Light Reading

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 [...]

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.
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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 [...]

Well, two of them at least. Much like how on Top Chef bacon will almost always be a winning ingredient, BL, vampires, and Hideyuki Kikuchi will never steer publishers wrong in the world of translated Japanese light novels! So it should come as no surprise to readers that they’re both vampire books. [...]

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 [...]

ANN reports that British publisher Alma Books have licensed and will be releasing Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) in April 2009. The first seven chapters are available in pdf format on the publisher’s website. Visitors to this site may be most familiar with the anime film version of [...]

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 [...]