AlphaPolis Co. Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社アルファポリス, Hepburn: Kabushiki Gaisha Arufaporisu) is a Japanese publishing company located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.[3]
AlphaPolis is a publisher of light novels and manga,[4] particularly for online readers.[5] The company is the publisher for several light novel series, including A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life, New Saga, and Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy. They are most notable as the publisher of Gate, which has sold 6 million copies.[6]Gate received an anime adaptation that aired beginning on from July 4, 2015 until March 26, 2016. Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy also received an anime adaptation that aired beginning on July 7, 2021.
History
AlphaPolis was launched as a publisher of online content in August, 2000.[2]
In 2010, AlphaPolis acquired the rights to publish Gate, which began as a web novel on Arcadia. The company then began publishing a manga adaptation in July 2011. Several volumes (11,[7] 12,[8] 13,[9] and 14[10]) placed in the Oricon ranking for top 50 manga volume sales.
In 2013, AlphaPolis acquired the rights to publish Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy, which began as a web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō. The novel series went on to sell 2 million copies.[11] AlphaPolis began publishing a manga adaptation in 2015. The book received an anime adaptation beginning in September 2021.
A Playthrough of a Dude's VRMMO Life is another series that began as a web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō, and was later turned into an AlphaPolis light novel publication in 2014, and manga adaptation also in 2014. The manga placed several volumes (3,[10] 5[12]) on the Oricon bestseller list. An anime adaptation was announced in February 2023.[13]
The Technoroid anime received a manga adaptation via AlphaPolis beginning in January 2023[14]
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange[15] and has been since October 2014.
AlphaPolis released the Alpha Manga app in August, 2021[16] to read AlphaPolis manga on iPhone and Android phones. Several of the AlphaManga titles were subsequently made available through Crunchyroll.[17]
^""ラノベ異世界モノ"は児童書市場も席巻? 出版社が続々と児童書ジャンル参入のワケ" ["Light novels from another world" take the children's book market by storm? Why publishers are entering the children's book genre one after another] (in Japanese). 28 December 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
^"『ゲート』シリーズが累計600万部を突破 門の向こう側の「特地」を舞台にした異世界×自衛隊ファンタジー" [The "Gate" series has sold over 6 million copies. [Its a] different world x Self-Defense Forces fantasy set in the "special area" on the other side of the gate.]. ラノベニュースオンライン (in Japanese). Retrieved August 14, 2021.
