Michael Gombos Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon

•Handles all dealings and negotiations with Asia for DHC, ranging from keeping creators in good graces to negotiating all entertainment/publishing contracts.• Brought Dark Horse’s Japanese publisher base from 3 to 52 in a manner of several years, and helped to reinvigorate the manga (Japanese comics) program, as well as gain Dark Horse autonomy from constrictive third-party agents, giving the company much-needed and long-awaited independence and momentum. Some of the publishers were thought "untouchable" previously, such as Shueisha (the world's largest comics publisher), Shogakukan and Square Enix.• Conducts and translates (or more-often, conducts in Japanese) contracts, negotiations, schedules, etc.• Solely responsible for initiating and maintaining business with CLAMP, the most celebrated and highest-selling Japanese comics creators in history (100M+ unit sales worldwide), and introducing Dark Horse’s highly regarded and much-copied omnibus program.• During tenure at DHC, introduced and successfully negotiated profitable deals with/for: Yoshitaka Amano, Blood+, GANTZ, Oldboy, Neon-Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Lone Wolf & Cub, Appleseed, Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, Clover, Hatsune Miku, OreImo, I Am A Hero and Samurai Champloo, as well as FINAL FANTASY: SKY, one of DH's best-selling and most profitable programs.

— Interpreting Specialties: (J/E, E/J)General business and administrative interpretation focused in the following fields: trademark and intellectual property law, import/export and associated trade; fashion; entertainment; radio, television and other broadcast media.— Translation Specialities: (Focus J/E)Profound mastery of business correspondence translation, with extensive focus on intellectual property law, including publication, entertainment and product licensing agreements; supply-chain operations and related manifests; trademark agreements; radio, television and other communication media; science-fiction and fantasy prose and comics/manga; table-top gaming, wargaming, P&P roleplaying games; video games (both platform and PC); fashion.— Print/Digital Publications:Chief translator on two subsidiary properties based on globally-renowned entertainment franchise "Neon-Genesis Evangelion," specifically:Neon-Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project (2009 - Present; 18 volumes)Neon-Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse (2009 - 2011; 4 volumes)Neon-Genesis Evangelion: Comic Tribute (2013; one volume)Neon-Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Detective Diary (2013; two volumes)Neon-Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko PIko Middle School Students (2017; three volumes)Neon-Genesis Evangelion: Tony Takezaki's Evangelion (2015; one volume)Other well-known properties include:The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia (2013; one volume)Hatsune Miku / The Official Hatsune Mix (2014; one volume)Hatsune Miku / Future Delivery (2017; two volumes)Hatsune Miku / Rin-Chan Now! (2017-2018; 4 volumes)Hatsune Miku / Mikubon (2016; one volume)Hatsune Miku / Acute (2017; one volume)OreImo (2012-2013; 4 volumes)Kuroneko (2015-2016; 6 volumes)OreImo Comic Anthology (2016; one volume)FLCL Omnibus Edition (2012; one volume)Reiko the Zombie Shop (2005 - 2007; 6 volumes)

Education record

(Waseda University)

Japanese, Japanese (Literature And Language), English, Journalism

Education record