According to the official website for the Vampire Knight anime, a new original novel within the series’ world was released on the same day as the 7th volume of the manga (April 5th).
The novel features Aido-senpai (as opposed to the actual main characters), and the novel’s title is Vampire Knight: Ice Blue no Tsumi (or The Sin of Ice Blue). It was drawn by Vampire Knight mangaka Matsuri Hino, and it looks like the writer was Ayuna Fujisaki, who wrote screenplays for the ARIA anime (all of ‘em), the composition for Night Wizard, and also the second episode of Saiunkoku Monogatari.
Sooo. Do you guys wanna start sucking up to VIZ, or shall I? (Although given that it only took two releases for Vampire Knight to become one of the top properties of ‘07, I doubt they would even consider NOT publishing it…)
By gia on January 25th, 2008
Licenses, Manga, News, Western News
Tags: akira toriyama, arina-tanemura, black-lagoon, cat eyed boy, cowa!, gimmick!, matsuri-hino, mixed vegetables, one pound gospel, rosario to vampire, short-tempered melancholy, slam-dunk, sugar princess, time stranger kyoko, vampire-knight, viz, wanted
About goddamn time! MangaCast spotted some new VIZ licenses on Amazon.com, including the fantastically badass smuggler dramedy Black Lagoon, as well as another work by Vampire Knight’s Matsuri Hino called WANTED, two Arina Tanemura manga– Time Stranger Kyoko and one called Kanshaku Tamano Yuuutsu (no relation to Haruhi; “Short-Tempered Melancholy”) and the manga of Rosario to Vampire. Oh, and another Akira Toriyama work: Cowa!
Also licensed: Ayumi Komura’s Mixed Vegetables, Hisaya Nakajo’s Sugar Princess, and Youzabara Kanari and Kuroko Yabuguchi’s Gimmick!. MangaCast also has covers for previously-announced (I think) titles Cat Eyed Boy, One Pound Gospel, and of course, Slam Dunk.
By gia on August 20th, 2007
Commentary, Manga, Manga, News, Western News
Tags: After-School-Nightmare, ala, aya-nakahara, emma, fumi-yoshinaga, good-witch-of-the-west, haruhiko-momokawa, hideyuki-kurata, kaoru-mori, kekkaishi, king-of-thorn, Lovely-Complex, manga-shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet, matsuri-hino, me2, mizuho-kusanai, mushishi, noriko-ogiwara, OEL, princess-resurrection, richard-appignanesi, setona-mizushiro, sho-murase, sonia-leong, spiral, the-moon-and-the-sandals, Train+Train, vampire-knight, yalsa, yasunori-mitsunaga, yellow-tanabe, yuji-iwahara, yuki-urushibara
Sorry about the weekend quietness, but I was at a RennFaire. I’m back now!
The American Library Association has nominated another round of books for its Young Adult Library Services Association Award, and as usual, some manga made it to the list of “great graphic novels.” A lot of them are OEL, but here goes:
Let’s see, going down the list from top to bottom:
TOKYOPOP’s Avalon High manga, based on Meg Cabot’s novel series.
Dramacon, by the much-celebrated Svetlana Chmakova.
The Avril Lavigne manga Make 5 Wishes.
Anike Hage’s original German-language manga Gothic Sports.
Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino is the first actual Japanese manga mentioned.
Yuji Iwahara’s King of Thorn.
Hideyuki Kurata’s Train + Train.
Mizuho Kusanagi’s Spiral.
Yasunori Mitsunaga’s Princess Resurrection.
Setona Mizushiro’s After School Nightmare (all four volumes!).
Kaoru Mori’s Emma (all four volumes).
Sho Murase’s Me2.
Aya Nakahara’s Love*Com/Lovely Complex.
Noriko Ogiwara / Haruhiko Momokawa’s The Good Witch of the West volume 1.
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by Richard Appignanesi and Sonia Leong.
Yellow Tanabe’s Kekkaishi, volumes 7-9.
Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi.
Fumi Yoshinaga’s The Moon and the Sandals.
The end! And now, some commentary. Read the rest of this entry »