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Vertical_Ed
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Posts: 278 Location: New York, NY |
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Yeah, it is tricky. Shelving is based on demand. And now more than ever regional, even store-by-store, shelving is being done by statistics. So you literally have to buy stuff in your favorite store at a regular basis to prove to them that there is demand. As noted in other of these entries you can preorder books or simply order books that are not in-stock at your local B&N. They will almost always fulfill such orders. And that is more reliable than doing so at a comic shop. BN.com or BAM.com are good alternatives. (BAM is an account we want to see grow. No offense to TRSI but they have overtaken BAM as our number 4 vendor. Not a good sign for BAM or manga readers in BAM neighborhoods.) |
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st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Alrighty. Waterstones it will be for all my Vertical books in future.
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TsunaReborn!
 Posts: 4713 Location: Cheltenham UK |
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^^^ I will do the same - I think I might start buying more in general from Waterstones.
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Agent355
 Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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The three titles I requested are:
Tomodachi 100-nin Dekiru kana (I Wonder If I Can Make 100 Friends) by Minoru Toyoda ~ I enjoyed Toyoda's Love Roma, and this one has a sci fi angle! Humor and sci fi sound good to me! Akatsuki no Bremen by Tomomi Yamashita~ All I know about it is that it's josei, one volume, has something to do with (classical) music, and it's the only manga Yamashita has wrote recently that's not published by Akita Shoten. I love, love, love her Apothecarius Argentum, and I just really want to read another manga she's written! Life Is Dead by Koizumi Tomohiro ~ Jason Thompson recommended this in his article about zombie manga. It's only one volume and it sounds really interesting. |
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TsunaReborn!
Posts: 4713 Location: Cheltenham UK |
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Most in that article sounded rally interesting. I would like to see Nagi no Asukara or Anohana mangas released in English (this is due to my personal bias).
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Agent355
Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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Nagi no Asukara has a manga? I thought it was an original show?
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TsunaReborn!
Posts: 4713 Location: Cheltenham UK |
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I was surprised too, June last year apparently, there are 2 volumes so far and is on going.
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Faiga_Raisa
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Nagi no Asukara is an original show. Manga that starts only a few months before an anime airs is for promotional purposes. Because anime production starts 8-12 months before the first episode actually airs.
You can't honestly expect they sorted out legal paperwork and animated a show in only 4 months. |
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TsunaReborn!
Posts: 4713 Location: Cheltenham UK |
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... I know in general how it works and I wasn't stating that it anime wasn't original but thats the date wiki gave me - I'm not expecting anything and the dates maybe incorrect which is fair enough but I don't see the problem with it being licensed at a future date.
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zawa113
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I dunno if it has anything to do with me, but my local B&N which I pre-ordered my What Did You Eat Yesterday? at now has two copies on their regular shelves! Hooray! I also pre-ordered 2 and 3 while I was there. And yes, it's more Yoshinaga goodness! I am so very very pleased! I'll admit that while early Tezuka works can be pretty average to bad (like Lost World, ewww), all the Yoshinaga is good Yoshinaga, damn do I adore her works! I've never lined up for an autograph at Otakon before, but if she were there, I'd be in her line in a heartbeat! I'd probably get my Flower of Life 4 signed, because it's my favorite of her series and it'd only make that volume rarer, heh. I know you said "no license rescues", but the old Blu Yoshinaga books, any chance on considering those if What Did You Eat Yesterday goes well? I'd totally double dip.
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Vertical_Ed
Company Representative
Posts: 278 Location: New York, NY |
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Very likely. As we have stated...Order books in the store and the store may be motivated to stock more and stock future volumes of that series. It is simple "demand & supply".
At this time, I would say that'd be very unlikely. We do not publish hentai or BL. But who knows, if EAT is all of a sudden the next Titan, I'm sure my bosses in Japan will be aggressively looking for more from her. |
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stove top stuffing
 Posts: 117 Location: "Orygun" NOT "Orygone" |
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VerticalFall2014
Fall survey is live. Once again I am going to ask for Mysterious Girlfriend X. Yes it's a long shot but I have to do it. I also know it's on crunchyroll but that does me no good. Physical manga or nothing. Please Ed, if it doesn't make sense for Vertical at least try and con Kodansha in to it. =) |
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TsunaReborn!
Posts: 4713 Location: Cheltenham UK |
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I don't see these titles getting licensed but I submitted:
Cradle of Monsters One Week Friends Kami-sama Ga USO O Tsuku |
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Agent355
Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. The anime is excellent, Vertical has no issues with the publisher, it started in 2011, and it's only 5 voiumes long so far. Vertical isn't a big fan of 4koma, but as far as I know they never said that they wouldn't consider publishing it. I think it would be a good title for them.
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Vertical_Ed
Company Representative
Posts: 278 Location: New York, NY |
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Thanks for posting the link to the survey guys.
It should be up through the following Monday (or so). |
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