Light Reading

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anime-Expo is going on right now and of course there are a few new announcements. (Links go to ANN write-ups. If anyone has any company news releases with additional info, I’ll update them.)
So far there’s not much on the actual light novel front, except for Bandai announcing the release of Code Geass novels [...]

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 [...]

In other news, there seem to be quite a few release delays. Zaregoto 2’s release date was pushed back from this December to next July. The Case of the Dragonslayer was pushed back from February to July. Soryuden 1 was also pushed back from April to July. July 28, 2009. [...]

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 [...]