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We are giving away Physical Attraction by Tatsumi Kaiya on eManga.com today! Some time today, we will be tweeting an instruction on how you can win, and the winners will receive this book in their account’s Reading List for 3 days.

Also, for those who can give us feedback on Twitter, you will automatically be entered in a free drawing, and ONE lucky winner will receive a copy of Physical Attraction!

Follow us on Twitter and GOOD LUCK!

Congratulations to JaDoodles of Ohio - you are the winner of this contest!  We hope you enjoy the prize!

There will be more contests to come in the future so keep checking back!

Rent or keep any title and you’ll be entered for a drawing to win a free copy of Electric Hands by Taishi Zaou, plus a shikishi/shitajiki pencilboard - autographed by Taishi Zaou!

This promotional offer begins on Wednesday, January 13th (noon PST) and ends on Tuesday, January 19th (noon PST). The winner will be announced on Wednesday, January 20th.

Starting in January, we have the release of Hideyuki Kikuchi’s (creator of Vampire Hunter D) latest novel to come stateside, Yashakiden: The Demon Princess Vol. 1! It’s a dark, brooding tale of ancient vampires from the heart of China descending upon the city of Shinjuku to seize control of it and usher in a new age of vampire control. Standing in their way are two mystical men of Shinjuku, Dr. Mephisto-the demon physician-impossibly beautiful, cold and as heartless as ice, and the PI Setsura Aki, who isn’t quite human, but is something else entirely, controlling demon threads with his mind that slice through his opponents. It’s a four volume series that doesn’t let up from the very first page!

And check out an interview with Hideyuki Kikuchi in the Jan/Feb issue of Rue Morgue Magazine on store shelves now!

For DMP-we’ll also have more volumes of Itazura Na Kiss, Vampire Hunter D, Taimashin: The Red Spider Exorcist, and some new beautiful titles, Tale Of A White Night and Crimson Cross! Itazura Na Kiss continues to be a critical fave, topping many reviewers lists-and we’re sure the shojo fans will adore it! We also have some more goodies planned for DMP-so watch our blog and release schedule!

June’ has some exciting releases and acquisitions this year. We’re excited to bring into print Hinako Takanaga’s long-awaited The Tyrant Falls In Love, as well as the deluxe print editions of Kazuma Kodaka’s fan-favorite Kizuna, along with the never printed in English- the elusive volume 11. We will have the heavily fan-requested title Maiden Rose along with the first Kou Yoneda June’ title- No Touching At All. We have new titles from fan favorites Makoto Tateno, Toko Kawai, Shinri Fuwa, Naduki Kojima, Kazuhiko Mishima, and Yaya Sakuragi, among many others. We also have the omnibus re-releases of heavily requested titles Yellow and Little Butterfly. And the year is only getting started for June’-there may be more stuff that hasn’t been shared yet! 2010 promises to be a year of super releases on the June’ line, with a ton of amazing titles for all June’ fans!

2009 was a great inaugural year for DokiDoki-the Shinshokan/DMP co-label that spans shojo, drama, comedy, shonen-ai, and yaoi all in one imprint! Train Train by Eiki Eiki was nominated for a YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) Great Graphic Novel for Teens award, and almost all DokiDoki titles were well-received by critics and fans. In 2010-we have the long-awaited return of Youka Nitta (Prime Minister’s Secret Diplomacy) with her beautifully drawn mystery thriller: Otodama: Voice From The Dead. DokiDoki will also see the re-emergence of the beautiful art of Chigusa Kawai (La Esperanca) on the shojo comedy Alice The 101st and as the illustrator of the BL novel I Want To Bite. The imprint will continue to span all genres with the supernatural shojo title Wolf God, the comedy of Eiki Eiki in the continuing Millennium Prime Minister series, and the horror yaoi vampire manga by Makoto Tateno, A Bloody Kiss Tonight. We hope DokiDoki continues to surprise and delight both fans and critics, and we feel the titles for 2010 will really do both!

801 Media starts off with continuing series in 2010, but one series promises to rock the boat this 2010-Mika Sadahiro’s Under Grand Hotel. Controversial, explicit, and yet one of the most heavily-requested titles we’ve ever had, 801 Media is pleased to give the book the devoted fans have asked for the print treatment, and preserving it in it’s deluxe printed issue size. Along with UGH, continuing in 2010 are the supernatural yaoi series Ze, and the school romance comedy, Hey, Class President!. The 801 Media release schedule isn’t done yet, so expect more fun stuff later on in the year!

And eManga! 2009 saw DMP’s online rental service bring on the OEL yaoi works of publishier Yaoi Press, and the lovely OEL manga Games With Me by Tina Anderson and Lynsley Brito. In another unprescedented move, DMP partnered with Softbank Creative to bring Harlequin manga onto the eManga reader! For 2010-there are some big plans for eManga-including some straight to eManga titles, and more new content! And you may be surprised at what we bring-and license just for eManga!

2010 is just beginning-but we have some big plans-and we hope you, the fans, the readers, the critics, the reviewers, will enjoy watching as we work to put out some great stuff for you. And we’ll try attending a convention and show here and there!

As always-feel free to contact us-we’re on twitter (@digitalmanga), we’re on our forums, we’re at contactATemanga.com! Here’s to a great 2010!

Congratulations to sunflower33 of Cincinnati, OH. We are sending you a free copy of Itazura Na Kiss v.1 today!

Thank you for reading with us! Don’t worry, there will be more chances to win in the future so keep checking back!

This promotional offer begins on Friday, December 11th (noon PST) and ends on Tuesday, December 15th (noon PST). The winner will be announced on Wednesday, December 16th.

Gardena, CA (December 7, 2009)-801 Media, Digital Manga Publishing’s adult yaoi imprint, is excited to announce the acquisition of the heavily fan-requested title: Under Grand Hotel by Mika Sadahiro (creator of Pathos)!  Controversial, explicit, yet ultimately fascinating, Under Grand Hotel takes place in a prison that the prisoners have nicknamed the “Under Grand Hotel”. A two-part series, the story revolves around two inmates, Sen and Swordfish, and the power politics involved to survive a prison that houses the most dangerous inmates around!

In a new first, 801 Media will preserve the special trim size of this title (4 1/8″ x 5 7/8″), and it will hold a special price of $24.95 for each volume for their large volume count (over 320 pages for each book!)

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UNDER GRAND HOTEL VOL. 1, Rated M+ (for ages 18+), MSRP: $24.95, Available: June 2010, 4 1/8″x  5 7/8″, Over 300 pages!, 801 Media

After killing the husband of his lover, Sen is sent to a prison nicknamed the “Under Grand Hotel”, which houses some of the most violent and corrupt offenders. Good-looking and rather soft for prison, Sen is forced to seek protection from Swordfish, the proclaimed leader of the prison. But when their relationship turns from one of convenience to one that may be more involved, can they protect each other in a place where the law has no bearing? Mika Sadahiro’s (Pathos) controversial and fan-favorite title is finally available for the first time in print in English!

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About Digital Manga Publishing

Located in Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Publishing is one of the industry’s most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the Western Hemisphere - specifically through the licensing, importation and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for the North American mainstream and subculture markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the expansion of Japanese pop culture institutions into global arenas. The company’s imprint line includes DMP: its mainstream imprint, DMP PLATINUM: its classic manga imprint, JUNE´: its boys love imprint, 801 MEDIA: its adult boys love imprint, and DokiDoki: its exclusive co-publishing imprint with Shinshokan Publishing.

For more information about Digital Manga Publishing, visit www.digitalmanga.com

When you rent any Harlequin book for 200 points, you will automatically receive a promo code for 50 points.  And, when you rent the book again to keep it, you will receive another promo code for 25 points!

These codes will be sent to your email.  To use your points, just redeem the code on the eManga website.  This code is one-time use, has no expiration date, and is transferable.  The points are just like any other points purchased on eManga and are good towards any rental.

This promotion begins at noon (12:00pm PST) on Friday, December 4th, and ends at noon (12:00pm PST) on Wednesday, December 9th.

Enjoy reading the Harlequin books! You can see all of the available titles here!

Gardena, CA (December 3, 2009) - Digital Manga Publishing, one of the manga industry’s most unique and creative publishers,is proud to announce their online collaboration in making Harlequin romance manga available online at eManga.com! Harlequin Enterprises Limited (www.eHarlequin.com) is a global leader in series romance and one of the world’s leading publishers of women’s fiction. Harlequin manga are comic adaptations of Harlequin’s romance novels and are currently digitally distributed by Harlequin and SOFTBANK Creative internationally. Harlequin manga will now be available for rental through eManga’s online manga service, bringing the manga versions of the popular Harlequin romance novels to the US for english readers to enjoy!

Beloved by readers the world over, Harlequin has shipped 5.8 billion novels worldwide since its inception. In 1998, Harlequin Enterprises Limited began licensing their novels to Japanese publishers, culminating in the creation of Harlequin manga, which are drawn by various shojo mangaka, and geared towards teenage and adult women. Now, twenty of these titles will be available through eManga.com for rental alongside Digital Manga’s own rental library. These twenty titles have never before been available in their print manga form in the US, until now.

The first of the Harlequin manga titles available for rental will be: Millionaire Husband written by Leanne Banks and illustrated by Kanako Uesugi, Prisoner Of The Tower written by Gayle Wilson and illustrated by Karin Miyamoto, The Sheikh’s Reluctant Bride written by Teresa Southwick and illustrated by Ayumu Asou, Word Of A Gentleman written by Lyn Stone and illustrated by Tsukiko Kurebayashi, Married Under The Italian Sun by Lucy Gordon and illustrated by Mayu Takayama and Sale Or Return Bride written by Sarah Morgan and illustrated by Kazuto Fujita.

eManga.com streams content through an Adobe Flash player, which allows readers to access their library wherever they have an internet connection. The reader has custom features that include two-page, one-page, panel-by-panel reading, three custom zoom options, a bookmark bad and auto play. The reader is also made to work with different screen sizes to maintain great image quality at any screen size. The standard eManga rental package is $10 for 1000 points, with entire books averaging between 200-300 points. Higher packages come with free bonus points. Points are kept in user’s accounts, allowing for quick and easy rental of titles at anytime, anywhere. For most of the titles on eManga, you also have the option to read the entire book by spending eManga points to “rent” the title for a limited amount of time (currently 72 hours). If you later decide to rent the same title again, it will be automatically upgraded to an “unlimited” rental, which does not have time restrictions.

For more information and to begin reading right away, visit www.emanga.com and click on the Harlequin tab under “publishers”.

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About Digital Manga Publishing

Located in Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Publishing is one of the industry’s most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the Western Hemisphere - specifically through the licensing, importation and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for the North American mainstream and subculture markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the expansion of Japanese pop culture institutions into global arenas. The company’s imprint line includes DMP: its mainstream imprint, DMP PLATINUM: its classic manga imprint, JUNE´: its boys love imprint, 801 MEDIA: its adult boys love imprint, and DokiDoki: its exclusive co-publishing imprint with Shinshokan Publishing.

For more information about Digital Manga Publishing, visit www.digitalmanga.com

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About SOFTBANK Creative Corp.

SOFTBANK Creative corporation is a Japanese publishing company specializing in digital books for cellphones and online use. They are located in Tokyo, Japan.

For more information about Softbank Creative, visit www.sbcr.jp
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Harlequin Enterprises Limited is the global leader in series romance and one of the world’s leading publishers of books for women, with titles issued worldwide in 28 languages and sold in 114 international markets. The company produces more than 110 titles monthly and publishes more than 1,100 authors from around the world. Harlequin Enterprises Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation, a broadly based media company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TS.B). Harlequin’s Web site is located at www.eHarlequin.com. Harlequin has offices in 18 countries, including offices in Toronto, New York and London. For more information please visit www.eHarlequin.com or press.eHarlequin.com.

We’re definitely very excited to be partnering with Softbank Creative to bring Harlequin manga to eManga.com! We’ll have a more in depth press release later to go over the details of this very special partnership and these great books on eManga very soon! We’re also accepting submissions! So go on over to eManga for more details!

Speaking of announcements, here is the list of licenses, and confirmed books for 2010. Awesome stuff!

DMP

-Tale of A White Night (Tooko Miyagi, creator of IL GATTO SUL G) Summer 2010/Supernatural, Drama

-Crimson Cross (Kyoko Negishi the mangaka of CAFÉ KICHIJOJI DE and written by Sakae Maeda, the mangaka of JAZZ) Summer 2010/Action, Supernatural, Drama

DokiDoki

-Otodama: Voice Of The Dead Vol. 1 (Youka Nitta, creator of WHITE BRAND and PRIME MINISTER’S SECRET DIPLOMACY)  February 2010/Suspense, Horror, Mystery

-Green Light (novel) (illustrated by TAISHI ZAOU, creator of COLOR and LIVING FOR TOMORROW, written by Yura Tamaki) January 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Alice The 101st (Chigusa Kawai, creator of LA ESPERANCA) Early 2010/Shojo, Comedy, Drama

-Wolf God Vol. 1 (Ai Tenkawa) Mid 2010/Shojo, Supernatural

-Double Cast (Ellie Mamahara and Takana Mizuhashi) Mid 2010/Romance, Drama, Shonen-Ai

-Midnight Bloom (Rico Fukiyama, creator of THE DEVIL WITHIN) Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance

-Cool/Uncool (Kai Asou and Arika Kuga, writer of FEVERED KISS) Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance

-I Want To Bite You (novel) (written by Isaya Takamori, illustrated by Chigusa Kawai creator of LA ESPERANCA and ALICE THE 101st) Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Supernatural

-A Bloody Kiss Tonight (Makoto Tateno, creator of STEAL MOON and YELLOW) Late 2010/Yaoi, Supernatural, Romance

June’

-Yokan: Premonition Vol. 1 & Yokan: Premonition-Noise Vol. 2 (Makoto Tateno, creator of STEAL MOON and YELLOW) Early 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Maiden Rose Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Fusanosuke Inariya) Early & Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Historical, Drama

-Cafe’ Latte Rhapsody (Toko Kawai, creator of CUT and LOVEHOLIC) Early 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Little Butterfly Omnibus (Hinako Takanaga, creator of THE DEVIL’S SECRET) Early 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Your Love Sickness (Kuku Hayate) Early 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Supernatural

-The Tyrant Falls In Love Vol. 1 (Hinako Takanaga, creator of LITTLE BUTTERFLY) Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Stay Close To Me (Yaya Sakuragi, creator of HEY, SENSEI?) Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Seven Days: Monday-Thursday (Rihito Takarai & Venio Tachibana) Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Endless Comfort (Sakura Sakuya) Mid 2010/ Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-No Touching At All (Kou Yoneda) Mid 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-The Spiral Of Sand (Yuna Aoi, creator of AWAKEN FOREST) Late 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

-Kizuna Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 (Kodaka Kazuma) Late 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Drama

801 Media

-Maniac Short Shots (Miya Ousaka) Early 2010/Yaoi, Romance, Comedy

-Deeply Loving A Maniac (Yuu Higashino) Early 2010/ Yaoi, Romance, Drama

Remember-this isn’t the end all be all of stuff for 2010. So stay up to date by watching our release schedule. We always twitter when we update a month!

A big super, amazing thank you to MAKOTO TATENO, our guest for Yaoi Con. Getting to work with her behind the scenes, we can’t reinforce enough what a sweet, easy-going person she is, and for someone as prolific as her, she’s a hard worker, and a fun guest. She really had a great time at the convention, she was really touched and surprised by the support of her fans, and she loved the Yaoi-Con experience. We at DMP thank all of Tateno’s fans, and the Yaoi Con staff for really making her trip a fun one! It’s because of you that we were able to provide a really good con experience for her.

So, we want to share some tidbits from Yaoi-Con that you didn’t get to see, or some fun things that you may not know!

1.) Tateno-sensei brought her editor, Saito, of 10 years to Yaoi-Con.They’ve worked together since Saito worked at the now defunct Biblos. Hero Heel was actually a story idea of Saito’s, because she loves those costumed adventure shows!

2.) A commissioned sketch of any two characters of Tateno’s fetched $600 for charity! Thanks to the amazing fan!

3.) According to our guests, in a Harry Potter yaoi, in Japan, Snape would be an uke and Harry would be a seme. Think about it a bit. In the US we think the other way-but after thinking about it a little longer-it kind of makes sense.

4.) Tateno-sensei has three assistants. They are currently working on five projects, for several different publishers.

5.) Yellow is the one series of Tateno-sensei’s she would most like to see made into an anime.

6.) We like to give out cool prizes at our panel, so those who were randomly selected as winners at our panel received things like: Antique Bakery doujinshi (we had Ono and Tachibana), signed copies of Makoto Tateno’s “Egg” doujinshi, a Maiden Rose doujinshi, signed The Tyrant Falls In Love pencil boards, a signed set of the first run of Little Butterfly, a signed set of Nighthead by Makoto Tateno, and signed copies of CUT by Toko Kawai! We hope the winners were happy with their prizes! Also, those who came to our panels had priority ticketing for Tateno’s packed signings!

7.) The most popular new book purchases at Yaoi Con: Yellow 2 & Yellow Omnibus Vol. 1, Blue Sheep Reverie Vol. 2, Selfish Mr. Mermaid Vol. 2,Great Place High School Student Council Vol. 1, Little Butterfly Omnibus, Only The Ring Finger Knows Vol.4 novel, and Boys Love.

8.) The most popular older book purchases at Yaoi Con: Selfish Mr. Mermaid Vol. 1, Sugar Milk, Author’s Pet, A Gentleman’s Kiss (1&2),Vampire’s Portrait Vol. 1, and A Strange And Mystifying Story Vol. 1.

9.) Tateno-sensei and her staff love American dramas like 24 (they LOVE Jack Bauer), LOST and Prison Break.

10.) Of the announcements at Yaoi Con-Tyrant Falls In Love and the Kizuna Deluxe editions received the most cheers, in the panel room and online! We’re happy you’re happy!

So we close out our con schedule for this year by saying thanks again! We hope you keep up with us on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/digitalmanga, and we hope you continue to support this small independent publisher-so we can continue to bring fun guests out and attend more shows! If you’re looking for a book, and you can’t find it, ask your local comic store to order it. Or visit our retail store online: www.akadot.com-free shipping for all orders over $15 (heavily discounted items exempt). Your support keeps us going!

Ciao for now!