Forum - View topicTaniguchi's The Quest For the Missing Girl
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Highway Star
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Good news for the 7 or so Jiro Taniguchi fans here! Ponent Mon has the book on their site up for sale, along with some fantastic preview pages of it.
It's 336 pages long, read from right-to-left, and priced at £13.99 or $25.00. Looks impressive...and what a snazzy cover, quite different from the usual cover you'd expect from Ponent Mon/Fanfare. http://www.ponentmon.com I won't be buying it right now though, I'm waiting on my ordered Ice Wanderer to arrive. 
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Moomintroll
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I'll be getting it later this month. Should be good.
And I'll be looking forward to hearing what you think of The Ice Wanderer - I got it last year and ever since then I've been feeling like I'm the only person in the world to have actually found a copy... Still, Fanfare doing direct sales should make it a bit easier for people to track down those hard-to-find volumes. |
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Highway Star
Posts: 227 Location: Ireland |
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I'll post my verdict on it in the "What manga are you reading" thread when I'm finished it.
 No doubt, it will be a positive one.
Its a true shame a lot of Fanfare's stuff is quite rare. Though the site I ordered from (Uk-based) has a number of their volumes... I remember seeing a copy of Ice Wandere a few months back in a comic store, but I didn't have enough money on me at the time. And when I came back another day, the damn thing was gone! I asked about it, and apparently someone had came in and bought it. Same for the Tekkonkinkreet Omnibus. |
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Kagemusha
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I've always felt that Taniguchi's noir/crime stories were his best work, and as such I can't wait to get my hands on this baby. Hopefully this new distribution deal will actually work and the average Joe can find Fanfare books at Borders in the future. I still can't find The Ice Wanderer, though I admittingly haven't looked hard since opinions were pretty mixed.
All that positive feedback out of the way, I'm bummed that they didn't keep the Spanish cover. That thing is so hard-boiled it'd make Humphrey Bogart blush. |
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Moomintroll
Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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You can get it here for a fair bit less than the recommended retail price and with free shipping to the US. I'm surprised to hear that opinions were mixed (I don't think I've actually seen it reviewed at all, come to think of it). I thought it was a fascinating piece of work - especially in the second half - and I'd have trouble coming up with anything seriously flawed in its execution. Personally, I'm hoping Fanfare will bring out one of his westerns at some point. I've never read a cowboy comic in my life but if anybody can make it work for me, Taniguchi can. |
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_NightShade_
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This is very good but not one of my favourites. I would rather have preferred they had published some of his other works like Chichi no Koyomi, Harukana Machi-e or Inu wo Kau first. Ice Wanderer is brilliant. Spanish cover www.ponentmon.com/new_pages/spanish/rastreador/cover.html as referenced by Kagemusha for comparison purposes |
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Highway Star
Posts: 227 Location: Ireland |
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Got my copy of Ice Wanderer yesterday, without even touching it I knew it was gonna have amazing production qualities. I love the fact they decided to keep it the size of normal tankoubons in Japan, and the inside flaps like the French would do in their manga. I wouldn't have minded shelling out a little more even for something so well-produced.
Now onto the book itself! Haven't read one story yet, but I think I'm going to lap up the Jack London stories. Of course, the art is breathtaking, especially the title pages. Also, Fanfare had this to say about the Kodansha's new plans and Tokyopop's reconstructure in an interview; Fanfare/Ponent Mon is a UK/Spain manga publisher. According to Amiram Reuveni, Publisher of Ponent Mon, “Personally I think what TokyoPop or Kodansha are doing is of not much consequence for us as we are dealing with a minority adult oriented product while they all compete for the likes of Naruto and Death Wish... “I am not a prophet but if you want to know where it's heading you can look at the Spanish market which is somewhat older and where manga is now in complete domination with half (or more) of the market. What is happening is that old publishers as well as new ones, have all moved into publishing manga. Now there's a glut. Too many titles are being published. The shops don't have shelf space for it all. Customers don't have the money for all these titles. So only the very strong series sell but publishers are having to fight for them offering big sums which means big risks and the end of the story is being unfolded... And with recession setting in nobody is sure where it's taking us. The only luck this industry has is that we are dealing with a minority market but of very loyal type of customers. I am not sure [if] Kodansha will be successful and I don't believe manga freaks will settle for US developed properties. Japanese manga can't be faked. I don't think [so]. Hey, those guys are something else. It's another mentality. “I think Fanfare/Ponent Mon can do modestly well catering for adults who want something of more substance than the TokyoPop and the Kodansha Corn and I don't think neither will dare touch what we do as they will never be able to reach the print runs they need. Too small of a business...” I think she meant Death Note in the first para... |
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