Lagardere Acquires PIKA Edition



According to the company's press release, the international media conglomerate Lagardere has acquired the French manga publisher PIKA. Lagardere owns Hachette Livre which owns/runs Hachette Book Group USA; that company recently made the news for announcing its first slate of books through comics imprint Yen Press.

While Yen Press could conceivably benefit from access to a new unclaimed license or two, shared production costs, and one would suppose the ability to negotiate for future media properties from an advantageous position because it can offer re-publication in the North American and French-language markets, the thought that this would represent a flood of new properties for Yen should be quickly discounted. The reason that PIKA is the number three publisher of such material in the French-language market is because they have properties you've heard of, like Chobits which of course means they are already spoken for in the English-language market.

PIKA was founded in 2000 by a man and his hat.
 
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