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 »
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 »
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 »
I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss, a series of isekai novels by Sarasa Nagase, is getting animeified. Here’s how Yen Press describes the light novel series, which kicked off in 2017. When her engagement to the prince ends unceremoniously, details of the …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 »
Megumi Hayashibara has been doing voice-over work for more than thirty years. She’s voiced Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Jessie in Pokémon, Lina Inverse in Slayers, Ranma in Ranma ½ and Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, to name a few. She’s written about all …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 »
If you were feeling melancholic about how long it might take for the new Haruhi Suzumiya novel to get an English release, well, feel melancholic no longer. We just learned the novel, announced just about 24 hours ago, will be released in English at the …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 »
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 »
Earlier today Yen Press hopped on Twitter to make a few announcements, starting with plans to release Ayano Takeda's first Sound! Euphonium novel. The English release is currently slated for summer 2017 in North America. Also due out next summer is Mutsumi Okuhashi's Grimgar of …Read more »
Handa-kun , the manga spin-off of Barakamon , is set to become an anime series, reports Gangan Online. Who is this Handa-kun and what’s he all about? Hit the jump to find out. Handa-kun (the manga) is written by Barakamon author Satsuki Yoshino and is …Read more »
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