For those of you who don’t want to miss a single detail, ComiPress is once again publishing exhaustive lists of SDCC manga posts and new license announcements.
Yen Press began their panel by showing off the newly released Yen Plus anthology magazine and then plunged right into new title announcements: the novel Kieli, on which the manga series is based; Step, a manhua (Chinese comic) by Yanshi Yu, to be printed in full color; Oninagi, by Akira Ishida; GA Geijutsu Art Design Class, a 4-koma manga by Satoko Kiyuduki (creator of Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro); Ichiroh!, another 4-koma manga, by Mikage; Cat Paradise, by Yuji Iwahara; and a French comic, Toxic Planet, by David Ratte. Perhaps the most interesting license is the Cirque du Freak manga, which are published by Shogakukan but based on YA novels by the Irish writer Darren Shan. Gia and ANN have more details.
Dark Horse devoted most of their panel to their American comics, although they did say the much-anticipated CLAMP mangettes will be out next summer, and the Clover omnibus is due out in March. They announced two titles, Shinjuku, by Mink and Yoshitaka Amano, and World Embryo, by Daisuke Moriyama, but ANN points out that Shinjuku was announced at Anime Expo. Gia liveblogged the panel.
Gia and ANN were also both at the Viz Shojo Beat panel, where a number of upcoming series were highlighted, although I don’t think any are new. VizBig editions of Fushigi Yuugi and Hot Gimmick were news to me, though. The panelists also spent some time asking the audience for their opinions about the content of Shojo Beat and whether they would like to see original comics there, which fits with what we have heard about their plans.
Gia also covered the Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail) and Tite Kubo (Bleach) appearances.
Deb Aoki takes a break to schmooze and pick up the latest gossip.
Well, the Dark Horse reps claimed it was announced at Expo, but if so, they didn’t mention it at all at their panel— the ONLY new title mentioned at the Expo panel was the Raising Shinji Ikari Project, I promise! Also I don’t see any mention of it in ANN’s Expo coverage or regular coverage either, so I actually think that was a small error on DH’s part.
Not that it matters all that much. Actually, I’ve been trying to track down this work (because I could have sworn that the slide said “Mine” but ANN reported it as “Mink”), and I’m having a devil of a time with it.
Er, follow-up to that, I’m going to pop by the Dark Horse booth today and see if I can figure it out. The announcement was sort of interrupted by Bruce Campbell’s appearance ^^
Secondary follow-up and then I’ll stop blathering— it IS Mink, according to the Dark Horse MySpace. I must have misread the slide @_@
Thanks, Gia! I fixed it in the post.
I’m glad Yen have licensed the Kieli novels. When i reviewd the manga i while back i said to i’d love to read the novels. Glad they decided to license them!!
Not going to be released till mid to late next year though which is a shame :(
I am not sure that the Amano announcement is exactly the same as the Anime Expo announcement.
Amano is not illustrating a finished work, it sounds like, but is working with Christopher “mink” Morrison on a “illustrated novel”.
More details and a couple images here: http://mechamechamedia.blogspot.com/
DH official:
http://www.darkhorse.com/Press-Releases/1591/Experience-the-Mystery-and-Majesty-of-Amano-s-Shinjuku
i got a copy of Yen+ and it’s awesome! i loved the Nightschool story, and i like how they tried to appeal to both genders with the stories they included.
Also! i’m glad they are going to omnibus Fushigi Yuugi , i’ve always wanted to get into it, but it’s so long! and now i can finish my Hot Gimmick series in omnibus too..that’s really exciting as well!