So i gues you have much room for the New talent search. Well thats all right if you guys are going to skip out on it this month.

@Allen Senior Editor JuYoun Lee addresses the New Talent Search in her editor’s letter this month.

@hackwolfin We do not yet have details on the New Talent Search. If you are an amateur creator, further information will be forthcoming in the new year.

Ah so the contest hasnt been announced yet. It would be great if it didnt start till June as I have a lot of commitments this winter/spring but still cant wait to c the entries.

OMG! Can people just be patient about the talent search? Yen Press said it was an annual event, so they WILL post about it soon. I want to enter too, but I am not constantly asking YP when the search will be or when they are posting the guidelines.
I’m sorry, but I had to get that out.
Anyway, thank you Yen Press for giving inspiring manga artists an opportunity to showcase our work to you. I look forward to the challenge!

-Noelle

Actually, I saw this coming. It makes more sense to do the talent search at the start of each year. Besides, they’re probably restructuring it.

Honestly, I think TP had a good idea with their pilot program. Nix the shady contract and property stealing schemes. The core concept of putting first chapters on the internet for people to read and respond to was where it’s at. Then you could see what’s potentially popular before you spend money to put it on the shelves. Have a poll so people can vote on what they wanna see more of the most. Pick people who showed real potential during the Talent Search. Theoretically, it’s a strategy that SHOULD work. Just be ten times more honest than Tokyopop. A small number of artists will do.

And please, PLEASE, refrain from doing epics. NO new artist should start out doing an epic. They should work their way up first. I have NO IDEA why no one gets that.

@anna We aren’t quite sure ourselves when Soul Eater Not! 3 will be available, as Ohkubo-sensei is still drawing it, and Japan hasn’t finalized the release date for their edition. As soon as we have more information, we will let you know!

Besides, I have to be excited about the search. Even if I don’t enter, if I have to see another corny book adaption, I’m gonna scream. I agree with Jeanie, though, if they start it in June, it’d be great for that very reason.

And yes, I know there’s no details yet, I can read so there’s no need to go all bold type on me. I’m still allowed to speculate, right?

@Sorrano It’s so people scrolling through the comments will see it, not personal!

@jellorific Still no final decision on print release for Another novel, but we are looking at a 3/19/13 release for the digital edition!

@abby i’m just glad that you’re considering a print edition, can’t wait for the manga omnibus, a question though, will the manga omnibus be hardcover?

@Abby:Thank’s for the info on SOUL EATER NOT! 3 !it means alot!

Hey! Can you guys take up FAIRY TAIL?:D

@Detrimont While the original design was very cool, the packaging and logo were too similar to the licensed Xbox branding for us to print in this market. We wanted to keep the look of the game box, however, which is why we changed the logo and color to something original. We hope you understand, and will check out this great survival manga series when it comes out in February!

@Arrow While I can’t tell you anything else about the talent search, I can promise you that drawing in left-to-right orientation will be expected. We are an English-language publisher, and therefore we publish all of our original material in English reading orientation.

Please license the Darker Than Black: Shikkoku no Hana manga!

@Abby – I don’t mind adhering to your format terms. It’s just that I personally think that the reading-orientation shouldn’t be factored when it comes to the quality.

@Arrow It’s not a factor in the quality of the work, but we’re looking for artists who might one day work with us. And if an artist wants to work with us, he or she will be expected to work left to right as we publish comics for and English-reading audience.

@Abby Thank’s ^.^

OH, also you guys should take up SANKAREA!
That would be awesome!
(may you pleeeeeeease reply to my last comment,please!)

Merry Christmas ~ Korea’s half a day faster

OH,sorry but my friend wanted to know if you know anything about the MAXIMUM RIDE movie?
(sorry,I know your a book wedsite)

@anne Kodansha already licensed it last summer. I think I heard the first volume would be coming out next summer.
Personally, I’m hoping the Durarara or Baccano novels are licensed. Pleeeeease? =3

And I hoping for Deadman Wonderland
Now it’s back from hiatus so isn’t it right time to licence it? ^^ It will make lots of your readers happy

hi when btooom and doubt come out in ther respective dates, how much is there an interval between each volume?

i wanna buy them all as soon as possible!

@anne You can check James Patterson’s young adult website for updates, but we do not have any info at this time. The current website is http://jamespattersonya.com/page/homepage-1 but the site will be migrating to a new hub soon…

i’m pretty sure i read it before here, but i can’t find it so i’m going to ask. if you self publish work, or have in the past, you can still get a job with yp right?

oh and, i make my manga/comics digitally, using a tablet and sai. will that be an okay medium for submiting a porfolio to yp for a job?

@hackwolfin Self-publishing or publication with another company does not bar you from submitting your work to Yen Press. And working digitally is perfectly fine (a number of our creators do ^^)

@Abby

It’s fine. Don’t take to heart what people say. I’m sure it does take time and people should be grateful. I am. Especially with the Soul Eater and SE Not releases, so good job!.

thanks so much for your reply

speaking of omnibus form what happens to the missing covers? do they appear as pages inside?

aso thanks so much for hard work cant wait to ship some of the series u all do

wow! awesome thanks so much for your time can’t wait!

Hey, is there any chance that there will be an Soul Eater,Soul Eater Not, or Maximum Ride omnibus?
(There 3 different seires, at least 1!)

I love Alice in the country of Clovers fanatic rabbit….soooo Great!!

@Abby, is there plans for some new yp originals? You know, story and art by the same person that works with you guys. I like when you guys do that instead of just doing a comic version of a book.

@aa why not all of the corpse party manga series, they are all great, and i would buy them all, except masume, dont localize masume

@Anna We show at Comic Con International (San Diego) and New York Comic Con every year, so if you’re looking to make a trip of it, those are probably your best bets~

There so cute and the book just wants u to keep reading it (well for me it does) I wont stop reading and its so sad I cant get my hands on the 6th book yet D: to bad my fav character has (well im guessing) acting the whole time but its the best book ever!!