Apologies to any who now have a four word jingle stuck in their head and want to clean things with the aid of a brawny bald man. Here we are on Monday, meaning San Diego Comic Con is behind us for another year. Not as many announcements as people were hoping but still some fun new titles to look forward to. As I’m all behind on posting on them, we can look at it as a sort of extended SDCC 2010… right?
Tokyopop had its panel mid-weekend and offered up few new series for the masses:
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The staff also went over the list of upcoming releases which you can read in its entirety over at AnimeNewsNetwork. After noticing an absence of a number of titles I was really looking forward (such as the newest volumes of Matsuri Akino’s series), I asked over Twitter and was promptly responded to by Tokyopop who assured me they were coming soon (with picture proof!). Now that’s service :)
Other tidbits of news included confirmation of the new Gakuen Heaven titles discovered on Amazon a few months ago ( Endo ~ Calling you & Shichijo ~ Sweet Sweet Darling) along with schedule updates for a few other BLU titles as well – “Baseball Heaven, due out 10/12/10, Stray Cat by Halco (11/9/10), Secretary’s Love by tohko Akiba (12/7/10), and You and Me, Etc. by Kyuugou (2/8/11)” (from ANN)
Tokyopop will also be releasing some jigsaw puzzles for their original properties (yay?), will be releasing more manga via digital means at $5.99 a book and shared some more details on a How To Draw Shoujo Manga book which will include material from Japanese company Hakusensha’s line-up including fan-favourites Ouran Host Club and Fruits Basket.
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Hahaha, picturing brawny Mr Clean next to the the twerpy kid (I love Tobina-sensei's twiggy character design) protagonist of the manga made me laugh… Despite outer appearances, they are united in their passion for sparkling clean counters!! Or something. I'm ridiculously excited for this series' release here :D
Oh, thanks for the reminder about Matsuri Akino's stuff! I'm not caught up on either series (I have the first couple volumes of Genju and so far I've only picked up sporadic volumes of Pet Shop at the library, which is terrible because I always think they're awesome and want to go add the series to my collection) but I'll make a note to pick up the new volumes anyway, and hopefully that'll motivate me to go back and fill in the rest!