Broccoli Books Blog

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 this is Yukiko!
This is the 2nd blog entry today.

Today, we got the World of Disgaea 2 Art Book into our office!
Since it is hard cover and full color, it is very fun to look at.

In the past few weeks, we received a lot of shipments.
We got Koi Cupid Volume 1, World of Disgaea 2 Art Book…
And our next shpment will be sola Volume 1 and COSMODE USA!

Hi this is Yukiko!
How are you all doing?

Few days ago, we received My Dearest Devil Princess Banner!!
I took a photo of the banner today.

You can take a look at the banners at the Broccoli booth at Anime Expo and Comic-Con.

Also, My Dearest Devil Princess character page on BroccoliBooks.com has been updated!
Graphics Assistant Cno scanned the images and updated the page, so please take a look at that too.

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 this is Yukiko!
How are you all doing?

We finally received our copies of Koi Cupid Volume 1 today!
I will start sending samples to the reviewers.

The cover for this book is very cute!
I hope everyone will enjoy reading this book.

Please look for it at your local bookstores.
Or buy from dot-anime.us

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.

Hi, blogger Shiz here.

sola vol 1 proofs arrived today.

Production staffer Yukiko went over it, and we’ll have freelance editor Dee look over it later today.

And I need to make sure that the credits page was replaced with the updated version.

We’re still shooting to have sola vol 1 available for pre-sale at Anime Expo.

In the meantime, pre-order at dot-anime.us!

Hi, blogger Shiz here.

Graphics assistant Cno made a new banner for June.
It’s Dejiko in a rain coat & hat, because it’s a rainy season in Japan during June.

Hope you like it.