Del Rey has announced four new manga series for 2008 including Fairy Tale, the latest series from Rave Master creator Hiro Mashima, the stylish supernatural thriller Hell Girl, the blues-inspired Me and the Devil Blues, and the video-game based Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.  In addition Del Rey plans to publish Vampire Hunter D creator Hideyuki Kikuchi's novel Dark Wars; Meiji Dracula and Yuka Aoki's Psycho Busters: The Novel as well as the Genshiken Fan Book.

Hiro Mashima's new shonen series Fairy Tale, which is slated for an April 2008 release, has already established itself as a bestseller in Japan, where its saga of a magic-wielding 17-year-old heroine has found favor thanks in part to an art style reminiscent of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece.  Kodansha has already published five volumes of this series in Japan.

The Hell Girl (Jigoku Shojo) manga has been adapted from the Hell Girl anime, a clever high concept horror 'anthology' anime series produced by Aniplex and Studio Deen and distributed in the U.S. by FUNimation (see 'FUNimation Licenses Jigoku Shojo').  Most of the stories in the manga are original, but chapter 2 of the manga is adapted from episode 9 of the anime and chapters 4 and 10 of the manga are adapted from the fourth and tenth episodes of the first season of the anime series.  So far Kodansha has released four volumes of the shojo Hell Girl manga, which appears in Kodansha's Nakayoshi shojo manga anthology.  Del Rey plans to release its first Hell Girl volume in February, 2008.

Akira Hiromoto's Me and the Devil Blues is a manga rendering of the legend of blues master Robert Johnson, whose supernatural saga inspired the movie Crossroads.  The on-going seinen series has reached 3 volumes in Japan where it is published in Kodansha's Afternoon manga anthology.

Del Rey plans to release the four-volume video-game based Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney in a unique 2-volumes-in-1 format with the first volume due out in March, 2008.  Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a visual novel-type of adventure video game that was released in a Gameboy Advance version the U.S. in 2005 and in a mobile phone version in January of 2007.

In addition to these four manga series Del Rey is releasing Hideyuki Kikuchi's light novel Dark Wars: Meiji Dracula in February, 2008.  In the novel Count Dracula takes on Japan's greatest martial artists of the 19th century.  In April Del Rey will release Psycho Busters: The Novel, a prose version of Yuya Aoki's manga series, which Del Rey is debuting in November of 2007.

Finally in the summer of 2008 Del Rey will publish The Genshiken Fan Book, the perfect complement to Del Rey's otaku-based Genshiken manga that will provide fans of the manga with everything they need to know about the members of the Genshiken club and the 'meta' anime and manga series that they love.