January 2007 Yaoi News
January 26, 2007
Thunderbolt Boys: Excite and Incubus #2 Available Early
Media Blasters now has Thunderbolt Boys: Excite Vol. 1 and Incubus Vol. 2 available in their eBay store! Both titles are scheduled for full release on February 14, but you can get them right now, thanks to Media Blasters!
January 26, 2007
Yaoi-Con Announces New Location, Guests
We go out of town for a couple of days, and a bunch of new stuff goes online! Yaoi-Con 2007 is getting into gear for this year's convention, October 26-28, 2007. This year the con is moving to the Marriott San Mateo San Francisco Airport hotel, a brand new, presumably larger, location. The site is also proudly announcing the con's 2007 guests: artist Mamiya Oki and writer Kawahara Tsubasa! For complete Yaoi-Con information and updates, you can sign up for e-mail announcements at the Yaoi-Con web site, through the Yaoi-Con LiveJournal, or via the Yaoi-Con forum. Members of BoBoF's YahooGroup will also get the latest news!
Ogami Yuno's English-Language Blog
Ogami Yuno is a Japanese mangaka who is creating the first-ever Japanese-drawn manga to be released in English first, written specifically for an English-speaking audience. Ogami-sensei has created an English-language blog about her project, titled L'Etoile Solitaire, scheduled for release by Juné Manga in November 2007.
January 10, 2006
801 Media Online Store Opens
801 Media's online store is now open and accepting pre-orders for The Sky Over My Spectacles and Ichigenme... The First Class is Civil Law. If you pre-order by February 9, 2007, you will receive a 15% discount on each book, and your books will ship to you on February 12. 801 Media is also offering a free shot glass promotion, with more information available at their online store.
January 5, 2007
New DramaQueen License!
DramaQueen announces their acquisition of the Devil X Devil one-volume manga by Sawauchi Sachiyo for English translation and publication. This sexy comedy deals with a demon living on Earth who meets up with a fallen angel... but this angel turns out to be more devilish than the demon! Many thanks to DramaQueen staff for this item.
January 2, 2007
Happy New Yaoi... er, Year!
Boys on Boys on Film would like to wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2007!
Brand-new release dates direct from Media Blasters: I Shall Never Return (DVD; Japanese title: Our Road of No Return) will be released on April 3, 2007, available for pre-order on February 27. Thunderbolt Boys: Excite Volume 2 will be released on April 18, 2007, available for pre-order March 14.
