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The comics industry is doing pretty well for itself in the United States right now, especially the manga industry. Despite supply chain problems, a paper shortage, and other difficulties, more people in the United States are buying manga than ever before. This is a thread for talking about that industry! Industry gossip, new titles being announced, and what’s been released recently are all within its scope. Let’s get to know the publishers! Viz: they publish Shonen Jump! Also some other stuff. They have the Shoujo Beat and Sublime imprints. If you own a volume of manga, it’s probably from Viz. They publish smash hits like Naruto and Chainsaw Man. Their books are the cheapest to buy, with a small volume typically being $9.99. Don’t expect amazing physical quality from them—that price point comes with a, well, price. Don’t expect poor quality either, though. Kodansha Comics: they publish manga that’s a bit more reputable and mainstream, like Attack on Titan and Akira. Probably the second biggest manga publisher in the US. They own the imprint Vertical Comics, which tends to be more niche. Their single volumes tend to be around $13 but they’ll often do omnibus editions of their more popular series, of various prices. Dark Horse: they publish deluxe editions of Berserk. They tend to forget they own licenses for other titles, like Mob Psycho 100 and Gantz. Their deluxe physical books are probably the highest quality in the business, but this comes with a higher cost and a slower release schedule. Their prices for their individual books vary from around $12 to around $15 Yen Press: Lots of isekai, but they also print A Bride’s Story and other gems like Delicious in Dungeon and Witch Hat Atelier. They have a mixed bag of a library. Their books tend to be a little physically larger and a little more expensive, around $15. The quality is usually good, though! Seven Seas: similar to Yen Press, but hornier. They publish a lot of sex comedies for teens, like Monster Musume, and also at a number of quality niche titles, like Girl From the Other Side and Yokohama Shopping Log. They have the Ghost Ship and Steam Ship imprints for smuttier content, Airship for light novels and Danmei for Chinese light novels. Danmei makes so, so much money. Their books can have some quality problems, due to them operating on a small budget. Their books tend to be around $13 Square Enix: only recently started publishing in English, so they don’t have the rights to some of their biggest works like Full Metal Alchemist. Some of their hits include The Apothecary Diaries and My Dress-Up Darling. Don’t use their app, it’s bad! Their books tend to be a bit more expensive too— around the $15 price point for a smaller volume. Denpa: Respectable arm of Fakku. They have a small library, but there’s some good titles like Kaiji and the (as of this writing) upcoming release of March Comes In Like A Lion. I think their books are around $13 for single volumes, and I can’t speak on their quality. Tokyopop: the defining publisher of the 2000’s, they went out of business in 2011 when Borders folded. They’ve come back onto the scene but are still a shadow of their former self. They mostly publish Disney titles and niche queer romances. They helped pioneer the ten dollar price and small physical size that really only Viz uses today. Nowadays their books tend to be around $15 One Peace Books: mostly they publish translated prose but they have a couple comics they publish too, like Hinamatsuri and I Hear the Sunspot. A very confusing name for the manga industry. Their books tend to be around $12-$13 J-Novel Club: primarily focused on translating light novels, they also publish some manga adaptations of their properties, like the manga adaptation of Ascension of a Bookworm There’s probably other, smaller publishers too, but I haven’t encountered them. Edit: but someone else has! Also some important context on who owns the companies that I neglected to put in originally Dead Of Winter posted:I think it's also worth mentioning that almost all of the major manga-focused publishers in the US are owned, in whole or in part, by the big Japanese publishers. Viz is owned by the group that owns Shueisha and Shogakukan, Yen Press is owned by a partnership of Kadokawa (majority) and Hachette (minority), Kodansha USA and Square-Enix are both self-explanatory. The only really big US manga publisher that remains (mostly?) independent is Seven Seas. thetoughestbean fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jan 6, 2023 |
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Here’s a list of the manga out in January 2023: https://yattatachi.com/january-2023-manga-light-novel-book-releases I, personally, tend to go check the release schedule of each publisher by going to their websites before the start of the month but lists like these help me make sure that nothing fell through the cracks. Standout titles: 1/3 Blue Box 2 (Viz) Romantic Killer 2 (Viz) 1/10 A Galaxy Next Door 4 (Kodansha) Dandadan 2 (Viz) Helck 1 (Viz) Kaiju No. 8 5 (Viz) Vinland Saga 13 (Kodansha) 1/17 Frieren: Life After Journey’s End 7 (Viz) [Oshi no Ko] 1 (Yen Press) 1/24 Blue Period 12 (Kodansha) Mob Psycho 100 10 (Dark Horse) 1/31 My Dress Up Darling 7 (Square Enix) I’m picking up seven volumes this month, not all of which I listed. Anybody planning on getting anything?
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Jan 4, 2023 03:34
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I'll pick up Oshi no ko and dress up darling.
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I got all current volumes of Blue Period and I'm not stopping now.
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Huh. Didn't realise Helck GN 1 was coning out so soon (Jan 10) so that, definitely buying that.
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Dark Horse puts out some great quality stuff but it's wild how bad they can be with the distribution side of things wrt certain manga. We got a new Trigun anime around the corner and the manga is still long out of print + they don't even have a digital version of the manga out there! I wanna give them my money but alas.
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I remember having a hell of a time trying to get one of the chainsaw man pt 1 volumes when I missed the preorder, I hope that isn’t the case when pt 2 starts making its way over here to the states. Is the paper shortage / supply chain stuff for manga improving at all?
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Sleng Teng posted:I remember having a hell of a time trying to get one of the chainsaw man pt 1 volumes when I missed the preorder, I hope that isn’t the case when pt 2 starts making its way over here to the states. Is the paper shortage / supply chain stuff for manga improving at all? I suspect it's a case of how much you can swing your weight around. There's a three-volume gag series I was buying from Kaiten Books pre-pandemic which has currently turned into a giant boondoggle as a result of the backlogs. Peep these release date gaps: Volume 1:  Volume 2:  Volume 3: 
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Sleng Teng posted:I remember having a hell of a time trying to get one of the chainsaw man pt 1 volumes when I missed the preorder, I hope that isn’t the case when pt 2 starts making its way over here to the states. Is the paper shortage / supply chain stuff for manga improving at all? Chainsaw Man in particular is easier to get. There’s still some problems but huge hits get priority for reprints. I’d recommend ordering them online/in the store rather than hoping you find specific volumes on the shelves right now. The store I work at is still restocking Chainsaw Man and it still sells fast
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Yeah I don't doubt that chainsaw man is much easier to get, especially now. A big shame about many good but not as big series though. secretly best girl posted:I suspect it's a case of how much you can swing your weight around. There's a three-volume gag series I was buying from Kaiten Books pre-pandemic which has currently turned into a giant boondoggle as a result of the backlogs. Peep these release date gaps: good lord, condolences. I guess I should be glad that most things I want physical at the moment are more mainstream normie titles lol.
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Srice posted:Dark Horse puts out some great quality stuff but it's wild how bad they can be with the distribution side of things wrt certain manga. We got a new Trigun anime around the corner and the manga is still long out of print + they don't even have a digital version of the manga out there! I wanna give them my money but alas. Gi ve me your money
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I've been wanting to get those new editions of Fist of the North Star, they look cool
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I've got the first three, they really are!
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I work in this industry! Cool to have a thread for it
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Regarding Tokyopop, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say they're "the defining" manga publisher of the aughts. They were undeniably important in that their business model helped the US manga industry transition from a niche-within-a-niche venture to what it is now, and they had some very popular titles over their run, like Sailor Moon and the CLAMP catalogue. But in hindsight, I think a lot of TP's success hinged on them the right idea at the right time, because they weren't particularly well-run and were always embroiled in some controversy or stupidity*. Once the rest of the industry started adopting that model, it didn't take long for other companies to catch up and overtake them. Viz, in particular, ate Tokyopop's lunch for most of the aughts on the Shonen Jump line alone. Once other companies with more resources and better management came along, particularly Yen Press and Del Rey Manga (now Kodansha), Tokyopop was simply outcompeted. The Borders thing was just the final blow to a company that was already hurting pretty bad. * The one everybody remembers is the OEL/Rising Stars of Manga fiasco (and deservedly so), but there was also the Apollo Smile thing, the DJ Milky thing, and so on and so on. Most of it was more stupid or embarrassing than actually consequential, but constantly having your rear end hanging out like that suggests that your company probably isn't fit for the long haul. I think it's also worth mentioning that almost all of the major manga-focused publishers in the US are owned, in whole or in part, by the big Japanese publishers. Viz is owned by the group that owns Shueisha and Shogakukan, Yen Press is owned by a partnership of Kadokawa (majority) and Hachette (minority), Kodansha USA and Square-Enix are both self-explanatory. The only really big US manga publisher that remains (mostly?) independent is Seven Seas. And while Viz does do the "small and cheap" model for their Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat manga, their Viz Signature line (which are mostly classic and older-audience titles) has a lot of larger, higher-quality volumes. They also do those handsome hardcovers of things like Junji Ito's work, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and Fist of the North Star. I think it's mostly a matter of audience and length, and how likely these things are to be profitable. Other English-language publishers include Media Do, who puts up digital manga on web storefronts but doesn't have an website, social media, or point of contact for English speakers, so I can't tell you much more than that. They publish a lot of stuff that's unheard of in the West -- for better or worse -- and they have a habit of inconsistent releases and/or dropping series entirely (especially those with a tiny bit of recognition, like Arte or Wakakozake). They're a legit company by all accounts, but they definitely give off that fly-by-night vibe. I think their only "name" title is New Grappler Baki; most of their other titles are obscure. DMP is one of the older US manga publishers still active, but they don't really have a lot to offer if you're not into BL/yaoi or porn. They're probably more known today for publishing that one pedo manga than having some Tezuka titles or Kimagure Orange Road. Star Fruit Books is a newcomer that seems to do mostly small horror anthologies. Kaiten Books exists. Most of their stuff is either bog-standard isekai or creeper bait, though I've heard really good things about The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting. Irodori Comics seems to focus mostly on doujinshi and small-name titles. They're nice enough have a subsite for all-ages material (Irodori Aqua). More oddly, they have a subsite for LGBTQ manga (Irodori Sakura). They also have an all-ages section for LGBTQ manga...which is also called Irodori Sakura. Hmm.
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Del Ray starting publishing really started Tokyopop's decline as they were getting all the Kodansha titles that Tokyopop used to get. Without those titles Tokyopop had to look elsewhere and also made the decision to focus on Original English stuff and whelp
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Flesnolk posted:I work in this industry! Cool to have a thread for it Neat! What do you do? Dead Of Winter posted:Regarding Tokyopop, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say they're "the defining" manga publisher of the aughts. They were undeniably important in that their business model helped the US manga industry transition from a niche-within-a-niche venture to what it is now, and they had some very popular titles over their run, like Sailor Moon and the CLAMP catalogue. But in hindsight, I think a lot of TP's success hinged on them the right idea at the right time, because they weren't particularly well-run and were always embroiled in some controversy or stupidity*. Once the rest of the industry started adopting that model, it didn't take long for other companies to catch up and overtake them. Viz, in particular, ate Tokyopop's lunch for most of the aughts on the Shonen Jump line alone. Once other companies with more resources and better management came along, particularly Yen Press and Del Rey Manga (now Kodansha), Tokyopop was simply outcompeted. The Borders thing was just the final blow to a company that was already hurting pretty bad. I really think that Tokyopop helping pave the way for the manga boom of the aughts as well as providing quality titles that young women were interested in, bringing them into comics shops and comics sections at bookstores, really justifies the use of “defines” here As for Viz Signatures, I honestly haven’t been impressed with the quality of the hardcovers they put out, at least compared to other hardcover editions put out by other companies I’ll add the rest to the OP
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Tokyopop had a brief window on top in the aught though. It didn't take long for Viz to catch up with unflipped releases and they had Shonen Jump going at the end of 2002. Del Ray started publishing in 2004 which hit the Kodansha licenses and when Shoujo Beat got going in 2006 Tokyopop end up falling behind in the girls market as well. At most they had maybe 1-2 years as the top publisher and maybe 2 more the equal of Viz before the wheels started to fall off before the end of 2006
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thetoughestbean posted:Neat! What do you do? I currently work for Seven Seas as an editor/localiser; at the moment it's a contract position but I'm absolutely open to doing this stuff full time once an opportunity arises. A little reluctant to mention which series I've worked on to avoid self-doxxing, but it's a really fun line of work.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Tokyopop had a brief window on top in the aught though. It didn't take long for Viz to catch up with unflipped releases and they had Shonen Jump going at the end of 2002. Del Ray started publishing in 2004 which hit the Kodansha licenses and when Shoujo Beat got going in 2006 Tokyopop end up falling behind in the girls market as well. At most they had maybe 1-2 years as the top publisher and maybe 2 more the equal of Viz before the wheels started to fall off before the end of 2006 Bingo. I'm not trying to say Tokyopop wasn't important, but I don't like to conflate what Tokyopop set into motion with what they really accomplished themselves. Their actual legacy is basically "Tokyopop waddled so others could run." Their influence in the early 90s was undeniable, and yes, they had 2-4 years of big success. But for a variety of reasons -- competition, the Borders incident, mismanagement and poor choices -- by the middle of the decade they had very much fallen from grace, especially after the RSOM poo poo which more or less erased any goodwill they had left. In any case, you can say whatever you like, OP -- it's your post. But looking at the history of the time, I'm not inclined to agree with giving Tokyopop such effusive praise. It's hard for me to consider Tokyopop the defining publisher of that decade when they barely survived it, were only relevant for about half of it, and were only on top for maybe 20% of it. They had the seeds of some good ideas, but it took other companies to turn those seeds into an orchard.
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Dead Of Winter posted:* The one everybody remembers is the OEL/Rising Stars of Manga fiasco (and deservedly so), but there was also the Apollo Smile thing, the DJ Milky thing, and so on and so on. Most of it was more stupid or embarrassing than actually consequential, but constantly having your rear end hanging out like that suggests that your company probably isn't fit for the long haul. I'm almost scared to ask but what did Tokyopop have to do with Apollo Smile?
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Vandar posted:I'm almost scared to ask but what did Tokyopop have to do with Apollo Smile? Ugh, looks like I hosed up on this one. For some reason, I remember thinking (even back in the day) that Apollo Smile had some connection with Mixx (the company that later became Tokyopop). But this is apparently not true, or at least I can't find evidence of it. Mixx DID have a magazine called Smile. Maybe that's where the confusion came from. Anyway, Smile herself wasn't all that controversial. The "live action anime girl" thing was kinda tacky, but so are most things in this hobby. Not that it matters, though. What I was actually failing at remembering wasn't Apollo Smile, but Princess Ai -- that awful OEL manga purportedly written by Courtney Love and Tokyopop owner Stuart Levy. Controversial partly because Levy was using Tokyopop as his own vanity press, and partly, well, Courtney Love.
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Oh god I had forgot about Princess Ai. Yuck.
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Dead Of Winter posted:In any case, you can say whatever you like, OP -- it's your post. But looking at the history of the time, I’m not inclined to agree with giving Tokyopop such effusive praise. It's hard for me to consider Tokyopop the defining publisher of that decade when they barely survived it, were only relevant for about half of it, and were only on top for maybe 20% of it. They had the seeds of some good ideas, but it took other companies to turn those seeds into an orchard. “Defining” isn’t effusive praise here. They set the standard for a lot of things. Book price, book size, most manga being in the original right-to-left orientation, being available at chain bookstores like Barnes and Noble and Borders, etc. They were a mess of a company run by an egomaniac who’s clearly written his own Wikipedia page, and they got their lunch eaten by other companies. However, without their influence, the industry, especially the industry in the 2000’s, would look a whole lot different and that’s what makes them defining to me.
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tokyopop was influential because they had americas greatest otaku, the worst reality show ive ever seen in my life best part of america's greatest otaku was when they hung out with some sumo wrestlers and took them to a steakhouse and the loving *sumo wrestlers* looked at the portion sizes and went 'americans eat too much food'
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Having forgot about that series Hazel's recent video on it was an eye opener. It kinda of fits Tokyopop to a T cause their is a germ of decent idea there but it's done in the most horrible, embarrassing way that it just ends up being bad With Tokyopop manga the thing is most people know about the unflipped Graphic novels and the downfall there but tend to forget or don't remember the disaster that was Mixxzine when they started out. Just mind boggling decision to run Rayearth and Sailor Moon in a magazine with Parasyte and Ice Blade, the paper being horribly glossy and the manga having weird page lay out. The other content being cringe at best...It very much would of died as a company if it wasn't for Sailor Moon
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Who had the idea to sell manga in single issues at comic shops in the states? 'cause that was a pretty silly idea. (And yet I still bought a bunch of single issues of Sailor Moon.  )
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Viz did and while it makes 0 sense now it made sense back in the late 80's when you still had the direct market boom and book stores really weren't big on carrying graphic novels. You needed a format friendly for comic shops to get shelf space and whelp flipped monthly was the way to go Of course the downside is a lot of comic shops really didn't look past DC/Marvel/Image in terms of ordering unless you special ordered which meant you could do okay but you couldn't really break through to big sales numbers.
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thetoughestbean: Fair enough. Regarding the Greatest Otaku thing or whatever, I remember hearing about it in passing but there was never any chance I was going to watch it. I had no idea what this "show" would be asking its participants to do, and after reading an article or two...I still don't. If they'd simply made a documentary profiling some genuinely interesting fans, then they might have a decent human-interest program. But I don't see any way a reality show starring anime fans is going to interest anyone other than a small subsect of anime fans. It's not like being a fan of foreign media is something exciting to watch. In any case, here's some more legal English-language manga sources. At this point we've more or less exhausted the large manga-dominant publishers in the US; everyone left is either very small, only publishes for a specific genre, is a comic publisher that's just happened to publish some manga, and some JP-based firms doing their own English publishing. Udon Entertainment: They're mostly concerned with their homegrown video game comics, but they do publish some manga. Most are video-game based (Persona, Street Fighter, Mega Man), but they have some prestige titles (Rose of Versailles) and some oddities (Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu). They do a decent job, but manga clearly isn't much of a priority in terms of release schedules or promotion. Kuma Books: Small press that publishes BL exclusively. MangaPlus: Subscription website owned by Shueisha, has a wide variety of manga, especially Shonen Jump castoffs. I assume this site is why we've been getting digital-only ebook releases of some failed SJ titles; if they already have a US publisher and the translation's done, why not? Bookwalker Global: Yes, it's technically a Japanese ebook marketplace, but their parent company Kadokawa also sells simulpubs for some titles on BW Global that aren't available anywhere else. Quality isn't bad on the ebooks, either, but I wish they'd put them in volumes instead of single chapters only. Comickey: English-language subscription site. Has stuff like Arte, Asobi Asobase, and other stuff no one else has touched on. (I know there are other official anglophonic subscription sites that license manga, manhwa, manhua, and so on, but damned if I can remember offhand any others that are still active.) Finally, there's a lot of indie/art-comic publishers that have published manga, although most have only one a couple of titles or artists. Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, Last Gasp, and Ponent Mon are some of the most prolific in this area. Their work has value in that they've brought over titles that would otherwise never sniff our shores, but they don't really engage with the manga industry as most people think of it at all. They're very much indie-comics companies that have released some manga.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Viz did and while it makes 0 sense now it made sense back in the late 80's when you still had the direct market boom and book stores really weren't big on carrying graphic novels. You needed a format friendly for comic shops to get shelf space and whelp flipped monthly was the way to go Hey Sometimes they ordered Dark Horse too
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Picked up Vinland Saga Vol 13 yesterday. As usual it's a decently put together book (hardcover supremacy) and ofc Vinland Saga is excellent. no regret about buying all of the physical volumes of this series.
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Yeah, it’s great. Another series in hardcover that I think is really worth picking up is A Bride’s Story. The art alone is worth the physical edition
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So apparently Kohansha is stopping their simulpubs with only some half-arsed "The best way to keep """up to date""" is to read the GNs and we'll have news in a few months" gob-poo poo. Given that they were just about done with Edens Zero, Space Brothers and Cardcaptor Sakura CC, that sucks out loud and I wish them a very get  'd
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ConanThe3rd posted:So apparently Kohansha is stopping their simulpubs with only some half-arsed "The best way to keep """up to date""" is to read the GNs and we'll have news in a few months" gob-poo poo. It’s super dumb and will only drive people to pirating
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And gods help them when (and let's not candy-coat this, it will be when) their new service is some Square-Enix Manga Go level bullshit with Machine Censorship and Translation bodge-jobs 'cause I sure as poo poo won't.
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Happy to follow this thread! I buy a butt ton of physical manga and any place to talk about it is always welcomed. I'm not sure what it is, but I've always vastly preferred reading manga over watching anime. Things I'm looking forward to in 2023: The hardcover release of Summertime Rendering. I ordered these way back when they were first announced and watched them get comically pushed back repeatedly for like half a year. Technically released late December but my order only shipped recently. The last volume of Emanon was recently announced by Dark Horse. I love Kenji Tsuruta's works (even if he every single girl he draws has terminal same-face) and if nothing else, I hope this gets Dark Horse to do a reprint of Wandering Island volume 1, which I've been waiting on for forever. Kodansha announced a "deluxe" 3-in-1 hardcover release of Vinland Saga, priced exactly the same as Dark Horses' Berserk/BotI/Helsing deluxe editions (at least in Canada). I've never picked up the normal hardcover release so hopefully these look good enough to warrant the price. Wave, Listen to Me! vol. 9 is releasing soon! And vol. 10 is set for November (will probably get pushed)! Die Wergelder vol. 3 came out last month or so, so now to wait like 2+ years for a vol. 4. Some other titles I'm really looking forward to, among others, are the physicals of Akane-banashi, The Moon on a Rainy Night, Insomniacs After School, and the last volume of Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction. On the purchasing front, a bit bummed when RightStufAnime announced a while back they were no longer doing free shipping to Canada on any orders. I really liked just preordering a bunch of out-of-stock stuff (still waiting on Slam Dunk from them) and they packaged their shipments as if they were shipping fine china. I purchase almost exclusively online, so it sucks seeing how often books get dinged up during shipping. My personal 2023 physical release/announcement wishlist: YAWARA! and/or Happy! (I wonder why these were never licensed. I believe they recently got digitalized for the first time, maybe this is the year) Bocchi the Rock! (Here's hoping the anime's popularity will help!) Living with my Brother's Wife (It's getting a digital-only release on Square's lovely platform so maybe some hope?) MARRIAGETOXIN (Should probably happen) Fool Night she is beautiful monthly /with garden /with ooya or whatever the english name of this one would be
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So it looks like Titan Comics, who got one of the Kamen Rider licenses and is putting out their first manga release in Kamen Rider Kuuga in the west, is up to some kind of shadiness? https://twitter.com/MarzGurl/status/1617596264023224320 The thread goes into a lot more and links to the author breaking down the prior volume having very questionable translation, but now they're using different promo images than the finished product in terms of quality, layout, and text. What a weird issue to have, where would you even have divergent work from inside the company?
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Titan comics isn't the best. Thier attempt at Robotech (complete with Simon Furman at the helm) was just bleh and their US Comic version of KR Zero One seems to be a miss, too.
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ConanThe3rd posted:So apparently Kohansha is stopping their simulpubs with only some half-arsed "The best way to keep """up to date""" is to read the GNs and we'll have news in a few months" gob-poo poo. Oh, I was considering a re-read of To Your Eternity... and chapters 2-4 are not on the Crunchyroll map why??? It seemed like they were constantly moving around chapters and arbitrarily deciding what was and was not available. So yeah gently caress those guys.
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