-LSB-...] Pattillo notes that Digital Manga has shifted Starry ☆ Sky from
their yaoi imprint June to their DMP line, which makes sense as the series is not a BL -LSB-...]
The big news out of Yaoi - Con this past weekend was the launch of Viz's
yaoi imprint, SuBLime.
Not exact matches
For manga fans, Digital Manga, GEN Manga, and Viz's Sublime
yaoi manga
imprint offers many titles as PDFs, as well.
Digital Manga Publishing, which puts out several lines of
yaoi, ranging from the fairly tame June
imprint to the pretty steamy 801, posted this notice on its blog yesterday:
The largest English - language manga publisher, Viz Media, has announced that they are launching a line (not an
imprint, but a partnership) to cover the one genre of manga they haven't yet tackled:
yaoi (boys» love).
Title: In the Walnut Author: Toko Kawai Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing, on their Juné
imprint Volume: Volume 1 Vintage: 2002 in Japan, January 2010 from Digital Manga Genre:
Yaoi (very mild, not explicit, 16 +), romance, a little drama (but not «omg drama «drama)
Title: 9th Sleep Author: Makoto Tateno Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing, on their Juné
imprint Volume: It's a oneshot; $ 12.95 Vintage: 2008 in Japan, December 2009 by DMP Genre: 16 +; it's classified as a
yaoi ti...
Title: 9th Sleep Author: Makoto Tateno Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing, on their Juné
imprint Volume: It's a oneshot; $ 12.95 Vintage: 2008 in Japan, December 2009 by DMP Genre: 16 +; it's classified as a
yaoi title but... it's not at all.
I had the impression that the Digital Manga
imprint was for shonen - ai (or «
yaoi lite», boy / boy stories without the sex), but it seems that it's instead intended to be «the gateway from shojo to
yaoi», romance stories of any kind for teens.
-LSB-...] Pattillo notes Digital's announcement that they have a new license, Starry ☆ Sky, but she wonders if it's a shoujo series being marketed as
yaoi (in their June
imprint)-LSB-...]
San Francisco, CA, October 24, 2012 — SuBLime, the global
yaoi manga (graphic novel) publisher, thrilled fans during its packed panel discussion at the recent YaoiCon 2012 with the announcement of eleven new manga (graphic novel) titles the
imprint plans to release throughout 2013.
From book announcements made at
Yaoi Con, to the state of their
imprints, you can read it all under the cut.
Title: Dry Heat (Yeah, I never did figure out the meaning behind that title, but it's probably a metaphor for something I apparently missed) Author: Yugi Yamada Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing, on their June
imprint Volume: One - shot, $ 12.95 Vintage: 2002 by Houbunsha in Japan, March 2010 by DMP Genre:
Yaoi, mature (18 +), romance, drama
Next month, they will launch the digital version of their «Shonen Jump» magazine, which will make new chapters of six of their most popular series available within two weeks of their Japanese publication, and later next year, their SuBLime boys - love
imprint will begin publishing
yaoi manga, with some titles digital - only.