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J-Novel Club has just inked a partnership deal with Yen Press so that Hachette Book Group (which owns Yen Press in a joint venture with Kadokawa Corporation) will begin handling sales and distributing J-Novel physical books in North America. Hachette is a major publisher, one …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai whipped up a your name. novel during the production of the hit anime film of the same name, and now that novel is coming out once again, but this time in audiobook form. Yen Press announced plans to release the novel as part …Read more »
Yen Press has been publishing Iro Aida’s popular Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun manga both physically and digitally, and now it’s about to enter the realm of simulpubs. Yen Press announced that the manga will begin to be published simultaneously with Japan, with chapters 92-95 set for a …Read more »
Welcome to the new home for Korean comics. From screen to paper, Korean content materialized! Since our inception, we at Yen Press have published great stories from Korea, starting with the inclusion of manhwa like Jack Frost and Pig Bride in the Yen Plus monthly magazine to releasing the best-selling print …Read more »
Fans of Sho Harusono’s Sasaki and Miyano manga are about to be treated to more thanks to Yen Press. The publisher recently announced the acquisition of Harusono’s spinoff series, Hirano and Kagiura, with the first volume set to launch this October. Hirano and Kagiura has …Read more »
Light novel audiobooks are continuing to expand in America! Over the weekend both Yen Press and J-Novel Club made audiobook announcements while at Anime NYC. Yen Press said it will be making audiobooks for the series Spice and Wolf by Isuna Hasekura, So I’m a …Read more »
If you like audio books and light novels, then you’ll probably be happy to know that Yen Press is opening its own audio book imprint, Yen Audio. It will be working with Hachette Audio on the task. The first light novel to receive an audio …Read more »
ICv2 recently had an interview with the VP of Publishing Sales at VIZ Media, where it was revealed that VIZ’s manga sales went up exponentially in 2020. In an interview with Yen Press Publisher and Managing Director Kurt Hassler, ICv2 was able to uncover another …Read more »
Eleven new licensed books were announced at New York Comic Con Metaverse’ The Yen Press Manga and Light Novel Party. The titles in question are: Durarara!! SH by Ryohgo Narita and Suzuhito Yasuda, a light novel sequel series to Durarara!!. Hana-chan and the Shape of …Read more »
Yen Press just held its Virtual Crunchyroll Expo panel, announcing a slew of new acquisitions in the process. In addition to revealing plans to publish Koushi Tachibana and Tsunako’s Date A Live light novels, seven other licenses were revealed, including one more light novel and a bunch …Read more »
In recent days it’s become apparent that Amazon has been blocking some manga titles from both Yen Press and J-Novel Club. Both publishers tweeted about this: Sadly, we have confirmed with Amazon that they have opted to remove our No Game No Life titles from …Read more »
English-speaking manga fans can soon look forward to more Star Wars titles, because Yen Press made a pair of announcements earlier today. The next Star Wars manga on the way to North America includes the Star Wars Rebels manga by Akira Aoki and the manga …Read more »
Fruits Basket, one of the most successful shojo franchises of all time, is having a comeback. Along with a new version of the anime, there are new Fruits Basket spinoff manga on the way from mangaka Natsuki Takaya—Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers and Fruits Basket Another. Yen …Read more »
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has caused most publishers and distributors to seriously retool their schedules, and Yen Press is no different. The publisher announced plans to reschedule releases for manga and light novels that were originally solicited with on-sale dates between May and August. Volumes …Read more »
Author Ryohgo Narita is known for gripping works like Baccano! and Durarara!!, and his latest series is titled Dead Mount Death Play. The series teams Narita up with artist Shinta Fujimoto, who previously adapted Baccano! into a manga, and Yen Press announced SimulPub plans this …Read more »
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