More good news from Seattle’s Sakura-con on Saturday, from manga publisher Yen Press, announcing the North American rights to thirteen manga titles, five for physical release, and eight for digital only. For print they have acquired Izumi Tsubaki’s Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun, Wataru Watanabe’s Yowamushi Pedal, Akira Hagio‘s Sakura no Himegoto, Tsuyoshi Watanabe’s Dragon’s Rioting, and the manga adaptation of the anime series, Aldnoah.Zero, from Indonesian artist, Pinakes.
On the digital side, the titles are Satsuki Yoshino‘s Barakamon spin-off, Handa-Kun, Ato Sakurai’s Today’s Kerberos, Dan Ichikawa’s Shut-In Shoutarou Kominami Takes on the World, Karino Takatsu‘s Servant X Service, Tsumuji Yoshimura’s Unknown, Chisaki Kanai’s When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles, Hanjiro Tsukioka and Hikaru Tanaka‘s Scarlet Empire, and Higasa Akai’s The Royal Tutor.
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun is published by Square Enix in its Gangan Online web magazine. The anime adaptation is also available on Crunchyroll, while Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for a home video release
When high school student Sakura Chiyo tried to confess her feelings to her classmate Nozaki, he thought she was talking about the shoujo manga that he produces under a pseudonym, and which only a few other students know about. Sakura finds herself, in this romantic comedy, suddenly surrounded by many more eccentric acquaintances of Nozaki, some of whom help him with his manga, and some of who are only bizarre models for its archetypal characters. Finding love, with Nozaki-kun, however, is the challenge.
Yowamushi Pedal, published in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion, will be released in a two-volume omnibus edition. The 39th compiled volume will be published by Akita Shoten on April 8. The second season of the anime adaptation recently finished airing in March, and is available on Crunchyroll. Discotek Media, in a deal with Crunchyroll, will release both seasons on home video.
Sakamichi Onoda is a high school first year otaku looking for friends to go shopping with him in Akihabara, a 90-kilometer round-trip bike ride he does on a weekly basis. What he finds, or what finds him, instead, are the members of the Sohoku High School bicycle road-racing club.
Sakura no Himegoto is from Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine. The second and final compiled volume was published in 2013.
Aoi Narinomiya is the daughter of a distinguished family, but thanks to her grandfather’s past, she’s the “pet” of Kei Katsuragi, a rough new student at school. Figuring out what Kei is after may help Aoi escape her family’s debt.
The fifth volume of Dragon’s Rioting, published in Fujimi Shobo‘s Dragon Age, shipped in January.
Rintarō is a boy who could die if he becomes too sexually aroused, but due to an accident he enters a girls-only school. Now he must deal with the three girls who control things, the “dragons”.
Aldnoah.Zero adapts the anime of the same name, which finished airing in March and is available on Crunchyroll. Houbunsha‘s Manga Time Kirara Forward publishes the manga in Japan, with its third direct volume in March. Aniplex of America has the North American home video rights to the anime series.
Inaho Kaizuka and Slaine Troyard are two sides of the same coin, one a tactical genius who fears little, one a second-class citizen with eyes on overthrowing the system, hated rivals on either side of the war between the Vers Empire and Earth, with the Vers peace ambassador, Princess Asseylum, balanced precariously between them.
[source: ANN]
