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This love affair can be seen with the appearances of some famous JUMP BL doujinshika turned mangaka in the magazine. The two that I recognize are Aoi Levin, who is notoriously famous for Dino x Hibari from Katekyo Hitman Reborn, and Ichinomiya Shihan, known best as the circle Love Potion No. 9 and is known for Gintoki x Hijikata doujins from Gintama. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite sure that other mangaka in the magazine had also done some SJ doujin at some point. Upon researching, the mangaka for the opening story (in color) is Natsume Isaku who has done Sanji x Zoro from One Piece at one point. So does Takaoka Nanaroku who did Inui x Kaidou from Prince of Tennis, and L x Light from Death Note. <\/p>\n
The other authors that are contributing in this magazine are Sakura Haiji, Haruno Ahiru, Takanaga Hinako (The Tyrant Falls in Love), Kusunoki Jun, Akiba Touko, Kamon Saeko, Hashimoto Aoi, Enzou (who apparently made a Gintama doujin BUT I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW AS WHAT CIRCLE! THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS!), Tamaquis Wren, Misasagi Kumiko, Kawamura Natsu, Murakami Sachi, Kuju Sham, Cotonorino Desuko, and Jaryuu Dokuro. <\/p>\n The magazine presents itself as a collection of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sweet like chocolate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d BL stories and it shows in the number of authors that will be present in the magazine. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read most of these author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s works outside of the magazine and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the kind of authors who will write sickeningly sweet BL that would make you either believe in romance again or for rather cynic readers, make you flip over the next page. Of course, the road to love might come a little different for everyone, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite sure that those in the magazine will make any fuj\u00c5\u008dshi squee and giggle. What is amazing is that hardly any of these artists are familiar to American audiences as only Takanaga Hinako has been licensed in the US. Still, a number of these authors has been causing waves in the fuj\u00c5\u008dshi world that their presence in this magazine is nothing but important. <\/p>\n Minazuki Yuu also contributes to this magazine by writing a column. To cap it all off, magazine will also include a CD called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icha icha CD\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and eventually they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll also have a net radio. <\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m completely roaring in laughter upon hearing this endeavor. I am totally amused and mildly excited for this issue, hoping to see new works, familiar works, and at least evolution of the Shounen Jump BL doujinshika into a full-fledged mangaka. <\/p>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting how it comes full circle doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? These girls starting out in admiration for Shueisha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s titles and now they are writing for that magazine. I wonder if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greater respect if they can actually manage to write a title in Shounen Jump. CLAMP (who did St. Seiya parodies) managed to break through Jump Square… but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not quite Jump yet. Other authors like Natsume Ono (who did Kakashi x Gai from Naruto) and Yoshinaga Fumi (who did Mitsui x Kogure from Slam Dunk) have found their niche and have soared far from the pages of Shueisha. These BL-ink authors may have possibly tickled the fancies of Shuiesha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Homesha enough to at least merit them the pride of writing for the first BL magazine for that company. Of course, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t surprised that they got some of the most romantic mangaka in BL, but hey, Shueisha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the kind of company that takes pride in formula. These girls can sell and for their first BL project, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to make sure that it sells. <\/p>\n BL-ink will be on sale in Japan on February 7. You can visit the site (which still seems to be in construction) at bl-ink.net<\/a>. You can view the Niconico douga ad here<\/a>. 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