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June MangaGardena, CA, January 28, 2008 – June Manga invites you to join the Mile High Club in All Nippon Airlines: Paradise at 30,000 Feet by Kei Azumaya! ANAL - All Nippon Air Lines – is a unique airline company. All of its employees are beautiful gay men. On top of that, relationships between employees, or even between passengers and employees, are highly encouraged! This is of course the premise for many hilarious situations and strange adventures both for them and for their passengers. "This is pretty much all the staff member's favorite title to work on this year," explains production manager Fred, "It has gotten us into all kinds of trouble with its somewhat controversial title!" MangaCast has a list of all the recent BL licenses from June and 801 Media, based on this post from Tokudane. ANN reports that Tokyopop has licensed the sci-fi/shoujo manga Jyu Oh Sei by Natsumi Itsuki. From MangaCast comes the news that Dark Horse is on the verge of dropping Endo Hiroki's EDEN. From Yaoi Suki comes a huge list of new BL licenses announced during Anime Expo from 801 Media and June Manga. animeOnline reports that eigoManga will release a manga adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn sometime in the summer of 2008. Gardena, CA, June 15, 2007 – Juné by Digital Manga Publishing, one of the industry's most innovative manga licensing and publishing companies, is pleased to present Satoru Kannagi as our industry guest for Anime Expo 2007 (www.anime-expo.org). Satoru Kannagi is most widely known in the United States as the author of the bestselling manga and 5 volume novel series Only the Ring Finger Knows. Only the Ring Finger Knows was Digital Manga Inc.'s first yaoi manga and Juné is happy to celebrate the success and growth of this genre with Kannagi-sensei this summer at Anime Expo. According to Manga Jouhou, DMP/June has announced a "Spring Cleaning Contest":
Source: Manga Jouhou Gardena, CA, March 14, 2007 – Juné by Digital Manga Publishing, one of the industry’s most innovative manga licensing and publishing companies, is pleased to announce Hinako Takanaga as their guest for Yaoi Con 2007 (www.yaoicon.com). From ICv2 comes the 2007 release schedule for DMP, June, and 801 Media: June DMP: June Manga has announced a new Christmas Contest. Participants must be over 13, and the contest will last until January 15th, 2007. Gardena, CA, October 24, 2006 – Juné by Digital Manga Publishing, America's largest yaoi publisher, wrapped up its 2006 convention at Yaoi Con 2006 October 20-22, 2006 with a slew of new title announcements and a few surprises for the attendees. The titles announced included: 1. Love Recipe by Kiriko Higashizato Broccoli Books: Yaoi Press: June Manga: |
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