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Oh My Goddess manga question(s)

I've only seen the anime as well, so in terms of comparison, I can't help you there.

Nor can I really help you in terms of recommending the OVA series, though I have heard good things about it from some older fans. I'd wait for an actual opinion, but it can't hurt to at least check it out.

To answer your last question, yes, they are re-releasing the older volumes in the proper right-to-left format, while releasing new volumes in the proper format as well. This started while the volumes were in their low-20s here in North America. They're continuing to release these later volumes for those who've already read it when it was flopped.

As a fan of somewhat moderate knowledge of the AMG/OMG franchise (seen both seasons, most of the OVA and have a few volumes of manga) i think you will like what you find in the manga if you liked the anime.

Content -vise, they have a few differences. The anime mixes the order in which some stories occur (some stuff in season 1 happen later in the manga and vice versa) and have the character designs from the 30+ volumes. The OVA uses the character designs from the 80's ( vol 4-??, more or less) and have a completely original story-line .

The manga, especially at the beginning, have a few traits of it's own. The fan-service is up'd a wee bit and Belldandy is a bit more energetic and a little more prone to the same spell-casting friendly behaviours of Urd, for example.

Phew, i'm sure i answred a bit more than you asked for but i hope it helps none the less

As you may have noted it is not terribly difficult to find the re-release versions, but I sure fire way of knowing is that it is going to have kanji on the front cover, wont have an actual title (just a volume number), and will obviously have a later release. The re-releases also have a few sections each volume done in color, which is pretty cool, otherwise they are basically identical.

Anyway, 1-10 have been re-released in original format, 11-20 are still only available left turn format, and 21-30 something are original format. And yes it is long, no I don't have any explicit plans to finish it, just too long and I was starting to get a little bored around volume 9. That isnt to say it is bad though, I quite enjoyed it to that point and I will probably finish off volume 9 tomorrow now that I am thinking about it again.

Here is an example using volume 1.
(New)---http://www.amazon.com/Oh-My-Goddess-Kosuke-Fujishima/dp/1593073879/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233555227&sr=8-1

(old)---http://www.amazon.com/Oh-My-Goddess-Wrong-Number/dp/1569716692/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233555227&sr=8-2


Anyway, I have seen the series up to episode 13 or so and read the manga up to volume 9. They are both pretty similar, but the manga tends to cover things in a bit more detail. As an example the anime devotes 1/2 an episode or so to the schools rally, whereas the manga devotes about a full chapter I think. In any event the manga actually discusses a couple aspects of rally racing, has a much more amusing scene for when Belldandy uses up her power but overall has basically the same conclusion. I think this has to do with the fact that it sticks a bit more closely to the original premise of a college student who is into the whole motor/motorsports/engineering sort of thing who just happens to have a goddess "following" him around.

It is all nice light reading, much like the anime is nice light viewing, and is worth checking out if you are fan of the series. And of course manga is fairly inexpensive, so you can pick up the first volume and if you don't like it it isnt like you are out 30 dollars or something, thats how I started following it.

Anyway, I have seen the series up to episode 13 or so and read the manga up to volume 9. They are both pretty similar, but the manga tends to cover things in a bit more detail. As an example the anime devotes 1/2 an episode or so to the schools rally, whereas the manga devotes about a full chapter I think.

Really thanks a lot. (The example links you sent were really helpful.)

Um wait so the ORIGINAL 1 - 20 were flopped. They are now re-releasing 1 - 20 (original format). HOWEVER 21+ are all just being released in ORIGINAL (no flopped) format? Is that correct?

It is alright, I was confused at first as well.

So I'll go through the whole thing.

-When Oh My Goddess was first released, volumes 1-20 were put out in the standard left to right direction like you read a regular old original book.

-After volume 20 Dark Horse (publisher) switched over to the Japanese right to left format. So basically, any volume that has a number greater than 20 (but not including!) is going to be like all of the other current manga you find in terms of format.

-At the same time they switched over to doing the new releases (21+) in R to L they started re-releasing volumes 1-20 in R to L to "replace" the Americanized Left to right versions.

-According to the back of the first "new" (re-release) volume they are now alternating releasing the current volumes (in the 30s) and the redone old volumes. So the most recently released one was volume number 31 in R to L format, so now the next volume to go to print is going to be volume 11 in R to L.


Did that all make sense?

In any event this is what you said earlier and it is completely correct.

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Really thanks a lot. (The example links you sent were really helpful.) Um wait so the ORIGINAL 1 - 20 were flopped. They are now re-releasing 1 - 20 (original format). HOWEVER 21+ are all just being released in ORIGINAL (no flopped) format? Is that correct?

As a side note volume 1 (the re-release) has a section in the back of it explaining all this stuff, except it is coming straight from the horses mouth (that expression felt especially apt given the publisher, haha).

Do you have the first or second editions of the manga? (Is it in original format or flopped?)

How long are the chapters?