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NEWS: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Manga Put on Hiatus

On a side note, will you be reviewing volume 13, Key? I'd be interested to read your take on it.

I wonder what this hiatus will mean for Viz's publishing schedule. Will volumes 14 and 15 (are there enough chapters for that?) come out as planned or not?

This really annoys me.

On one had, I do feel that Kishiro is overreacting to minor edits.

On the other hand, asking for those edits just seems really stupid on the editor / publisher's part, particularly if they knew how Kishiro would react (it seems like they did).

Maybe Kishiro will work a bit on Aqua Knight during his hiatus, but I hope he gets back to Gunnm sooner rather than later. And yeah, I'm getting a little tired of ZOTT. Gunnm really shouldn't have gone the shonen tournament route.

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First off, Kishiro is not being a "prima donna".
He was in the middle of finishing the 100th edition of the series - a rather important project for both him and the publisher(s), who have clearly marked it as such by dedicating the cover of the Ultra Jump almost completely to GUNNM - Last Order.
Also, he was in the middle of completion of the said cover.

So, in the middle of all that very deadline-specific work - they come at him to replace THREE DAMN WORDS from his earlier work.
And we are not saying just opening up the file and retyping it - those issues were drawn in the early '90s.
Meaning that he will probably have to drop the "rather more important job" he is working on at the moment, go down to storage, dig up those old boards AND CREATE A NEW COPY (There will most certainly be some old-school manual work to be done there) just so he could change THREE [expletive] WORDS!


Why the change now after those issues have been reprinted dozens of times (US version alone is well into double digits with its reprints)?
Well, because it is now no longer "politically correct" to use those specific words or people with schizophrenia and/or their families MAY find it insulting.
You know... kinda like that retarded issue in the USA recently.


On top of that, this is not the first time they are yanking Kishiro's chain lately.

Following comments were stolen from mogg at Ripper's Anime Forum:

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Just checked the blog over. You kind of get the gist from the machine translation. He's no happy Here's my rough and ready translation. New - Notes with whimsical Yuki Writing my complaints, 'cause I'm pissed off and can't sleep June 10th 2010 5:33 A while ago I criticised Sato Sensei from "BuraYoro" (Means Swingin" an' swayin'), but I take it all back. Sato Sensei, You're right. Major publishing companies are shit. They stab the artists who think they've finally found a kindred spirit in the back, and calmly grind their faces into the [expletive] pavement. I always try to counterattack this, but this time they've tied my hands, and there's nothing i can do about it. Why is that? 'Cause there is no reason why I should be getting treated the way I am. Since the beginning of this year I've tolerated their games, handing the monthly serial in, revamping the old editions, finishing the covers and the manuscripts. If they could, they'd even have me signing autographs and taking pictures of my workspace. I'm making all my deadlines. And been looking forward to the anniversary of the 100th edition in June. And the present from the Editor is this... It's nothing much? Their reasoning is "protecting their business"? Otherwise I'd have thought it was just spite. For this kind of great (terrible?) timing, it feels like it's [expletive] intentional.

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I checked the rest of the blog out ( http://yukitolog.blogspot.com/ ). Apart from being asked to start using mac again instead of PC, as it seems he's been prefers microsoft (He goes off about Steve Jobs coz macs are a nightmare to clear up-I can agree there, can be a nightmare to defrag and clean out), what it seems like is that he got an email from the editor asking what is going on with the story. why is Ping younger looking than Mibadi, whats with the lines on their faces, what the hell does the english mean in the series,..etc... Seems like he might have been asked to rewrite/ justify a load of stuff. It's a bit long, but I can put it up the blog if anyone wants. Gunnm isnt being cancelled or anything

In my opinion, he has every damn right to be upset.
They are treating him as if he is some temp sent to fetch cofee and snacks, instead of a respected artist and author.

I only hope this doesn't mean a cancellation of the series or a too long of a hiatus.
My Last Order collection already has several different VIZ logos as they have been changing their visual identity over the years.
They look very... "mixed" up on the shelve.

Kishiro decided to make dialogue changes and finish the current installment on time, and the first reprint volume and the 100th Last Order installment shipped on June 18 and June 19, respectively.