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Japanese Company Otome's Way to Release Boys-Love Manga in English

Company to offer digital titles starting in April with plans for print titles in the future

The Japanese promotional and management company Otome's Way has confirmed with ANN that it plans to release boys-love and yaoi manga titles in English starting in April. The company will release a mixture of short works and long serialized works digitally on its web store (which has not yet launched), and will accept payments via PayPal. The company noted that it currently is working with about 30 manga creators.

All titles released by Otome's Way will be new works. Some of the works may have been posted on authors' official websites before Otome's Way's release, but none of the titles have been otherwise published before. The digital manga will be available to readers in North America, Western Europe, Scandinavia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Australia. Japanese editions of the titles will also be available for customers in Japan.

The company told ANN it plans to release manga in print in the future, which can be shipped worldwide.

The company's official website currently lists the following artists:

Jiu Senno
Kei Amamiya
Ai Yusura
Akai Kurokawa
Momo To'en
Erikirie
ruz
Hiyoko Utsunomiya
Mami & Natsumi
Seri Fujimiya
Sigma Torai
Mocca Hayashi

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...nga-in-english

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Sex Pistols/Love Pistols Manga to Resume in Japan

Tarako Kotobuki's "science love fiction" story to resume in Magazine Be-Boy's 20th anniversary issue

The official website for Libre Publishing's Magazine Be-Boy has revealed that Tarako Kotobuki will resume her Sex Pistols boys-love manga in the magazine's April issue, which will ship on March 7. The issue will commemorate the 20th anniversary since Libre launched Magazine Be-Boy.

Viz Media's SuBLime imprint is releasing the series under the name Love Pistols digitally in North America, with the sixth volume scheduled to be released later this month. Tokyopop's Blu imprint previously published the first five volumes of the series physically between 2007-2008. Libre Publishing released the sixth volume in Japan in October 2010.

The "science love fiction" story of Sex Pistols revolves around a high school boy who discovers that he is part of a select group of humans. These individuals did not evolve from primates, but from various animals such as leopards and black bears.

The manga received a two-episode video anime series in 2010-2011.

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...esume-in-japan

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Viz's SuBLime Adds Rieko Yoshihara's Into Illusion Novel/Manga Project

Simultaneous worldwide English release for new boys-love project from Ai no Kusabi author

SuBLime, the boys-love imprint of the North American manga publisher Viz Media, announced on Thursday that it will release Rieko Yoshihara (Ai no Kusabi) and Ryo Tateishi's Into Illusion manga and novel project. The project is being released in Libre's Be-Boy Gold magazine on a bimonthly basis and will consist of novel chapters written by Yoshihara and manga chapters written in collaboration with Tateishi.

SuBLime describes the series as follows:

Takumi, Kouki, and Jin are three boys living a normal high school life, until the day when a traumatic car accident turns their lives upside down. Caught up in a phenomenon that twists the boundaries between the realms of the supernatural and the world of man, their fates seems to be sealed…and yet they survive. What does their mysterious survival mean, and how will it change their lives?

The first installment in the project will be released in the June issue of Be-Boy Gold at the end of April. SuBLime will release the English version on April 29 via its website. Each installment will cost US$3.99.

Digital Manga Publishing released the seventh novel in Yoshihara's Ai no Kusabi boys-love novel series in August. The novels inspired a two-episode original video anime series in 1992 and 1994. A four-episode video anime remake series shipped in Japan in 2012. The anime studio AIC (Ah! My Goddess, Bamboo Blade) animated both the original and remake series. Media Blasters is releasing the remake series in North America.

Tateishi previously illustrated Mizumi Takaoka's Amai Wana de Torokasete and Amai Wana de Aegasete boys-love novels and Kanna Natsumi's Omeruta ~Kochō no Yume no Hate manga.

Update: Background information added.

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news.../manga-project