Forum - View topicManga Where The English Versions Are Only In Left To Right Thread
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RupanSansei
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I thought this would make a nice thread for discussing the manga that are (as of posting) stuck this way. Please note I usually only check the forum once a week as there isn't much i personally find worth talking about so i might not edit as often as people would like but I can think of a few:
Heavy Metal Warrior Xenon by VIZ 4 volumes & long out of print Mai The Psychic Girl by VIZ & released as 4 volumes by Titan Press that has the nudity censored (to what extent I don't know as I never owned this edition & simply heard from other fans back in the day) or VIZ directly in 3 omnibus called Perfect Collection (that keeps the nudity from what I've heard) while the Japanese version is 6 volumes however both English versions are long out of print Whats Michael? by Studio Proteus as 11 volumes (despite being 9 volumes in Japanese) & was long out of print but as of 2020 Dark Horse re-issued it in 2 omnibus called Fat Cat Collections |
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Alan45
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There are quite a few titles that fit the criteria. Almost all of the manga localized in the US prior to the early 2000s was published in comic book format and read left to right. Usually referred to a flipped. The majority of these titles were never reissued in right to left format. During this period most of the US publishers made no attempt to match their trade paperback reissues to the same length as in Japan. Usually the US trade paperbacks were shorter than the corresponding Japanese version.
Concerning Mai the Psychic Girl (apparently the Japanese title was just Mai); this was one of the three titles which Viz Manga first issued (the others were Legend of Kamui and Area 88). They were co-published with Eclipse International and issued bi-weekly in comic book format. Mai the Psychic Girl was 28 issues between May 1987 and July 1988. The comic book version was not censored. In the climatic battle at the end of the series, Mai's uniform top sustains damage in the fight with other psychic children and she is topless for most of the last three chapters. Viz reportedly collected the series into four volumes in 1990 and again in three volumes on 1995/1996. Silent Mobius Kia Asamiya. Viz initially issued this in comic book format with 21 issues between June 1991 and November 1993. The first 11 issues were colorized. This was collected in four trade paperback volumes. At that point they dropped the title until May 1999 when they reissued the earlier content in three trade paperbacks and continued issuing it in comic book format. This continued until February 2003 when they again dropped the title in mid story arc. They had been collecting the title in trade paperback form and ended up completing the series with half of volume 11 (July 2003) and volume 12 (December 2003) going beyond the last comic book. In 2009 Udon reported they had the rights to the title. They stated they were doing a new translation and new scan of the art work and would issue it in right to left format. They reported they would issue three additional volumes not previously published in the US, Mobius Klein and two volumes of Silent Mobius Tales. They issued the first four volumes covering the initial story arc and quit. Blade of the Immortal Hiroaki Samura; Dark Horse Comics began issuing this title in comic book form in June 1996 and collected into trade paperbacks beginning in March 1997. As best I can tell this was the last title to drop the comic book format continuing until November 2007 with 131 issues. This was collected in 19 volumes. It continued in trade paperback format until they completed the series with 31 volumes in April 2015. The subsequent omnibus and Deluxe reprint editions continued in left to right format. |
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mdo7
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I like to add Witchblade manga, and this one is unique by the way because when Top Cow and Bandai Entertainment released this manga in the US. There were 2 different edition release for the US:
And this is from 2006 by the way even when most manga was already released unflipped but then again there were still manga that was still being released flipped in this same time period. |
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10364 Location: Virginia |
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A few more. As far as I can tell these titles were not printed in the US in Right to Left reading format.
Outlanders Johji Manabe Dark Horse Published in 33 regular comic book issues between December 1988 and September 1991. Three additional issues 0, Special and Epilog were issued through 3/94. Collected in 8 trade paperback volumes. Caravan Kidd Johji Manabe Dark Horse. Published in 29 comics with a Holiday Special and Valentines Day Special between July 1992 and December 1994 Collected in 3 volumes. Chrono War Kazuimasa Takayama Dark Horse. Published in 9 comic book issues with no trade. Shadow Lady Masakuza Katsora Dark Horse. Published as 24 comics and a special between October 1998 and October 2000. Collected in 3 trades. Grey Yushihisa Tagami Viz. Published in 9 comic books between October 1988 and June 1989. Collected in two trades. Sanctuary Sho Fumimura Ryoichi Ikegami Viz. Published in 46 comic books between September 1992 and March 1997. Collected in 9 trades. |
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Jisu
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Corrector Yui was a Tokyopop title released when they had started publishing in graphic novel format but before all of their titles were printed right to left. It was printed left to right. Notably, one two-page spread late in the series got messed up by this and the art was cut in half.
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