Light Reading

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 the soul departs from its [...]

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) in March 2010 which were [...]

Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe won it last year, and this year another children’s novel translated from Japanese is the proud recipient of the:

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for [...]

An entry for All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka with a release date is July 21, 2009 has appeared on Amazon.com. Viz is listed as the publisher, but it seems to be science fiction so I have a sneaking suspicion it might actually be coming out through Haikasoru. As far as [...]