Yaoicon
Saturday, October 21st, 2006It’s Yaoicon this weekend and already the first reports are slowly trickling in.
Over at Mangacast Ed runs with a pre-con podcast which is well worth a quick listen just to get a taste of all the various panels that are happening over the next 3 days.
Friday night saw the launch party of 801 Media, but not a huge amount of details have so far been forthcoming. You know, those all important questions like Who are they?! ^.^
Anyway, both Jen at YaoiSuki and Ed pick up on their first title announcement with the possibility of another potential title;
The other potential new title is probably going to be coming through from Kawai Touko.
The next update was from the DramaQueen panel where we were treated to three new licenses which appear so far to be vastly more hardcore then anything which has come out from 801 Media at the moment. ^.~ (Missing Road is probably my pick of title out of that lot, even though I remember Angel and Devil as rather funny story wise with some ridiculous threesome and I’m reliably informed that Cage of Thorns is very smutty, so that’ll be two copies then!)
As yet no news on how RUSH wad perceived so I guess we’ll have to wait on Ed for that one. Anyway here are the cover images (the DQ ones!) for their new licenses.
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| Cage of Thorns by Sakuragawa Sonoko |
Angel and Devil by Uzuki Jun |
Missing Road by Sakurai Shushushu |
Next up was BeBeautiful, or rather at the same time as DramaQueen, who also announced three licenses. Now to be perfectly honest I’d still be fairly sceptical about this until I actually see them on the shelves, because their track record just isn’t that great for me regardless of their assurances otherwise. Then again these titles are all one-shots so the risk isn’t really that great on us the readers if were tempted to buy them. Much as I hate to see a publisher disappear I hope this at least means a reversal of fortunes for BB, then again these were all annouced at NYCC so really who cares. ^.~
The final panel so far was Blu Manga who in the same vein as everyone else also announced three titles. June Pride is of particular interest consider it is book 6 in a series, as yet I’ve no details on whether they plan to release anymore of the other titles.
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| Innocent Bird by Saragi Hirotakaki |
June Pride by Gotou Shinobu |
Bokura no Onsel by Matsumoto Temari |
And now even more updates from the June Manga panel. ^.~
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| Love Recipe by Higashizato Kiriko |
In The Walnut by Kawai Toko |
Picnic by Yamada Yugi |
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| Othello by Hasumi Toui |
Sweet Whisper by Furiyama Hyouta |
Worlds End by Eiki Eiki |
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| Ordinary Crush by Fujiyama Hyouta |
Can’t Win With You by Honami Yukino |
Nakimushi na Little by Kinoshita Keiko |
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| Lovers In 1K Apartment by Fujiyama Hyouta |
As more information comes through I’ll add to this post.