Angel Sanctuary Licenced...?

[MikiRei]

Why is US releases so god damn slow?
Thank god I know more than one language so I can get the faster releases.
It's really stupid. A lot of these mangas have already been translated by many groups.
eg. Flame of Recca - it's licensed one month AFTER SnoopyCool had translated the WHOLE 33 volumes.
And now Angel Sanctuary when Omanga already finished it for like, 2 months? 3 months? No idea. It's been a WAY LONG TIME since they finished the project. Most people already have the whole series in their PC. Viz ain't gonna make much money when most people already have the series. By any chance, the files' probably all over the net in Mirc (Flame of Recca is still there even though SnoopyCool took off their links), Streamload and probably even KaZaa.

[spacelion]

Originally posted by Countess D:
Same here...but even so, I have the *moral* duty of buying it...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I guess I'm buying it too. The reason why I don't think I'll like Viz's translations to it is because Viz has a tendancy to "Americanize," the manga (i.e. they flip the artwork so that you can read it left to right) and also it is more expensive than Tokyopop. At least Tokyopop does the "100% authentic manga" thing and is sorta cheap. *shrugs*
Well anyways...

[Countess D]

What??? I already got used to reading from right to left. If I have to go back the other way I'm gonna get lost [img]confused.gif[/img]

[Crystallyne]

Hmmmmm. [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

I don't know about whether it's flipped or not, but in my area Viz put their price down to $7.95 vs. TokyoPop's $9.95

Just FYI

~Crystal
(sleepy time now)

[spacelion]

Originally posted by Crystallyne:
In my area Viz put their price down to $7.95 vs. TokyoPop's $9.95

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Really? I'm going to have to look into that.

I don't know about whether it's flipped or not...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Me either but most Viz translations usually are.

[^fluffy^]

oh well.. just think that this angel sanctuary is the first yuki kaori's work to be licensed, so at least it will introduce yuki-sensei's adorable, gorgeous artwork and twisted storyline (i also hope that ppl wont make a big deal out of the controversial storyline by relating it to religion etc etc) and i know many ppl that like reading the real manga better than reading it by scanlations, the most important thing is AS scanlations is already COMPLETE, so AS being licensed is not a big deal for us, ne? same.. i think i'll also buy it as my collections [img]smile.gif[/img]

<font color="#660033" size="1">[ October 02, 2003 11:55 PM: Message edited by: ^fluffy^ ]</font>

[Piro_Didi]

hmmm....well i know its been out in french for a long time....they started with the first volume in may 2000 and the last volume came out last month....expressions are kinda weird in french but wich language i dont care as long as i get pretty illustrations to draw

[speakerofthedead]

RE: Viz $7.95 - Over the summer holiday when I was in the States, I bough Naruto from Viz for $7.95, and that was flipped. So maybe they're making everything a bit cheaper, or at least the new ones.

[Aricia]

Hmmm I would have liked it much better if it was Tokyo Pop that licensed it...I like Tokyo Pop and they actually release manga more..normally (though, still only about bi monthly...) XD And they do a whole lot of shoujo manga so it would...suit better XD hahaha

[SakuraSun]

i'd actually perfer if no one licenced it... >.>

*sigh* i will pray Cain never gets licenced T.T