Forum - View topicNEWS: Yen Press Licenses Yowamushi Pedal, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, 11 More Manga
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cosain
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it feels like Yen has taken a leap of faith and licensed a sports manga I'd be screaming if it was Haikyuu but YowaPeda aint too bad (enjoyed the anime haha) but Gekkan Shoujo im totally stoked for :')
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RAmmsoldat
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Was excited for the barakamon spin off, then I saw digital only and the deal was off. Such a shame.
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crosswithyou
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Ooh, now those Stateside can read Handa kun! It is HI-LARIOUS. The first volume made me laugh more than Barakamon did (and that's saying something).
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invalidname
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Agree with this observation. Last con I was at was Youmacon in November and there was a large number of Yowapeda cosplayers, nearly all of them women. So yeah, licensing this for the female readership just might avoid the usual fate of sports manga in the US. |
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Dessa
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Stuff that was missing from the article RE: Digital titles:
1) These are not "digital only" titles. They're, like Another was, "digital for now." They're through a partnership with Squeenix to distribute digitally, and they're hoping they can secure the rights to physical versions down the line. 2) These, like the other Squeenix titles they've gotten, are not just North American licenses, they're worldwide digital licenses. So once they're available, they're available everywhere. Also, if anyone's curious, the reason why some of the print+digital LN series that they have coming up don't have kindle versions for pre-order is most likely paperwork/contract delays. They're not entirely sure, but they should still come out at the same time as the print versions. |
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Jess-chan
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OMG! Yay for Nozaki-kun!!
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GATSU
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einhorn: American fangirls ain't going to buy this series. You have to tell people who are actually into sports and biking to check it out.
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Calico
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Because women never buy anything, amirite? That must explain why series with a large female fanbase like Black Butler and Kamisama Kiss never ever make the NYT Bestseller's list, and certainly not consistently either. They don't sell anything at all, and companies know from repeated mistakes to never bring over anything with a major female following. Oh, wait. Seriously dude, cut out this "blaming women for the anime crash" shtick. You've already been proven wrong, no one wants to argue with you. P.S. Love how you assume that women can't be into sports. |
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GATSU
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Calico:
Not these women. They just pirate it. 
Well, they did, until they brought back Sailor Moon.
They can, but when they are, they're generally not fangirls. |
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Ali07
 Posts: 3333 Location: Victoria, Australia |
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Well, then I'll be making sure I keep an eye out for Servant x Service news then. 
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Ashen Phoenix
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I can get where you're coming from 100%, but in my experience a lot of Yen's more expensive releases have been omnibuses or otherwise specialty-releases ala the full-color editions of Milkyway Hitchhiking. I buy most of my manga/manhwa thru Rightstuf and their prices don't seem different for Yen's books than most any other manga. |
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Calico
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GATSU:
So now I guess you're claiming that women(who knows what you mean when you say "these") just pirate everything. That doesn't really make any sense, considering that, as I mentioned in my previous post, series with a female fanbase do sell here. And I don't know what you're trying to get at by mentioning Sailor Moon. Are you trying to say that companies never brought over any series that appealed to women until Sailor Moon did so well? Because that's blatantly untrue. And yay, even more elitism! Women can be real sports fans, but they can't possibly be a fangirl because fangirls are stupid or whatever your logic is. And you just contradicted yourself. You claimed that only "real" sports fans would ever buy Yowapeda, but apparently the women who are sports fans won't buy it. Like, it's pretty obvious that you're using this thread to yet again blame women for everything, so please stop soapboxing. |
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Dfens
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Dessa so the article was correct then that such titles are as you put it are digital only releases for now. But that doesn't help me or others and it means squat when it's not in print form from the get go.
I like many others will not and never will support digital paid releases, if you want me to pay for it I better have a physical copy in my hand or make the release so fast and cheap that we forget it's not in print form. Also it doesn't help if say the digital release numbers aren't that good and they say forget about doing it in print form. Unless Yen Press has with every title they released digitally latter on did a actual physical copy then I wouldn't worry so. |
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championferret
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leaving aside the breaking news that scientists have just discovered that america is not the only english-speaking country on earth... ...I have literally never, ever seen a male Yowapeda fan. Ever. I mean I'm sure they exist, but acting like this wont sell with female fans is hilariously off-base. |
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and i also read that they picked up prison school and its gonna be selling for around $20? I could buy two books from Shounen Jump with that smh. 
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