http://read.dragons-wing.net a light novel news and review site Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:13:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ANN reports that: DMP announced the license for the I Want to Bite You (Kamitsukitai) BL novel by Isaya Takamori with illustrations by Chigusa Kawai with a release in mid-2010 under their Doki Doki label. http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=301 ANN reports that The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi film will open in theaters in Spring 2010. It will be based on the fourth book in the light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa. The Suzumiya Haruhi light novel series is being released in English through Little, Brown and Company, and the ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=298 Either Haikasoru's licensing of Loups-Garous was highly felicitous or they had an inside line on the news that Loups-Garous is being adapted into an anime film to be released in 2010. Bandai Visual, Kitty, Kinoshita Koumuten, Dentsu, and Mixi are co-producing the film which will be animated by Project ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=295 Crunchyroll will be streaming Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 2 ~Purezza~, the second season of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, based on the light novel series by Yuusaku Igarashi. Here's the Crunchyroll blurb: Picking up where we left off from the first season, we'll be able to follow Yūto and Haruka through more adventures ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=290 Crunchyroll has announced that Friday at 7:30 a.m. it will begin simulcasting the Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra anime based on the light novel series by Ishio Yamagata. In a world where the dead are transformed into books… When a person dies, the body is divested of the soul, and when ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=284 Reader kelakagandy has alerted us to the fact that Haikasoru will also be releasing The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto in March 2010. This title also sounds really interesting. Here's the description from the Simon & Schuster site: In a world where humans a minority and androids have ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=275 There's a bit of new licensing news from the New York Anime Festival. ANN reports that Haikasoru confirms that it will be releasing Loups-Garous by Natsuhiko Kyogoku (Requiem from the Darkness) in January 2010 and Slum Online by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (All You Need is Kill and Yokuwakaru Gendai Maho) ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=272 Haikasoru has updated their website with excerpts from their novels so if you haven't checked it out yet, now's a good time. Otsuichi's horror story collection, Zoo, is out in stores as is Usurper of the Sun by Housuke Nogiri. Haikasoru will be releasing Slum Online by Hiroshi ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=263 Many apologies for this very, very, very late update (lots of distracting real life nonsense going on). But as two readers in our last post already pointed out (Thank you Anna and kelakagandy!!!), Tokyopop will continue releasing the Twelve Kingdoms novels in English. Twitter announcement ICv2 article So let's look at that ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=256 As you probably already know, Kodansha has dropped all of its licenses with Tokyopop, which means that unless picked up by other publishers, any ongoing series will not continue to be published. While this is rather distressing as someone who has been buying several of those series, what does ... http://read.dragons-wing.net/?p=254