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Today I recieved an e-mail from Michelle Mauk from Digital Manga Publishing regarding the recent Yaoi Con convention and there’s plenty of good news to go around! From book announcements made at Yaoi Con, to the state of their imprints, you can read it all under the cut.
Not many announcements made at the New York Anime Festival this past weekend but there’re still some new manga licenses to share! No word from publishers on any announcements made at this weekend’s Yaoi Con (yet).
Since the September release list has become such a popular post, looks like it’ll be a continued site addition. Glad so many of you have found it useful! So below the cut you can see the release list for October 2008. As before the list is in alphabetical order, and includes publisher’s logo, volumes and creator(s).
Note: Not all books listed here are guaranteed to be released in this month. Inparticular, certain Tokyopop and affiliated BLU titles may have been postponed.
It figures that an announcement like this would be made just as I was getting on the plane! Anyhoo, Viz Pictures announced this past Friday that the first live-action Death Note movie will be playing in select theatres across Canada on September 15. The movie already played in movie theatres down in the States a little while back. The movie is due out on DVD in North America on August 29th and tickets to showings will be bundled in with the film going for $29.99. The Empire Theatres website has a list of the theatres that’ll be playing this first installment.
Also, in partnership with Viz Media, the east-coast convention Animaritime is hosting a contest for tickets! So if you’re in the Moncton, New Brunswick area ,and would like to win a two-person pass, than head on over there and take a stab at the trivia contest! The convention has also begun accepting applications for new staff members and volunteers so definately fill out a form and send it in if you’re interested in joining our team!
Starting with the upcoming September 2008 releases, I’m going to be posting a list of what new manga books you can expect to see in the coming months! Looooong lists, but all the better to excercise our wallets with right? Lists are in alphabetical order, and include their publisher’s logo, volume and creator(s).
A few random things of interest worth noting today:
A post over at Yaoi Press’s blog says that Yuri fans will have something to look forward to from the original Yaoi publisher at their Otakon booth.
According to ANN, the comedy manga Cafe Kichijouji de is set to continue in the anthology magazine Wings. Originally based off drama CDs, Cafe Kichijouji de is currently being made into a live-action television drama in Japan and has had it’s original three volumes of manga published by Digital Manga Publishing.
And lastly for now: Amazon.com has recently been updated with just about all the Digital Manga Publishing, and its imprints Doki Doki & June plus sister-group 801Media, books licensed and announced at Anime Expo. So if you’re looking for release dates of the many titles, then give Amazon a check. Gotta love that one of the Hellboy graphic novels is currently the number one selling manga, wouldn’t you say? Note: I have nothing against the Hellboy comics, just Amazon’s current placement of them it seems.
A notable title to pop up also, however, is Train*Train, a comedy by Eiki Eiki which I don’t recall hearing any licensing news for. No complaints from me on this licensing though! Train*Train is the story of Asahi Sarutaa, a boy who wishes to be a train conducter, only to discover that his dream job location only hires the most attractive people to work there.
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)
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