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Miyamoto Kano on Amazon Kindle!

The Portuguese yaoi blog site blyme-yaoi.com posted that Amazon Kindle has added several yaoi titles for download. Miyamoto Kano's Two of Hearts and Say Please English editions are available now.

Source: blyme-yaoi - Novo site da Youka Nitta e yaoi no Kindle

Here's the blyme-yaoi story translated into English:





Blymecast 02a – Clichês… ou não - Parte I
Blymecast 02b - Clichês… ou não - Parte II


For those who are interested, the Portuguese blog site blyme-yaoi has posted a pod cast titled: Clichés.. or not, which cites Miyamoto Kano's Rules and Walker Universes in the discussion. Featured is Aline, the Admin for the Orkut Club: Universo Rules.

Also, Aline wrote a article about the Rules Universe. You can check it out here.

New Calling Universe Releases (Japan)



Miyamoto Kano via Twitter confirmed the date of Calling Vol. 2 titled "Nowhere" for August 27th 2010.

(An August release of Nowhere was mentioned previously on her blog.) Amazon.jp has Nowhere (Calling Universe) priced at ￥ 630.

Also, Sensei announced via Twitter that the September issue of Reijin features the story "Replay" from the Calling Series. Reijin's September issue marks its 15th Anniversary and it is listed on Amazon as being completely sold out.


New Release (Japan)

August 23rd Release of Canna Vol.5 featuring "Illusion" by Miyamoto Kano on the cover!

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Cover:


Main Story Page:


You can find news on Canna releases via Twitter @c_canna

French Releases

Two new publisher releases for September, Vanilla Star priced at € 7.12 ($9) and Lovers & Souls for € 8.50 ($11) will be available in French for the first time.

Asuka Éditions

Vanilla Star (16 septembre 2010)



Taïfu Comics

Lovers and Souls (23 septembre 2010)




**Amayakana Toge will be released in 2011**



For All The Gintama Fans

Sensei was having a bit of fun drawing Gintoki and Katsura, thought I'd share these with you.

Miyamoto Kano @ 2010 Yaoi-Con!




Our favorite Mangaka will be attending the 2010 Yaoi-Con in Burlingame, CA Halloween weekend (October 29-31). This marks the 10th anniversary for the event. She was a guest at last years Yaoi-Con as well. Pre-registration cutoff is September 26! (It was announced on September 2nd that all the rooms at the convention hotel have been sold out for that weekend.)

Deb Aoki spoke with the crew of Yaoi-Con at this years Anime Expo, she mentioned via Twitter that Miyamoto Kano will be making a special doujinshi for this years Yaoi-Con. And Sensei herself made mention of working on it at the end of August.

Sensei has confirmed she will be attending on Saturday the 30th, her panel with friend Akiko Mizoguchi "Let's discuss MOE histories" will be held from Noon to 1pm. And she'll be selling her new doujinshi in the dealers room, but she will not be attending the autograph session unfortunately.

"Let's Discuss Our MOE Histories - What are the MOE histories of my fellow North Americans? A casual workshop with distinguished assistant, manga-ka and dear friend Kano Miyamoto!" -Akiko M

Yaoi-Con has posted their Panel list you can find the full page here.

Along with Sensei, other notable guests include the following:

Authors:

Ayano Yamane (Finder Series, Crimson Spell, & Ikoku Irokoi Romantan)

Takanaga Hinako (Tyrant Falls in Love, Bukiyou na Silent, Little Butterfly)

Also HelmetMachine creator of Starfighter, Yayoi Neko, Lynn Flewelling and Artist Jo Chen

Voice Actors:

Ryoutarou Okiayu - Best known as the voice of Byakuya (Bleach), he's appeared in several yaoi animes such as Junjou Romantica, Okane ga Nai, Ikoku Irokoi Romantan and Gravitation.

Hidenobu Kiuchi - Is the lead in numerous animes, including Ryohei (KHR), Hei (Darker than Black), and he also voices Ren (NANA) and Yuushi Oshitari (Prince of Tennis)


Additional Source: ANN

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(Image: Rei from Simple Days currently published in Chara)


Upcoming Japanese Releases

October 7th: Visitors 3 (LYNX)
October 9th: Sly - Calling Series (Reijin)*
October 22nd: Simple Days Act 3 (CHARA)
December 22nd: Simple Days Act 4 (CHARA)

*Issue Featuring Color Art

Winter Comiket 2010

Sensei mentioned participating in the upcoming Winter Comic Market with her dōjinshi circle Curve. She posted in her blog that she will be putting out the Japanese Version of her Rules doujinshi Overload which she created for this years Yaoi-Con. She also mentioned she wished she could have another book in time for the event, but due to time restraints that seems unlikely. Sensei is set to attend on December 30th.

Tokyo Winter Comiket will be held Wednesday, December 29th through Friday, December 31st. Sensei listed an item list of what will be available on her blog.


Holiday Greetings




Upcoming Japanese Releases

2010:

December 18th: Angels Congregating Sin (Illustrations for Novel)
December 22nd: Simple Days Act 4 (CHARA 1)

Upcoming Japanese Releases

2011:

Late January: Shot (Hall Paperback - Cheri)
February 9th: Rain from the Calling Series
February 22nd: Simple Days Act 5 (CHARA)
March 10th: Kare no Nemuru Basho - A Place for Him to Sleep (Libre Publishing)
April 4th: Calling (Korean version)

Also Summer 2011 a new series will be featured in CHARA and starting this spring you can look forward to 2 new volumes. One from Libre, Kare no Nemuru Basho (His Resting Place), which Liquid Passion recently dropped and one from Tokuma Shoten who will release Simple Days.


Yaoi-Con Article

Deb Aoki wrote up a little item about recent Yaoi-Con:



"Despite the major publishers cutting back on their Yaoi-con presence, many comics creators were showing off their self-published efforts at this year's show. Several pro artists made return visits to Yaoi-Con, including Tokyo-based manga-ka Kano Miyamoto who created an exclusive English edition of a new doujinshi (self-published comic) featuring characters from her Rules series just for Yaoi-Con 2010. Jo Chen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer cover artist) was also there, selling her gorgeous prints and art books." - Deb Aoki


Libre, Take Shobo, Tokuma Shoten & Others To Start Digital Manga Site

In a story posted Friday, Noivember 12th 2010 on Anime!Anime! this March, 37 publishers are in the process of launching a new digital manga site for North America.

You can read about it here on the MAL news forum: 37 Japanese Publishers To Launch Manga Portal Website For North America.

Among the 37 participants listed, three publishers Libre, Take Shobo (Reijin) and Tokuma Shoten (Chara), print past and current Miyamoto Kano titles. Perhaps in the near future we may be seeing newer releases translated in English in an expedited manor.

You may recall at the end of September Libre sent out numerous C&D orders to various Scanlation groups to have their materials removed. It was mentioned that their titles would be available in an E reader format for Amazon's Kindle, several of their licensed works are currently available for the Kindle published under the name Animate U.S.A..



Image From My Kindle


Libre Titles:

Amayakana Toge
Make Me Happy
Please Sakura & Ryouichi Series
Te wo tsunaide sora wo (Reprint)
The man who wouldn't fall in love
Vanilla Star

Take Shobo Comics (Reijin):

Calling
Nowhere
Escape
Toxic

Tokuma Shoten (Chara):

Flowers
Night Walk
Rules
Simple Days
Sleeping Moon (2 Volumes)
Sweet Tale

Original Source: Anime!Anime!



Information About Bill 156

The latest summery article from ANN on the subject has a well condensed view of what Bill 156 means. There is also a link to Dan Kanemitsu's Blog which is considered recommended reading on several Manga and Anime sites.

It's Our Anniversary!

Sensei's Birthday!



June 15th will be Miyamoto Kano's Birthday. You can leave her a greeting on Twitter or send an E-mail via her Blog.


Upcoming Japanese Releases

2011:

April 9th: From the Calling Series (May Issue of Reijin)
April 22nd: Simple Days - Final Chapter (CHARA)
May 25th: Novel Illustrations - Sequel to Police on the 30th Floor (Author: Sunohara Izumi)
May 30th: Cheri+ oneshot
Early June: Visitors Series (Comic Magazine LYNX)
July 25th: Simple Days (Tokuma Shoten - CHARA)
August 9th: Calling Series (Reijin)