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We're so busy here at Lime-Manga we haven't had time to post!

Well, great news from over seas! Our second book YARU hit the stores this week in Germany and we've created an animated trailer to celebrate!

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It is a German release so the trailer is in German but the storytelling is pretty solid so no worries.

!. Girl loves boy.
2, Boy doesn't know girl exists.
3. Girl enrolls help from the Supernatural world.
4. Gets three bumbling ghosts that make her life a living hell!

Enjoy!

YARU TRAILER

And YES! It will come out in the USA....when? I'll get back to ya on that!

Only six issues into it's run, Shogun Magazine announces the first major overhaul of it's concept. Let me just say that it's a turbulent world out there and nothing is certain anymore. One of my major quarrels with the magazine has been the integration of many different genres into a magazine that, in order to be truly successful, needed to be really tight and focused on a specific core demographic. In the case of Shogun, the Shonen Jump audience, which consists mostly of young boys. As you can see with our project, Executrices Women, that would be a difficult to achieve.

So, the editorial has decided to split up Shogun Magazine into two separate magazines, Shogun Shonen and Shogun Seinen, with the possibilty of a Shonen Shojo being discussed. The format will also change to a smaller size of approximately, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and about 250 pages per magazine. It will carry a slightly lower price of Euro 4.50.

There is also word of some problems with the printer, which will delay the release of issue 7 until April 21and the subsequent issue 8 to the end of May. The June Issue 9 should be the first issue under the new concept and a new printer is being contracted as we speak.

Also, the first Executrices Women tankoban is scheduled for a June release.

And as if this wasn't enough, a new Shogun website will go live any day now with a slicker look and enhanced features.

And even more. The first mobile phone game, based on the Shogun property, Holy Wars, has been available and received favorable reviews in the press.

Hi, I'm David Boller, also a member of LIME. Shogun No. 6 hit the stands officially last Saturday and by Wednesday I had already received my comp copies in the mail. Thanks to Guillaume, editor-in-chief of Shogun magazine. I think the magazine came out terrific with three new series debuting. The first reviews are also coming in and so far everyone seems to like the Executrices Women. I think it was a pretty big gamble from the editorial at Shogun to include and even feature a series very non-shonen in a magazine that mostly appealed to a younger core demographic. I think everyone involved is going to sleep a little

Here are a couple links to reviews and other fun stuff:

Review of Shogun 6 on JapanBar.com

The Executrices Women thread on the Shogun Forum in English

Executrices Women book out this June (Shogun Tankoban Schedule)

Lime Manga Livejournal

And here's a short 2-page preview for Shogun No. 7 (Executrices chapter 2) coming in April 2007:

Sorry for not indroducing myself! I am one of the creators at Lime-Manga. We are an American and Swiss team living outside of NYC. Currently we are working on OEL translated to OGL and published in Germany by Tokyopop DE. There are two series, Evergrey (Gothic, Romance, Shonen-ai, Vampires and Witches) and Yaru (working title was Ouija. Supernatural, Shojo, Fantasy)

Evergrey book one was brought out in Germany on November 2006 and Yaru book one is scheduled for release May 2007.

We are very excited as Evergrey continues to do quite well and this fuels the enthusiasm for the continuation of both sereies. I have posted a few pages and will continue to post works in progress.

Daid Boller is also working on the art for the first Global Manga Anthology called Shogun. The magazine with David's art and cover will begin with issue six of Humanoids Associes, Shogun Magazine. It is in French but you can preview some of the work on our Live Journal:

We will also be around the New York Comic Con!

http://limemanga.livejournal.com

Enjoy!

Mary Hildebrandt