Yen Press Announces Titles to Run in Anthology Mag
Soul Eater, Nabari no Ō, Sumomomo Momomo, Bamboo Blade, Higurashi manga
The manga versions of Atsushi Ohkubo's Soul Eater, Yuhki Kamatani's Nabari no Ō, Shinobu Ohtaka's Sumomomo Momomo, Masahiro Totsuka's Bamboo Blade and Seventh Expansion's Higurashi - When They Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) have all been acquired for American distribution by Yen Press. The publisher made the announcements during its Saturday afternoon panel at New York Comic Con 2008. Not coincidentally, each title has a related anime tie-in that was made in the last three years. All five will initially run in the Yen Plus anthology magazine, the first issue of which will be sold starting on July 29. Standard volumes of all five will go on sale in the first part of the next year.
A day before the convention, Yen Press had announced its acquisition of Gaku Tsugano's The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya manga and its joint venture with Little, Brown Readers for Young Readers to release Nagaru Tanigawa's original Haruhi Suzumiya light novels.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-19/yen-announces-titles-to-run-in-anthology-magazine
Del Rey Adds Gakuen Prince, Samurai 7, Zetsubo Sensei
At its New York Comic Con panel on Saturday, Del Rey Manga has announced its manga acquisitions of Jun Yuzuki's Gakuen Prince, Mizutaka Zuhou's Samurai 7, and Kôji Kumeta's Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei. All three will begin in the spring of 2009. Del Rey will also publish The Case of the Dragon Slayer, a mystery novel by Boogiepop's Kouhei Kadono.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-19/dey-rey-picks-up-three-new-manga-novel
Naisho no Tsubomi Anime's Commercial Streamed
Anime based on "girls' sex education" manga to begin in Japan in April
The official Japanese website for the Naisho no Tsubomi original video animation is streaming a new commercial (500K or 1MB bandwidth) for the first DVD volume. The three volumes will ship monthly from April 25 to June 27.
Yu Yabuuchi (Aqua Age, Shōjo Shōnen) draws the original, critically acclaimed manga about a fifth-grade girl named Tsubomi who deals with issues such as her mother's pregnancy, her first period, and budding feelings for boys. This "girls' sex education" manga (and its Mebae prequel) has been running in Shogakukan's Shōgaku Yonnensei and Shōgaku Gonensei (literally, "Elementary Fourth-Grader" and "Elementary Fifth- Grader") magazines. The anime adaptation was announced last July.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-19/naisho-no-tsubomi-anime-commercial-streamed
Why am I posting the link for this trailer. *sigh* Click here to see it.
