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NEWS: Twilight Graphic Novel Sells 66,000 Copies in First Week

1) Manhwa is Korean. Not necessarily South or North.
2) This is produced and published in the USA. It was scripted in the USA as far as I can tell. It's primary audience was for the USA (and, well, Canada and probably the UK). It just has a foreign artist. Thus, it's a graphic novel.
3) Yen Press published manga. It also published manhwa, graphic novels, light novels, and manhua, which are all often associated with manga. What they do is considered news to the manga/anime world, and this could be a breakthrough.

Personally I couldn't care less about Twilight, but it's good that this is selling well, because this is money in the bank for Yen Press, money which they could use to license manga that I'd actually want to buy!

This DOES NOT HELP the manga, or anime industry.

This is pure fan-girl induced sensationalism, which is materializing itself as a "graphic novel", I'm so upset that THIS has broken the record for most copies in the first week.

This is no reason to rejoice or make a big deal about a ridiculous attempt to reel in FAN GIRLS. Oh yeah BIG SHOCK that twilight is selling like hot cakes. This DOES NOT HELP the manga, or anime industry.

This is NOT manga
This is NOT japanese
This is pure fan-girl induced sensationalism, which is materializing itself as a "graphic novel", I'm so upset that THIS has broken the record for most copies in the first week.

This only shows how little interest there is on LEGITIMATE manga, and how the only thing that will sell is what ever is "in".

alexcampos wrote:

This is no reason to rejoice or make a big deal about a ridiculous attempt to reel in FAN GIRLS. Oh yeah BIG SHOCK that twilight is selling like hot cakes. This DOES NOT HELP the manga, or anime industry. This is NOT manga This is NOT japanese This is pure fan-girl induced sensationalism, which is materializing itself as a "graphic novel", I'm so upset that THIS has broken the record for most copies in the first week. This only shows how little interest there is on LEGITIMATE manga, and how the only thing that will sell is what ever is "in".

Pfft, people have already explained things to you. Again: this is giving Yen Press, a publisher that handles mainly manga, a giant boost in profits, meaning they get more money to expand.

2nd: This has gotten tons of females now to pick up a comic/graphic novel, something comic book companies have been trying to get American girls to do for years and failed miserably at. Twilight or not, this is something for a supporter of comics to rejoice over. Not saying all those girls picking it up will continue getting comics, but very likely some percentage is.

I haven't looked at the graphic novel yet, but I'm hoping Yen Press has some strategic advertisements at the end with more shoujo-oriented titles to perk some of their interest in the genre.

This is no reason to rejoice or make a big deal about a ridiculous attempt to reel in FAN GIRLS. Oh yeah BIG SHOCK that twilight is selling like hot cakes. This DOES NOT HELP the manga, or anime industry.

This is pure fan-girl induced sensationalism, which is materializing itself as a "graphic novel", I'm so upset that THIS has broken the record for most copies in the first week.

I'm American and I love America, BUT keep manga to its origin: JAPANESE, not whatever becomes popular in the U.S with a bunch of fan girls.

alexcampos wrote:

This is no reason to rejoice or make a big deal about a ridiculous attempt to reel in FAN GIRLS. Oh yeah BIG SHOCK that twilight is selling like hot cakes. This DOES NOT HELP the manga, or anime industry. This is pure fan-girl induced sensationalism, which is materializing itself as a "graphic novel", I'm so upset that THIS has broken the record for most copies in the first week.

alexcampos wrote:

I'm American and I love America, BUT keep manga to its origin: JAPANESE, not whatever becomes popular in the U.S with a bunch of fan girls.

God. I am SO TIRED of this chauvinistic attitude about girls/fangirls and comics. What are men so afraid of? Is it because they don't like their little boy's club invaded? YES, some of these Twilight fans could stand to learn a manner or two, but if I had a nickle for every socially retarded fanboy I've met, I'd buy my own manga company.

Get over it.

I DISAGREE 100%

Big deal, Yen press will get more money, in the end they'll pursue whatever they think will give them sells.

Who's to say that Yen Press falls in love with EVEN MORE OELs and other American made stories and starts to go after them and neglect legitimate Japanese manga and light novels.

REMEMBER, only HALF of Yen Plus is manga, the other half are OELs and Manhwa.

The fact is there is still a HUGE selection of Japanese manga and light novel that has yet to be licensed.

HOW BAD DOES IT LOOK, that the best selling "manga" is an American adaptation posing as something THAT IT IS NOT.

I'm American and I love America, BUT keep manga to its origin: JAPANESE, not whatever becomes popular in the U.S with a bunch of fan girls.

REMEMBER, only HALF of Yen Plus is manga, the other half are OELs and Manhwa.

The fact is there is still a HUGE selection of Japanese manga and light novel that has yet to be licensed.

HOW BAD DOES IT LOOK, that the best selling "manga" is an American adaptation posing as something THAT IT IS NOT.

I'm American and I love America, BUT keep manga to its origin: JAPANESE, not whatever becomes popular in the U.S with a bunch of fan girls.

You're missing the point, whether its fan girls or fan boys, THEY ARE BOTH HORRIBLE. To have any entity be dominated by these overly fanatical idiots is a bad thing.

If twilight were for example for men, and it would cause fan boys to go crazy, THAT WOULD BE JUST AS BAD. Look at what idiot fan boys have done to Naruto here in America, it's not just about fan girls it's about ANYONE who takes things to seriously.

Right now one of the biggest problems in Japan is socially reclusive people, AKA otakus who have taken their obsession to an EXTREME level. How does this begin: Being overly fanatical about entities that should be treated as hobbies not life.

alexcampos wrote:

REMEMBER, only HALF of Yen Plus is manga, the other half are OELs and Manhwa. The fact is there is still a HUGE selection of Japanese manga and light novel that has yet to be licensed. HOW BAD DOES IT LOOK, that the best selling "manga" is an American adaptation posing as something THAT IT IS NOT. I'm American and I love America, BUT keep manga to its origin: JAPANESE, not whatever becomes popular in the U.S with a bunch of fan girls.

You're one of those people that think everything Japanese is superior to things originating from other countries, aren't you? At the risk of getting ripped a new one (bring it!) lemme explain to you something.

Manga = comics. Manwha= comics. OEL=comics.
Comics doing well in general = AWESOME.

Comics are comics to me, and probably are the same to these girls picking up the Twilight graphic novels. I very much doubt the first thing going through their head is "this is Japanese" or what not, they don't care. It's a comic adaption of their favorite book.

Comics doing well with an rarely tapped source (aka teen girls) is a huge boost for the WHOLE comic industry no matter where the comic originates from. You have to realize that the comic industry for America has been trying to get girls reading comics regularly forever. If more girls start reading comics, more girl oriented comics will become more in demand. Guess what country has the largest selection of girl oriented comics for publishers to import? Japan.

I don't give a crap what country a comic is from as long as it's good. Yen Press is being genius in trying to break down this wall that Japanphile fans (and I guess some American comic fans are guilty for as well) have created between comics from Japan and everything else. This wall limits the demographic manga reaches by creating a stupid divide in the minds of buyers. Get over this thinking for the good of the industry. There's fantastic graphic novels not created by someone from Japan, and the more you expand the more comic fans can live in harmony and become more appealing to people not familiar with the medium.

Can the stupid OEL label die already? It's annoying.

THANK YOU for explaining what comics are!

WHY do you come to ANN, is it for AMERICAN cartoons, NO its because you have an interest and appreciation of Japanese animation and other Japanese entities.

My main point is that a Twilight graphic novel selling like hot cakes does not make me happy, I don't believe it helps the industry *see my other comments*.