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Chrno2
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Gee, do you think they could add 'Shin Angyo Onshi' to that list? Considering it is published by the same company 'Pika Editions'.
It's funny that I come across this news after writing other publishers to pick up this title. Readers could finally have a chance to see that title now that the anime is coming out here stateside. Maybe I should go bug them.  
Say, who owns 'Yen Press'? |
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firecrouch
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Well Yen Press is an imprint of Hachette, so -- that explains who owns Yen Press.
Hopefully this will mean great things for Yen Press, maybe. It's not like France and America are the same market, but you never know. The only possible effect I could see this having on the U.S.A. is that Yen Press will have first dibs on licensing manga for Norht America that's been published by Pika Editions. |
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Kagemusha
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The French market is totally diffrent than the American market (especially with companies like Viz and Kodansha having connections with the three largest Japanese manga publishers), so I don't see how they could get the rights to automatically transfer. They'll have to go back to dealing with whatever company licenced the manga to Pika in the first place. |
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firecrouch
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That's what I expected, but I read the press release later and it seemed to indicate that the Edition Pika purchase would have an impact on Yen Press. It's interesting to hear that the United States is the second biggest manga market according to JETRO. But then again they may be referring to the literal definition of manga (comics, sequential artwork) as opposed to the general American definition (specifically Japanese comics). Maybe the U.S. population has something to do with it. |
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Kagemusha
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I can't imagine that American comics are all that more popular domestically than French comics, even with the huge population diffrence. They were indeed probobly refering to just Japanese-produced comics. Even though the French market is much more developed in terms of tapping into diffrent demographics, in the US you have every volume of Naruto selling ten-bajillion copies. |
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R.G.
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I have a question.
If PIKA is the third largest manga publisher in France,who are the first two? |
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Afax
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Probably "Glenat" and "Kana" Glenat published Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Ranma back in the day and were pretty much one of the first to truly tap into the manga market in the early 90s. Now they publish One Piece, Bleach etc. Kana publishes Death Note and Naruto among others.
As far as I know, Pika has pretty extensive ties with Kodansha I believe. The american market might be number 2 due to sheer sales volume but it's still extremely left behind by the French publishers in terms of the content being published, both the rate of and the sheer diversity of titles available. Not to mention price and overall better presentation and marketing. Then again their market has been developping since the early 90s while here in America the "manga boom" is still just coming out of that early phase. |
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woelfie
Encyclopedia Editor
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Kana is the biggest by far, mainly because of a few well sold titles such as Naruto (6 volumes printed in 2006 at 120.000 copies each), Samurai deeper Kyo (6 volumes of 70-80.000 copies), Shaman king and Yu-gi-oh. Glénat manga (108 new volumes in 2006) is ranked second. I don't know the situation in the USA, but you also have to consider that Pika was an independent manga publisher, where many manga publishers are part of a bigger publishing group : MC Productions (Soleil, Akiko, Kabuto, Tokebi, Asuka), Média Participations (Kana, mango), Delcourt (Akata, Tonkam), ...
Also take into account that France has only 68 million inhabitants (included the French speaking parts of Belgium and Switzerland), compared to almost 300 million in the USA, so the sales numbers don't say too much. Indeed France has much more manga titles (1418 new "asian" books in 2006, of which 1110 manga and 259 Korean manhwa) but in the early nineties, it was a gamble whether or not manga would sell in Europe, so contrary to the then already popular anime TV series, manga were not largely available. For those who understand French, the ACND annual report give a good insight in the French comics market. |
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Ashen Phoenix
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Personally i can't wait for Spiral, but considering i know nothing about the other titles (except for Zombie-loan, that is) i'm looking forward to a new manga company entering the mix! also, i'm wondering just how soon "this fall" is. lol i'm already getting so excited!  i've been dying to buy Spiral since i first learned about it last year! A very heart-felt thank you to Yen Press!
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