Four years ago, Haikasoru was launched. We released our first two titles, All You Need Is Kill and The Lord of the Sands of Time, simultaneously, and since then have greatly enjoyed bringing you the best in Japanese science fiction and fantasy. We thought we might review some highlights:

* All You Need Is Kill has to be the big news. The novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka has been adapted into the Warner Bros. film Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, which will be released in June 2014. Given the number of popular science fiction novels that have waited decades for a film adaptation, we're thrilled to have helped with this success in just a few years. Tom Cruise is also attached to star in an adaptation of Yukikaze by Chōhei Kambayashi.

* We've had books nominated for, and even winning, a wide variety of literary awards. Project Itoh's Harmony won the Special Citation for the Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback original, and Good Luck, Yukikaze won Honorable Mention in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award. Otsuichi's ZOO was nominated for the Shirley Jackson award. Belka, Why Don't You Bark? by Hideo Furukawa is a current SF&F Translation nominee. And, then there's...

*The Future Is Japanese, our first anthology, requires its own award bullet point. The anthology was an experiment for us, as we published fiction by Western authors for the first time. Ken Liu's short story "Mono No Aware" has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, and Sturgeon awards. Project Itoh's "The Indifference Engine" was nominated for a Shirley Jackson. “Autogenic Dreaming: Interview with the Columns of Cloud” by TOBI Hirotaka, is up for an SF& F Translation Award. The anthology itself, as a whole, was nominated for a Locus Award. Stories by David Moles, Catherynne M. Valente, Pat Cadigan, and Rachel Swirsky have all been selected for reprinting in various year's best annual anthologies.

*Haikasoru editor Nick Mamatas was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Editor, Long Form in 2011. Reno is a hell of a party town.

*We've reached thousands of new readers thanks to mainstream recognition: Koushun Takami's Battle Royale, refurbished and dressed up for a Haikasoru re-release, moved beyond the bookstore and into airports, newsstands, and virtually everywhere else. A rave review on NPR launched Ryu Mitsuse's Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights to the top of our personal charts. (PS: the hardcover glows in the dark!)

*We also branched out into selected tie-in work. We were thrilled to publish Project Itoh's Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots and Miyuki Miyabe's ICO: Castle in the Mist—these novels not only celebrated some cult classic videogames, they stood on their own as works of art.

And now, as we enter our fifth year, we're still experimenting. We just released our first book by a Western author, Catherynne Valente's The Melancholy of Mechagirl, and we're hard at work on our first graphic novel. Not a manga translation, a homebrew adaptation of All You Need Is Kill is coming your way next spring. We're also entering the field of non-fiction with a collection of essays on one of our favorite novels: The Battle Royale Slam Book!