Bunkasha

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Cover of Mechanics

Bunkasha Publishing Co. Ltd, founded on 1 March 1948, is a distributor and publishing company of books, manga, anime and computer games based in Tokyo, Japan.

Around the turn of the century Bunkasha was for the Japanese-speaking market what Pocket Books was for the English-speaking market, as far as Star Trek reference works were concerned. Most notably they published in those years two book series, one that comprised illustrated bi-lingual reproductions of internal documents, used by Paramount Studios in the production of the various television productions, and the Star Trek: Official Guide book series, comprising in edited form the various Companion books, beefed out with excerpts from the various Technical Manuals and Encyclopedias. A particularly noteworthy outing in that series was Star Trek: Official Guide 4 - Mechanics (1999), a purely Japanese initiative, that covered the subject of studio models, that does not have an English-language counterpart.

Star Trek reference works

• Star Trek: Official Guide 1 - Star Trek The Next Generation - December 1995, updated reprint in December 2002
• Star Trek: Official Guide 2 - Star Trek Deep Space Nine & Star Trek Voyager - April 1997
• Star Trek: Official Guide 3 - Official Database - April 1998, reprint in November 2002
• Star Trek: Official Guide 4 - Mechanics - January 1999
• Star Trek: Official Guide 5 - The Ultimate - October 2001
• Star Trek Next Generation Bible - The Ultimate Writer's/Director's Guide - February 2004
• The Bible II - Star Trek Deep Space Nine & Star Trek Voyager - July 2005

External link

• Official website