Forum - View topicNEWS: Tokyopop Confirms 38 Upcoming Manga, Manhwa, Novels
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FeralKat
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Your and my Secret!! SWEEEEET!!! *heartattack* Now if someone could pick up Sweet n' Sensitive, my life could be complete!
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slickwataris
Posts: 1334 Location: Carol Stream, Illinois |
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They recently released the last volume of Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy. I'm assuming they're referring to that. Never heard of Starcraft. |
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Merciful Evans
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Do you mean the Shin Megami Tensei title? I'm really interested in finding out what that's about; I'm a big fan of the games. |
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Darrenm
Posts: 37 Location: Canada, Alberta |
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I was leaning towards the idea that "Manga Sutra" is a new line/imprint. |
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fighterholic
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Funny, it's made by Blizzard Entertainment. |
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Bluestreak2
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I AM!!!!!!! But the .hack/GU+ is almost enough to make me feel like not everything is going wrong. But we need more of the .hack Novels!!! |
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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It's nice to know that GU+ is coming out but I still rather have some of the other books like Zero or .hack//analysis seeing as how Analysis is the official book that separates what is and what isn't cannon. Actually seeing as how Zero appears to be discontinued, I'd rather have GnU, Cell or Alcor now when I think about it. |
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Emerje
Posts: 7338 Location: Maine |
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Those last three seem to be the .hack titles in the most demand. It is nice to see that TP hasn't abandoned .hack, I just hope they're nice enough to pair G.U.+ with 4Koma. I also hope they're nice enough to get proper translations from Bandai Namco, they've been making way too many spelling errors, especially in the AI Buster books.
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AstroNerdBoy
Posts: 413 Location: Denver, CO |
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Because its Stu Levy's baby.
I read the first few volumes after reading an argument on whether it was hentai or not. It's hentai, but the mangaka got clever and threw in some sex-ed material and comedy as well in an attempt to say, "it really isn't hentai." Some of the sex-ed material are drawings used so the mangaka to get around Japanese censorship laws (can't show reproductive organs). Clever, but it doesn't change the fact that this is a hentai title, nor does having comedy nor a story (no matter how interesting). I stopped reading because I don't like hentai and it was clear after a few chapters that this was hentai (I think I read the first eight volumes just to be fair though).
Interestingly enough, "futari" means "couple" or "two people" so the title could be translated as "couple perversion" (that blurb about masturbation was the first time I'd heard this had anything to do with the naming of the title). "Ecchi" is the Japanese way of saying "H." However, in manga, the Japanese will actually use the letter "H" at times ("H" being short for "hentai") and at others, will actually spell it out as "ecchi." So why rename it? I suspect a "Battle Vixen" type job on "Futari Ecchi" where TP took the ecchi fight manga "Ikki Tousen" and basically re-wrote it (its heavily domesticated). Also, I think TP is trying to disguise it by renaming it. Changing "Ecchi" to "H" in the title removes a word that some fans would recognize as indicating perversion (while claiming they aren't really renaming it because of the H-ecchi explanation above) and "Manga Sultra" to again attempt to disguise the fact that this is hentai (Oh no, it can't be hentai because it has educational items in here, though a lot is old and out of date today).
*LOL* That's like saying, "Just because I'm having sex with lots of women doesn't actually mean I'm cheating on my wife." As I said earlier, the mangaka was clever in getting this hentai title disguised. It is a hentai title, its just that the mangaka rides the border fence very hard at times. I've no doubt a lot of seinen (and likely shounen too, not to mention regular adult males) got "fappage" from this manga. |
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Kakalini
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Oh, it's nice to know that there is more Princess Ai stuff. I do like it, so I've been watching for any news relating to it.
But I'm happier to hear about Mamotte Shugogetten. I have the first two manga in Japanese, and I want to see how what little I could figure out compare with the official Tokyopop translation. |
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Brand
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It's an older title and as far as I know isn't based on any of the games. I would have much rather have seen the Persona manga licensed, which is a pretty faithful adaption of the game which includes parts taken out of the U.S, Version of the game. It's still interesting though, I didn't think any of the SMT related manga would ever be brought over. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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.hack//G.U+ licensed!
*brain explodes* |
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TsukasaElkKite
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YES. GOD, yes. I hope the translations aren't total crap. *glares at A.I Buster* |
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Dop.L
Posts: 714 Location: London |
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ARIA! Woo-hoo! I'm definitely going to be buying that.
Now if only someone would license the anime. |
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britannicamoore
Posts: 2618 Location: Out. |
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A crazy combo of acid and Cocaine fly off the pages. You get the full effect of being in not only FLCL but you're own anime show as well.
Yeah...I will admit I do have a friend who likes the books. i think she enjoys it more for the art moreso than the story. I haven't really looked at it moreso than the frist book but the art didn't really hit me. |
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