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Thatguy3331
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wait? we're getting the soul eater art book? KICK. ASS!
also interested to see the K-on collage stuff, I was kind of curious about that.... |
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ZepysGirl
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I'm excited for Are You Alice?! I've been loving the recent Alice in Wonderland mania. I will definitely be checking this out!
Also excited for the Soul Eater artbook. And I don't really care for K-ON or Madoka, but I know plenty of people who will. |
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Juno016
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Not a chance. Anthology comics are rarely ever published in America and there are always a ton of them released in Japan. There's just no market for them here because they aren't canon material (even though they are compiled and published officially). |
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RestLessone
Posts: 1426 Location: New York |
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It's not like it hasn't happened for popular properties, though. Yen Press is going to publish that Kyon and Koizumi anthology in February. I could see people being interested in the Black Butler anthology as well. Granted, that one is only a single volume. |
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Juno016
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Because the Kyon and Koizumi anthology book is endorsed as another "spin-off." It doesn't count as the usual anthology stuff. The only anthology book I know was released in America was the old Digi Charat books. Because those were anthologies of a property that had no official canon and the books themselves were treated as the general canon. I think ADV released them? I own the 4koma anthology, so I at least don't see this one finding its way onto American shores. |
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Ryu Shoji
Posts: 671 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Yen Press, I could kiss you!
Puella Magi is awesome enough as it is, but K-ON! too?l TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY! |
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Sakurazuka_Reika
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Maybe next time |
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yu3lora
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Awesome! Time to buy them all!
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Genet
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Viz released 4 of them, and Broccoli Books released 2. |
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Ingraman
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I think that TokyoPop published 3 PitaTen anthology books ("fanbooks" or something?)... Ah, I should try searching on TRSI. Here's the link to the first book, and it's even in stock. Links for v2 (with going-out-of-stock counter displayed) and v3 are toward the bottom of the page... So, the concept is rare, but not unknown. |
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yotsubafanfan
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Great news! What's next? Is Funimation gonna rescue the Lucky Star anime and Cowboy Bebop and re-release them? That would be awesome! But good for Yen Press, I had a feeling when I read that Bandai was going under that Yen would be the ones that will get
K-ON! They're pretty good when it comes to that type of thing, I mean Yotsuba&! went from never appearing on the New York Times best Seller to being on there for weeks at a time they're that good at translating, I hope to see the same kind of success with K-ON! |
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K.o.R
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Yen have always had the K-On! manga, it was the anime that sort-of changed hands when Bandai went under (in the sense that Sentai picked up the second season, but kept the cast. The first season is still distributed by Bandai and will be until it goes out of print). |
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Juno016
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Interesting, as PitaTen was made by the same designer/mangaka. But still. With today's market, I don't see it happening for a while until there's a visible demand for it. Also, for anyone who doesn't know, "anthology" books in Japan are books that officially compile contracted fancomics and fanart from other major/minor published (and some new) artists. |
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KENZICHI
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I knowwwwwww. I was always interested in seeing about "Are you Alice?" Now it's my chance! Soul Eater artbook I'll think about. I like the anime, but I don't collect the mangas because I truthfully don't like how he draws. But maybe his full colored illustrations will be better than what his actual manga looks like (though I do admit he draws better later on in the series). |
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bglassbrook
Posts: 1243 Location: Gaithersburg, MD |
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Somebody is going to have to rake-in all the money from the BD-release.
I'm starting to get the feeling you don't want people buying the individual volumes. It's one thing to expect folks will hold-off for set/omnibus-pricing, but quite another to encourage waiting by only giving color in the later editions. Those truely interested in speed-releases won't be waiting for print, and I'm not one of them anyway, so just say the word and I'll stop buying singles. |
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