This doesn’t look good:

Digital Manga President Hikaru Sasahara has announced that print releases for the company’s DMP, June Manga, DokiDoki and 801 Media imprints will be placed on hiatus effective January 2013 until June.  The step is being taken “to coordinate our production schedule for 2013 and temporarily shift our focus to our digital publications,” he said.

I am in no way a manga expert, and so have no idea whether DMP releases had been particularly unfocused prior to this announcement, but nonetheless; suspending the first half of a year’s output to sort out any problem seems like a somewhat drastic move. According to the ICv2 report, titles solicited for December are actually included in the suspension list, although everything previously solicited will appear at some point post-June.

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