Light Reading

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 I.G. and Transarts.
Check the ANN [...]

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 created their own civilization, a [...]

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 [...]

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 Sakurazaka (All You Need is [...]

I know the Yukikaze novel news broke back in March when I was out of the country, but the Amazon U.S. listing is up with a description and release date (January 10, 2010, the same day as The Book of Heroes though Amazon lists them as January 19, 2010 and October 20, 2009 respectively) and [...]

AnimeVice got an exclusive interview with Nick Mamatas, editor of the Haikasoru line.
I recommend that everyone go over there and check it out, but I’ll pull out a couple of relevant bits of news.
They will be re-releasing Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (last year’s Batchelder Award winner) in paperback under the Haikasoru line and will [...]

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 [...]

A little browsing on Amazon came up with this entry for the short story anthology Zoo by Otsuichi under the publisher “Haikasoru” with a retail date of September 2009. The live action movie
based on this short story collection has already been released by Tokyo Shock.
English editions of Otsuichi’s Goth and Calling You are [...]

Sorry for the late post, I wasn’t home today (errr, yesterday)!  At their New York Anime Festival panel, Yen Press announced their license of the Spice and Wolf novels by Hasekura Isuna, with a release date of December 2009 for the first volume.  The series is currently 9 volumes long and boasts both a manga [...]