text: December 5, 2007 in Carlsen Manga, New Licenses	Carlsen's newsletter with their new acquisitions was to be sent last Friday, but due to technical problems, it was postponed until this week's Monday. It contained their complete summer program.
  A few days before Panini also had announced one of their new series: Atashi gahamatta Yottsu no Junai a Shoujo by Mayumi Yokoyama. Similar to Tokyopop they will announce their full list for their spring/summer 2008 program in mid-December (so probably sometime next week). Note: (manga marked in blue were already announced before)
  Comment: Personally I have to say I am a bit disappointed. I had hoped for more seinen licenses, or at least a seinen series with more volumes than one or two, but I guess seinen still doesn't sell well enough. And Carlsen is not the only publisher, Egmont also has some interesting seinen licenses for the next year, albeit only two one shots, but there's still Tokyopop and… Panini.
  I also thought they would announce Welcome to NHK release dates this time, as they already own the license. On their board someone asked why it wasn't announced and they replied that they didn't want to publish more 'seinen' next summer and rather concentrate on finishing and continuing their already published ones. They also hinted to a possible announcement in April and then publish it in their fall/winter 2008/2009 schedule. From Carlsen's new licenses I will definitely purchase Alive!, even if it'll cost me 8,50€. Some other titles also look interesting Inu wo Kau by Jiro Tanaguchi seems a bit expensive for 14€, however, if the release is of the same great quality, as their other Tanaguchi release was, it'll be worth it.