Yaoi for Christmas
This round-up of yaoi manga suggested for holiday gifts originally appeared, in a briefer form, in Orange County and Long Beach Blade, Dec. 2010:
Enjoy the holidays--or start the new year--with the latest yaoi manga (gay-themed Japanese graphic novels) from Digital Manga Publishing (DMP). The Gardena-based publisher rivals Tokyo Pop and VIZ among publishers of Japanese comics in the United States. The company is an industry leader in yaoi, publishing more than 40 graphic novels each year.
Two DMP offerings, the Kizuna series by Kodaka Kazuma and the Finder series by Ayano Yamane together provide American audiences a look at the work of two of Japan's greatest female manga artists. Both titles are rated for adults, age 18 and older--both are grisly far-fetched dramas involving gangsters and rape, with explicit homosexual content.
Both titles were first published in the USA by Be Beautiful, a manga company that has since gone out of business.
"Yamane wanted people to be able to find the book," said a DMP spokesperson about the new edition of the Finder series. The artist also insisted on a different translation from the editions that were published by Be Beautiful. The Be Beautiful editions were released as Target in the Finder, Cage in the Finder and One Wing in the Finder. The DMP titles may be slightly different.
Kizuna is also being packaged differently from the American English-language version of the series that Be Beautiful published. The series currently runs 11 volumes in Japan, but DMP is marketing the entire series as six books.
Another new offering from DMP is a softer title by Hinako Takanaga, The Tyrant Falls in Love. It's a three-volume manga in which the seme [dominant partner] is a homophobe but the uke [passive partner] really loves him.
DMP markets"fan-based" content, based on what manga fans want, online and through independent bookstores. It is publishing such other titles as A Foreign Love Affair (another Yamane work) and the upcoming Under Grand Hotel which some fans have already suggested is too controversial for wide acceptance in the American market. It's an explicit gay romance set in a prison.
DMP is also entering the yuri market (female-female romance) with the upcoming Gakuen Misoragumi, a manga about a girl who has feelings for other girls so--her family sends her to an all-boy school to keep her away from girls.
Visit www.junemanga.com for more information on manga titles that may make great gifts for the holiday season.
Note: a current look at the June Manga site suggests the above-mentioned titles are no longer available. Check places that sell used manga, or shop the current DMP selection.
Enjoy the holidays--or start the new year--with the latest yaoi manga (gay-themed Japanese graphic novels) from Digital Manga Publishing (DMP). The Gardena-based publisher rivals Tokyo Pop and VIZ among publishers of Japanese comics in the United States. The company is an industry leader in yaoi, publishing more than 40 graphic novels each year.
Two DMP offerings, the Kizuna series by Kodaka Kazuma and the Finder series by Ayano Yamane together provide American audiences a look at the work of two of Japan's greatest female manga artists. Both titles are rated for adults, age 18 and older--both are grisly far-fetched dramas involving gangsters and rape, with explicit homosexual content.
Both titles were first published in the USA by Be Beautiful, a manga company that has since gone out of business.
"Yamane wanted people to be able to find the book," said a DMP spokesperson about the new edition of the Finder series. The artist also insisted on a different translation from the editions that were published by Be Beautiful. The Be Beautiful editions were released as Target in the Finder, Cage in the Finder and One Wing in the Finder. The DMP titles may be slightly different.
Kizuna is also being packaged differently from the American English-language version of the series that Be Beautiful published. The series currently runs 11 volumes in Japan, but DMP is marketing the entire series as six books.
Another new offering from DMP is a softer title by Hinako Takanaga, The Tyrant Falls in Love. It's a three-volume manga in which the seme [dominant partner] is a homophobe but the uke [passive partner] really loves him.
DMP markets"fan-based" content, based on what manga fans want, online and through independent bookstores. It is publishing such other titles as A Foreign Love Affair (another Yamane work) and the upcoming Under Grand Hotel which some fans have already suggested is too controversial for wide acceptance in the American market. It's an explicit gay romance set in a prison.
DMP is also entering the yuri market (female-female romance) with the upcoming Gakuen Misoragumi, a manga about a girl who has feelings for other girls so--her family sends her to an all-boy school to keep her away from girls.
Visit www.junemanga.com for more information on manga titles that may make great gifts for the holiday season.
Note: a current look at the June Manga site suggests the above-mentioned titles are no longer available. Check places that sell used manga, or shop the current DMP selection.
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