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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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.
Giving a history of Dark Horse’s relationship with publishing manga. Dark Horse started doing manga in 88, Viz was founded just a year before in 87. Contrary to what some younger fans may think, Manga localization was happening before the internet!
Introducing the localizers on the panel! Everyone has a unique career and skill set and different stories about how they started working in manga!
The artists on the panel! Very different styles, but manga had a huge influence on both of their work. Shaman King was Nikolas’s first favorite and Koyuki was big into the big 3!