CMX announced a few new licenses, as well as confirming Crayon Shin-chan:

A Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo manga by Yasutaka Tsutsui

For fans of Victorian Romance Emma, they’ll also be putting out “volume 8,” a collection of short stories about various characters from the series. (Volume 7 is the final volume for the actual story arc.)

After those announcements they mostly just talked about Flex Comics, which they hope to launch in first or second quarter 2008.

And that’s pretty much it for San Diego Comic Con! Iiiii’m going to go home and take a nap.

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The ADV panel (see liveblog thread) started out with just trailers, then talked about ADV manga a bit. They’ll be announcing some new licenses over the next few months, and they’ll also be collecting Azumanga Daioh into an omnibus edition which will come in a larger trim size, which is pretty groovy.

Jumping back to anime, ADV plans to start putting out much of its new anime in a monthly fashion, starting with Air TV.

Then they announced the film Appleseed EX Machina, which is pretty interesting giving FUNimation’s announcement of Vexille by the team behind the original Appleseed flick. They also plan on putting out a bundle of a bunch of their movies, and that’s pretty much it for ADV announcements.

Edit: Just to clarify, ADV is doing production work on Appleseed EX Machina, i.e. the dubbing - Warner Home Video still presumably has the rights.

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All of FUNimation’s SDCC announcements (see liveblog thread) were movies this time around, and three of the four were live action.

But the biggest news for most anime fans is that they’ve licensed the upcoming film Vexille, the CG-animated film by the team that did the film of Shirow Masamune’s Appleseed. (Did you know that Paul Oakenfeld did the soundtrack for Vexille? ‘Cause I’m not sure I did.)

Also announced are two samurai flicks, Kaze Hana and Love and Honor, as well as the lavish $30 million Japan-Mongolia production of Genghis Khan.

Other than that, the only real news is that the second Cased Closed film will be out in winter, and the One Piece OP and ED have been dubbed. And now, I shall scoot off for Del Rey.

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Alrighty, I’m waiting on the FUNimation panel, starting at 2:30 PST (forum thread is here, and I’ve been told that they will announce something significant, so they’ll have a solid trifecta of series from the three big summer cons). In the meantime, here are a few items making the blog rounds:

Okay, I’m going to scoot out of Yen (see liveblog thread) a bit early so I can go to the Kevin Smith panel, which means I can’t get the full author information for a couple of these titles - my sincerest apologies! (I’d have been able to find them except NEITHER pop up right away on a search on amazon.co.jp or wikipedia.jp, booooo).　I’ll find them and edit this post later tonight if I have time.

A few announcements from good ol’ 7S (see liveblog thread):

Girls Revolution (light novel)

Another interesting tidbit - they say that they have several anime companies interested in the award-winning OEL title Hollow Fields by Madeleine Rosca.

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Only one real new announcement from Broccoli (see liveblog thread) this time around: Nui!, whose author was not mentioned and which I can’t seem to find online (I’m guessing it has a different title in Japanese, grr). But the series is about a girl who likes plushies more than boys. And she likes them so much that some of her stuffed animals start turning INTO boys. And so suddenly she’s living with three bishounen. Oookay.

Other than that it was mostly a sum-up of everything else we’d already heard: Cosmode, Disgaea, etc.

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TOKYOPOP (see liveblog thread) did make a few new announcements at SDCC, mostly non-Japanese series. Here ya go:

Fallen Moon by Othello’s Toui Hasumi

Box sets will be offered for Kingdom Hearts, Battle Royale, and .hack.

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Where “V” stands for “very full.” Today starts off with TOKYOPOP, which I’m going to liveblog right here, right now, followed by Dark Horse (though I honestly don’t expect much from them on the manga front so if you don’t see a DH post, that’s why), then Broccoli, Seven Seas, and Yen Press. (There IS a small break in there, during which I will acquire lunch. Huzzah.)

So keep an eye here and on the forums for all the news that’s fit to blog.

Well, okay, just one, but it’s a license so I thought I’d throw it out there for y’all before I headed off to sleep:

ComiPress notes that one new CMX title has already been announced thanks to D.C.’s new Flex Comics deal: Zombie Fairy (Kyonshi Senjo), by Daisuke Torii.