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NEWS: January Shonen Jump Biggest Ever

Dammit, why can't they just start printing it bi-monthly? 2-3 chapters a month is unbearable.

I think you mean "bi-weekly" and you get roughly the same amount of content the Japanese get on a month-to-month basis.

Yashouzoid wrote:

Dammit, why can't they just start printing it bi-monthly? 2-3 chapters a month is unbearable.

Zac wrote:

I think you mean "bi-weekly" and you get roughly the same amount of content the Japanese get on a month-to-month basis.

Actually, what Yashouzoid wrote is correct.

One of the beautiful stupidities of the English Language is that "every two" and "twice every" are both termed "bi".

Bi-monthly means both "Twice a month" and "every two months."

The magazine trade, having a bit of a brain*, settled at some point on the fact that "Bi Monthly" would only be every two months. But that limited, more defined usage, is limited only to the magazine industry.

*Having more of a brain they would have settled on a term that wouldn't be confusing to outsiders... given that the reaers/buyers are outsiders.

-t

Bimonthly and biweekly mean “once every two months” and “once every two weeks.” For “twice a month” and “twice a week,” the words semimonthly and semiweekly should be used. Since there is a great deal of confusion over the distinction, a writer is well advised to substitute expressions like every two months or twice a month where possible. However, each noun form has only one sense in the publishing world. Thus, a bimonthly is published every two months, and a biweekly every two weeks.

How much is SJ in America? Because it's relatively cheap in japan, people can afford to buy it every week. I'm imagining that not all americans will be able to afford buying it EVERY week unless they dropped the price, which presents a host of annoying difficulties and also makes it easier for everyone to miss out on an issue.
(I personally still think bringing such a magazine to the english speaking world was a bad idea in the first place due to this. For one thing, they could just release the graphic novels once every two months and everyone could get their fix alot quicker....)

championferret wrote:

How much is SJ in America? Because it's relatively cheap in japan, people can afford to buy it every week. I'm imagining that not all americans will be able to afford buying it EVERY week unless they dropped the price, which presents a host of annoying difficulties and also makes it easier for everyone to miss out on an issue.

The magazine retails at $4.99.

but I could see parents being willing to drop $10 a month to give their kids something to read

Oh, $4.99's not bad. I thought it was like, $10 for some reason. Probably cos it's like around $15 in Australia.
About Jump Superstars is a shame. I don't think VIZ will ever license EVERY SJ manga. For example, there is a famous one in japan they once said would never be licensed (the one whose name I can't read due to my sub-par kanji abilities...it has 138+ volumes though and the name starts with 'this is...' or something) because it is so laden with japanese jokes it just wouldnt make any sense to anyone non-japanese. I don't know if they would release the game in english if it contains characters people wont know?
Then there's the whole 'licensors nightmare' scenario.

Emerje wrote:

but I could see parents being willing to drop $10 a month to give their kids something to read

And then find out that it's not suitable for kids, right?

Although 'Ichigo 100%' is most certainly not, yet comes from the same magazine as Naruto.
If VIZ put that in, the soccer mums will have a field day.

Although soccer mums have a field day over anything, which I think was what they were actually referring to.