Digital Manga’s newsletter came out yesterday, re-confirming their license of My Cute Crossdresser and listing another title, Starry☆Sky. The first volume of the series is due out in April 2012.

Starry☆Sky is a manga series based on a visual novel game of the same name published in Japan. It’s one of several manga adaptations of the story which follows a girl entering a private school that was until recently an all boys’ school. Over time she makes friends with a group of boys who’re based on the Western zodiac and romance ensues.

Starry☆Sky seems like an odd choice for releasing as a June book, similar to what I thought when I first saw My Cute Crossdresser licensed for Project-H. My confusion wasn’t helped by the genre listing of ‘shonen’ on Digital Manga’s website. This manga series was originally released in a magazine, Comic B’s-Log Kyun, that publishes shoujo series. Some of them look to have some BL-implication – such as a version of Togainu no Chi – but none implicitly boys’ love in nature. With that in mind, plus that it’s based on a shoujo girl-is-surrounded-by-a-harem-of-young-men-who-could-love-her game, is Starry☆Sky being published under their June line for actual BL content or just having a high pretty boy count?

Update (11/12/2011): Digital Manga has switched Starry☆Sky‘s imprint to DMP.

Yaoi-Con may only have been a week ago but Digital Manga’s newest e-mail newsletter has two new for-print manga licenses. They’ve also since posted about titles on their blog.

Samejima-kun and Sasahara-kun – Koshino
Castle Mango (Vol. 01) – Muku Ogura & Narise Konohara

Just looking at the cover artwork you can see a big difference in the mood of each one. Samejima-kun and Sasahara-kun looks really fun and Digital Manga lists it as a “HILARIOUS comedy”. Their plot synopsis of Castle Mango definitely piques my curiousity though, roughly as it may be written: “A 30yr old gay Adult Video producer (seme) x A college kid, straight, inherited & owns a love hotel (uke).”

While I love we get licensing news so quick and directly from the publisher, it would be nice if they could provide a tad bit of substance when sharing. Titles, artists and cover thumbnails are all good but I’m disappointed to see no real synopsises for the stories. Sure we BL fangirls are known for adoring some titles for shiny artwork and man-on-man action alone, but that doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy something called a plot the majority of the time.

There are no release dates yet for the books’ publication from Digital Manga either (though these are likely little more than hopes and estimations this early on anyway) but based on past licenses, we’ll likely see these books available mid-2012. Titles released recently by Digital Manga (such as About Love last week) were originally announced just this past April.