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Kagemusha
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http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22292
Quite an interesting interview with Darkhorse editor Philip Simon about the status of DH manga and a possible future for SMB! titles. Right now What's Micheal? and Cannon God Exaxxion will wrap up in trade format, and with fan support Simon thinks Shadow Star/Narutaru can get an uncut release (let's cross our fingers...) It also has a nice piece by fellow editor Carl Gustav Horn. |
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velocet
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Thank you for sharing this - finally some news for fans of the titles affected by the discontinuation of SMB.
So, who do I e-mail obsessively about getting Shadow Star released uncut? Or even just completed? I was so gutted when I found out they might be dropping it altogether, even with the edits, Shadow Star is an incredible series, easily one of my favourites. |
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Kagemusha
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Right now I'm not sure what to tell you. Emailing DH is a good idea (if it's polite that is), but I'm going to guess that if Narutaru fans could have more of community. They're definitally devoted and I think there could be a larger audience for the series, it's just one of those manga that you never really hear about. The one optimistic thing about it is Philip will push to get it released and DH usually backs editors pretty well, and I'm guessing that's how Ohikkoshi got licenced. Check out the DH message boards, as Phil and other editors reguarly post there. |
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velocet
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Thanks for the advice - I'll definitely follow up on your suggestions to hopefully support the series into being at least completed. The fact that he mentioned it at all suggests they're at least considering it.
Shadow Star's big problem is how expensive the GNs were compared to the new style small format ones, and it seems the majority of new manga fans were mostly too cheap to check it out, or saw flopped manga as some kind of inferior product. As a fan who fell in love with manga long before the price drop, I had no problem paying extra cash for what I knew was flopped and edited. I'm just glad to be able to read it at all! |
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HitokiriShadow
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Awesome. One can hope they will be cheaper as well. Someone should start an organized e-mail campaign or something. I know people complain about Narutaru being butchered, but I don't know if anyone has ever done anything about it. Maybe back when it first started serialization, but that was a long time ago and DH's policies where different. |
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Kagemusha
Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
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The real problem is Narutaru has had a hard time finding an audience because of its cutesy artstyle. Once people read it they usually love it, it's just getting people to commit. But an email campaign can't hurt as long as people don't act like idiots and start writing "DARKHORSE SUX!!!!!!!11!!!11!1!!"
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velocet
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I love Mohiro Kitoh's style...I love how clean his artwork looks. Much as I love shoujo, reading a manga with as little screen tone as possible is refreshing!
Agreed on a structured e-mail campaign - no amount of exclamation marks and expletives are going to help, I really hope there aren't people out there who react like that. I'm still trying to work out how best to go about it, and to try and convince others to help as well. There's support and there's spam... |
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Neilworms
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Nice article, thanks for posting it Kagemusha. Horn's editorial in particular was very nicely written.
Speaking of edits in Manga (just like with Narutaru), I'm curious if Eden was edited a little bit, there was one scene in volume one that kind of made me think so, but since I never read the scanlations of it I'm not sure... |
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