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Deux and Libre English Teaching Team-Up

By Lissa Pattillo on Wednesday, December 10, 2008

More from the Deux front today. Posted on their website is a colourful little page about a project between Deux Press and the Japanese company, LIBRE. It’s titled Repeat After Me? .The project’s lead artist is Shinri Fiwa (whose work has been published in English by BeBeautiful and DMP) and it looks to me like an online manga project that utilizes the plot of a young man forced to learn English in three months, to actually teach English. Pretty neat concept I’d say. Learn English with some boys’ love!

Deux Press will be working with LIBRE on this project as their English helping-hand. Who knows, maybe they could turn the tables and have it work the other way around for us English readers someday?

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Deux Saves Cigarette Kisses

By Lissa Pattillo on Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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Those lamenting the loss of Brocolli Book’s yaoi imprint, Boysenberry, because they feared that they’d never get their hands on an English edition of Nase Yamato’s Cigaerette Kisses, need fear no more. In a surprisingly swift move (from our consumer perspective anyway), Deux Press announced today their acquistion of the title.

“Deux Press, the yaoi imprint of Aurora Publishing, has picked up the title Cigarette Kisses by Nase Yamato. Originally, Boysenberry Books, the yaoi imprint of Broccoli Books, was to release this title. However, with Broccoli Books shutting down, the title will be dropped from their list. Lucky for all of the Nase Yamato fans, Deux Press (who is already releasing her Take Me to Heaven in January 2009) was able to acquire the rights to the title, and fans can expect the manga to be released sometime in the second half of 2009.”

This news comes to Kuriousity compliments of Fujoshi Library.

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Review: Oh My God! (Vol. 01)

By Lissa Pattillo on Monday, September 1, 2008

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Manga-ka: Natsuho Shino
Publisher: Deux
Rating: Older Teen (16+)
Released: July 2008

Synopsis: “Yuto is a typical high school student who family just so happens to have had a long line of sorcerers as members. While in the family storage shed, he accidentally awakens a god who was sealed in a sword hundreds of years ago. Now, if only his mysterious god could remember who he is! Yuto names this extremely good-lucking spirit, Jade. Stuck with an amnesic god who’s strangely attached to him, Yuto begins a clamorous life of high school, adventure and attraction.”

Yuto comes from a family with a past history of powerful sorcerers within the bloodline. Unfortunately, these days no one in his family possesses any such powers and they make money scamming people into thinking they do, by performing consultations and handing out charms. One day, during cleaning, Yuto finds an old sword in the storage shed and accidentally releases from it a god with no name and no memory.

Review: Hate to Love You

By Lissa Pattillo on Sunday, November 4, 2007

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Manga-ka: Makoto Tateno
Publisher: Deux
Rating: Mature (18+)
Released: November 2007

Synopsis: “The Konoe and Kazuki families have been fighting like cats and dogs for generations. Masaya Konoe and Yuma Kazuki attend the same elite high school and are known to all as arch rivals, but do they really hate eachother? Masaya still cherishes a childhood memory of a time when Yuma shared a ‘treasure’ with him. Now they share a secret attraction. Can they control their passion? Burning desire has a way of erupting into flames!”

Hate To Love You is the premiere yaoi manga of Makoto Tateno, best known for her popular boys’ love series, Yellow. The story is a self-proclaimed Romeo and Juliet type story staring Masaya and Kazuki, future heirs to their family’s respective companies and next in a long line of rivalries between the two groups. The two shared a secret childhood friendship that’s grown to be something very different, but is it love or hate?