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liloaznangel
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Does anyone know if this affect the American licenses of the manga?
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Colonel Wolfe
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Since this involves the negotiations between the American publisher and the Japanese publisher, the bankruptcty would invalidate the license to the American license and the US Publisher would have to become part of the case against the Japanese publisher because of payment they may have paid toward that Japanese publisher.
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Tempest
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It depends entirely on how the contracts are worded, and who owns the intelectual property. But I've heard (not verified yet) that one German publisher has stated that they will not be able to release any more of their ongoing Biblos titles until this is cleared up. Another completely unverified item is this mailing list post, supposedly by Yamane Ayano.
One person translated it as such:
Perhaps if one of our staff has some free time, we can post a more accurate translation, but regardless, the source is unverifiable at this time, so I can't post any of it as news, and obviously I can't promise you that it's real. Although personally I believe that it is. -t [edit: oops -t] Last edited by Tempest on Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:34 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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tsurara
Posts: 4 Location: Albany, NY |
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Yamane Ayano isn't the editor-in-cheif at BeXBoy, she's a mangaka who publishes several works under the label. |
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Tempest
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Oops Thanks. Here's some more rumour, supposedly Biblos was completely in the black, but it's bankruptcy is related to the recent bankruptcy of another company. I've heard this as being an IT company, and the publisher Hekitensha. Hekitensha seems to be the more solid item since that facts do check out.
"Milliard," btw, is synonymous with "billion." So about US$20 million. -t |
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GATSU
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It's possible the creators would just get their manga published elsewhere like what happened with Gutsoon.
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kushiel
Posts: 94 Location: Saskatchewan |
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Holy, I just read the title and I thought 'Tokyopop?!' but then I actually bothered to finish reading the article. Not that this is much better news though.
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sunflower
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The item from Yamane Ayano was published on her BBS under her name. The first post is her message.
http://bbs1.aquatic.jp/?0101/philosoh There are also reports from business sources across the net. http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~nmisaki/index.html This notice was posted on Biblos doors http://www.shinbunka.co.jp/news/2006/06-04-05-news.htm |
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Tempest
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Depsnds again on the contract. Sometimes Manga-ka can change publishers freely, othertimes there are some restrictions, such as a trademarked name (Trigun -> Trigun Maximum for example), other times the contract may stipulate that the publisher has exclusive ownership of everything related to the title (a contract you'd expect a first time manga-ka to have). In the last case, the contract may disolve upon the bankruptcy of the publisher, or it may go to whoever purchases the company's assets, depending on the exact wording of the clauses. -t |
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gynocrat_rex
Posts: 57 Location: Texas |
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If they fail to sell the popular anthology mags and their imprint, their editors will likely move on, taking their manga-ka with them. Many artists will go where their editors go.
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Michi
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Posts: 741 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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*skims Japanese translation* At first I was worried, because I used to own the Japanese volumes of FAKE and lost them.. and I want to rebuy them, and I was afraid it'd be impossible now if the publisher was bankrupt. But it sounds like the new company that takes over each series will still publish them, so that's good. Biblos had some good titles!
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Hanatarou
Posts: 16 Location: Native Texan in Virginia |
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It seems to me that the more established writers will probably find homes with other companies such as Bamboo, Asuka, etc. It will cull out those that are not as popular. I'm wondering about the magazines. Those maybe harder to find homes for. When I hear that as many as 90 titles are published in a month, it is not a wonder that there would be a bust. Sounds like the market needed to come down. Boom and bust, simular things are happening with the manga here.
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astra
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JPN translation seems accurate.
This is some crazy news. I remember tittering over that b-boy phonebook magazine Biblos publishes back in high school. Good times. |
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AyumiHamasaki
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Animate is continuing it! YAY!
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Hanatarou
Posts: 16 Location: Native Texan in Virginia |
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I'll second that" Yay". I was positive that someone would step in, too much being published by Biblos to let it just disappear. |
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