So the news is out: Kodansha has formed its U.S. office. This has been the subject of a LOT of speculation over the past couple of weeks, with people making all sorts of predictions based on very little information. And I suppose I really shouldn’t blame those speculators; all they had to go on were some anonymous comments out there on the internet.

Well, it’s business as usual at Del Rey Manga. We’re continuing to license manga from Kodansha, and as has been stated elsewhere, we’ve just about wrapped up our licenses for 2009 and are now starting to work on 2010. In a few weeks at the San Diego Comic-Con we’ll be announcing some of those new licenses, and we’ve got some really exciting new manga series planned. Then we’ll have a few more announcements at the New York Anime Festival in September… pretty much like we’ve always done. Also, we will continue to publish all of our manga. Kodansha has not pulled any licenses back from us.

2009 is a big year for us, since it will mark our fifth anniversary. More on that later, but suffice it to say that we plan to keep publishing manga for the foreseeable future.

Thank you to all our fans, past, present and future!

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