From the Broccoli Books Blog comes a report of the first day of Fanime 2007. The report is written by staffs from Broccoli Books, and focuses on Sekihiko Inui's (Murder Princess, Comic Party) tour and impression of the event.

According to Yaoi Suki, Media Blasters (parent company of Kitty Media) has licensed to new BL manga:

• Scandalous Seiryo University by Kazuto Tatsukawa
• Dog Style by Modoru Motoni

Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D

The year is 12,090 A.D., and what little is left of humanity has finally crawled out from the ashes of war and destruction. From the darkness of fallout, mutants and a race of vampires known as the Nobility have spawned. They rule the weak with no remorse. Once bitten by a Nobility, one is cursed to become a member of the undead. Villagers cower in fear, hoping and praying for a savior to rid them of their undying nightmare. All they have to battle this danger is a different kind danger - a Vampire Hunter.

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Go! Comi's contest to win an autographed copy of Shioko Mizuki's Crossroad is ending on June 7th:

Two Chances To Win a Signed Crossroad!
The final volume of Shioko Mizuki's Crossroad hits shelves this month, and we're celebrating by giving TWO lucky winners a copy of "Crossroad" signed by manga-ka Shioko Mizuki!! Click here to enter!

Redlands, CA, May 24, 2006 - Iris Print, publisher of the Lambda Literary Award finalist novel "A Strong and Sudden Thaw", announced today its plans to publish the first North American boys' love magazine, BL Twist.

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On the USA Today Booklist Top 150 for the week ending May 20th, Volume 14 of Viz's Naruto is the only manga on the list, ranking at #78.

The new comic release list for May 23rd 2007 from ComicList, compiled by MangaCast.

From MangaCast comes the Diamond Previews for June 2007, which provides information on new U.S. releases for August/September 2007.

ICv2 has released the April 2007 top 100 graphic novel sales estimates and the top 300 comics sales estimates based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data. Also from ICv2 is an analysis of the trends in April based on the graphic novel sales chart.

801 Media blog points out that Amazon.com has added a new Yaoi category to its online store, showing yaoi is finally being recognized by Amazon as its own category instead of just a shojo sub-genre.

Via: Icarus Blog