Tag: Yen Press

I Don’t Know How to Give Birth! mixes personal experience with general educational information.

Manga industry experts shared their insights on both print and digital manga, anime adaptations and the future of next generation demands.

Why not heeding Grandma’s wisdom is bad for your health

Two Rebellion-era stories are making the leap to manga.

An updated compilation of the measures publishers are taking to protect the direct market.

Your period is coming to visit, and she’s bringing punches.

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san pulls back the curtain on working in book retail through a loosely fictionalized autobiographical account by someone in the industry.

By Erica Friedman Late Friday, via Twitter, Yen Press made a correction to a previous announced license, a manga spin off of the popular Persona...

It's been a whirlwind year for manga fans.

Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket was one of the greatest hits of the First Manga Era, with the English editions from TokyoPop one of the best selling manga of the time. The original was published from 1998 to 2006 in Japan and was turned into a successful anime as well. While ToykoPop's manga have been OP for five years, Yen Press knows a good thing when they see it and they're bringing back Fruits Basket in fully updated collector’s editions AND publishing more from Takaya’s list including her classic Twinkle Stars and her new Liselotte & Witch’s Forest.

Mid-afternoon on the Friday of San Diego Comic-Con 2015, veterans of the manga publishing world got together to discuss what excites them and to lay down some truth on the myths surround publishing manga in North America.

Not only are these tiny Yotsuba&! figures from Kotobukiya adorable as the dickens, they got me thinking about the place of merchandising in a creator's business plan.