It depends on who's the publisher and the manga-ka, I'm sure someone like ODA Eiichiro probably see next to nothing, but less popular manga-ka's like TATSUMI Yoshihiro and SHIROW Masamune owe a lot of their success to the North-American market.

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Curiously, the first Volume is coming out tomorrow in France.




I really don't understand how this isn't licensed in English. I'm currently reading it, and I may say that this is the Shoujo Dragon Ball. Absolutely epic.

you wanna know something interesting? i had never even heard of tokyo crazy paradise until i bought skip beat. low and behold, it avidly proclaimed her to be the same author. i was like, what the heck, you're gonna advertise some series i've never even heard of? searched it here. want it licensed. got that viz?

Well it's been licensed in several languages but apparently the mangaka is asking a very large ammount of money to license it in English, presumably because she doesn't want it in English but that may not be true

I want so many to get licensed!

Ika Musume
Hyakko
Sket Dance
Magical Taruruuto-Kun
Beelzebub
To Love Ru
Yumekui Merry
Madoka Magika (even though the manga started not too long ago)
Dragon Ball SD

France has a much more established comic/manga market than here in the US. I recall I think one of the people from Kodansha said that the reason they won't license it over here yet is because our market hasn't "matured" enough. I don't think the US manga market is super stable yet. How nice to be getting it :<

actually the less popular ones get FAR less than the established ones because they have less bargaining chips.

i honestly hope that manga stops being licensed in english period. id rather get it from a fan and donate money than buy a english copy. American distributors made to many mistakes over to long a period of time, and still cant fix half of the mistakes.

and not at you but at the person who quoted the black buttler thing. that mangaka went on a rant that made me realy hater her in the same blog, that site is only picking up on the nicer things they said. at the time she wrote it, i believe, the manga or anime were both unliseneced and there was no way for an english speaker to have seen it outside of scanlations or fansubs. nothing made me not like them more than that little pissy rant of theirs, though correct, at the same time wrong.

so have you started donating yet?

how are you going to get mad that she's mad people are stealing from her? sit down
but i'm sure you don't get mad when people take money out of your pockets.


really? Finally!

7 Seeds
Yankee-kun to megane-chan
The Breaker
Sailor Moon - relicense
Junai Tokkou Taichou! - relicense or start releasing w/e is going on, take it away from tp
Life - relicense
Vitamin

Are you trolling?



Have you even read the article?? She talks about japanese readers.

I'd like to see the English publishers put more thought into what they do actually license. As much as I would like to be able to buy Dante Shinkyoku or Vinland Saga in English, I'd rather them stay in the hands of scanlators than end up with an English licensor who ends up not fully publishing it.

I really don't want to see is a repeat of what happened to 07-Ghost, where it gets licensed and a few volumes get released in English [yay!] then the company goes out of business [boo!] or a repeat of XS, where it got licensed then only half the volumes get released in English. These sort of things can be a bit discouraging.

So you rather they just make nothing at all and forced to get a real job?


Who are you buying from? The quality of a lot my english stuff is excellent (the Tatsumi collections, Gogo Monster, Red Snow)

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aren´t To Love Ru and Beelzebub already licensed? i have seen to love ru under the title Love Trouble and i own the first two volumes of Beelzebub. i thought that all the manga released in germany already got licensed in NA

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So how much have you donated?

lol

Licensing status in English is listed on the series page, you know. Anyways, Germany's market isn't really tied to the NA market, so there's no reason German publishers can't seek out licenses for works that are unavailable in English, even if it may seem uncommon for them to do so.

A couple of examples of series that have been licensed in German but not English that I consider relevant to the thread topic are Rose of Versailles and Chichi no Koyomi; both series have been published by Carlsen (although Rose of Versailles is out of print).

i´ve thought of tokyopop right now because beelzebub and to love ru a published by them here.

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