Featuring Mark and editors Riley, Carl, and Peyton! Plus Atsushi and Dasani from Bungo Stray Dogs!
Goodies at the Yen Press booth are going fast! Lots of posters, letters, a Cheeky Brat basketball-shaped stress ball, and more!
Promoting Kurt Hassler’s State of the Manga Industry panel tomorrow! Yen’s Yen Audio panel, spotlighting their new audiobook line, is tomorrow too - featuring Bryce Papenbrook, voice of Kirito from SAO!
Bookwalker promo!
Time for announcements! Loud cheer from the crowd!
First license! The Geek Ex-Hitman, basically about an Ex-hitman turned otaku and and his BL-loving rival. A geekier version of Way of the Husband!
Next license! The Other World’s Economy Depends on the Bean Counter - An isekai BL! An overworked guy who gets isekai’d gets work as an account and when he overdoses on healing potions he gets a magical immune reaction and needs regular doses of magic from an icy aristocrat.
Riley’s cat Hanabi! A loud “aww” from the crowd!
Next license - Nights with a Cat! A girl moves in with a cat named “QR code.” About the absurd things cats do! Super stylized art style! If you love furry things this is one for you!
Prize break! Includes:
1. blu-ray stack of Fruits Basket seasons 1 & 2, the Black Butler movie, & Your name 2. Spice & Wolf Complete Collection 3. Yen Press freebies + $50 worth of Yen Press books at the booth 4. Can take home one of the standees at the Yen Press booth!
Next license - Chitose in the Ramune bottle! A popular guy who’s kinda a loner gets trapped in a ramune bottle. Fans who like My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as Expected would enjoy this!
Next license - Hi, I’m a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion. Title is pretty self-explanatory. 😅
Next license - See You Tomorrow at the Food Court. A down to the earth friendship manga.
Next license - Magia Record: Puella Magi Masons Magic’s Another Story. Adaptation of a secondary story quest in the game, opportunity to revisit the story in manga form!
All of Yen’s current simulpubbed series!
Peyton is currently describing the premise of Reborn as a Vending Machine to the amusement of the audience! 😂
Flashback to the first edition Spice & Wolf cover, which predates the Yen On imprint!
Light novel announcements time! First up - The Bride of Demise - From the author of Torture Princess, another post-apocalyptic dark fantasy about exploring the ruins of an old world and a mysterious girl found in a birdcage-like cave who calls the protagonist her master.
Next up - Sasaki and Pichan! A buddy comedy about a salaryman meets Pichan, a bird who can talk and want to eat wagyu beef and can travel between worlds, who proposes they start a business together where they sell goods between different worlds.
Last announcement - digital chapters of No Game and Life v11! This time they’re in a survival game where one person has to be left behind. How do they get everyone out alive? For the first time in Yen’s history with light novels, this is a digital simul release! Huge applause!
Q&A quickie! There will be more omnibuses/box sets in the future!
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At the #GQuuuuuuX panel at #Otakon2025 with animation director Hidenori Matsubara, who handled the prologue scenes, and production coordinator Hayato Tanaka!
Matsubara says Gundam 0079 came out when he was 14, so getting to work on the series today and with the original characters like Char was an amazing experience. It was not just fun to make, but fun to watch after they finished the work, even as the people who made it!
Tanaka was in the management side, biggest relief was to get all 12 eps in the can and deliver it for fans.
The Smiling Friends panel at #SDCC2025 began with showing a full episode of season 3!
Episode was about Pim and Charlie helping a guy called Silly Samuel be taken seriously while Allan and the Boss try to pass the health inspection for the office.
Zack and Michael were supposed to do a live-drawing but the pens and tablets are not working so they just jumped into Q&A about the episode.
Moderator Sabrina Graves commented that Silly Samuel was like a demented Forky from Toy Story. Michael says characters was inspired by comedians they know who have trouble being taken seriously. His name was originally Mr. Random. Script evolved 15 times into a totally new idea.
After a chaotic line just to get into the panels area, we managed to get to our next panel - the @jnovelclub panel, already in progress! (Guess they started a bit early? we were only a minute late).
PRISONER VILLAINESS novel! This was was much-demanded and a brisk 2-book read!
Next up for me at #AnimeNYC, the Localize This! Panel, feat. a Mt. Rushmore of localization, @ZackDavisson, Carl Horn, Mari Morimoto, Lynzee Loveridge, & @OkazuYuri! It’s a full house!
Mari’s been in the business so long she gets 2 slides! She’s been in the industry three years longer than Carl Horn! 😎🔥
What is localization! The word itself is superfluous, but without localizers you don’t read manga in English! It is a translator who writes the phrases we latch onto and assign meaning to.