Time for some editorial backtracking again, and we'll start with some notable licensing news from the past couple of weeks. First off, the Gurren Lagann manga was picked up by Bandai Entertainment (who else?!), as announced during the recent New York Anime Festival 2008 - which, by the way, had over 9000 over 18,000 horny attendees. The deal only covers ASCII MediaWorks' version of the manga, as illustrated by Kotarou Mori, not Kabao Kikkawa's "Gurren School Edition" version. Not yet. An all-out press release also followed one week later, but it didn't bring any new info, other than the manga's vague release timeframe - 2009.

The most abundant manga licensing deal revealed at NYAF (afaik), however, was the one announced by Yen Press. In a "burst of licensing announcements", as they put it, the company expanded its future portofolio with titles like Hero Tales (a Square Enix manga based on Chinese folklore, to be serialized in Yen Plus and collected in the first volume in October 2009), Welcome to Wakaba-soh (a school romance / slapstick comedy manga from the creator of sola), and - the most eye-catching, pants-enlarging one - Spice and Wolf (Ookami to Koushinryou). The furry fantasy novels are coming in December 2009. But if you can't hold it in that long, just use a napkin.


(Note to self: update that f...urry Horo gallery already!)