Sakura-Con is still going on as we speak, and Josh "Totsu" Totman is scouring the entire con like a beast! As he storms through the catacombs of Seattle's anime convention, JT has discovered Yen Press's latest annou...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
If you thought that your Madoka fix has been quenched, think again! Yen Press is adding two Madoka Magica mangas in the form of Puella Magi Oriko Magica and Puella Magi Kazumi Magica. Both stories will most likely treat ...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
While SDCC is over and people are focused on The Dark Knight Rises, there are still some bits of license news to catch up on. Notably, Yen Press announced a number of titles. I can't really tell you how Welcome to the Erotic ...
| Brad Rice |
Translating light novels takes time, especially for small publishers. Up till now, Yen Press was only releasing two volumes of the original Spice and Wolf books a year, with the sixth volume planned for June 12, 2012. The com...
| Bob Muir |
Yen Press, who were also at Sakura Con this weekend, updated their website this morning with a long list of recently acquired licenses. Perhaps two of the most exciting additions to their line-up are Mari Yamazaki's award-win...
| Michelle Rodanes |
Oh hey, it's Kristina with that yaoi stuff again! Yes, yes it is. Tale of the Waning Moon is a really fantastical manga series with stuff like cat boys and moon spirits that I'm not used to seeing in my boy-on-boy stories. It...
| Kristina Pino |
Today, Yen Press announced via their Twitter that Yotsuba& will now be available for purchase on the iPad through their downloadable app. While the app itself is free, and looks to have a clean and modern interface, ...
| Crystal White |
With San Diego Comic Con looming in the near future, that means it's time for comic's highest honors: the Eisner Awards. Nominations were recently announced, and Viz leads the manga publisher pack with four nominations, large...
| Brad Rice |
I had the great pleasure of giving a look at the previous volumes of the Higurashi When They Cry manga last week, an arc that spun a new outlook on what the Higurashi setting is capable of providing in way of interesting and ...
| Marcus Speer |
While the anime adaption of the visual novel Higurashi When They Cry gets a bad wrap because of its animation and horrendous English dub, I still highly regard the franchise as having one of the most thril...
| Marcus Speer |
To summarize the story so far in two long sentences, Pandora Hearts is a manga about 15 year old Oz Vessalius, who has been dumped into a legendary "broken toy chest" of a prison called The Abyss. He escapes after b...
| Kristina Pino |
For all of you locked away in Artist's Alley, dreaming of hitting it big one day? Envious of the folks working on titles like Twilight, Nightschool and Maximum Ride? Well, now you can join that pool of talent by applying to Y...
| Brad Rice |
Getting to the rest of our NYAF/NYCC coverage, one of the announcements to come out of the convention was that Yen Press is debuting on the iPad with its own reader. Currently, they've gone ahead and launched with the titles ...
| Brad Rice |
It is a sad day for medieval economists, apple vendors, and animal-eared girl fetishists all over, as it seems that everyone's favorite apple-wolf-goddess-merchantry novel series, Spice & Wolf, will be meeting its time &q...
| Josh Tolentino |
Time to play wrap-up con! Over at San Diego Comic Con, Yen Press announced that they're licensing the hit manga Highschool of the Dead, coming hot on the heels of the anime license by Sentai Filmworks. Awesome. They'll be bri...
| Brad Rice |
After meeting an untimely end that so many print publications seem to be facing these days, Yen Plus has now relaunched online. To celebrate the new format choice, publisher Yen Press is offering free access to the August iss...
| Bob Muir |
Bandai Entertainment, Crunchyroll, and Yen Press are getting together to premiere The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie on May 21st at the Viz Cinema at NEW PEOPLE, in San Francisco. Cristina Vee, who you know as “...
| Dale North |
Love it or hate it, Twilight is popular. And it's invaded our shores, with Twilight: The Graphic Novel, with art done by acclaimed manhwa artist Young Kim. In its first week, the book has sold over 66,000 copies according to ...
| Brad Rice |
It's always great to hear what new titles have been licensed. Yen Press has been keeping secret about some of the stuff they'll be releasing this year, only to spill the beans on their website. Oh, Yen Press, why did you...
| Danica Davidson |
What is it with all of my favorite publishers having titles that start with Y lately? First Yaoi Press caught my attention by just generally being awesome, and now Yen Press is licensing sundry wonderful properties AND accept...
| Karen Leslie |
Confident much? Yen Press is taking print runs to a new level by expecting 350,000 copies of their Twilight manga, illustrated by Young Kim and using portions of the original book as text, to sell at a price point of $19.99 f...
| Brad Rice |
No one is going to believe me when I say that I'm posting this for reasons having almost nothing to do with yaoi, but it can't be helped. I don't want to say anything bad about yaoi because I have absolutely nothing against i...
| Karen Leslie |