Marching to the Beat
Of course, it's my busiest night of the week, so that's when all the big news comes out: Viz announces the titles to be serialized in the Shojo Beat anthology. Highlights include Nana by Ai Yazawa, creator of Paradise Kiss, and Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend) by Yuu Watase. That faint sound you hear is me plunking down subscription money for this.
Thought Balloons caught this one: Dallas Middaugh, co-founder of Seven Seas and their "world manga" project, leaves the company to join Del Rey full-time. Now why would someone leave a company which is still on its way up and whose first books are due out in just over a week? Maybe because Del Rey is also on the way up, and with a higher profile. But abandoning your baby just like that ...
And what's up with CPM? Laying off employees and cancelling/postponing a slew of titles ... this is rather disconcerting.
On the bookselling front, Borders and Waldenbooks have started selling volumes of untranslated, imported manga. Unfortunately, they'll be costing around $12-$13, which is about twice the price that they normally go for among Japanese bookstores and online sellers. Here's a list of the titles available, while a PR rep from Borders announces that it's a limited nationwide test. Not all stores will have them. For now.
Thought Balloons caught this one: Dallas Middaugh, co-founder of Seven Seas and their "world manga" project, leaves the company to join Del Rey full-time. Now why would someone leave a company which is still on its way up and whose first books are due out in just over a week? Maybe because Del Rey is also on the way up, and with a higher profile. But abandoning your baby just like that ...
And what's up with CPM? Laying off employees and cancelling/postponing a slew of titles ... this is rather disconcerting.
On the bookselling front, Borders and Waldenbooks have started selling volumes of untranslated, imported manga. Unfortunately, they'll be costing around $12-$13, which is about twice the price that they normally go for among Japanese bookstores and online sellers. Here's a list of the titles available, while a PR rep from Borders announces that it's a limited nationwide test. Not all stores will have them. For now.
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I remember going to Powells (in Portland) and finding the Giant Wall of Untranslated Manga. This was several years ago, before the current explosion of translated titles, and I was gobsmacked at the variety available.
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