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Just released anime-style, Young Adult, fantasy novel featuring manga-style illustrations now available!

Bitch Heiress X Samurai Butler is the story of a Tokyo heiress named Kusanagi Kimamura whose greedy relatives and even the yakuza are after her life on a daily basis. Due to this threat her Grandfather hires her a Samurai Butler bodyguard. Ranmaru is a stoic man with a dark past and Kusanagi is a high school girl with a fiery temper. Sparks fly when these two conflicting personalities meet. Will opposites attract? Or will Kusanagi give a slap to Ranmaru’s face first?

Journey to Japan to find out and encounter magical beings such a yokai, Japanese demons, which in the novel Bitch Heiress X Samurai Butler live side by side with humans. For fans of anime or manga inside jokes abound as characters sweat-drop, and face-fault. Enjoy fast-paced duels between ancient yokai, samurai warriors while steamy romantic moments between the heiress and her butler will make the reader blush. An assortment of compelling characters accompany Ranmaru and Kusanagi on their mission to stop Kusanagi’s prophecies of death. Among them is Kusanagi’s best friend, a bubbly, yokai cat girl named Katsume; Shinichi – a boy inventor,

A wraparound jacket band has announced that a television anime adaptation of Chūgaku Akamatsu's Aria the Scarlet Ammo (Hidan no Aria) school detective action light novel series has been green-lit. Media Factory has been publishing the light novel volumes with illustrations by Kobuichi since 2008, and the sixth volume is shipping this month. Koyoka Yoshino has been drawing a manga adaptation in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive magazine since last year.

The story takes place in Tokyo Butei High School, a special school where armed detectives — "Butei" — are trained to use weapons. Kinji Tōyama is a second-year-student who has a special ability, but he keeps it a secret to maintain an ordinary, peaceful life. However, when he gets caught in a bombing on the way to school, he encounters H. Aria Kanzaki, the most powerful S-Rank Butei student in Assault Studies.

source: animenewsnetwork

Yen Press will launch a graphic novel adaptation of the vampiric, Romeo and Juliet rip off, complete literary abomination: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. The novel adaptation will comprise two volumes, illustrated by manhwa artist Young Kim and will feature black and white illustrations with colour insert pages. Scheduled for release on March 16, the first volume will have an initial printing of 350, 000 copies.

The following image is a sample page of the biology lab encounter, originally posted on the Entertainment Weekly Magazine website.

This Friday's issue of the magazine will contain a ten-page excerpt from the graphic novel and an interview with Stephenie Meyer.

In November, Evangelion character designer/manga creator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Metal Gear game franchise creator Hideo Kojima, and Sasameke manga creator Ryuji Gotsubo judged a Twilight art contest in Japan. Gotsubo illustrated the Japanese edition of the Twilight novels, and according to the contest's sponsor pixiv, the judges are "huge fans" of the Twilight series.

Source: Anime News Network, Entertainment Weekly Magazine

Vampire Hunter D Vol. 13: Twin Shadowed Knight - Parts One and Two written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano has been set for release on October 21st, 2009. The novel will feature approx. 480 pages with eleven black-and-white line illustrations. SRP of $14.95 ISBN-10: 1-59307-930-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-930-7

Synopsis: When Vampire Hunter D entered the town of Sedoc it was in search of answers to the meaning of a dying vampire's last words: "Find Muma." But when he meets Mia, the daughter of the local fortuneteller, he learns the mists emanating from a smoking crater on the outskirts of Sedoc have reanimated thousands of corpses, compelling them to crawl from their graves and hurl themselves into the smoking chasm. When D goes to investigate, he finds himself split in two: a second Vampire Hunter D, full of passion and lust and hunger for the company of women, is born!

Volume 4 of the Vampire Hunter D series, illustrated by Saiko Takaki will be released on November 18, 2009. It will feature approx. 200 pages with an SRP of $14.95. ISBN-10: 1-56970-789-8 ISBN -13: 978-1-56970-789-0

Synopsis: The City, a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens

The upcoming animated film based on the Unlimited Blade Works path of TYPE-MOON's hit visual-novel Fate/Stay Night received a theater date at the recently passed Comiket 76. A preview trailer for the film places it's release for January 23, 2010.

The recently announced theatrical film for TYPE-MOON's hit visual-novel and anime series Fate/Stay Night has been confirmed to be covering the acclaimed Unlimited Blade Works path of the visual-novel. While the plot is almost entirely different from that of the original anime series, which covered the Fate path, key differences include: An action-heavy plot, Rin Tohsaka as the heroine, and a much heavier focus on the protagonist Emiya Shiro.

The film will feature the original voiceacting cast from the anime, and is set for theatrical release on Jan. 23, 2010.

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