Granata Press

The Granata Press is a publishing house based in Bologna. history

The Granata Press has published books, magazines, comic books, and was among the first to translate and import with continuity manga and anime. The publication of Fist of the North and of the two magazines container Zero nippon comix and Mangazine, launched the manga market in Italy. The first was addressed to science fiction and action series and the second focuses on the comic series or the particular cut. Mangazine also had inserts in-depth on specific issues of the manga and anime, which was pretty groundbreaking at the time.

You need to Granata Press the first Italian edition for the home video market of the anime Future Boy Conan, which came out in full in the early 90s in a series of VHS dubbing which mirrors the same used for television broadcasting the early 80s, and the first attempt to translate and import OAV series.

Between 1990 and 1994, is published Zero, the first container magazine published by Granata Press Release on newsstands in November 1990 to cover price of 3,500 lire. The first issue contained the first two episodes manga momentous: Fist of the North (whose subsequent adventures were published in Z Compact) and Xenon. The publication continued until at number 39 among the manga published: Baoh, Patlabor, Sanctuary, Spriggan, Gunhead, Appleseed, Macross II, Alita, Genocyber. After the end of Zero, the Granata Press published a second edition of the magazine, increasing the size and inserting color. Among the manga published: Lycanthrope Leo, Genocyber, Alita and the miniseries based on the saga of Fist of the North. The experiment was not a success and closed after a few numbers.

Another magazine dedicated to the manga is Mangazine, where they are published, among others, Lum (which was later dedicated the new magazine Manga Classic series), Ranma 1/2, Mai, Patlabor and Kamui. Granata also published at Manga Classic, who presented the manga Mazinger Z, and subsequently the manga of The Great Mazinger (already presented by Fabbri 15 years earlier). This necklace would eventually have to present for the first time in Italy also the stories of UFO Robot Grendizer created by Go Nagai and Gosaku Ota, but the limited evidence of sales imposed the closure of Manga Classic, so it was not until 2007 before they can read in the Italian Grendizer Ota. Finally, Z Star, which published the manga of Devilman and Captain Harlock.

In 1991 he published the book Souls guide to Japanese animation cinema, a sort of encyclopedia of anime result of a research project, which has the form of a sheet all the Japanese animated series from the beginning up to 1988 for each series are animated indicated a range of data, including year of creation, date of airing Japanese and Italian authors and plot.

In 1996, the Granata Press has failed, leaving several rounds incomplete. Many of these were later republished in full by another publishing house, the Star Comics. Publications (partial) Comics

Appleseed by Masamune Shirow

Baoh, of Hiroiko Araki

!! Bastard, Kazushi Hagiwara

Captain Harlock, Leiji Matsumoto's

Crying Freeman, Ryoichi Ikegami

Devilman, by Go Nagai

Grey, Yoshihisa Tagami

Horobi Yoshihisa Tagami

The Knights of the Zodiac, Masami Kurumada

Kamui by Sanpei Shirato

The Fellowship of the gallows, Magnus and Romanini

Lady Oscar, Ryoko Ikeda

Lum, Rumiko Takahashi (incomplete)

Mai, Kazuya Kudo and Ryoichi Ikegami

Maison Ikkoku, Rumiko Takahashi (incomplete)

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, by Hayao Miyazaki

Fist of the North, by Tetsuo Hara and Yoshiyuki Okamura

Ranma ½, Rumiko Takahashi (incomplete)

Sanctuary, and Ryoichi Ikegami Sho Fumimura

Ushio and Tora, Kazuhiro Fujita (incomplete)

Xenon, in Masaomi Kanzaki

Gundam 0083

Dirty Pair

Books

The Disney Italian, Luca Boschi, Leonardo Gori and Andrea Sani, 1990

The females enchanted by Magnus 1990

Anime guide to Japanese animation cinema, curated by Andrea Baricordi, Massimiliano De Giovanni, Andrea Pietroni, Barbara Rossi, Sabrina Tunesi 1991

Down in the delirium of Alda Teodorani 1991

The anaconda Giorgio Scerbanenco 1991

Life is a mess of Leo Malet, 1991

The women, the love of Guido Crepax 1991

The black moons of Lucio Fulci 1992

Iron recent Marcello Fois, 1992

The Eye Witness - The cinema of Lucio Fulci Michael Romagnoli, 1992

The world of manga - Japanese comic book Introduction to Thierry Groensteen 1992

The painting killed Paolo Di Orazio 1993

Dark Lorenzo Marzaduri 1993

Erotica '93. Festival of Eroticism 1993

Falange Armata di Carlo Lucarelli, 1993

Hiawata Pete Francesca Ghermandi 1993

The sun is not for us to Leo Malet, 1993

The postcard of the most stinking Alberto Lorenzini and Gianfranco Monti 1993

The roots of evil Alda Teodorani 1993

But ... Women's Nicola Casamassima 1993

Pericles black Giuseppe Ferrandino, 1993

Fant'Asia - The Far Eastern fantasy films of Richard Esposito - Max Della Mora - Massimo Monteleone, 1994

We Robot - Space Toys Massimo Monteleone - Guglielmo Lady 1994

magazines

Kaos

Zero (1990-1994)

Mangazine

Compact Z

manga Classic

Classic New Manga Series

Z Star

video

Aside from its own issues, the Granata Press distributed the production of Manga Video dubbed in Italian.

Giant Robot, until the third episode.

Rumic World