Rosario Vampire, Mirai Nikki, and a few others has this. I don't get it. I don't mean when it comes to scanlating (ie, working on W Juliet 2 even before all of W Juliet 1 is done scanlated), but when both series are ongoing natively. Wouldn't the sequel be a book of spoilers for the prequel? If they're closely tied, your not going to make much sense if you've not come across it in the original series, so why?.

For example, watching the 2nd Jason Bourne film at the same time as the first.

I'm pretty confused about that myself. The sequel of Rosario x Vampire left me pretty confused since it does pick up where the original is supposed to have ended. Is the original really still going on in Japan or has it just not been compiled into tankoubons yet?

It's still ongoing at volume 10. / http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1580

well...a page in the second book did say the first was just 10 volumes

I think it's more a matter of our info outside of Japan is incorrect or incomplete. Like how others have said, you really can't have a sequel come out before the prequel is done unless if it's a side story, a new set of characters, or something that's somewhat unrelated to the main story in the prequel, at least until the prequel is finished.

Well, from the japanese wiki, it seems like season 2 is being released on Jump SQ since monthly shonen jump ended season 1.

The first 10 volumes has ended season 1, and it was finished around july 2007 for all 38 chapters.

This is what I could get off of the japanese wiki with my crappy japanese, if anyone actually knows japanese, take a look here please.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B6%E3%83% AA%E3%82%AA%E3%81%A8%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%8 3%91%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2

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I don't know about Rosario Vampire or Mirai Nikki, but it's usually because the prequel is already licensed and the sequel is not. W Juliet has already been licensed (and already completely translated) by viz. W Juliet II is not, so it remains free to scanlate. It's the same with Yurara no Tsuki and Rasetsu no Hana. Yurara is licensed, thus off-limits to most scanlation groups, but its sequel, Rasetsu no Hana, is still unlicensed, so a group is taking over it.

Makes sense.

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Wild Star, i know that to be the case with W Juliet, and other licensed original series and unlicensed sequels, but my question was more about the reasoning behind having a sequel (be it in Japan, Korea, China) when the original series is still as far as the manga database here shows, as ongoing there.

willdabeast: seems you're right about Mirai Nikki's sequel, it's more of a side story. It was a proper sequel last time i checked, but it's probably gotten updated since I last checked.

Ah so you're asking why sequel when the manga is still ongoing? ... yeah isn't sequel suppose to be only for completed works? >____> wiki: A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same "universe", but at a later time.

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Let me tell you the formula.
1. Have the orginal sold in stores.
2. Have the sequels/prequels sold at the same time.
3. The mangaphile most likely buys them both at the same time.
4. Income = 2 or 3 or 90948024* X Tempo
= 2 or 3 or 90948024* X Cash = Profit X 2 = Double profit!
*Mass release.
5. Owning own options or warrants etc. = Ohlawdwhaddaprofit.

Those kinds of sequels are usually focused on something else as to avoid spoilering. For example, the "sequel" of Mirai Nikki, Mosaic, is not actually a sequel. It's more of a prequel describing how the chosen ones got into the game. Some mangas have alternate setting sequels, like aus. Some series are heavily crossedover, like xxxHolic and Tsubasa.

I think that the prequel was something way in the past that doesn't affect the sequel very much. They perhaps relate, but are almost two completely different stories.