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einhorn303
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:47 pm
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I just read the 2nd volume of Qwaser of Stigmata today, and it's becoming one of my favorite series. Now that I'm actually invested with a title Tokyopop's publishing, this worries me. I kind of feel like I should buy multiple copies, or just buy other Tokyopop titles I've been on the fence about. I'd hate for them to have to cut titles again and lose Qwaser that way.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:29 pm
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| einhorn303 wrote: | | I just read the 2nd volume of Qwaser of Stigmata today, and it's becoming one of my favorite series. Now that I'm actually invested with a title Tokyopop's publishing, this worries me. I kind of feel like I should buy multiple copies, or just buy other Tokyopop titles I've been on the fence about. I'd hate for them to have to cut titles again and lose Qwaser that way. |
Just don't buy it at Borders. Borders isn't sending payments back to TokyoPop right now. 
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The Xenos
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:50 am
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| The Xenos wrote: | | The only recent hit for TokyoPop was Hetalia. I even thought about checking it out. Then I saw the poor image quality on some pages. Such a popular title shouldn't have freaking large pixels on some of the comic strips. |
I just want to point out that Hetalia was originally a webcomic, and image-resolution for viewing on a computer is waaaay smaller than print-resolution. I don't think the artist was aware the series would explode as it did, when he started out drawing, so he probably created the early comics at the size they were meant to be viewed online. I'm pretty sure I've heard from an editor on the series that those low-quality pages were no better in the Japanese edition, and they just had to work with what was available. (maybe you confirm this with your friend who has the Japanese editions?) Anyway, there were only a few really bad examples in the first volume, and by v2 it looks like the art was all created at a high enough resolution to look good in print. |
I actually asked her if ti was because it was a web comic. Though she said she thought the original Japanese didn't have any pixelation. Unless she meant as a while and never noticed a few pages. It could also be an issue of getting proper masters from Japan, which I know is a big issue when dubbing anime for us release.
| einhorn303 wrote: | | I just read the 2nd volume of Qwaser of Stigmata today, and it's becoming one of my favorite series. Now that I'm actually invested with a title Tokyopop's publishing, this worries me. I kind of feel like I should buy multiple copies, or just buy other Tokyopop titles I've been on the fence about. I'd hate for them to have to cut titles again and lose Qwaser that way. |
Huh. I rather missed that came out. I'm rather reading it as a guilty pleasure. It's take on both science and religion is so awful and laughable, I'm actually enjoying it. It's beyond Troma quality by way of shonen manga tropes and over the top fanservice.
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einhorn303
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:46 pm
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| enurtsol wrote: |
| einhorn303 wrote: | | I just read the 2nd volume of Qwaser of Stigmata today, and it's becoming one of my favorite series. Now that I'm actually invested with a title Tokyopop's publishing, this worries me. I kind of feel like I should buy multiple copies, or just buy other Tokyopop titles I've been on the fence about. I'd hate for them to have to cut titles again and lose Qwaser that way. |
Just don't buy it at Borders. Borders isn't sending payments back to TokyoPop right now. |
Yeah, I've been buying manga online-only for years. Which could be good in that Qwaser is likely the sort of manga that has a higher proportion of online sales to B&M sales, and thus would be hurt less by this Borders fiasco.
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