AX08: Digital Manga Publishing
I walk in a few minutes late and Rachel’s already streaming through the licenses so I’m going to steal them off of Deb’s computer, since she’s right in front of me…here are the ones we could get:
Utahime by Aki
Overclock Once in a Blue Moon by Riya Hozumi and Ryouko Seki
Ghost Hunt Scramble by Ohotachibana
Tale of a White Night by Tooko Miyagi
1 Sakura Hill by Fujiko Kosumi
Lyrical Nanoha Strikers by Maki Tsuzuki and Kouji Hasegawa (surprise!)
RH+ by Ayako Suwa
Time for Magic by Morehe Yoshida
Princess Princess+ by Mikiyo Tsuda
Happy Boys by Makoto Tateno
Millenium Prime Minister by Eiki Eiki
Wolf God by Ai Tenkawa
Otodama by Youka Nitta (not yaoi).
Crimson Cross by Kyoko Negishi
On the Pop Japan Travel front, they’ve added a bunch more guests and stuff…I’m going to flesh out this information like crazy when the panel is over @_@; If you want to ge the good price for Pop Japan Travel, mention having heard about it at Anime Expo, ’cause otherwise the price is probably going to go up. I think the tour he (Ben) was talking about was the Mind over Manga tour, which you can get info for here. (It includes a trip to Comitia, a doujinshi event kinda like Comiket but smaller).
They just got back from a tour with Japan LA, where they got a lot of Gloomy Bear merchandise and stuff. And now we’re moving into the technical difficulties phase of the panel…
Moving into a video of “A Day With Pop Japan Travel,” the Cold Steel tour, featuring Mosburger as a rest stop. Sweet. Oh, and Hideyuki Kikuchi– an Expo guest, who I DID score an interview with on Sunday, and creator of Vampire Hunter D –met up with them for dinner that day too. Score!
Now that Windows Movie Maker time is done…they are now offering an extension of the trip to go to other cities like Osaka and Kyoto after the main tour, which is kinda cool. October’s the Tokyo Game Show tour, the Asian Design Festa is in November, and next year will be Sapporo’s Snow Festival and more yaoi, lolita, and j-fashion tours. They’ll also be doing tours of Gonzo, which is kinda cool. They’ve gone to I.G, Madhouse, and Pierrot in the past, too. So when they say that there’s a studio tour and don’t say which one, don’t worry, it’ll be good.
Moving into Q&As…how much do those tours generally run for, and do they offer discounts at every con? The manga tour is $2,198 plus a fuel surcharge from the airlines which is another $235. The reason why there’s a con discount this time is because the prices are going up in the very near future, so that’s just for this con. The Kyoto and Osaka extension is $898, including the shinkansen fare, hotel, and charter bus tours of each city. And Hiroshima is $100. So cheap! The land-only price is aso available, but he didn’t mention the price. They can also help you get into additional events. And they can help you book a vacation. Hmmm!…
Any more artbooks? They’re working on Flamboyant (Ugetsu Hakua’s), and everyone should go buy the Lain artbook. Are they going to have the doujinshi tour next year? Nothing for sure because they have to coordinate with Comitia, but if it goes well this year then it’s entirely possible.
The tour actually includes printing and translation of the event-goers’ doujinshi…but the deadline’s already passed for that! Deb’s in on it, but her manga is late…oops. ;) That’s an optional part of the tour.
With Yoshitaka Amano coming to New York Anime Fest this fall…are there any plans for that event? But that’s not part of DMP, and they won’t be at NYAF thanks to Yaoi Con being the same weekend. Amano is an event of the con itself, so check their website.
Back on tours…do they go to the Nintendo museum? Haven’t done that yet but they’d be willing to add it. They used to do the Bandai Museum but when that closed and reopened as a more oldschool thing they dropped it.
“Random” question: how many sorts of translator jobs are there at DMP? Ben says to pass on the ol’ business card and he’ll give it to the right person. They publish novels and manga and that’s pretty much all the work.
Rumor that next year’s yaoi tour might include the Saiyuki mangaka Kazuya Minekura, which is the first Ben’s heard of it, but he’ll think about it. Is there a Yuri Con? Yes. It’s in New Jersey. But they don’t do it every year.
Any of Makoto Tateno’s earlier works coming out? Maybe– but Presentments (aka Omens) is already licensed by Drama Queen. How about Taishi Zaou (Mikiyo Tsuda’s pen name for hardcore works), and they announced a bunch of it here at Yaoi Jamboree, so just check there.
OK, confirming all those titles and then they’re just gonna do the raffle, soooo here we go!
July 4th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Wonder if they said anything about keeping release dates for Robots, because they’re slipping those.
July 4th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
@omo: If you mean the colour comic compilations, Robot, DMP doesn’t currently have the rights for it anymore. It’s being released now by Udon. (http://www.udonentertainment.com/robot/)
As for the panel, you can always count on DMP for lots of licenes. None stand out as much to me except for the sequel to Princess Princess. I had my fingers crossed for that one :)
July 7th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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