I don't know man, they published Sensei No Bulge (Barrage)... Sure it was short but I think people are more interested in Beelzebub.
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I don't know man, they published Sensei No Bulge (Barrage)... Sure it was short but I think people are more interested in Beelzebub.
gundamkyoukai
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Really ?
I don't read AssClass but that joke don't seem like such a big deal .
No wonder VIZ sucks .
While this is probably a valid reason early on, I'd guess right now the bigger issue is the high volumes count. With 20 volumes and counting, Viz probably isn't looking forward to stuffing bookshelves with Beelzebub volumes. Beside, this is not a series that can do numbers like Magi so that's even less reason for them to go after it.
Dedication Through Light
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Being over 200 chapters behind seems like an odd choice to pick up, is it even that popular.
brotkasten
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Especially when you could replace the word with something less offensive. And the bitch-sensei jokes are one of the few funny things about the manga.
Dedication Through Light
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Melancholy Melancholic Melancholinist 1
Probably the series in the genre with the oldest protagonist I encountered, Chief Ogata, whose old enough to even have a daughter. Though somehow it is kind of a compelling premise with the awesome Dentist, if only. Funny and good start though so short. I wonder how things will go.
Probably the series in the genre with the oldest protagonist I encountered, Chief Ogata, whose old enough to even have a daughter. Though somehow it is kind of a compelling premise with the awesome Dentist, if only. Funny and good start though so short. I wonder how things will go.
Tribes of Trusty
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Whereas in France, nowadays, you see some of the strangest manga on the store shelves...
brotkasten
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It's kinda understandable considering how small the US manga market is, but when you look at some of the marvel/dc stuff, ehh ...
Something France can be proud of.
Infinite Justice
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The sales are a steaming pile of shit so I could see them not placing much effort or just getting stuff that's "safe" and without much issues to deal with.
dakkumauji
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I think it is mostly that bookstores (whatever ones still exists) aren't too open about stuffing their shelves with long series anymore. And it's a gamble with publishers to release a bunch of volumes if they won't sell.
That's pretty much why you see omnibus volumes being much more popular as a form of release since it's technically 'one' volume and the buyers like it for being cheaper than buying the volumes individually.
True :lol But there's a lot of crap though so...
It's horrific. The only things that sell are Bleach, Death Note and Sailor Moon. and even then it's at Wii U levels.
Market for anime and manga?
I would geuss
You see the bottom row will be advertised for to kids and teens for decades. The top row... eh...
Dedication Through Light
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Is that really the only reason?, did the writers other work before Assassination Classroom even come to the US?
brotkasten
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Is Sailor Moon a reprint or why is it still in the charts? Also, no Dragon Ball?
Yep, I think even Vertical and Yen Press talked about that. Basically all long running series aren't very financially viable to them due to shelve space and licensing fees so they either go omnibus route or just pick up short manga.
Still can't believe Death Note still sells in 2012/2013.
gundamkyoukai
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I think Shojo sells more than Shonen last time i look at a list .
Infinite Justice
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Sailor Moon is a recent reprint
Dedication Through Light
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Retranslation, enhanced volumes, touched up art, color pages, etc.
Infinite Justice
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check the total post count.
brotkasten
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Stupidity, mostly.
I didn't know it was that popular to begin with. It's a pretty old series.
And yet they don't publish Punpun in the USA!
A popular old series, I understand why people buy the new editions. Same thing happens in France where a new edition is published.
Dedication Through Light
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I dont know what is even financially viable to Vertical, arent they, yet again, this year in the Red, and even their big fancy Gundam release, unfortunately didnt do as large as people expected. I wonder if they'll be gone in x years unless they can keep selling sudoku books and etc.
dakkumauji
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On total volumes sold, yeah, it's probably terrible.
But on what series are actually selling, it's not so bad.
There's a good variety on the weekly's best seller list even if it probably mostly front-loaded and half the stuff falls off after the week they are released.
gundamkyoukai
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Winder if they going to show the new Sailor Moon anime over here when it starts .
Tribes of Trusty
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Like the equivalent exchange, I felt like we lost something precious in the process
lol
Worst are the Franga (French manga), they're for the most part terribad. A lot of them were published at Soleil for a time when manga became trendy again
Smut.
Switch Girl 6
What a genre savvy protagonist ? In my shoujo ?
Doesn't seem that hard to appear on the best-seller list in the US :lol
brotkasten
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It makes me question the age of the manga demographic in the US. I can see younger people buying stuff like Bleach or Death Note, but Sailor Moon doesn't really fit in there.
If you came to a convention across the channel and saw how many people "cosplay" by wearing a white shirt and jeans, you wouldn't be so surprised.
dakkumauji
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That would explain why they basically can't license anything long or popular.
brotkasten
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Lets hope they all stopped right before it got bad.
gundamkyoukai
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I remember Bleach getting on the Top ten list with 512 vols sold lol .
Sales in the USA really bad 1 OP vol in Japan most likely sells more than all series for a full year in the USA.
Vertical twitter account talked about this one time. He basically said the top shounen titles like Naruto or Death note sell much better than everything else and nothing really comes close. But if you look at average sales then shoujo stuff tend to do better on average. And he also mentioned how bookstores are trying to get the YA crowd to pick up shoujo manga.
It's a shame the Viz Signature lineup is dead so we are getting very few good seinen manga from them. I have no idea how Sunny is getting published. I'd imagine there is a big Taiyo Matsumoto fanboy working there who has nude pictures of Viz's CEO and can blackmail him to license more Matsumoto manga.
There is always doom and gloom talk from their PR guy lol I think the next year they are changing their strategy to only picking up 1-2 volumes manga and seeing how that will fare for them.
Tribes of Trusty
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Japan Expo isn't that different from USA's conventions though...
I know! But I have to say I've never seen people cosplaying L or Light.
Dedication Through Light
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If the most popular comic book/graphic novel in america could sell 353K copies (walking dead), then how much is one expecting a manga volume to sell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSt0jd0zL7g
"Nappa, he's just wearing a white sweatshirt"
"Yeah, like I said. L."
"Are you telling me that counts as a cosplay?"
"Yep!"
"Fucking copout"
dakkumauji
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Still waiting for tickets to go on sale for Japan Expo USA already.
brotkasten
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That's because you can't tell the difference between them and normal people there.
e: Seriously, one of the first results, after searching for "Death Note L cosplay".
Dedication Through Light
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Perhaps Knights of Sidonia once its anime comes can somehow help stimulate their sales like Flowers of Evil might have done....
Though only thing in Vertical's catalog that has appealed to me was Gundam and Heroman...
brotkasten
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The US manga market is so fucked so I am trying to pick up other languages to read series. Yes, I love print that much.
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