Ask Hinako Takanaga a Question!

How would you like the opportunity to ask your favorite mangaka a question? Well, if that mangaka is Hinako Takanaga of Tyrant and Little Butterfly fame, now you can! DMP has been gracious enough to give me the opportunity to interview Ms. Takanaga at YaoiCon this Saturday and I thought what better interview than an interview of fan submitted questions? All you have to do is submit your question in the comment section below and I will pick a choice few to ask Sensei during the interview. I'll of course interject here and there with follow up questions to keep it coherent.

Time is limited! I need to organize my questions Friday night so hurry and good luck!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

YAOI NEWS: Two New GloBL Anthologies

There are two new Global Boys' Love (GloBL) anthologies that will be made available for YaoiCon, Adamo Anthology and Crown Royale. Tina Anderson did a nice post summing them both up with details and pictures so I suggest checking it out. I'm going to pick up a copy of both but by the time I review them, there may be no copies left so probably best to jump on that now.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

YAOI REVIEW: Loud Snow ~ Tina Anderson

RUMOR MILL: Crimson Spell Volume 3?

As you may or may not know, I'm an avid tweeter (on Twitter) so I was surprised and thrilled to see Media Blasters AKA Kitty Media starting a Twitter account. Anyway, it wasn't long before someone asked them about Crimson Spell V3's potential release (thank you @Shelly_LR from the Yamane Ayano LiveJournal Community for asking!) Here was their initial response:

@Shelly_LR Our manga publishing is on hold for the moment.

Well, I'm not sure what happened but this was their response later in the day:

@TheYaoiReview @Shelly_LR @yamaneayano Re: Crimson Spell 3 -

we're hoping to have it in 2011. We're hoping to reprint Crimson Spell 2 soon.

Perhaps it was because Ayano Yamane was included in a retweet? Who knows! All I know is that we now have some hope for getting more of this fabulous series!

So, what do you think? Excited to see there's hope? Excited to hear anything related to Kitty Media? Make your voices heard!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

CONTEST: Winners of the Viewfinder Contest!

There were a decent amount of entries but deciding who deserved to call themselves Viewfinder's BIGGEST fan wasn't easy. Let me start by saying that illegally downloaded materials did not qualify as proving you are the biggest fan. Sorry. Once I weeded those entries out, I chose 4 that I felt deserved a copy even though I did have 5 copies to give away. So without further adieu, here they are!

This entry stood out above all others. Now THIS is dedication!

I'm such a big fan of The Finder series that I immediately purchased all three released volumes from BeBeautiful on the days they became available for purchase from their website.  I then packed the books in a ziplock bag, with the air squeezed out, and placed them in a fireproof safe for safe keeping. ~Jukebox

Awesome!

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YAOI INTERVIEW: Publisher Yaoi Prose

As a follow-up to my review of Incubus Master and to continue Global Boys' Love Month (which is now Global Boys' Love Summer!) I decided to interview the publisher of Incubus Master, Yaoi Prose. The mastermind behind Yaoi Prose, Yamila Abraham, was gracious enough to answer my questions:

What is Yaoi Prose?

 

Yaoi Prose publishes illustrated erotic eBooks in the male/male romance genre.  We started off with two serialized titles, Incubus Master and Saihoshi: REDEMPTION.  I’m writing Incubus Master and having it illustrated by Italian artist Barbara Apostolico, who produced art as one half of studio Le Peruggine in the past.  It stars Figaru, a prominent character from my Winter Demon graphic novel series.  Saihoshi: REDEMPTION is by the popular studio KOSEN of Spain.  Other eBooks have featured erotic spanking, and have followed up fan-favorite stories in Yaoi Press books.

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CONTEST:Are you Finder’s biggest fan? PROVE IT!

If you think you're Finder's biggest fan, here is your chance to prove it and win an ADVANCED COPY of volume 1 releasing in September! How do you prove it? You decide! I'm leaving it totally up to you. Write a poem, photograph your collection, do a video of yourself squeeing over its upcoming release… it's up to you! Whatever you choose, do it fast! This contest ends at midnight PST on August 31st, 2010.

Oh, did I mention I have FIVE COPIES to give away AND that this contest is open to ALL countries? No excuses! Now show some love to Digital Manga who has graciously agreed to provide the five advanced copies AND were nice enough to agree to ship them international when I asked. You know me, always looking out for my international readers. Feel free to comment here, thank them on twitter or visit them on their site.

All contest entries must be submitted by midnight PST on 8/31/10 via email to:

info AT theyaoireview DOT com

If you have questions about the contest, please post them below in comments so all can see the answer. Have fun with it and I look forward to what you crazy fans come up with!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

YAOI NEWS: TOKYOPOP Makes Hetalia Available Early!

From TOKYOPOP's Facebook page:

HETALIA fans: There are two ways to read HETALIA AXIS POWERS right now!

(1) You can buy a digital edition through TOKYOPOP's digital manga store, hosted by our friend at Zinio right here: http://bit.ly/d8iSKG

(2) We have made (*free*) digital editions of HETALIA available to all US public libraries–get your library car…d (also *free*) & go to your public library's web site. If they don't have a copy, ask them to order it through the "OverDrive Digital Library Reserve" program.

The manga will also be available at bookstores everywhere on Sept 21 — we just couldn't wait that long! Enjoy! Paaaaastaaaaa!

Your thoughts? Are you interested in a digital version or will you wait for the print copy to be released September 21st? Comment below!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

SITE UPDATE: WTF?

No, I did not fall off the face of the earth these last two months. What started off as a short hiatus to move into a new apartment turned into a long hiatus to have emergency surgery and buy a new damn computer 'cause my other one died a horrendous death causing me to lose a lot of stuff I didn't want to. (let's not even discuss that external hard-drive that did NOT do its job >_> ) Anywayz, I almost have my new laptop functional enough to get back into updating the site on a regular(ish) basis so let's celebrate with a new banner!

If you remember, we had a banner contest at the beginning of the year and this was our 2nd place winner. It was supposed to go up July 1st but yeah, life happened. Well, it's up now and it will get its time to shine! I've got something REALLY exciting coming up but I'm keeping it hush hush for right now. *cough* Viewfinder related *cough*  Yep, totally hush hush.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

YAOI NOVEL REVIEW: Incubus Master, Parts 1 ~ 8