Otakon updates: Good news on Yotsuba&!

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Let’s get to the best news first, from the ANN account of the ADV panel:

When questioned about the release of the next volume of Yotsuba@!, Williams replied that it is tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of 2007.

The fact that this makes me happy is a sign of how low our expectations of ADV have become: At least it’s not on indefinite hold.

June announced six new licenses at its panel:

Kurashina-sensei’s Passion
La Vie en Rose
Waru
Wagamama Kitchen
Fake Fur
Paradise on the Hill

Yaoi Suki has links to retailer info, Love Manga has cover scans. The response to this lineup at Love Manga was basically a yawn; no one thought it was hard-core enough, and some said La Vie En Rose isn’t even BL. However, June’s parent company, Digital Manga, had another announcement: They are starting a new company, to be called 801 Media Inc, which will publish over-18 BL titles. Love Manga tries to figure out what this is all about. Digital also announced one other title, Flower Of Life, by Fumi Yoshinaga of Antique Bakery fame.

According to ANN’s report of the Broccoli panel, the company announced one new license, Disgaea 2, based on the game of the same name and a logical follow to another recent license, Disgaea.

Tokyopop announced Heaven!! for the second time, having already mentioned it at SDCC. According to the ANN report,

Tokyopop will be moving several of its manga to online exclusives, which can only be ordered from Tokyopop.com. Currently scheduled titles for this exclusivity are Atomic King Daibogan, Neck and Neck (starting with volume 6) and The One. Da-Mi Seomoon’s Rure, coming out in March 2007, will also be a Tokyopop.com exclusive.

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.
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One Response to Otakon updates: Good news on Yotsuba&!

  1. Jen Parker says:
    August 7, 2006 at 11:49 am

    I dunno if you caught it, but 801 Media has a website up (just a promo thing for the moment though)— http://801media.com. :)

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