News Viz Launches SuBLime Boys-Love Manga Line with Love Pistols (Updated)
posted on 2011-10-22 15:20 EDT
The North American manga publisher Viz Media announced at its Yaoi-Con panel on Saturday that it will launch its SuBLime boys-love manga imprint with the digital release of Tarako Kotobuki's Love Pistols (Sex Pistols) and Haruka Minami's Danna-sama to Mitsugetsuchū this December. The worlwide imprint is a partnership with the Japanese companies Animate and Libre Publishing. SuBLime will offer manga digitally on the website SuBLimeManga.com, with a download-to-own option for many titles. The imprint will then offer selected titles in print starting next summer.
SuBLime's digital lineup includes the following titles:
Love Pistols (Sex Pistols) Volume 1By Tarako Kotobuki
December 2011
Danna-sama to Mitsugetsuchū Volume 1By Haruka Minami
December 2011
Ousama no BedBy Sakae Kusama
January 2012
Sweet Pool Volume 1By Nitro+Chiral
Art by Mayu Kurumazaki
February 2012
Shizuku Hanabira Ringo no Kaori Volumes 1 and 2By Toko Kawai
2012
Devil's Honey
By Isaku Natsume
2012
Kekkon ZenyaBy Kou Fujisaki
2012
Adult Teacher wa Osuki?By Kiu Aion
2012
Yokubou no ShizukuBy You Higashino
2012
SuBLime's print lineup will launch with the following titles:
Three Wolves MountainBy Bohra Naono
Spring 2012
Hachimitsu DarlingBy Norikazu Akira
Spring 2012
Punch Up! Volume 1By Shiuko Kano
Summer 2012
Aitsu no Daihonmei Volume 1By Suzuki Tanaka
Summer 2012
Viz also played a video from manga creator Youka Nitta at its panel. Tokyopop's Blu imprint published Kotobuki's Love Pistols — originally titled Sex Pistols in Japan — before Tokyopop shut down its North American publishing operations this past May. The following month, Viz posted a job position on its website for an "Editor (Yaoi/BL)" who would "establish and grow Viz Media's line of mature content titles."
Update: Full launch lineup and more information added.
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