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Anime Expo is well under way, and for those who can’t be there, the reports are pouring out. Start with Pata’s, which is the most fun.

Here is a news article that gives the basics. Anime Convention has a transcript of CLAMP’s question and answer session and Anime on DVD has a shorter report.

Anime on DVD has a report on the Go!Comi panel, which included the announcement of these new titles:

Train + Train (December)
After School Nightmare, by the mangaka of X-Day (September)
Black Sun, Silver Moon by Tomo Maeda (January)
The Devil Within by Ryo Takagi (January)
Night of the Beasts (January)

It sounds like they’re building their catalog quite a bit from their modest start. More details, plus convention pix, at their site blog. Love Manga has some cover scans, and ICv2 has more.

AoD also has a report on the Shojo Beat panel, with the schedule of new series that will be debuting in upcoming months. Here’s the list of titles, some of which have been announced before:

Skip-Beat
Beauty Pop
Cain Saga
La Corda d’Oro
Tail of the Moon
Punch!
Vampire Knight
Gentleman’s Alliance

MangaCast has a bit more info on Gentleman’s Alliance. Also in the works: more color pages and manga lessons from Yuu Watase.

I’ve already covered the new Broccoli releases but AoD has more information here.

MangaCast has some comments on the titles Seven Seas announced earlier in the con.

Yes, you’re probably wondering, but what about ADV? Didn’t they promise a big convention presence? Yes—in fact, they have three panels, but most of the talk seems to be about anime. AoD summarizes their meet-and-greet and gets a lot of “Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny,” but manages to extract these nuggets:

ADV Manga is still publishing, and has just released Freaks, Angelic Days, and the last volume of Chrono Crusade.

Also,

The Aria manga is still being worked on at ADV Manga.

That’s not going to do much to mollify Aria fans.