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Saito?
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Ditto on all the Dark Horse titles previously mentioned, but especially sore about MPD Psycho, Eden, Bride of the Water God, and Ghost Talkers. I'm glad Elfen Lied is getting released this year, but crossing my fingers!
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whiskeyii
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I’ve heard rumors that a complete, pro bono translation of Twelve Kingdoms by a pro translator fan is still floating around in cyberspace somewhere, but I’ve never bothered to try to track it down. |
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Sandstar
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I would really love for someone to finish Reiko the zombie shop, and MPD psycho.
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Triltaison
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Oh! Thought of another one that left an annoying void for me. Del Rey never published the twelfth and final volume of Ghost Hunt and Kodansha never finished it out. It's the ones that are almost complete that are the most frustrating to me, but at least the source novels stalled out on being completed for that one.
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Sahmbahdeh
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Culdcept. It's the first manga I ever read and Tokyopop lost the license at volume 5, of 6 total. And to my knowledge, no one's picked it up since. As there's only one volume left, and I've never heard anyone else mention it ever, the chances of it being finished in English are basically non-existent. The fact that it was my first ever has left a huge hole in the history of my fandom, so this pisses me off to this day.
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Coup d'État
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Oh, right, I forgot about MD Psycho. Another Dark Horse title I just never picked up when I started collecting American manga, as I consider it canceled.
At least Naru Taru and Eden were also available in my home country. DH picked up allll the good stuff in the past, and then dropped them. Shame. |
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Northlander
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Aria seems to have gotten a third chance here, and I should be glad, but....
Even though I had the three first volumes of ADV's release, I rebought them from Tokyopop because I was simply that happy someone picked it up. Now that they're releasing omnibus releases of the manga -- yet again from scratch -- I'm a bit more wary. If they made a solemn pledge to release everything regardless, I would maybe have bought the whole thing again just to get those last volumes, but I do not completely trust them on this. |
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marshmallowpie
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This is what I was going to say... Viz also did this with Kyo Kara Maoh, only releasing digital Versova of the seven volumes that Tokyopop already released. It kinda sucks to know that they have the rights and will never do anything more with them than that. At least I can still dream that maybe someday the anime will be rescued, with R and season 3 included.
This too. |
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Lord Geo
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I certainly remember Culdcept, because it was the first manga I ever bought! That's a bit of a special case, because originally TokyoPop did finish the manga, as it ended at four volumes... But then it got revived a couple of years later in Japan & got a fifth volume, so TokyoPop decided to follow through with it. Then the sixth volume (which, sadly, only set up what seemed to be the final story arc, so the story remains unfinished in Japan) never got released by TP, so the company kind of both finished & never-finished that manga. I have since bought Volume 6 for the completion of my set, but it is annoying. |
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crazieanimefan1
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I had Togainu no Chi from TokyoPop, yet they never finished it. I wish they would since they never showed what ending they went for. And Hitman Reborn! needs it again.
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Punpun's ghost
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Well, it's already been mentioned - and by a fellow trans person, whoo hoo! - but Wandering Son has been the biggest bugbear for me. I mean, leaving our main protagonist at THAT particular moment as well... Geh!! If Fantagraphics wanted to mess it up, then I don't think they could have made a better job of it. To be honest, I can't see Viz or Yen etc making the same mistakes, but there you go. I thought Viz's approach with Sweet Blue Flowers was a good one, doing four basic omnibus volumes; my hope is they might get hold of the licence and find a way of finishing Wandering Son. I actually asked them and they said they'd look into it... Not holding my breath, but it was at least nice to be able to have a conversation about it - Fantagraphics's approach was simply to ignore any questions about the entire matter, and it was down to their awesome translator to actually tell people what was going on. Which was pretty cold of FG I thought.
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invalidname
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Yeah, this bums me out, because I passed on the series due to the high price of its unnecessary hardbound editions, figuring there'd eventually be regular paperback (as with Vertical's release of Buddha) or an ebook, but I guess Fantagraphics decided "well, people don't want to pay a premium for Wandering Son, so obviously no one will buy it at any price." What a fiasco. |
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Karl875180
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Back in 2004, German publisher Panini planned to drop 20th Century Boys after volume 8. Unlike other markets, the German fan base was apparently not all that numerous but very dedicated and vocal, so Panini offered to continue based on a subscription model and in the end released the complete series.
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Tenebrae
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Still waiting for rest of Zetsubou-sensei, but not putting my hopes up. Generally in these cases I turn to you-know-what to finish reading a series, but it would be nice to own them in pulped dead tree format as well. Or even as digital versions (though it must be emphasized that I do not pay-to-rent digital media, I will only pay-to-own).
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Taskforce
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I would love to see someone pick up and finish Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase.
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