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Revolutionary
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Wait, what? Anyway, anybody actually expecting this announcement to be related to REBORN! or to a single license in the first place didn't pay attention to the clues. The licensing of a single series wouldn't "change everything" in any way. Especially not REBORN! it's just another run of the mill SJ series. That's aside from the point, but there really wouldn't be anything about licensing it that would "change everything". Sorry. Either way, if this is the big announcement it's about as lame as changing everything can be. Guess that was to be expected. |
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Ohoni
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If they can start publishing the up to date weekly chapters to their site for the major Jump manga series, I'd subscribe to them in a heartbeat and abandon the off-brand sources, like I have with the Naruto and One Piece anime.
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LUNI_TUNZ
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Marvel already has one, and it's pretty healthy. The Distinguished Competition on the other hand doesn't. |
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Paploo
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[quote="Revolutionary"]
Wait, what?/quote] animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-10-29/new-york-times-manga-best-seller-list-october-17-23 Case Closed is a NYTimes best selling series. Given it's latest volume outsold Bleach, it's probably still selling thousands of copies of each volume, and looks to be one of VIZ's bigger sellers. Yeah, I was surprised too- but it's a fun series that's had TV/dvd exposure, with a lot of appeal to kids, so it's not that big of surprise. I'm guessing up til now it's floated below the NYT list. And yeah, a big license isn't a move that changes everything- it's news, but it seems VIZ's rollout of both a ShonenJump digital subscription and a Ipad application are what they were hinting at. Also, Marvel/DC aren't abandoning print and neither is VIZ. They're just adding more formats in a way that'll reach new fans. It's a good movie. |
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bayoab
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Divineking
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I wasn't expecting the announcement to only be about Reborn, or anything, but I wish Viz would explain what their doing with the series. They were promoting it in the November issue, and I can't imagine Viz of all companies, promoting something their considering giving the axe to, not to mention that unless other legal issues arise(which given it's popularity in Japan we'd have likely heard of), Viz is legally obligated to finish releasing it...here's to hoping we'll get clarity eventually. As for the actual announcement...it's pretty interesting. I'll be keeping up with Nura, and since I never did get far in Toriko, this may be a good place to start. I'm also glad Psyren's being added to the magazine. It's one of the best mangas in JUMP no matter what the polls say(I will never understand how people can think it's crap). |
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monkeyshinobi
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I think that the Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan should offer online weekly updates (in various languages) for people who pay a monthly fee or something. I stopped buying Shonen Jump, because i don't read half of the titles in it now and it's a month wait for one or a few chapters. I would read for probably 20-30 minutes and then it's somewhere in my room collecting dust. -__- If it's the latest updates and also past chapters of manga i would surely pay for it. They could go the crunchyroll road.
 It doesn't have to stop at shonen jump, it could be a coalition of different companies and their manga!
Whatever happened to OpenManga? Wasn't that supposed to be launched in October? :/ |
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BigOnAnime
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I'm still waiting for my latest issue to come in the mail and I'm a subscriber. I hate when it comes late (Was supposed to last Monday for me). Anyway this is good news. As many people noticed the magazine's quality has been going down due to the economy (350+ pages to 250+, cutting/shortening sections, going from 7 manga to 4 every month), so this lets them put more stuff in almost with very low costs. Glad they apparently got the Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan manga!
 Been watching the simulcasts on VIZAnime.
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