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njprogfan
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I'm happy Negima! and Ninja Girls were picked up, but damn, I'm sad about School Rumble, Suzuka and Pastel
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Weiss_Yohji
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At least keep the pricing in line with other North American releases of manga. I have no idea what the usual pricing scheme is over in Godzilla's homeland, but I know I would not pay the same price for a manga as I would for a Steven King novel unless it's anything Osamu Tezuka did. |
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Fallen Wings
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Can anyone say "Yes!" - I'm excited about their jump to the American market :3
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Paploo
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Kodansha are pricing the books at 10.99 per volume, 19.99 for the Negima omnibuses- this is pretty standard pricing for manga [and is exactly what Del Rey charged], and in line with domestic b+w comics pricing as well. It's also around the same price as many paperbacks.
Manga might be cheaper in Japan, but Japan's a very small country, so it costs less to distribute books across it, and it also has far higher levels of manga sales- a book that sells 100000 copies in Japan is going to cost less to print per book than a book that sells 500 copies in the US, Canada, Great Britain,and Australia. |
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Ingraman
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You're much more optimistic than I am that the books will stay on a bimonthly release schedule. I'm expecting books to fall back to the quarterly (or worse) release pattern with the third book in each series that Kodansha releases. ^^; I'd _prefer_ bimonthly, but I'm not expecting it to stick around long... We'll find out eventually. |
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Redd the Sock
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Well, that's most of my Del rey titles so that's a load off my mind. Still, I need info on Moyashimon and School Rumble.
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Dark Absol
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I'm interested in Bloody Monday and Cage of Eden, considering I haven't read 'em.
Good for Negima! - Magister Negi Magi, Negima!? Neo, Ninja Girls, Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, and Fairy Tail to continue their release in U.S. (These titles I read) Will they going to have Kodansha Comics imprint on the side-cover of the manga instead of Del Rey? (I'm confused) Disappointed that Pumpkin Scissors, Yozakura Quartet, Code:Breaker, and Princess Resurrection aren't mentioned. 
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Sheleigha
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Huh... I remember them saying this, when they first announced they'd take over publication. Then I heard more recent, that they WOULD be taking over xxxHOLiC, since I remember a topic about people saying "oh I hope the covers will still match!" etc, and now once again, they say Del Ray would be doing it? I thought there was a huge thing about Del Ray folding up and leaving it ALL to Kodansha... Confused... Oh, and I'm still keeping my ears open for a Sailor Moon announcement 
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Sunday Silence
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Wow, May until they release Del Rey's crop of manga. Couldn't have planned it abit sooner?
After finding out that Kondasha re-edited out the "Lesbian Sex Boat Scene" in Ghost in the Shell manga, I wasn't impressed that Kondasha can handle it's **** properly. This just adds icing to the cake. We'll see. Hopefully they don't do something extraordinarily stupid. |
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Monster in a box
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Awesome, Shugo Chara gets finished after all.
...but uh, what are the odds that any of the previous volumes will see reprints? I had every opportunity to buy vl.8, not thinking it'd vanish into thin air, but alas, I can not find it anywhere. |
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Rukiia
 Posts: 1897 Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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Yes! More Phoenix Wright manga! That is most excellent news!
Will be getting them most definitely. |
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Tamaria
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Del Rey isn't folding, it's basically doing a big clean-up and Kodansha, who are using Random House's distribution channels, will take care of the manga titles from now on. Del Rey will continue to publish fantasy and science fiction novels. It's odd xxxHolic is still under the Del Rey imprint, but it's not impossible. |
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Covnam
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Del Rey did good work, while I'm happy to see so many titles continuing (and waiting to hear about some others) I'm definitely going to have to take a wait and see approach till I know how Kodansha handles these titles.
A title like Negima for example had a lot of extra material after the story, is Kodansha going to continue this? No way to know for sure yet. I can't say that I'd stop buying a series that I want to keep reading, but if the quality drops enough, I'll be closing my wallet. |
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Sakurazuka_Reika
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Yay for Bloody Monday! I had lost all hope of it ever being published in English. This news made my day ^^
Although you know what would make me even happier? If you announced the continuation of Alive: The Final Evolution. Please, please, please, don't abandon this series. The first eight volumes are waiting on my shelf and they are feeling very lonely... |
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TsukasaElkKite
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I WANT SAILOR MOON! I WANT SAILOR MOON! AND LIFE!
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