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.

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 manga series is being released [...]

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 together! This fan-favorite will launch [...]

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 [...]

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 as a silver lining.

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 that mean for the English-language [...]

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 [...]