Angry kids, new books, more on Yaoi-Con

Best read of the day: At Sporadic Sequential, John Jakala has come up with a new concept: the Reconsideration Review (TM), in which he takes a second look at a book he had previously written off. He’s looking for suggestions, but his first one is a hilarious takedown of The Drifting Classroom, which he pulls off with a bit of help from Scott McCloud. Money quote:

a book that dares to be the sequential art equivalent of THOSE ANNOYING EMAILS YOU GET WHERE THE SENDER FORGOT TO TURN OFF THE CAPS LOCK!!!!

Yaoi-Con reports continue to roll in. Lillian DP writes about her experiences in her LiveJournal and at MangaCast, Ed posts audio of his interview with Kawai Touko. ICv2 also has their report, which includes, not surprisingly, a bit of trend analysis:

Kuo-Yu Liang of Diamond Book Distributors told ICv2 that right now the market is eagerly embracing all yaoi releases, and while a lot of series were announced at Yaoi-Con, DMP and the other publishers still have fairly conservative release schedules at least in terms of the number of new books per month. Still, while all this variety will be great for consumers, at some point the publishers could face lower per-title sales if the growth in the number of releases outpaces the growth of the market.

They also bring up the problem that the more explicit the books get, the harder it will be to get them into the chains—and the more likely it becomes that there will be some sort of backlash.

From the Broccoli patch: MangaCast has the press release on Disgaea 2. And ICv2 has a brief report on their change of bookstore distributor, from Diamond to Publishers Group West. Diamond will continue to distribute Broccoli books and other merch to the direct market.

At MangaCast, Ed is suffering from overwork but nonetheless manages to post today’s manga releases, with copious commentary, as always.

Finally, here are two links in Japanese from Manganews: A book on the history of BL manga and Beth, a magazine for female otaku.