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Company Profile

Commercial Name
BookLive Co., Ltd.
Scope of Business  
e-bookstore operation, comic production and publication, digital entertainment, net community service
Location
3-19-26, Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023
Access
Establishment
January 28, 2011
Representative Director
and CEO
Tadashi Awano
Director
Hidenori Ohno
Kazuhisa Fujiwara
Kazunori Sakai
Minoru Ogasawara
Ono Hitoshi
Soroku Masuda
Auditor
Toshio Mine
Kunihiko Fujimura
Capital
2.73 billion yen
Employees
200 employees (as of March 31, 2024)
Registration No. of Qualified Invoice Issuer
T1010501032060
Shareholders
Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.
TV Asahi Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
TOPPAN Holdings Inc.
(in order of fifty Japanese syllables)
Subsidiary Companies
C-Route Inc.
Digital Shokunin Inc.
Palmie Inc.
Flex Comix Inc.
memoria Inc.
(in order of fifty Japanese syllables)
Affiliate Company
Shiroyagi Corporation

Group Companies

C-Route Inc.
C-Route Inc.
Operating the business of planning/creation of Webtoons (vertical scrolling manga) and creation of intellectual properties for it.
Digital Shokunin Inc.
Digital Shokunin Inc.
Creating a wide range of digital content, including manga, Webtoons, localization, anime, and illustrations.
Palmie Inc.
Palmie Inc.
Operation of the online illustration learning service “Palmie” and the online Web design course “rimomo”.
Flex Comix Inc.
Flex Comix Inc.
Creation distribution of manga contents and publishing of the books, and operation of the Web comic services “COMIC METEOR”, “COMIC POLARIS”, and “COMIC ARK”.
memoria Inc.
memoria Inc.
Operation of a branding-oriented NFT marketplace “memoria”, and planning, development, and operation of new ventures and blockchain-related businesses.
Shiroyagi Corporation
Shiroyagi Corporation
Creation and operation of services focusing on big data analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning.

History

2003
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (present TOPPAN Holdings Inc.) started full-fledged comic distribution to KDDI’s third-generation (3G) mobile phone service for the first time in Japan.
2004
Comic distribution to the third-generation (3G) mobile phone service of NTT DOCOMO and Vodafone (present Softbank) was started.
The comic distribution supported three carriers for the first time in the industry.
2005
Spun off from Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Bitway Co., Ltd., was established.
2009
Bitway Co., Ltd., entered the overseas business.
2011
January  
Spun off from Bitway Co., Ltd., BookLive Co., Ltd., was established, and started the store business for multi-devices.

December  
Signed a strategic partnership with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE, LTD.
2012
March  
Took over the Handy comic business (present Bukkomi), and absorbed the original comic creation department from Bitway Co., Ltd.
2014
June  
Signed a strategic partnership with Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.
2016
October
Concluded a capital and business alliance with Shiroyagi Corporation.

December  
Started the distribution of the original comic label “NINO (present Live Comics)”.
2017
March 
Made Flex Comix a subsidiary.
2019
October
Made Palmie Inc. a subsidiary.
2021
November
Concluded a capital and business alliance with Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.
2022
February
Launched a platform for creators “Xfolio”.

April
Concluded a capital and business alliance with AXEL ENTERMEDIA, INC.

May
Started the service of a comic app “BookLive! fun”.

August
Concluded a capital and business alliance with Twin Engine Inc.
2023
February
Made Digital Shokunin Inc. a subsidiary.

March
Made NOKID WEBTOON (present C-Route) a subsidiary.
Made memoria Inc. a subsidiary.

April  
Concluded a capital and business alliance with TV Asahi Corporation.

Access

Address
3-19-26  Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023
Access Info
A six-minute walk from JR Tamachi Station
An eight-minute walk from Toei Mita Station