MPD Psycho gets licensed by Dark Horse

[jboncha]

According to a press release on AnimeNewsNetwork.com (http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=9542 (http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=9542)), Dark Horse will announce this weekend that they have licensed MPD Psycho and will start releasing it around June 2007.

This is one of my fave series and I cant wait until I'm able to hold an English language copy of it.




J B

[The Xenos]

That is awesome news. I keep meaning to check out that series and I love Dark Horse. Another Omanga / Band of the Hawks manga gets liscened. Awesome. I am glad to see someone picks up seinen manga (titles targeted at an older male audience). I LOVE Dark Horse!

Anne Freaks. Blame!. Now MPD Psycho. Three titles I first learned about from the same scanlators. I guess Berserk was by them too back in the day. Of course, Anne Freaks got picked up by ADV and Blame! by Tokyopop. Gotta give them credit too. Though Dark Horse has the most seien titles of any publisher I can think of. Though Viz is doing Golgo 13 and Monster.

I can only hope someone eventually distributes other stuff (by the same scanlators) like Freesia, GANTZ, Alive, SkyHigh, or Homunculus. Mature and sometimes just plain distubing titles that I really like. Gantz has an anime. Alive and SkyHigh (same author) both have films released in the US.

I sure hope this shows a decent market for seinen titles in the US. I for one and more than happy to support the market for them here. I want these titles off my hard drive and on my bookshelf.

Actually when a friend went to Japan he picked me up Freesia vol. 1 and the one volume Alive because I wasn'tn holding my breath on them getting picked up. I also bought vol.1 of Blame! in Japanese a while ago. Now, I'm slightly more hopeful about seinen titles like them getting picked up. Slightly.