Craft (manga magazine)
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Craft is a quarterly Japanese yaoi
manga
magazine published by Taiyō Tosho. A number of works published in this magazine have been licensed in English, mostly by Digital Manga Publishing
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Yaoi
In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...
manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
magazine published by Taiyō Tosho. A number of works published in this magazine have been licensed in English, mostly by Digital Manga Publishing
Digital Manga Publishing
Digital Manga is a company that licenses and releases, in English, Japanese anime, manga, and related merchandise. The company has several subdivisions: Digital Manga Publishing, which publishes Japanese manga, novels and instructional and illustration books in North America with multiple imprints,...
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Licensed titles published in Craft
- Butterfly of the Distant Day, Tooko Miyagi
- The Day I Become a Butterfly, Sumomo YumekaSumomo Yumekais the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as and . She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka, seinen manga as Mizu Sahara, and shōjo manga as Sahara Keita...
- I Give to You, Maki Ebishi
- Il gatto sul GIl gatto sul GIl gatto sul G. , translated as "Cat on a G ", is a Japanese manga by Tooko Miyagi. Originally serialized in Taiyo Tosyo Anthology Craft on a quarterly basis in 1999 in Japan, the first volume was published by Taiyo Tosho Co., Ltd. in 2002...
, Tooko Miyagi - Kiss BlueKiss Blueis a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Keiko Kinoshita. The manga is licensed in English by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the first volume in July 2008.-Reception:...
, Keiko Kinoshita - New BeginningsNew BeginningsNew Beginnings is an album by American jazz pianist Don Pullen recorded in 1988 for the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars stating "on New Beginnings pianist Don Pullen sets up fairly simple structures and then, after stating the theme, tosses...
, Kotetsuko Yamamoto - No Touching at All, Kou Yoneda
- The Paradise on the Hill, Momoko Tenzen
- Same Cell Organism, Sumomo YumekaSumomo Yumekais the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as and . She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka, seinen manga as Mizu Sahara, and shōjo manga as Sahara Keita...
- Seven Days, Rihito Takarai and Venio Tachibana
- You and Harujion, Keiko Kinoshita