga titles:

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Random House Publishing - Bertelsmann AG - Manga - North America - May 2004

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• Gundam Seed
• Negima
• XXXHOLiC

They have since then licensed eleven additional titles:

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• Othello
• The Wallflower (a.k.a. Perfect Girl Evolution)
• Genshiken
• Nodame Cantabile
• Basilisk
• A Perfect Day for Love Letters
• Guru Guru Pon-chan
• Love Roma
• Gacha Gacha
• Ghost Hunt
• Sugar Sugar Rune

Del Rey has made several choices in how they format their manga that has made them very popular.

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• They keep the manga in its original right to left reading format.
• They include detailed notes from the translators.
• Pages that were in color in the Japanese manga are colored in the Del Rey versions.
• They keep the original Japanese sound effects intact while placing small english text next to them, keeping the art uneffected while allowing english readers to understand them.
• They include previews of the next manga volume with the original Japanese text.
• They include the original honorific suffix at the ends of Japanese names (-san, -kun, etc) in all of their manga. In addition, Del Ray includes at the start of all of their titles a detailed explanation of the honorific system.
 
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