Kodansha

Kodansha Ltd. (株式会社講談社) is a Japanese publishing company founded in 1938 in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan and is owned and operated by the Noma family, starting with its founder Seiji Noma.

It is the largest publishing firm in Japan and has extended its brand to a US branch that was founded in 2008. It holds the rights to many popular titles of manga such as and.