COAMIX Inc. will be the first Japanese editor ever at Lucca Comics & Games with two dedicated areas. The first one is set up into the monograph exhibition of the Sensei, in Chiesa dei Servi, while the second one at Japan Town.
Established in June 2000, COAMIX Inc. is a publishing house specializing in publishing manga magazines, comics volumes and books, as well as in producing and distributing digital contents. Furthemore, it is responsible for the management of licensed rights and for training fresh minds.
The current president, Nobuhiko Horie, five-time editor-in-chief of Weekly Shōnen Jump for the publishing house Shueisha, established COAMIX in the Kichijōji district, in Musashino (Tokyo), alongside with Tetsuo Hara (Hokuto no Ken), Tsukasa Hōjō (CITY HUNTER), Ryūji Tsugihara (Yoroshiku Mechadock), and with Tadashi Negishi, the former editor-in-chief of Monthly Shōnen Jump. Their goal was to create an innovative editorial world, focusing on producing and publishing manga and related-to-the-industry magazines.
In 2001 COAMIX launched on the market a weekly magazine called Weekly Comic Bunch, which was curated until 2010, year in which was launched a monthly magazine called Monthly Comic ZENON.
In 2019, the publishing house inaugurated the online portal of ZENON Editorial Department, dedicated to web manga serialization. In 2020 the company opened a subordinate headquarters in the Kumamoto prefecture.
During the same year, COAMIX established O’Clock Kumamoto Drama Company, a theatre company featuring only actresses, set up to stage COAMIX works.
In 2023, COAMIX established the first school department, entirely dedicated to manga, in a public Japanese high school, supported by the Education Committee of Kumamoto Prefecture, the municipality of Takamori and by Takamori Prefecture high school.
Finally, COAMIX, through a powerful commitment in training the new generations of mangaka, built up a residential area next to the Kumamoto headquarters. This new building is the house of 26 Japanese and foreign selected artists, whom both live and work there. Their work is supervised by editors and by the staff of the publishing house.
