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Berserkfury819
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
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Location: Detroit Mi. Spider-Man is dead. R.I.P.
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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:36 pm |
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Gatsu: I agree. I want numbers and consistent pricing.
I think I wasn't clear earlier when I aid I wanted it unflipped. I am fully aware that the panels are cut and re-pasted, what I meant was that I wanted to read it in the original right to let format. Blade of the immortal was the first manga I ever read (back in 8th grade, time flies). This is an excellent series and one of my favorites. Who else wants to see it animated?! 
I think the reason that only a few of us are over here discussing Blade, is because the Nymphet argument has come up... again. |
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GATSU
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Fairy[land]: | Quote: | | I absolutely cannot see why some in fandom gives this man incredible admiration, as he had done quite a lot of insulting things to loose my respect. If anyone was a fan of the old Studio Proteus website, you'd remember that he was a rude, extremely full of himself, arrogant person that detested the then modern USA fandom. |
Um, no, he's not rude or arrogant, just blunt and experienced. He took time out of his busy schedule to answer your questions, when he could easily just ignore you, and you act like he owes you the answer you want. It's his company, not yours, and he can do what he wants with it.
| Quote: | | Basically he was an elitist dinosaur slowly loosing touch with reality and you can see it with his posts that he was struggling to defend his actions with rudeness while his competition was winning. |
Actually, up until Shueisha, Viz was losing. Tokyopop got their feet in the back door, but it wasn't until Fruits Basket that they started becoming big.
| Quote: | | He thought his way of doing things was right based on his many years of doing things correctly when the hobby was growing and that what was happening around him was merely a fad that would soon die off. |
Well, he was right about the majority of titles in stores being crap.
He also had a point about the magazine anthology being a fad, considering Viz is the only company holding the idea up, and I see fewer copies of Jump and Beat in stores than I did two years ago...
A lot of newsstands I've been to don't even stock them anymore.
| Quote: | | One of his biggest faults is not dropping that dreaded 32 page comic format and switching to a quick cheap graphic novel release format. I will bet that it was because he could not milk fandom for the $2.95 a book anymore and forcing them to wait over a year later to get the 16.95 GNs. |
You have to understand that these were titles which wouldn't have sold much at $16.95 a book. EDEN is $12.95, and it's still struggling! The individual issue model took away risks, and allowed for more diverse content on the market.
| Quote: | | Tokyopop and Viz, he insulted many times over for switching to smaller cheaper all graphic novel formats and not flipping the pages. |
I think his issues were them doing rush jobs and limiting their audience to die-hard otaku readers, instead of expanding their audience by choosing to cater to casual comic book fans.
| Quote: | | I never understood why, but I'm sure he had reasons. He also hated manga based on famous (in the USA) anime. |
I don't think he believed it wouldn't be popular, just that it wouldn't last long.
| Quote: | | He was not very fan friendly and did not like the fans liking series because they seen the anime first. |
That's not true. He supported Ah! My Goddess, back when no American publisher believed romantic comedies would sell.
| Quote: | | He wanted to cater to people who read manga because of the true art form. That's really foolish thinking, as what better way to generate sales than to cater to the fans who want popular series? |
He liked doing these things for more than just the money.
| Quote: | | Obviously Dark Horse wanted greater control with the GN release schedule. I believe that they bought him out to do their thing in a more modern and profitable way.It's said he's an adviser and translator there, but I bet he's not too happy how things turned out. |
He sold his company, because he chose to retire. And the only recent profitable titles from DH have been from Digital Manga.
| Quote: | | I've never seen any modern interviews about him and he seems to now be a forgotten part of history. |
Um, you do know his alter ego's in Gunbuster, right?
Rawshark: | Quote: | | I'm kind of shocked from the lack of replies on this thread and seeing the sales consistently fall in the article. BotI is one of the best mangas released here and it seems like no one cares. |
Most of us can't tell which volume is first, and don't want to pay $18 per book. |
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Berserkfury819
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:42 pm |
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| Blood of a Thousand is the first, followed by Cry of the Worm, and then Dreamsong. I forget the order after that. |
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