New York Comic-Con begins today, so of course the manga news started pouring out yesterday, when all us bloggers were either in transit or attending the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference at the Javits Center, where internet access is more precious than rubies and about as expensive.
Yen Press stole the show before the show even began with the announcement that they have licensed the manga version of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Kurt Hassler wins the Euphemism of the Week Award for this description:
“There are a few ecchi bits—it’s not necessarily overtly sexual in nature, but Haruhi is quite unrestrained when she wants something, I don’t know if you can describe it as ecchi so much as a blatant disregard for anyone else’s personal boundaries.”
Someone should engrave that in bronze. And Kurt popped a little surprise into the Anime on DVD forums late yesterday afternoon: the announcement that Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will be publishing the light novels. (Via an alert commenter at Giapet)
