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Teriyaki Terrier
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 Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:04 am
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I've actually read the Twilight manga and that manga is easily the worst manga I've ever read. No comedy, over dramatized characters and events and the action was as exciting as seeing someone knitting a sock.
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vashfanatic
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:12 am
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| Teriyaki Terrier wrote: | | I've actually read the Twilight manga and that manga is easily the worst manga I've ever read. No comedy, over dramatized characters and events and the action was as exciting as seeing someone knitting a sock. |
Yeah, but it's getting Yen Press oodles of money. Which they can spend on licensing and releasing other, superior series. It's kind of like how Ron Howard keeps making adaptations of Dan Brown's awful books; it lets him then do whatever movies he wants in between. You're less worried about losing money and better able to take risks.
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doctordoom85
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:45 am
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| vashfanatic wrote: |
| Teriyaki Terrier wrote: | | I've actually read the Twilight manga and that manga is easily the worst manga I've ever read. No comedy, over dramatized characters and events and the action was as exciting as seeing someone knitting a sock. |
Yeah, but it's getting Yen Press oodles of money. Which they can spend on licensing and releasing other, superior series. |
Indeed. Since we're extremely unlikely to get the Umeniko anime licensed (and we're STILL waiting for Season 2 of Higurashi/When They Cry), I'm hopeful that Yen Press might license the manga, and more money thrown their way definitely helps these possibilities.
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FMAvatard
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:58 am
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Well, Black Butler's still doing fairly well it seems. Excellent. What with the second volume out next month, it seems it'll stay that way. 
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Dargonxtc
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:08 am
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Yotsuba&!'s rocking of course. I can't believe some people doubted the sales prowess of that series.
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Mads0
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:36 am
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Yotsuba's up, no surprise.
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The_Q
Joined: 09 Mar 2010
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:47 am
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The Wolf made the list?!
Damn, I really didn't think it was going to be popular. Awesome.
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Seca
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:31 am
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| Teriyaki Terrier wrote: | | I've actually read the Twilight manga and that manga is easily the worst manga I've ever read. No comedy, over dramatized characters and events and the action was as exciting as seeing someone knitting a sock. |
Then it's not that different from the books at all.
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littlegreenwolf
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:05 pm
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| Teriyaki Terrier wrote: | | I've actually read the Twilight manga and that manga is easily the worst manga I've ever read. No comedy, over dramatized characters and events and the action was as exciting as seeing someone knitting a sock. |
Eh, it followed the book closely, and I guess you can consider it a "serious shoujo supernatural drama" if you have to think of it as a manga. If you put keep it with that genre in mind, it actually isn't that bad. All the "action" will be in the 2nd half of the volume where Bella goes and decides to be vampire food like an idiot.
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shaggyglasses
Joined: 18 Sep 2009
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:15 pm
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| Dargonxtc wrote: | | Yotsuba&!'s rocking of course. I can't believe some people doubted the sales prowess of that series. |
aw man, that reminds me, i have to go order that online and i'm glad black butler is doing so well.
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Aura Ichadora
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:50 pm
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A bit surprised by seeing Spice and Wolf ranking so high on the list, but it is pretty cool. ^^ I plan to pick it up at Anime Central in a couple of weeks since I'm totally enamored with the series right now.
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wandering-dreamer
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:03 pm
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Just a correction, you guys have the cover for Nightschool volume three up but list it as number 1 (number 3 makes more sense since it was just released).
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:02 pm
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Is there actually anything worth reading in R+V?
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Megiddo
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:28 pm
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| Shay Guy wrote: | | Is there actually anything worth reading in R+V? |
I never read R+VII, but R+V was pretty entertaining. Nothing at all like that god awful anime adaptation.
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Raneth
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:42 pm
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Interesting...Every anime based forum I go on, Twilight is reviled, and yet the manga is selling so well.
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