While not nearly as epic as Anime Expo‘s licensing list, San Diego Comic Con still had a few new manga offerings for waiting fans. Under the cut is a list of announced licenses, courtesy of Gia and ANN!
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Two quick links for the night:
Gia‘s begun her live-blogging for the San Diego Comic Con! Notable news so far is the licensing of several new titles by DelRey, including a thirteen+ volume set of light novels illustrated by CLAMP: Soryuden. Brings back a lot of nostalgia for me, my first light novel and discovered during my first obsssive dig for all things CLAMP had anything to do with. So of course I’m also really looking forward to the upcoming CLAMP in America book (also officially announced at DelRey’s panel)!
BLU’s website was updated with additions to its release calendar today. New volumes listed there will put some fans’ worries to rest, including volume 11 of Love Mode and volume 4 of Black Knight. Love Mode was originally feared to be cancelled a mere one volume from it’s completion after it was postponed shortly after Tokyopop’s restructing annoucement.
With lots of news yet to come at this year’s ComicCon, keep an eye out at Gia and Deb‘s blogs for all the info!
Three days of Anime Expo and 60 61 manga licenses later, I figured it was time for a round-up! Many thanks, kudos and credit goes to Gia and ANN for the live and detailed updates. Be sure to check out all their con coverage for tons of information, including a bunch of new anime acquistions as well. Now onto the manga! Cut for long-ness.
The first Yaoi Jamboree convention happened this past weekend and some new licenses popped up with it. Gia posted about these new title acquisitions a few days ago and ANN elaborated on them early today.
Digital Manga will be entering a co-publishing set-up with Shinshokan Publishing. The new label will be called Doki Doki and will consist of boys’ love manga and novels. The first announced titles to be released under the new imprint are :
Colour by Eiki Eiki & Mikiyo Tsuda
Living For Tomorrow (pictured above) by Taishi Zaou
Fevered Kiss by Arika Kuga and Taishi Zaou
Midnight Bloom by Rico Fukiyama
Brilliant Blue by Saemi YoritaNote: Mikiyo Tsuda and Taishi Zaou are the same person, just different names for her different story genres; one for boys’ love and one for others.
May I note, some of my favourite yaoi titles! I adore Mikiyo Tsuda’s work and she makes an excellant team with Eiki Eiki. While it doesn’t make up for the many miles that kept me from meeting them in person at Yaoi Jamboree, it sure helps (a little).
Yamila Abraham also has a post about some of her favourite parts of the convention over at the Yaoi Press blog. (via MangaBlog)
While I don’t make a point of posting each time a new anime is licensed, I make the occassional exception for series I really like. Today is just such an exception as Gia has posted that Funimation has acquired the distribution rights to Ookiku-Furikabutte (“Big Windup!”).
It’s a anime that revoles around the sport of baseball with a lot of charming character drama and a likeable cast of characters. I have to say I’m surprised by this choice by Funimation but very happily surprised, especially with the feeling that with Ookiku in the hands of Funimation, I can be confident in the fact that the DVDs will actually show up someday, even if they are taking forever with certain other series (where’s my Ghost Hunt, Funi?).
Looks like there’s a new yaoi publisher ready to make its debut (via MangaBlog). Yaoi Generation’s website popped up when YG was listed as one of the dealers at the upcoming YaoiCon. While their website doesn’t have anything too specific, upcoming products include English edition mangas (estimated 24 a year), merchandise and a magazine.
“Yaoi Generation is a publishing company that brings the flourishing yaoi genre to English-speaking countries around the world. We are committed to delivering high quality publications to our readers, translated seamlessly into colloquial English while maintaining the coherency and brilliance of the original work. Look for our exciting titles this winter 2008!”
Rumours are already going around on if Yaoi Generation is a new independant group or a part of a previous company (such as Yaoi Press), but either way it’ll be interesting to see what becomes of this, especially in light of recent industry tremors involving Tokyopop’s BLU and DramaQueen.
Possibly connected to the recent Tokyopop hullabalo, I got an e-mail from Amazon telling me that my pre-order for Kingdom Hearts II volume three had been cancelled. Boo! So I looked into it. While I found the listing for that book was still there on both Amazon.com and .ca (where I make my orders of course!), I discovered that a lot of listings for Tokyopop’s books have vanished. While TP never had as many advance listings as Viz or DelRey, they still had a couple volumes ahead of many of the series I collected. Well, no longer! Relevant to recent events? Perhaps.
Also Kingdom Hearts related: Despite it being one of Tokyopop’s best selling books on a fairly consistant basis, it seems they won’t be publishing the side manga stories. Also drawn by Shiro Amano, as the three KH series Tokyopop’s released so far, they’re collections of short stories relevant to the video game and it’s cast. Two of the short story series, The First Door and Darkness Within are being published instead by Disney Press. What TokyoPop does seem to be publishing, however, is a Kingdom Hearts artbook in October 2008.
Since I have a backlog of new release reviews to catch up on posting, this next week is going to be dedicated to some new books from Yen Press, including today’s review for One Thousand and One Nights! Another theme with focus on older releases will begin next week.
And to round out the reviews, have a little news: Originally announced back in November 2007, Yen Press’s upcoming boys’ love releases by Lily Hoshino have been recently posted on online retail stores and in Yen Press’s book listings. Titles include Mr. Flower Groom, Love Quest and Mr. Flower Bride. Yaoi fans may remember Lily Hoshino as manga-ka of DMP’s Alone in My King’s Harem and My Only King.
Work yesterday kept me from posting this up myself so I’m happy to see the folks over at Boys Next Door were right on the ball with this! Taisa over at the DramaQueen forums came through best she could with information regarding DQ’s current state… and it doesn’t sound very good. DramaQueen and it’s licenses are still as up in the air as they were before and Taisa paints a bleak picture, for both the employees and the fans, despite the President’s optimism.
The interested should head on over to Boys Next Door where they’ve posted the whole thing.
Since yesterday announcing the license of their manga series 07-Ghost, Go!Comi has continued using the art-community DeviantArt to further advertise the series. Up in their DA gallery account today they’ve uploaded the covers of volumes 1-5.
From the artwork alone, I know I’m sold. It’s really attractive and has a compelling sounding plot. I’m amazed it’s the manga-ka’s premiere publication and I can’t wait to get my hands on volume one in January!
Unrelated, but the crafty 801-chan has hinted at some new licenses on their forums over at 801Media. No word yet on what they are but something to look forward to!
