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.