Ed has his report on the Viz Media panel, and it sounds like a busy time. Here are the new titles announced yesterday:
Brave Story, by Miyuki Miyabe
Shakugan no Shana, by Ayao Sasakura and Yashichirou Takahashi (manga)
Shakugan no Shana, by Ayao Sasakura (novel)
Dragon Drive, by Kenichi Sakura
At the AoD Blog, Ed lists two more from the Shojo Beat panel:
Milennium Snow, by Bisko Hattori
Love*Con, by Aya Nakahara
As always, covers and commentary at the MangaCast. Also, Ed reports that Slam Dunk is out of the picture, Gentleman’s Alliance will have a brand-new poster, and Claymore and D. GrayMan are doing very well.
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
Huh. I don’t know whether to be excited by the Miyabe licensing or not. I’ve really liked her three novels currently available in English from Kodansha and Houghton Mifflin (All She Was Worth is especially stunning), but Viz and Tokyopop seem to be taking really rushed, slapdash approaches to novel translation and I’m afraid that the Miyabe, which I consider a lot less disposable than manga tie-ins, will suffer from it.