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JohnnySake
 Posts: 587 Location: Auburn Hills, MI |
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Well that sucks. I still hold a little grudge against DMP for dropping the Enchanter manga series, but I wonder what happened with Nanoha. I have no idea how Nanoha's popularity here is compared to Japan, but I know you can't open any Megami magazine without a poster or article with the Nanoha cast in it. It just seems silly to go through the effort and cost of licensing something and then never following through with it. (Maybe if they weren't so busy with publishing BL / Yaoi titles...)
*pre-emptively ducks from thrown paddles from rabid fangirls* |
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Cait
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Eh, I don't think this has anything to do with them being "too busy with yaoi" to bother with. It also seems unlikely that they "went through the trouble" to license it and then simply changed their minds. Generally when a series gets dropped it's because they released one or two volumes and those didn't sell well enough to make it worth it to continue. It seems unlikely that there isn't something else going on, either with rights issues or content issues that has prevented DMP from being able to produce and release the title in English. Look at their license of the yaoi title Ze right now, for example. They licensed it when it was 6 volumes in Japan, not knowing that volumes 7 and 8 would include some pretty graphic scenes of an underaged character. Now the series is in limbo while they decide whether it is actually worth it to publish any more of it.
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Forte-sama
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.........I didn't even know that anything besides the first two season of the anime series were ever licensed for release in the USA. Well, hopefully someday we'll learn what went wrong, and hopefully we'll get the series from another company state-side.
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Matriel
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I wholeheartedly agree with you here. Either that or pray that a Blu-ray release will have English subtitles like the movie, which is AMAZING by the way. The cost of a high def release would be staggering though. Was Nanoha, A's, or StrikerS ever in HD, or would it be an upscale? Regardless, I love the series and wish another season would be animated. Isn't there enough content with the ViviD manga? |
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Reaper gI
Posts: 299 Location: UK |
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This is the manga, not the anime. The anime is SD, there's no sign of BDs. But the film being subbed is a very good bonus, and it sold well (no idea how much were exports though). Neither seires is remotely finshed and are monthly, so will take ages to come out. Much as a magical girl fighting tournament series would be realy easy to bulk up with filler. It's also a sequel to Sound Stage X (who makes a drama CD cannon to a series, realy), so if you haven't heard that you might be confused as to who Ixy is, and what all the characters jobs now are. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7994 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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I would be pretty pissed if I'd been waiting for this.
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MIX303
 Posts: 66 Location: Alberta Canada |
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I agree. |
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Forte-sama
Posts: 175 |
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This is the manga, not the anime.
I suppose I was bit spacey when I wrote that post. I had meant that as a whole, the only Nanoha things I knew that had been licensed were the first two seasons of the anime series. No later anime, no manga, no CD's, no nothing. But yes, I did know that they were speaking of the manga now. Tell me people, should another company decide to pick-up any of the Nanoha manga, what North American company seems most likely? |
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Reaper gI
Posts: 299 Location: UK |
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None of them. It's a TV series based manga, not by Kodansha or of a Bandai Ent. seires. We don't tend to get tie-ins, only manga that was the original work. Seven Seas would be the remaining option, due to the yuri connections, it's also short, only 2 volumes. |
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Levitz9
 Posts: 1022 Location: Puerto Rico |
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Man, what a shame. I didn't even know it was licensed in the first place.
As a shame of super robots and magical girls, it's a bit of a downer to see how poorly Nanoha has done in the U.S., overall. Oh, well: c'est la vie. Manga publishers can't afford to license everything under the sun these days. Considering Nanoha is also pretty obscure state-side, it seems heavily unlikely that anyone will pick up the manga. |
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Teriyaki Terrier
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I'd probably have the same sentiments if I been waiting for this myself. Imagine waiting nearly three years only to find out it was dropped. No apologizes, no warning nothing what so ever. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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Agreed. |
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AstroNerdBoy
 Posts: 413 Location: Denver, CO |
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Was this the official manga that was to bridge the gap between the 2nd and 3rd series of the anime? If so, I'm rather bummed because I would have liked to have known that story. On a related note, I read somewhere that there's a new manga series where Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate are 25. I'd love to read that as well. |
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