Ever Glory Publishing
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is a Taiwanese publisher of manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

. It was founded in June 1991. In October 1992, the company obtained the Chinese license for Akita Shoten
Akita Shoten
is a Japanese publishing company established on August 10, 1948 in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its main editorial target has always been teenagers , and it currently publishes mostly manga...

's Weekly Shōnen Champion
Weekly Shonen Champion
is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published by Akita Shoten.- History :Shōnen Champion was first published 15 July 1969. It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, and Keisuke Itagaki...

. However, the magazine stopped publication in 1998.

Controversy

Although Ever Glory publishes many famous manga, it has been criticised for its packaging, paper quality and printing as well as poor gluing compared to other manga publication, especially when compared with the original Japanese version. Pages will fall off and pages were not cut completely.

There were two major changes to the way Ever Glory categorised it's magazines. The first change implemented categorising the magazines into 25 categories instead of only separating them into two genre, Shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...

 and Shōjo
Shojo
The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...

. The genre description with a number was used as an indication. This has been criticised by fans as being too complicated. The second change was using the rainbow spectrum to categorise the magazines into 7 categories.

It has also been criticised for being slow to translate manga up to 2 years after the original manga has been released. (Normally, publishers will translate manga within 6 months of the original manga being published)

Works

  • Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru
    Boku wa Imoto ni Koi o Suru
    is manga series by Kotomi Aoki. Originally serialized in Shōjo Comic, the individual chapters were published in ten tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan from May 2003 until August 2005...

  • Bokurano: Ours
    Bokurano: Ours
    is a Japanese science fiction manga by Mohiro Kitoh that was serialized in the monthly manga magazine Ikki from 2003 to 2009; 11 tankōbon have been published by Shogakukan...

     (published 6 out of 10 volumes)
  • Cardcaptor Sakura
    Cardcaptor Sakura
    , abbreviated as CCS and also known as Cardcaptors, is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. The manga was originally serialized monthly in Nakayoshi from the May 1996 until the June 2000 issue, and later published in 12 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha...

  • Chibi Vampire (Karin)
  • Elfen Lied
    Elfen Lied
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. A thirteen-episode anime television series adaptation was produced by the studio ARMS and broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to October 2004. The anime was later licensed in North America on DVD by ADV Films...

  • Feel 100%
  • Flower of the Deep Sleep
    Flower of the Deep Sleep
    is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yuana Kazumi. The manga was licensed in North America by Tokyopop, licensed in Germany by Carlsen Comics and Taiwan by Ever Glory Publishing.-Plot:...

  • Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Burned
    Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Burned
    is a manga scripted by Yasuhiro Imagawa and illustrated by Yasunari Toda...

  • Gimmick! (manga)
    Gimmick! (manga)
    is a Japanese manga written by Yōzaburō Kanari and illustrated by Kuroko Yabuguchi. The manga was serialised in Kodansha's Young Magazine and collected in nine tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, released between September 16, 2005 and May 18, 2007. The series is licensed in North America by Viz Media...

  • Grenadier (manga)
  • Hitohira
    Hitohira
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Kirihara. The story revolves around a shy girl named Mugi Asai who is unsure of what club to join in her school, but before she knows it she gets dragged into the Drama Research Society and becomes a member...

  • Indian Summer (manga)
    Indian Summer (manga)
    is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Takehito Mizuki. The manga was serialised in MediaWorks's monthly Dengeki Daioh before MediaWorks moved the title to the quarterly Dengeki Moeoh. The manga is licensed in English by ComicsOne....

  • Katte ni Kaizō
    Katte ni Kaizo
    is a shōnen manga by Kōji Kumeta. The manga ran for 26 volumes in Shōnen Sunday from 1998 to 2004. The art style went through a huge change as the story went on, by the end of the story the art style was the same as the type used in Kumeta's next series, Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei...

  • Landreaall (published 4 our of 13 volumes)
  • Minamisawa Hisakei's Luwon (abandoned)
  • Rozen Maiden
    Rozen Maiden
    is a manga series created by Peach-Pit. The story centers on Jun Sakurada, a young hikikomori boy that forms a bond with Shinku, a living doll of the "Rozen Maiden" series, who was created by the mysterious dollmaker Rozen hundreds of years ago...

  • Ruff Love
    Ruff Love
    is a one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Tamaki Kirishima. The manga was serialized in Nihonbungeisha's manga magazine, Nichibun Comics. Nihonbungeisha released the manga's tankōbon volume on December 28, 2006. It is licensed in North America by Aurora Publishing, which released the...

  • Steal Moon
    Steal Moon
    is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Makoto Tateno. The manga is published in Japan by Nihonbungeisha and in Taiwan by Ever Glory Publishing.The manga is licensed for an English-language released in North America be Digital Manga Publishing.-Plot:...

  • Super Radical Gag Family
    Super Radical Gag Family
    is a Japanese comedy manga series by Hamaoka Kenji. An anime adaptation by Studio Deen aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System in 1998....

  • Tenshi no Hitsugi: Ave Maria (abandoned/ unfinished)
  • Wandering Son (abandoned half-way)
  • Yurara
    Yurara
    is a supernatural shōjo manga by Chika Shiomi . It was serialized in Japan between 2003 and 2005 by Hakusensha in Bessatsu Hana to Yume and collected in five bound volumes. All five volumes have been published in English in North America by Viz Media...

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