Digital Media president Hikaru Sasahara said the company was "stunned" at Libre's decision, and called the move "unjust." In response, while Libre expressed surprise at Digital Media's decision, they noted that the agreement had been "terminated some time ago under just cause due to a breach of contract." It was announced on Jthat Viz Media had acquired the licensing arrangements to publish the series under its Boys Love label "SuBLime." Since Volume 8 was released in Japan in May, SubLime stated that they would publish Volume 8 first by March 2017, and then republish the first seven volumes every other month beginning in May 2017 (Wikipedia).Īn original video animation of Finder no Hyouteki was created by ANiMix Project in 2012. Thus, all of Libre's titles, including the "Finder Series," were no longer going to be published with Digital Media Publishing. :sunny: On June 18, 2016, Digital Media announced that its licensing agreement with Libre Publishing was going to terminate at the end of the month. The series was also licensed in Germany, and has also been released in several other languages.
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Digital Manga Publishing acquired the English license to the Finder Series in 2010.
It was initially published in English under Central Park Media. The original publisher of the story was Biblos, and it was later picked up by Libre. Individual chapters of the story were then collected into volumes and published. The Finder Series was first published in 2002, serialized in the Be x Boy GOLD magazine. The series currently has eight volumes, and several other related works have been released.
It is a yaoi manga that focuses on action and drama, as well as explicit sexual relationships between male characters. The Finder Series (ファインダーシリーズ, Faindā Shirīzu), also known as Viewfinder, is a manga written and illustrated by Yamane Ayano.