Yen Press Announcements from NY Comic Con
During this past weekend’s New York Comic Con, Yen Press announced its acquisition of three new manga titles:
Spice and Wolf, by Keito Koume (based on the novels by Isuna Hasekura & Ju Ayakura)
Yotsuba &! volume 6, by Kiyohiko Azuma
Crescent Moon Story, by Hyouta Fujiyama
The Yen Press publication of Yotsuba to! volume 6 will match the design and format of the previous five volumes translated and distributed by AD Vision.
Yen Press will begin releasing the previously announced Spice & Wolf novels prior to the manga adaptation. The first novel will be available in December.
Source: Anime News Network
February 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Seeing as how ADV Manga is notoriously bad at handling good series (or outright canceling them with no notice), and it has remained mum about Yotsuba&! #6 for quite some time, this is good news! I was on the verge of thinking we’d never see another Yotsuba book published in English…
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:41 pm
To give ADV their dues, they announced that they were putting their manga division on hold to re-focus on Anime (translation, anime is our core business, and the economy+sales=no extra cash for sidelines (manga)). I’m just happy that they released/sold the lisence to Yen so we could start buying these again.