You Don’t Want Your Manga on this List ~ 2008 version (update)

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The note for TOKYOPOP is a copy of the note for Infinity.

I tried to wheedle ADV a bit at Anime Boston, only to realize I didn’t have much to say. They seemed to assume me that Yotsuba& was still coming out, and asked abruptly if I had any specific questions. I mumbled something about their website and ran away after that.

Thanks for doing this– I always like to know what happened to series.

Re-releasing Clover is weird, though. I still have the originals, but I guess they’re long out of print. They’re pretty– dust jackets and all.

Pretty sure “Kodomo no Jikan” was officially dropped before v. 1 could be released. This would have been several months ago.

And wouldn’t it be nice if BeBeautiful would speak up instead of hiding as fans wonder where the rest of Viewfinder is?

Chris Johnston (former Newtype senior editor) on the status of Yotsuba:

“I don’t think there’s been any announcement of the sort, but ADV Manga’s been shut down for months now even though they never removed the solicitations for 2008. Your best bet is to rally around someone else picking up the license.”

Source:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11230344&postcount=43

TOKYOPOP confirmed that Lupin III: World’s Most Dangerous is being dropped after volume 9.

CPM released 5 volumes of Geobreeders before dropping it.

Otherwise, nice yet very depressing list. I’m hoping against hope that Yotsuba is just on hiatus because otherwise there’ll be heck to pay…

I’m curious about the long-canceled Lycanthrope Leo. From the description in Manga: The Complete Guide, it sounds like the kind of weirdly awesome title that we need more of… Has anyone read it? Is it worth seeking out on eBay, or did it deserve 1,000 years in licensing purgatory? Inquiring minds want to know.

You should probably add Scary Books and Reiko the Zombie Shop to Dark Horse’s list. I think those ones have been stalled for at least a year. I don’t think either of them have hope, but I’d dearly love to see at least Scary Books start back up again since Umezu series seem to be working okay for Viz.

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Err—Ledoux and Ranney, _The Complete Anime Guide_ *2nd Ed.*, p. 78. ^_^;

Let me try this again, this time with shorter posts (since my original post was swallowed by the aether):

“Aera 88″ (sic) was published through issue 42 in comic form

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?title=04498309786

which IIRC was equal to chapter 5 of volume 8 (and bit) of the tankoubon (Ledoux and Ranney, _The Complete Anime Guide_ 2nd Ed., p. 78). Similarly, _Cobra_ was released in 12 issues of 48 pages each (= three tankoubon?).

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?title=17684209704

Similar considerations apply to _Getter Robo Go_, _Justy_, and _the Ultraman_ (sic).

Great point Doc. The list only counts graphic novels but you are right a number of these series had a number of chapters published in floppy or magazine format.

IE Club 9 ended in Super Manga Blast but the last volume was not collected in a GN.

I don’t want to amend that this year, but I will definitely look into it next year.

I posted a couple more times, but they also got swallowed. Let me try it without the links:

Other misspellings in the Viz list: “Voyers” for “Voyeurs” amd “Spirggan” for “Spriggan” (the latter was also released under the title “Striker”:

(See Mile High Comics’ site)

Lastly (unless I misunderstand the purpose of this article), there are Sun Comic Publishing’s titles: _High School Agent_, _Ragnarok Guy_, and _Raika_ (which have been “on hiatus” since Sun went away in the early 1990s)

(See Mile High Comics, plus ANN’s Encyclopedia, which has the first and third titles.)

A poster on Anime on DVD’s Manga News & Information forum mentioned that ComicsOne’s _Bride of Deimos_ is also missing from the list.

Lastly (unless I misunderstand the purpose of this article), there are Sun Comic Publishing’s titles…

Yeah, actually the last line before the list starts states…
The list does not include defunct publishers or light novels.

I’ll fix those typos though ^_^v

What? Bride of the Watergod too? But that’s quite new, isn’t it? O.o I wnated to buy that one. -_-

[…] week or so ago, this forum comment from former Newtype USA editor Chris Johnston popped up at MangaCast. I don’t think there’s been any announcement of the sort, but ADV Manga’s been shut down for […]

I believe Viz published a few volumes of the second Galaxy Express 999 manga. They are definitely not still publishing that, and I highly doubt there were only 5 volumes. I think it should be on the list.

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nooooooooooo I don’t like Drama queen now there canceling one of the series I collect. evil company.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Help/Boards/viewtopic.php?t=14024

Bride of the Water God and Translucent will be back, and Shaman King (which wasn’t on your list yet), too.

Uhh… make that Shaman Warrior (not Shaman King, that’s Viz)… ^^;

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