Broccoli Books Blog

Hey all. This is blogger Shiz from San Diego.

We arrived safe and sound, and we started prepping the booth.
But the convention folks were super busy yesterday and couldn’t come around our booth to put up our hanging banner. So business development staffer Ryojin & I will be waking up early in the morning tomorrow to oversee the banner hanging.

Look for our booth #2235 with the green Broccoli sign hanging overhead. Plus red UART banner & white Aurora banner. We’re right next to Sideshow Collectibles, like we have been for the last 3 years.

Production staffer Yukiko reported to us that the COSMODE USA 01 Glamour Issue shipment will be arriving on Thursday. So guess who gets to drive up to Los Angeles to pick them up? No worries, I’m used to staying up all night during the convention days… but my poor ol’ body can’t keep up anymore.

Okay, time for bed!

Once again, blogger Shiz here.

Production staffer Yukiko handed me the packet for Honoka Level Up vol 1 for the final look through of the book.

Let’s see how many fixes I find… kekekeke~

Pre-order at dot-anime.us

Hi, blogger Shiz here.

JIVE sent us a copy of Comic Rush August 2008 issue, and in the front color pages, the editorial staff did a 4-page article on Fanime Con 2008.

My Dearest Devil Princess manga artist Maika Netsu was the guest of honor at Fanime, and it has lots of photos from the event.

Pick up a copy at your local import book store!

Hey, blogger Shiz here.

I’m working with freelance designer Chris to set up a new blog.

It’ll be a revamped and renewed Industry Babble (since the one at dot-anime.us is gone).

Not sure when it’ll be up and running… but hopefully by the end of this month. Maybe earlier.

Stay tuned!

Hello, blogger Shiz here.

All of us at Broccoli Books are busy getting ready for Comic Con 2008. Good thing the booth isn’t as big as Anime Expo. And we don’t have guests, which makes my life easier.

This year, Broccoli Books will be sharing the booth with Hong Kong figure maker UART and our good friends Aurora Publishing.

If you didn’t get sola vol 1 or COSMODE USA Glamour Issue at Anime Expo, pick them up at Comic Con!

Or you can always order sola vol 1 from dot-anime.us.

Oh, and COSMODE USA too.

Hi blogger Shiz here.

We just received the panel schedule for Anime Expo 2008.

Broccoli Books panel
Saturday, July 5
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Room LP3

COSMODE USA panel
Sunday, July 6
11:00am - 12:00pm
Room LP3

Fun talk & give-aways. Come and join us!

Hi blogger Shiz here.

We’re gearing up for the summer 2008 convention season, and designer Chris turned in two new banner designs.

We sent them to our Japanese licensors for approval, so as soon as they’re approved, we’ll post images here. What titles are they? Just wait and see… or take a look at them at the Broccoli booth at Anime Expo and Comic-Con.

We just received the My Dearest Devil Princess banner too.
Photos to be posted by production staffer Yukiko~

Hi blogger Shiz here.

We received the translation for My Dearest Devil Princess vol 3, and sent it off to rewriter Elizabeth.

I realized we haven’t really worked on the My Dearest Devil Princess vol 3 cover for distributor purposes, so I’ll have to assign that to someone. (again, using the blog as my production check-off list)

I also took a look at the My Dearest Devil Princess character page on BroccoliBooks.com. It needs to be updated with new characters, since more characters appear in vol 2, and a certain character starts to play a major role in vol 3. So I sent the assignment to production staffer Yukiko & graphics assistant Cno, so it should be updated soon.

Shoot, I haven’t done the autographed book give-away on the Broccoli Books fan club too.

Hi, blogger Shiz here.

I just did the final edit of Nui vol 1.
This was my first read-through, so being my usual picky self, I demanded a lot of changes.

Poor production staff… they think they’re all done & I mess it up for them.
*sigh*

Well, the changes weren’t that big anyway.

The license manager at JIVE (who reads this blog… *gulp*), was asking if the files were ready to be approved, so we wrapped up the front pages & back pages and sent them for approval.

Still… I didn’t like the order of the ads in the back of the book, so I asked marketing coordinator Jonathan & crew to re-order them. It’s hard to explain how to order the ads… it’s just a feeling. Like “this feels right” kind of feeling. Anyhoo, this time it’ll be “same age rating titles that are new” in the beginning. Like Honoka Level Up and Koi Cupid.

I also need to send the color insert for Nui vol 1… which is in the middle of the book! We did it before with Disgaea2 vol 1 (and maybe one of the Galaxy Angel books?), but adding color inserts in the middle of the book requires a lot of pagination adjustments.

Basically you need multiples of 16 pages on either side of the color insert. Since books are printed in 16-page increments. Please read up on publishing to understand why it’s 16-page increments. It’s too bothersome to explain here (lazy!).

We’re shooting for an August release for Nui vol 1.
We’re on schedule, right?

Pre-order Nui vol 1 on dot-anime.us!

Hi blogger Shiz again.

Today is a day full of proof checking.
We received the COSMODE USA vol 1 proofs from our Hong Kong printers today.

The first issue of COSMODE USA will be called the Glamour Issue.
What’s with the naming? It was our Japan coordinator “Jacky” Dousai’s concept of the first issue.

I’ll talk more about the background of COSMODE USA Glamour Issue when we’re done looking over the proofs. We know there’s a lot of little fixes that needs to be made.

Hmm. We don’t have the product available on dot-anime.us. I’ll have to ask retail operations manager Dennis to add it soon.