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TitanXL
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 Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:31 pm
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| enurtsol wrote: | Heh, shows its fans are overwhelmingly paying for their shit, unlike manga cows. Yen Press would be wise to continue mining where the money is - young tween girls and their moms.  |
Tch, if they were real fans like us, they'd have scans of that stuff online within days. 
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Saturn
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:42 pm
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I'm glad Yen Press is making what appears to be a good amount of money on their OEL titles (Twilight and Maximum Ride et al), and I wonder if they'll have any success launching series that aren't based on best-selling books. (Also, where's my Harry Potter manga?!) Even if you don't like Twilight, you have to appreciate that the money the company makes on that title is helping them keep up their high printing standards, so we're kinda all benefiting from that.
I wonder how many-- if any-- of the people who buy the Twilight graphic novels have been turned on to manga in the process? Like, where does one purchase these books in a store? With the other Twilight books, or with the manga?
I haven't been in a brick-and-mortar bookstore (other than a used bookstore) in so long I would have no idea...
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enurtsol
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:48 pm
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| TitanXL wrote: |
| enurtsol wrote: | Heh, shows its fans are overwhelmingly paying for their shit, unlike manga cows. Yen Press would be wise to continue mining where the money is - young tween girls and their moms. |
Tch, if they were real fans like us, they'd have scans of that stuff online within days. |
Haha!
Then again, regular girls tend not be gadget techie as otaku, prefer sitting on comfy mama chairs, letting their hearts a-flutter with papyruses... papyri... papypothamus... whatever....
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Charred Knight
Joined: 29 Sep 2008
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:02 pm
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| enurtsol wrote: | Heh, shows its fans are overwhelmingly paying for their shit, unlike manga cows. Yen Press would be wise to continue mining where the money is - young tween girls and their moms. |
That's what it comes down to. If the fans show their support than they will be rewarded, if they don't than a company isn't a charity, and needs to make money and will simply cancel the release.
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Rukiia
Joined: 30 Aug 2010
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Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:05 pm
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And yes, I have read all 4 of the books. |
Usually when I don't like a book, I don't read the sequels, just saying. |
I thought I liked it at the time as people were telling me it got better later on in the series. And it didn't....but I can safely say that all 4 books are trash since I read them all. The Twitards usually rage at you for not "giving the books a fair chance". Now they can't use that against me when I state how much the franchise sucks. 
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enurtsol
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:07 pm
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| Saturn wrote: | | (Also, where's my Harry Potter manga?!) |
There are doujins. 
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I wonder how many-- if any-- of the people who buy the Twilight graphic novels have been turned on to manga in the process? |
I'm not sure many would. It's like blockbuster hits convincing non-comic book fans to buy comics. That's why I said it's an interesting "manga" success in a non-manga-buying country.
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Happiness for Subaru
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Joined: 24 Feb 2011
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:07 am
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| Saturn wrote: | | Like, where does one purchase these books in a store? With the other Twilight books, or with the manga? |
In Borders, I've seen them with the manga and with the Twilight books.
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st_owly
Joined: 20 May 2008
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Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 2:21 pm
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OK, Yen. Now rescue Hetalia please and keep publishing gems like With The Light 
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Lynx Amali
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 2:38 pm
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I....really don't know how to feel. On one point, I enjoyed the first movie the first time and only the first time. On the other hand, the book I found to be crap and the later films to be crap.
If they're going to do stuff like this with Vampire Human romances....Vampire Diaries manga where? That has enough action to fill my quota, unlike this crap.
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TsukasaElkKite
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:20 pm
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| Melanchthon wrote: | | Twilight is the incoherent fantasy spawned from the addled mind of a sex starved Mormon |
THIS.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:54 pm
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| TsukasaElkKite wrote: |
| Melanchthon wrote: | | Twilight is the incoherent fantasy spawned from the addled mind of a sex starved Mormon |
THIS. |
Just change "Mormon" to "otaku" and you'd describe a large swath of anime.
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catandmouse
Joined: 02 Mar 2011
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:11 am
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Look, I hated Twilight with a passion and it's sad that trash like this "story" is selling as "manga" but then again it's true what others have said, manga fans aren't buying, and that makes companies look elsewhere for a cash cow...
Before TP collapsed, Fruits Basket was its cash cow and they milked it until the company's collapse....so yeah...
Actually I bought the 1st volume for a friend of mine on her birthday and the art and condensed story makes it a little more readable than the actual books and it is a really pretty book
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