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 [...]

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 [...]

ICv2 interviews Kurt Hassler, where Kurt confirms that Yen folding into Orbit is an “internal organizational change” which should not affect the public. Yen Press will not be sporting the Orbit logo and everything will pretty much continue on as normal.

Hachette Press is consolidating its Yen Press (manga and graphic novels) and Orbit (SF & Fantasy) imprints. Co-Publishing Director Rich Johnson will be leaving the company in October, but otherwise internal shakeups (as far as the public eye is aware) seem minimal.
Public opinion seems mixed with many people worrying about how this will effect [...]

MangaBlog’s Brigid Alverson talks to Kurt Hassler (Yen Press) and Joe Monti (Little, Brown Books for Young People) over at Publisher’s Weekly about what they’ve got in the works for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It’s pretty interesting and I advise anyone interested to go and read the article.
Some important points are that they’re [...]

Yen Press updated their site with release dates for Spice and Wolf and Amazon has a listing for the first volume of Soryuden, so those dates have been added to the release schedule.
The future of Seven Seas’s light novel line is looking a bit bleak at the moment, but Hideyuki Kikuchi’s (Vampire Hunter D, Dark [...]

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 [...]