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Speaking of Animate going into ebooks, their first two licenses are apparently Kabukicho Bad Trip and Lala no Kekkon, official announcement due tomorrow. I'm really gonna need them to not just pick wh...

Posted by: @movingcastleofyaoi Animate is going to be publishing their own stuff?? That was Sublime's territory wasn't it? Sublime can only put out so many titles and they don't just work with Libre...

Seven Seas licensed all three of MXTX's completed novel series and gave them their own special website. It'll be interesting to see if they sell well, esp since fan translations have been circulating ...

Posted by: @youngbluespring Feels like...hey if you'll license Dakaichi we'll bundle all these old titles we doubt would even sell ???? Or "if you want Dakaichi, you gotta take these 20 ancient titl...

Posted by: @youngbluespring In other news, Futekiya has licensed Dakaichi, as well as a bunch of (seemingly classic/Doritos-style BLs from Be x Boy) People say classic, I just say old, though maybe ...

Also Tokyopop licensed Shoko Rakuta's I'm Looking for Serious Love! and a seinen title by Niboshiko Arai under her non-bl pen name Ayako Noda, which is very much of interest to me if not necessarily r...

Here's futekiya's license announcements from their AX panel, per ANN: Achira Kochira Bokura (no, Are kara to Kore kara), ThanatZenin Kiritsu! Shiritsu BL Gakuen Koutou-Gakkou ~Tachibana × Mizuki hen~,...

Posted by: @midgeyu You're like an oracle or something...imagine my surprise when I saw the recent Twitter announcement from June about three new print licenses. I don't know if I'm an oracle or not...

Posted by: @youngbluespring What's good is even with all its scandals June still seems to have a market in indie comic sellers (at least where I live) so it's easy to buy. Kuma and Tokyopop are way m...

Posted by: @blue I haven't check online for reactions yet, but have they been...positive? Reactions to Juné announcements are almost always largely positive, I've noticed. There are still plenty of ...

Posted by: @jessinbooks If they were announcing titles they had no prior connection to, I might be more convinced of their revival, but I’m not. Okay, fine, DMP/Juné might be on life support. They a...

They're still as terrible at announcements as ever, but Kuma has a preorder up for Harada's Yoru to Asa no Uta/The Song of Yoru & Asa on Amazon. Harada in print? In English?? I don't know that I'l...