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I was griping to an unnamed press member that I had very few announcements for the summer convention season.

Well, we did have one big one with COSMODE English edition during Anime Expo. But it was only briefly mentioned at the Broccoli Books panel, but at the COSMODE panel. Well, that’s all my doing, since I didn’t have anything planned for the Broccoli Books panel. I was living on 3 hours of sleep those 2 weeks, so you gotta forgive me.

We were pushing, pushing, pushing to get more licenses confirmed by San Diego Comic Con. We only ended up with one title that was announce-able… which is NUI. But it did end up being good, since the audience at the Comic Con panel seemed to be at the target readership & we got to talk about NUI at length (for the lack of other announcements).

Then after all the conventions were over… we get a flood of confirmations. Well, flood is a Broccoli Books size type of way.

Oh, how I wanted to announce them at conventions.
But it’s okay. We’ll just go the route of sending out a press release.
Mendokusai kedo.

So here’s another round of Broccoli Books Title X round up.

Title Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
This is a Boysenberry title, which we’ll be announcing at Yaoi Con. We already made an ad for it for Pet on Duty, so it’ll actually be in bookstores before the announcement. But we’ll have the final English title at Yaoi Con.

We’re currently brainstorming for title ideas. Some day, I’d like to open it up for non-staff to contribute their title ideas… But for now, I’m asking all of our staff to list up names. I even asked the men in the office, just to be fair. But they just giggle like 10 year old girls. Geez.

Title Do Re Mi
I wonder if this is considered a moe title? Tsundere?
Even though Broccoli Japan is the capital of moe culture, we haven’t done much moe in the US yet. I suppose Di Gi Charat and Galaxy Angel are moe, but it’s not the same type of moe. If that makes sense.

This one is a moe that marketing staffer Jonathan likes. Or former buyer Koji likes. By the way, former buyer Koji now lives in Japan and has a moe-moe blog called Akihabara Channel. Take a look. Hmm. I can’t find the site right now. I’ll Mixi him.

Title Merazoma!
We thought this would be a good follow up title to the Disgaea series. Cute art too. Well, I won’t pick up anything that doesn’t have cute art. That’s the rule here.

There are a few more titles that are still pending.
Could go either way.
Two BL.
One game.
One gag.

Stay tuned!

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