Central Park Media, who held the English license for North American publication with Biblos, continued to publish their former Biblos titles, and in 2007, Libre described CPM's continued publication of their titles as 'illegal', saying that they needed to renegotiate licenses. Controversies Īfter the closure of Biblos in April 2006, Libre gained the licenses for former Biblos titles. In June 2016, Libre Publishing terminated their partnership with Digital Manga Publishing. In October 2011, the American manga publisher Viz Media launched the BL imprint SuBLime in collaboration with Libre and its parent company Animate to publish English-language BL for the print and worldwide digital market. In 2010, Animate USA announced that they would release some of Libre's books on the Amazon Kindle format, and in September of that year, Libre sent cease and desist notices to several scanlation groups.

Melty Drop is Libre's original label featuring adult-oriented otome situation drama CDs marketed to women. Cue Egg Label was originally launched by Biblos and acquired under the rebranding the label features audio adaptations of Libre's yaoi manga. In 2016, Libre Publishing renamed their company as Libre.Īside from print media, Libre publishes audio drama CDs under the labels Cue Egg Label and Melty Drop. Other magazines and anthologies, such as Junk! and Zero, were later relaunched under different names the anthology B-Boy LUV became B-Boy Phoenix. Several magazines previously owned by Biblos were transferred to Libre, including Magazine Be × Boy and Be × Boy Gold. All publications under Biblos were put on indefinite hiatus until they rebranded as Libre Publishing on May 8, 2006, with Animate as their parent company. In 2006, Hekitensha declared bankruptcy, which caused Biblos to close in April 2006.

The company was founded on May 8, 2006, after Biblos closed in April 2006, when their original parent company, Hekitensha, filed for bankruptcy.īiblos was originally formed under publisher Hekitensha in 1988 for publishing yaoi content, including magazines such as Magazine Be × Boy, Be × Boy Gold, and Junk! Boy. Libre primarily publishes yaoi and teens' love manga and light novels, which are run in their magazines Magazine Be × Boy and Be × Boy Gold. ( 株式会社リブレ, Kabushiki-gaisha Ribure), formerly known as Libre Publishing ( リブレ出版株式会社, Ribure Shuppan Kabushiki-gaisha) from 2006 to 2016, is a Japanese publishing company owned by Animate.

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