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SDCC 08 Manga License Round-up
Tis the season of conventions! Here's another attempt at rounding-up all the newly announced series at this year's SDCC:

Bandai
- Lucky Star by YOSHIMIZU Kagami

CMX/DC
- Genghis Khan by HIGURASHI Nakaba and MORIMURA Seiichi (adaptation of the live-action film from Funimation)
- March on Earth by HAYASHI Mikase

Dark Horse
- World Embryo by MORIYAMA Daisuke

Del Rey Manga
- CLAMP In America by Shaenon Garrity (history of CLAMP in NA)
- Negima!? neo by FUJIMA Takuya
- Orange Planet by FUKUSHIMA Haruka
- Sohryuden (Novel) (novel, art by CLAMP)
- Yokai Doctor by SATOU Yuuki

Viz Media
- 20th Century Boys by URASAWA Naoki
- Dogs by MIWA Shirow
- Ikigami by MASE Motoro
- One Pound Gospel by TAKAHASHI Rumiko (re-print)
- Pluto by URASAWA Naoki
- Tegami Bachi by ASADA Hiroyuki
- Waq Waq by FUJISAKI Ryu

Viz Kids
- BakeGyamon: Backward Game by TAMURA Mitsuhisa
- Dinosaur Hour by SHOYA Hitoshi
- Happy Happy Clover by TATSUYAMA Sayuri
- Leave It To PET! by SONISHI Kenji
- Pokemon - Diamond and Pearl Adventure by IHARA Shigekatsu
- Pokemon: The Rise of Darkrai by TAKAMISAKI Ryo

Yen Press
- Cat Paradise by IWAHARA Yuji
- Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan (story) and ARAI Takahiro (art)
- GA - Geijutsuka Art Design Class by KIYUDUKI Satoko (4koma)
- Ichiroh! by Mikage (4koma)
- Kieli (Novel) by KABEI Yukako (novel version)
- One Fine Day by Sirial (manhwa)
- Oninagi by ISHIDA Akira
- Sarasah by RUY Ryang (manhwa)
- Step by YU Yanshu (manhua, full-color)
- Toxic Planet by David Ratte (French, webcomic)

Edit: Some links updated
Edit: Correction: Funimation's Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and the Sea is a live-action film and not an anime as previously stated
Edit: Added Dark Horse
Edit: Added and corrected some stuff for Yen Press
Edit: Added 20th Century Boys licensed by Viz Media
Edit: Correctly linked Yokai Doctor (thanks, digitalr)
Posted by Gum on 
July 27th 12:01am
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» sarah00891 on July 27th, 2008, 7:08am

more books smile

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» [][][] on July 27th, 2008, 8:00am

more waiting time biggrin

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» G-17 on July 27th, 2008, 8:38am

I wonder which version of Dogs Viz is licensing....

The one-volume Dogs, or the follow-up series, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage.... or both.

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» Invalent on July 27th, 2008, 10:24am

Maybe they licensed both, but first want to see how the "one-shot" sells, before announcing the series.

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» StarAngel125 on July 27th, 2008, 11:41am

I'm really happy about Lucky Star, March on Earth, Orange Planet and Happy Happy Clover. Not really sure on the others, though.

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» oriana3k on July 27th, 2008, 10:16pm

Missed one. Viz also picked up 20th Century Boys. Good year for Urasawa fans. biggrin

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-25/viz -adds-20th-century-boys-pluto-manga

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» Gum on July 28th, 2008, 9:01pm

20th Century Boys was actually "announced" waaaay back when they first announced Monster, it was something along the lines of "We'll publish 20th Century Boys after we're done with Monster"...I guess they just made it "official" now.

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» Saexel on July 28th, 2008, 8:30am

Whoot! I'm so happy that Yet Press has Cat Paradise licensed. (Especially since the scanlation group has seemed to drop it.)

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» digitalr on July 29th, 2008, 10:23am

I assume this is Yokai Doctor

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» lambchopsil on July 29th, 2008, 11:13am

Thanks for the heads up~

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» scarlettraces on August 1st, 2008, 2:38am

there are two entries for the above title - there is also one for "sarasa" under author RIANG Ryu (which incidentally says the title isn't licensed). can they perhaps be merged?

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» lambchopsil on August 1st, 2008, 8:39am

Fixed

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