Monthly manga anthology magazine coming in Summer 2008!

At last, the unveiling of YEN PLUS! The monthly manga anthology from Yen Press will be available on July 29th at major retailers nationwide. YEN PLUS will feature over 450 pages of the finest manga and manhwa for only $8.99 an issue! What’s more, YEN PLUS will read both ways–left-to-right AND right-to-left.
Start from the right for the best Japanese manga from Square Enix:
- SOUL EATER by Atsushi Ohkubo
- NABARI NO OU by Yuhki Kamatani
- SUMOMOMO MOMOMO by Shinobu Ohtaka
- BAMBOO BLADE story by Masahiro Totsuka, art by Aguri Igarashi
- HIGURASHI WHEN THEY CRY story by Ryukishi07
Read left-to-right for Korean manhwa and original English-language manga:
- MAXIMUM RIDE story by James Patterson, art by NaRae Lee
- NIGHTSCHOOL by Svetlana Chmakova
- PIG BRIDE by KookHwa Huh and SuJin Kim
- JACK FROST by JinHo Ko
Subscriptions will be available in the U.S. and Canada so you can have YEN PLUS delivered right to your home! Keep checking back for more information, and be sure to look for YEN PLUS on July 29!
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March 18th, 2008 at 2:01 AM
when are you gonna start accepting subscriptions to the magazine?
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 AM
I’m so glad you all took up Ice Kunion’s titles! I know many other people are too! I’m excited for the magazine too. It sounds fun. ;]
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Hey does the magazine show previews or is it just news and info?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 PM
You can expect previews galore in the magazine! Every month you’re going to be able to follow your favorite series…and in just a few weeks we’ll be able to reveal exactly what those launch series are.
As for subscriptions, expect details on that in the very near future!
April 18th, 2008 at 2:45 AM
I can’t wait until the release of your magazine.I just found
out about this website thru another company that carry some
books with your titles.I’m really glad that you chose to
carry Ice Kunion’s titles.I’m a big fan of Chocolat manga
and was really disappointed that the previous publisher
was going to discontinuoe that series.I want to subscribe
to your magazine when its released.Could you please send
me an email of the date its release and how I can subscribe?
It’s refreshing to know that you will be publishing alot of
the hard to find titles.I will buy the books that your company will be producing and I will spread the word to all
my Manga and Anime Fans.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:05 AM
I can’t wait to see the first issue, it seems like it’ll be great. Keep up the good work that I know your doing back there.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:03 AM
I heard that you’re publishing Soul Eater in the magazine! I’m so happy! That’s my all time favorite manga! I’m so glad you’re also putting Bamboo Blade, Nabari no Ou, Higurashi, and Sumomomo Momomo too! Thanks a ton! I’ll look forward to more Gangan titles in the future. (hopefully)
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:30 AM
Yet again, Yen Press amazes me! You guys are easily my favourite publisher! Do you know yet if Canadians can subscribe or if it will be sold in Canadian stores?
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:05 PM
I really hope that people from Europe can subscribe to your new magazine ;__; I want it…
April 24th, 2008 at 4:20 AM
How much will your magazine cost in the US? And will it be delivered to local bookstores, such as Waldenbooks and Border? I was really excited to hear about a new manga anthology (already a big fan VIZ’s anthologies), so I’m anticipating subscribing to a new one!
April 26th, 2008 at 7:29 AM
DEFINITELY subscribing to this. A few of these titles are real gambles…this will be the first adult-oriented manga monthly in America that isn’t associated with 18+/21+ material! Very excited over a very gutsy publishing move.
–LG
P.S., Serious thanks for picking up Lily Hoshino titles. They are few and far between in english, and she is my favorite boy’s love manga-ka. I cannot be alone in this, and I will be buying every volume of hers that you license.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Have you considered doing electronic releases for devices like the Amazon Kindle?
April 29th, 2008 at 10:19 PM
I second Michelle’s question, any word on Canadian availability?
I certainly hope you guys won’t leave us out. This magazine looks great. Though selection of manga anthologies in NA is somewhat slim, this definitely looks like the best choice.
At any rate. Ship to Canada. It’s not hard. Really.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:37 AM
I’ve never subscribed to any of Viz’s anthologies because there weren’t enough titles that appealed to me, but this one? Soul Eater, Nabari no Ou, Bamboo Blade, and Higurashi PLUS a manga adaptation of the Maximum Ride novels and Svetlana Chmakova’s new manga? I’m all over it. I can’t wait.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Fear not. YEN PLUS will be available for subscription in Canada. The Canadian cover price is $9.99, and of course there will be a significant discount for subscribers.
And we’ll have subscriptions available on the site in the near future! Glad to hear everyone is so psyched about the magazine. We’re busily putting together the first issue now, and I have to say that it is looking AWESOME!
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 PM
To Hassler:
Why won’t you let people from europe subcribe to your magazine? We never get anything over here. damn.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:47 AM
I can’t wait for this, I’ve been drooling waiting on the change to get my hands on Soul Eater.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:41 AM
I second what Buchiage is saying. Being in the UK there’s absolutely no magazines like this and with this line up I’d really like to get this.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:49 PM
@Buchiage Yen titles are already freely available in europe since Yen is the only publisher that does a dual release in both the US and UK at the same time.
However magazines are harder to set up in the UK, especially in this case since it’s a single magazine being released. It’s one of the reasons Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat have never been released over here, the costs outweigh the gains.
That said, i hope that individual copies will be available over here, or that they open the US subscriptions to the UK. Sure we’ll be getting them later than anyone else, but we’d still be getting them
May 19th, 2008 at 6:47 PM
What about fan art of characters from the manga featured sorta like the other monthly mags?
May 21st, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Will there ever be seperate copies of certain stories? Maximum Ride, for example, will it ever be compiled into one book, with JUST Maximum Ride? Or will buying the monthly anthology be the only way to get the MR manga?
May 21st, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Yes, all of the series in the magazine will be released in book form after they’ve run in the magazine. Check out the individual series pages for a list of book volumes and their release dates.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Will subscribing to the magazine be cheaper than just buying from stores, or will it be the same price? Just out of curiosity…
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Has the ate for when itll be released every month been decided like the 10th,5th, or xday of the month when itll hit magazine racks?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:19 AM
@Hassler
In our “Lets Milk Naruto for All Its Worth” monthly crap fest compared to when it first started publication that is Shonen Jump world, how can we not be excited for a new magazine such as Yen Plus to show the way?
May 27th, 2008 at 4:32 PM
***In response to Zefster and hirohisa***
Subscriptions will be cheaper than buying Yen Plus off the racks, and hopefully that information will be up soon. Thanks for being so patient, all!
The magazine will arrive in stores the last week of the month before the issue date. So the first issue, the August issue, will arrive July 29. September is in stores late August, and so on…
May 31st, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Are you going to be picking up more projects from Square Enix later on? I would kill to have an English version of Bitter Virgin, Saki, Doubt (TONOGAI Yoshiki) and Sekirei.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Have you done any articles with information on the series/authors in the books with background info about titles like kendo trivia for bamboo blade just a thought.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:50 PM
Does it or will it ever have the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya?
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 PM
will more oel manga be published in yen plus
June 4th, 2008 at 9:07 AM
I hope this will hit at Wal-Mart stores or BooksaMillion stores. This hick town of mine only carries two Anime/Manga zines. This publishing company is my top fav next to DelRey. I respect the translations that YenPress has.
Shalom.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:08 PM
I wondered if theres a chance after the a series or two have finished in yen plus any chance of lucky star manga being brought in to fill a spot since you already have melancholy of suzumiya haruhi just thought lucky star by Kagami Yoshimizu would be a good license after that.
June 6th, 2008 at 2:21 AM
Wow! I could never really get into Shonen Jump or Shojo Beat, so this is great…. *especially excited about Higurashi*
June 8th, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Wow thats a lot of way better Manga then Viz is publishing in SJ right now epically soul Eater. That was a nice grab on Yen’s part.^_^
I have to also question this though. Are we ever going to see the Haruhi Suzumiya Manga some time soon in the magazine?
June 9th, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Unfortunately we will not be serializing Haruhi in the magazine. But by this time next year, the first three volumes will be available in bookstores, so you’ll actually be getting them faster! Yay!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:24 PM
I’m getting quite excited about this as the time draws nearer. Thank you so much for licensing Bamboo Blade; it’s the main reason that I’m going to be picking up this magazine (and the main reason I was able to talk two others into subscribing). Soul Eater and Higurashi also look good, but it’s the kendo club that convinced me. Again, thank you!
June 11th, 2008 at 12:40 PM
With the first release date coming up, the question now is whether we’ll be able to subscribe *before* it actually ships to stores! Come on, guys, throw us some subscription info!
June 14th, 2008 at 10:07 PM
So what’s going to happen to the first 2 volumes of the first haruhi manga series before the series that is currently ongoing?
June 15th, 2008 at 1:51 AM
Even though some people take it for granted, I love the little sections between the comics. Like articles on cooking, culture and when they try to help you learn the language. I hope you’ll put these in it, even though it might not be aimed for just girls like shojobeat thats why I kept reading them because they had pictures and easy-steps to cooking Asian food. ShouenJump had fun sections where you learned to speak Japanese but I rather learn korean. Anyways I think it’s great and I can’t wait till it comes out!!
June 20th, 2008 at 6:10 PM
I would like to subscribe but there is no information!
June 21st, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Waah! I know! I will make it my personal mission to get you all SOME information on subscriptions this week, so help me God! You’ve all been so wonderfully patient, especially with the release being just over a month away! This week. Intern Abby will deliver!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:50 AM
With manga chapters being around 20-30 pages on average and only 9 titles running currently, would I be correct to assume that you’ll be publishing multiple chapters at once?
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:39 AM
Wow! This will be amazing. I’ve always hesitated from getting the Viz magazines because they…lacked. They just lacked in overall interest for me. But you have so many good manga that will be published in this! It’s exciting.
And I also agree with Xiphias (who commented way up there…) that picking up more Squeenix stuff would be amazing~ Bitter Virgin and Doubt are really great. But you already have so many amazing things going on~! Good job, guys! <3
June 25th, 2008 at 2:19 AM
Intern ABBY TO THE RESCUE!
can’t wait to subscribe
Its almost like Shonen GanGan for the US
June 27th, 2008 at 6:28 PM
can’t wait to read soul eater, nabari no ou, bamboo blade, and higurashi no naku koro ni
July 4th, 2008 at 1:02 AM
Can you give me a release date for the UK please? Will it be the same as the US? (Hope hope hope.)
July 5th, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Very expensive, like Newtype!! *cries*
I need a summer job for NabaOu…
July 7th, 2008 at 8:03 AM
I’m subscribing as soon as I possibly can. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (a.k.a. Higurashi When They Cry and When They Cry: Higurashi no naku koro ni) is my favorite anime/manga EVER. Thank you so much for licencing it! I can’t wait! Also, my friends have been saying that Soul Eater is really good, and I’ve heard a little about Sumomomo Momomo and Bamboo Blade, so I look forward to reading those, too
July 8th, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Wah, I’m so glad Nabari No Ou was chosen…well, actually I was hoping to already find it in english manga book for production, so Im a bit dissapointed to have to wait for a whole year to be honest……but on the other hand, your antologies sound better than Viz’s, I stopped with theirs as Naruto was the only one I really bothered to read, and they keep getting thinner and smaller in content despite what they say. (plus Naruto and Bleach/long running titles are too expensive to keep up with sometimes)
July 28th, 2008 at 7:50 AM
I read the first issue (got it at San Diego Comic Con), and I gotta say, that it is awesome! I really want to subscribe right away so I don’t miss an issue. I like that your magazine is so much bigger (and has much more manga) than Viz’s Shojo Beat magazine. And thanks for taking over Ice Kunion’s titles (especially Chocolat and Goong)!
July 29th, 2008 at 3:32 AM
Just picked up issue 1 at borders. Congrats on a job well done. Nice to have a magazine with an older edge and variety!
Looking forward to many more issues….
July 29th, 2008 at 5:59 AM
I can’t wait to read the first issue, but when will I be able to subscribe online?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Will- there’s two titles not listed above, Sarasah and One Fine Day, both korean comics, so the magazine’s got a fair amount to add to the volume. Also, many chapters are over 30 pages…
August 5th, 2008 at 6:03 PM
I just got back from two weeks at camp and happened to see this magazine in the bookstore yesterday.
‘Yen Press? I remember hearing good things about them. They got Haruhi and lots of other great quality stuff.’ So I pick it up and say, how weird, and my brother goes,’Souleater! You must get this!’ So I look at the titles.
Bamboo Blade? Looks really interesting, I’ve heard good things about that and what little I’ve seen of the show is very promising. Sumomomo Momomo? I saw some of that too! Quite hilarious! I am also very happy to see Svetlana’s newest work, and that clinches it. I haven’t heard of most of these but I feel that because these publishers are great those will be enjoyable too.
So I buy it and trundle on home where I find,’OMG THIS IS FANTASTICAL!1!!!one!’
Great job on a wonderful first issue.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:19 PM
I am really impressed with your magazine; I haven’t enjoyed reading a manga magazing like this in a while. It is a interesting mix of genres and styles but they seem to all have one thing in common: quality.
So far I am particularily taken with Nabari No Ou and Maximum Ride…but they all look really good and I am only half done reading:)
I am seriously thinking about a subscription right now. I mean, What fun!; I get to read everything from chapter one and I like just about every fricking thing in it.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:21 PM
@ J: Yen Press actually picked up several of Shonen Gangan titles, coincidentaly. The other Japanese ones are from other Square Enix magazines.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:54 PM
So… I picked up Yen from Waldenbooks the other day. I was perusing the magazine section, looking to see if Shojo Beat had changed over yet, and lo and behold, here is this huuuuuge Mangazine just staring at me! I got so excited, I grabbed it and started flipping through it immediately. I love it. Wonderful.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:33 AM
I just got this, and I have to say I love it!
I would like to point out that you forgot to mention
“One Fine Day” and “Sarasah” as other series included in the anthology.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:52 AM
I’m from Sweden and they sell your magazines here in a bookstore
It’s really thick and good
Are you going to put in som extra storys and stuffs?
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:52 AM
I meant som new manga XD
October 9th, 2008 at 6:11 PM
If i subscribe will i get all of the previous issues?