Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko has sold all shares of BUNKASHA PUBLISHING CO., LTD., Beaglee Inc.
Tokyo – Frontier Management Inc. (CFI Japan) is pleased to announce that they acted as financial advisor to Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko in the sale of all the shares of BUNKASHA PUBLISHING CO., LTD., its affiliates and holding companies of Bunkasha called NSSK-C Co., Ltd. and NSSK-CC Co., Ltd. to Beaglee Inc.
Bunkasha is a comprehensive publishing group that sells manga books and magazines as its main products, as well as leisure magazines in both paper and digital formats. The Company specializes in manga for women and owns excellent manga content including “Stepmom and Daughter Blues”, which was turned into a popular TV drama series.
Beaglee mainly operates a manga distribution service called “Manga Kingdom.” In addition, they also provide services and projects to distribute other creator contents. Beaglee’s goal is to become a content producer with services being centered around the vision of “creating,” “selecting” and “delivering” content. Beaglee plans to increase original works and distribute them to customers.
The transaction closed in October 2020.
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