So according to terrygold on the Youka Nitta LJ community, Nitta-sensei has opened up her own website, including a blog for sensei and a blog for her assistant(s) and some other groovy stuff.

Meanwhile, back at the ranchYaoi Con, we've left the convention for good and said our goodbyes. We DID decide to give you bingo players a freebie: we asked Juné about "Art of Loving 2." (The answer, as always: it doesn't exist yet.)

We are also getting ready to have a deathmatch over who will get to review Hinako Takanaga's The Devil's Secret, licensed by 801 Media.

But this isn't the end of our Yaoi Con coverage just yet! Keep an eye out over the next few days for a review of the two butler cafés as well as the transcript of our interview with Takanaga-sensei!

We'd also like to give a shout-out to the con, especially April who was awesome (and got us early seating at the bishi auction), and the staff in general who were always on-hand and ready to be helpful.

Don't forget, if you think you got a bingo, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it your name/username, card #, and all, five items that make up your bingo!

Shizuki Yamashita, the director of operations for Broccoli Books, is also the managing editor for Boysenberry, the company's young boys love line, and she's running the Boysenberry panel.

Apparently they were never able to work out a deal with Borders to get them in normally because of one of the cover characters looking a bit too young, but a few renegade Borders have them, as well as plenty of other shops and the sales have been doing well.

Pet on Duty is due out in November, and those of us here at the con get to pick up a copy here! ♥ And it should be in Borders, no problem. There IS some mature content in it, too, so score! Sex Friend will hit shelves in December.

And now, the new licenses!

• Cigarette Kisses ("Kuchibiru no Yukue") by Nase Yamato, which is a salaryman love triangle (not a threesome-- we checked)
• This is NOT a Boysenberry title, turns out, but it's called Koi Cupid by Mia Ikumi, the author of Tokyo Mew Mew. Broccoli doesn't go high-volume, so I guess that's why this very, very non-BL title is being mentioned. But hey, I like cute stuff, so maybe some of you do too? It IS obscenely cute, however!
• One more Broccoli title called Pandora Hearts, a Square Enix title by Jun Mochizuki-- a shoujo series. Again, not BL, but it's got a cute boy on the cover (he's pretty young, for those of you who are into that, but Shizuki showed more covers with older boys, all of whom look quite yummy). Probably a little on the slashable side, I'm guessing.

Also, Boysenberry Books' official website BoysenberryBooks.com WILL be up soon, hopefully within the next two weeks. (Currently it's just a splash page.)

Q&A time:

• The website will NOT feature an online store to buy Boysenberry's books, at least from the get-go. But Shizuki clearly feels strongly about direct sales, so that may happen in the future.
• One person has asked if they're going to do more *tame* stuff, which is kind of interesting. Originally the plan was to do tamer boys love, but it's a bit harder to find in Japan.
• Koi Cupid was originally run in ComiDeji Magazine, published by Broccoli Japan (natch). Pandora Hearts was published in G-Fantasy, by Square Enix.

We've just sat in on Blu's panel now, and the first thing they note is that their website is actually going to start being updated regularly. Yay!

By the way, it turns out that a Blu employee has been cosplaying from Gakuen Heaven. Woot!

New announcements from Blu:

• The Nakajima version of Gakuen Heaven by You Higuri
• Ellie Mamahara's Baseball Heaven
• Ellie Mamahara's Alley of First Love Love
• Temari Matsumoto's Sensei no Jijou - The Cause of My Teacher*
• Dekiru Otoko ga Sukinanda by Hinako Takanaga (surprise!)
• Kimi ga Koi ni Ochiru, also by Hinako Takanaga
• A novel: Flesh & Blood by Matsuoka Natsuki (Take note, bingo players!)
• An OEL book by Studio Kosen (creators of Yaoi Press' Saihoshi and Stallion) called Daemonium, actually a TOKYOPOP title, not Blu-- so it's more slashy than BL

* All titles after this, any U.S. names are only tentative. Just FYI.

They are kind of evaluating if they're doing any more original boys love, and I'm willing to bet that it'll depend on how Daemonium does.

Now, the Q&A!

• If you want to suggest a license, go ahead and send off an e-mail and the company will consider it, etc.
• And the first price-raise question: will there be anything to warrant the price increase? They are trying to include as many "bling bling" as they can, and they will definitely have color inserts. Possibly color stuff from previous books as well. Some other mature non-yaoi books from TOKYOPOP will also be bumping up in price as well. The increase is starting in 2008, btw.
• Earthian is NOT going to be reprinted, apparently, so buy it quick if you want it!
• They may add translation notes-- if you want to see them, email them and tell them! But no dust jackets still, "too risky" for the American market.
• TOKYOPOP may or may not do more yuri in the future (they currently have the Kannazuki no Miko license).
• For fans of the OEL book OffBeat, the author is apparently too distracted by her romantic life to actually finish up the book, but it's still coming.
• One person asked about advisory notes on the books; they're buying into TOKYOPOP's new content indicators, especially for shrink-wrapped titles, so there's going to be a lot more of that kind of thing.
• And now, Fake 2: they're definitely interested in it, going after it-- but it's owned by a different company, so they have to start the licensing process from scratch.
• On the new continuation of Gorgeous Carat, there's complications because DMP has Gorgeous Carat Galaxy, and Blu would love to do it, so odds are good ONE of 'em will get the book.
• They'd love to license Gravitation Remix, but there's probably no way they could get them into stores, so it doesn't look too good. But the creator (Maki Murakami) wants them to do it, so we'll see!
• They're also definitely going after the new Black Knight and hopefully they'll get it.

We don't have time to check out all of these, but most of them are new announcements. So here's the schedule for 2008:

• January:
  • Yakuza in Love by Shiuko Kano (already announced, I think)
• February:
  • Tough Love Baby by Shiuko Kano
  • I Shall Never return 2 by Kazuna Uchida
• March:
  • Kiss All the Boys 1 by Shiuko Kano
• April:
  • Seduce Me After the Show by Esti Em
  • Say Please by Kano Miyamoto
• May:
  • Yakuza in Love 2 by Shiuko Kano
• June:
  • I Shall Never Return 3 by Kazuna Uchida
  • Tomcats by Mashiro Minamino
• July:
  • Kiss All the Boys 2 by Shiuko Kano
• August:
  • Two of Hearts by Kano Miyamoto
  • Mister Mistress 1 by Rize Shinba
• September:
  • Yakuza in Love 3 by Shiuko Kano
• October:
  • I Shall Never Return 4 by Kazuna Uchida
  • Future Lovers by Saika Kunieda
• November:
  • Kiss All the Boys 3 by Shiuko Kano
• December:
  • Mister Mistress 2 by Rize Shinba
  • Make Me Happy by Kano Miyamoto

And of course, all titles are $12.95.