This is an interesting development: Digital Manga Inc. has had an online comics site, eManga, for a while and now it is expanding its repertoire to include works from Yaoi Press. While both publishers specialize in yaoi and BL, Digital sticks to licensed Japanese properties and YP only does global manga. And Yaoi Press publisher Yamila Abraham has long been willing to try new things; Netcomics has carried YP comics for years.
The interesting twist on this is the choice of new titles: Digital will be carrying vols. 1 and 2 of Yaoi Hentai, both of which are 18+ volumes with explicit sex. How do you do this online without falling afoul of … something? The free samples on offer are pretty tame, and in order to rent the books you have to enter your age—not a very strong barrier, as kids have been known to lie. Ultimately, the bigger bar is that you have to have a credit card to buy points (unless you won them when the site started up and never used them), and most teenagers under 18 don’t have credit cards. I’m curious to see how this enteprise fares, and which titles Digital puts up next. Read on for full details.
Gardena, CA (September 28, 2009) – Digital Manga Inc., one of the industry’s most innovative and unique companies, is excited to announce eManga’s latest online rental titles from Yaoi Press, as they bring their favorite yaoi titles to eManga! Yaoi Press publishes global yaoi in a host of different languages, with over 45 publications to date. They have brought great yaoi creators from around the world, including Studio Kosen of Spain and M.A. Sambre of France to the US, and have helped develop yaoi within the Western market outside of creators in Japan. With their continued commitment to yaoi publishing and dedication to readers, Digital Manga Publishing is excited that Yaoi Press will be coming on board to share their amazing titles with yaoi fans everywhere! The first titles from Yaoi Press are Yaoi Hentai Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, now available at www.emanga.com!
Featuring complete titles for rental and free previews from Digital Manga’s entire catalog, eManga streams content through an Adobe Flash player, which allows readers to access their library wherever they have an internet connection. With custom features that include two-page, one-page, or panel-by-panel reading, three custom zoom options, a bookmark bar, and auto play, the reader is also made to work with different screen sizes to maintain great image quality at any screen size.
The standard eManga rental package is $10 for 1000 points, with entire books averaging between 200 and 300 points. Higher packages come with free bonus points. Points are kept in users’ accounts, allowing for quick and easy rental of titles whenever and wherever they want. For most of Digital Manga’s titles, you also have the option to read the entire book by spending eManga points to “rent” the title for a limited amount of time (currently 72 hours). If you later decide to rent the same title again, it will be automatically upgraded to an “unlimited” rental, which does not have time restrictions.
We invite you sample or read Yaoi Hentai Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 at our eManga site. Come check out eManga at: www.eManga.com
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YAOI HENTAI VOL. 1, Rated M+ (for ages 18+), 152 Pages, Anthology, 200 points
This is yaoi at its most extreme: graphic scenes of loving between a college professor and his student, a bar-hopper and some thugs who kidnap him, members of a corrupt soccer team, and the debut of the now infamous Trach the Tentacle Monster! YAOI – MATURE & EXPLICIT CONTENT* Readers 18+.
YAOI HENTAI VOL. 2, Rated M+ (for ages 18+), 192 Pages, Anthology, 200 points
Yaoi Hentai is back with a whole new volume of romantic yaoi smut. All new artists bring you four hot stories of hardcore guy on guy loving. First, an Elizabethan dandy is cursed to be the love slave of anyone who plays his violin. Next enjoy a science fiction story of a prince who endures trials of sexual pain and pleasure at the hands of his idol, the emperor of a sexually depraved planet. Fans of Yaoi Press’ PINNED! graphic novel get to see a hardcore love scene between Renegade and Synn. And of course, Trach the tentacle monster rounds out the book in his second sex-filled adventure. YAOI – MATURE & EXPLICIT CONTENT Readers 18+.
These are not the first explicit/18+ titles to be made available at eManga, though. Several 801 Media titles are up there, and a lot of the June stuff is technically 18+, although it’s very tame by comparison to the 801 stuff.