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coamix, futabasha, libre, manganext, mediablasters, new titles

New MedaiBlasters Licenses (MangaNEXT)
It is so good to have friends. As I am 3000miles away from New Jersey right now there was no way I could have been at MangaNEXT to celebrate mangadom with the few thousand that cosplayed and participated in manga theory over the weekend. However, I do know peeps who were down in the trenches. They were conducting interviews, hosting panels and talking to editors. And some of them were kind enough to share some of their new found knowledge with the MangaCast

Jason Yadao of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was kind enough to give me word on two new licenses from MediaBlasters. Looks like Frankie is trying to branch out from BL again. And his new strategy is otaku titles?! Not a bad idea. But the translation and notes for these titles have to be top notch for them to really work.

Jason also found out that MB will be renaming Mousou Shoujo Otaku-kei as Fujioshi Rumi... Okay, see that's what I mean. I don't know there is something about the original title that I really liked. Yeah it doesn't work in English but I liked the idea of a delusional shojo (as the title suggests).

MediaBlasters

アキハバラ＠DEEP by: アカネ　マコト　& 石田　衣良 Akihabara@DEEP by: Akane Makoto & Ishida Ira Coamix/Bunch Comics seinen/6 vols

ストロベリーちゃんの華麗な生活 by： 森永　あい Strawberry-chan no Karei na Seikatsu by: Morinaga Ai Libre/Zero Comics shojo/2 vols

Akihabara@deep is written by the author of DMP's IWGP. The title also inspired a drama series in Japan. Morinaga's Strawberry-chan isn't an otaku title but apparently people like Morinaga's humor... I'll leave that one alone. Cool to see Libre is working on their shojo line Zero Comics (even if they are no longer running the magazine).

This is off-topic, but I wonder if MediaBlasters is going to go after the "Fujoshi Rumi" movie that is coming later this year? Hmmmm...