Yen press has announced a whole slew of new releases for their Yen Plus online magazine, and new titles that they’ve acquired for the upcoming year. The first main draw is the new adaptations of two widely popular English young adult novel series into graphic novel form: The Infernal Devices, written by Cassandra Clare and Dark Hunters: Infinity written by Sherrilyn Kenyon.

The Infernal Devices is a prequel of Ms. Clare’s Moral Instruments - a riveting tale about the adventures of American teen Tessa Gray in the supernatural hallows of Victorian London. Dark Hunters: Infinity is also a prequel to the Dark Hunters series. It follows Nick Gautier and his travels into the occult and horrifying within the streets of New Orleans, encountering the Dark Hunter Kyrian of Trace. Both comics will be making their big splash in Yen Plus this fall!

The second draw is the announcement of the addition of the popular Soul Eater Not! series to Yen Plus for 2012. Yen Press also took the opportunity to announce that following the release of the current English issues, Yen Press (in collaboration with the author and publisher) will make Soul Eater Not! a simultaneous release series. As soon as those issues hit the shelves in Japan, all you yen plus subscribers will get you fix of Soul Eater slice-of-life goodness!

THE RATING IS NOT SYMMETRICAL!

My rating system:

5 = Perfection.
4.5 = REALLY good, but lacking that oomph to make it 5.
4 = Great.
3.5 = Above average. Definitely worth a look.
3 = Average.
2.5 = Below average. If you like its genre, you probably would like it.
2 = Not terrible, but not something you would like.
1.5 = Bad, but still worth checking JUST to make fun of how bad it is.
1 = BEWARE! EVIL! NOT EVEN WORTH MAKING FUN OF! WILL LITERALLY MAKE YOU SICK!

Soul Eater is about three teams of students from the Death Weapon Meister Academy, a school founded by Shinigami (Death himself) that trains their students in being meisters and weapons. Weapons are humans that are capable of turning into a specific type of…well, weapon; and meisters are their wielders. The three teams consist of Maka Albarn and her weapon Soul Eater, a book smart workaholic and a wannabe cool guy that turns into a scythe; Black Star and his weapon Tsubaki, an extremely loud and arrogant ninja (Gee, I wonder where I heard of that before?) and a soft-spoken and kind girl who can turn into various ninjutsu-related weapons; and Death the Kid and his weapons Liz and Patty, Shinigami’s son who’s extremely OCD and the two sisters (one’s ditzy and childish, the other’s a typical teenager) who can turn into handguns. A meister and weapon team that is able to collect 99 corrupted souls and a witch’s soul are granted the great honor of serving under Shinigami and the weapon becomes what is known as a Death Scythe. Adventure, humor and other shonen elements ensue!