YAOI NOVEL REVIEW: Incubus Master, Parts 1 ~ 8
YAOI NEWS: DMP Addresses Fan/Scanlator Concerns
Clearly the recent topic of Digital Manga wanting to hire scanlators has struck a nerve with some and struck up great conversation with others. As a follow up to the discussion, I forwarded a link to the post as well as a link to the thread on the AarinFantasy forum that started the entire thing to Hikaru Sasahara, Digital Manga's President to see if he wished to address any of the concerns or to clarify his project. I'm posting his response, with permission, below:
Hi Jenny,Thanks you for sending us the feedback. Reading some of them, I feel that they are missing an important aspect of this special venture. That is they are not the only people that don’t get paid upfront on this project. Neither the contents providers (publishers in Japan) nor we (Digital Manga) would get paid upfront. This is the venture where all 3 parties involved share the “risk” and “revenue” although the level of the share varies meaning it won’t be that translators get the 1/3 of the revenue. That is something I would have to figure out based on a level of the contribution that each party makes to the overall venture.We are not looking for a cheap labor but looking for the people who have passion to read more manga titles and this venture may be the only way to make that happen.HikaruHikaru Sasahara
hikaru@emanga.com
President
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Digital Manga, Inc. – http://www.digitalmanga.com
1487 West 178th Street, Suite 300
Gardena, CA 90248
Tel: 310.817.8010 x100
Fax: 310.817.8018
So what do you think? Does this change how you feel about his project or merely add more questions/concerns? He's listening so if you want to be heard, speak up! You've all been doing great so far! Keep the wank to a minimum though. You know who you are. 
~Jennifer LeBlanc
YAOI INTERVIEW: HamletMachine of Starfighter
As a continuation of Global Boys' Love Month, I recently interviewed HamletMachine from the webcomic and recently self-published Starfighter (which I just reviewed). Enjoy!
Since I’m currently featuring “GloBL” artists, can you share with us what country you’re from?-Sure! I'm from the United States. Born and raised in NYC.Why HamletMachine?
-Years and years ago, a friend of mine told me about a theater production she had seen of Die Hamletmaschine, by Heiner Müller and I think my brain nearly exploded from the pleasure of hearing those words together. I'm a big fan of Shakespeare and robots, so I kept the handle, as it embodies so much of what I love!Your current project is Starfighter. Are you both the writer and the artist for it?
-Yes.
YAOI NEWS: Some New Live Action & Anime BL
It looks like Ai no Kotodama by Keiko Konno will be getting a second live-action remake. Ai no Kotodama, also known as Words of Devotion was published by June in 2007 and was two volumes. This new live action will be called Ai no Kotodama: Sekai no Hate Made or Words of Devotion: To the End of the World and will focus on two new characters. The director will be Satoshi Kanedo, who is also directing a live-action remake of Hyouta Fijuyama's Pure Heart, also known as Junjo. So much live-action boys' love, so little time!
YAOI RUMOR MILL: Ai no Kusabi Remake No More?
I was recently reading through some of the comments over at AarinFantasy in the news posting for the Ai no Kusabi remake and things are looking pretty grim. Per some of the comments, it appears the project ran into financial difficulties, there was a dissolution of the production team in April and the staff blog hasn't been updated since 4-12-10. Also, the running text at the top of the page was updated to remove "Spring 2010" as well as "13 OVA's". If anyone has any other news or can go to the Ai no Kusabi site or any other site to confirm this information, I'd appreciate it. Feel free to note anything you find in comments below. If I hear anything different, I'll keep you posted.
~Jennifer LeBlanc
YAOI REVIEW: Starfighter ~ HamletMachine
YAOI NEWS: Digital Manga Looking to Hire Scanlators
YAOI NEWS: June is Global Boys’ Love Month!
Who says? I DO! All this month The Yaoi Review will feature global boys' love authors and their works. What is Global Boys' love aka GloBL? Well, for me it is any boys' love outside of Japan (not including manhwa/manhua). I certainly won't be able to cover all GloBL creators so for this month I will feature those authors I am most familiar with and who are a little more accessible to me and the blog. I do hope to be able to get in contact with some other creators outside of the U.S. if time and language barriers permit. That being said, if you know of a great global boys' love author and would like to see them featured here, please leave a comment on this post as well as a link to their work so I can check them out and see if I can make it happen.
~Jennifer LeBlanc
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