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NEWS: Angry Birds App Gets 1st Manga in Nakayoshi Shōjo Magazine


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Blatch
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:02 pm Reply with quote
...what.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:08 pm Reply with quote
Should I say I'm surprised? I kind of am, but not at the same time. I mean, IDW are already releasing an Angry Birds comic book series. And, isn't there a cartoon?
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Sounds cute, I didn't know Angry Birds was popular in Japan.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:31 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
Sounds cute, I didn't know Angry Birds was popular in Japan.


I have literally never seen anything Angry Birds over here. I think popular is an overstatement...
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:50 pm Reply with quote
Lol what Question
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:52 pm Reply with quote
mewpudding101 wrote:
Hoppy800 wrote:
Sounds cute, I didn't know Angry Birds was popular in Japan.


I have literally never seen anything Angry Birds over here. I think popular is an overstatement...


Then it's kind of odd to see a manga of the franchise appearing if it isn't popular in Japan. Some kids must like it enough that a manga adaptation is made.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:32 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
mewpudding101 wrote:
Hoppy800 wrote:
Sounds cute, I didn't know Angry Birds was popular in Japan.


I have literally never seen anything Angry Birds over here. I think popular is an overstatement...


Then it's kind of odd to see a manga of the franchise appearing if it isn't popular in Japan. Some kids must like it enough that a manga adaptation is made.


Or that the company WANTS it to be popular. The same thing happened with My Little Pony when it was just announced. (MLP is not popular with the kids or adults either here)
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:59 pm Reply with quote
mewpudding101 wrote:
Hoppy800 wrote:
mewpudding101 wrote:
Hoppy800 wrote:
Sounds cute, I didn't know Angry Birds was popular in Japan.


I have literally never seen anything Angry Birds over here. I think popular is an overstatement...


Then it's kind of odd to see a manga of the franchise appearing if it isn't popular in Japan. Some kids must like it enough that a manga adaptation is made.


Or that the company WANTS it to be popular. The same thing happened with My Little Pony when it was just announced. (MLP is not popular with the kids or adults either here)


Sounds like another flop in the making then, but who knows, it may not end up like MLP since it's an original work based off the franchise.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 12:01 am Reply with quote
mewpudding101 wrote:
Hoppy800 wrote:
mewpudding101 wrote:
Hoppy800 wrote:
Sounds cute, I didn't know Angry Birds was popular in Japan.


I have literally never seen anything Angry Birds over here. I think popular is an overstatement...


Then it's kind of odd to see a manga of the franchise appearing if it isn't popular in Japan. Some kids must like it enough that a manga adaptation is made.


Or that the company WANTS it to be popular. The same thing happened with My Little Pony when it was just announced. (MLP is not popular with the kids or adults either here)


...+1 for Japan.

Also, really? Angry Birds?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 12:08 am Reply with quote
The game is mildly popular but the merchandise sells. There are angry birds plushies in crane games and I've seen kids wearing the t-shirts.

Nakayoshi might be the right move considering its young audience here.

On the other hand hay day is freakin everywhere now here.
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iloveturkey



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 1:00 am Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
Then it's kind of odd to see a manga of the franchise appearing if it isn't popular in Japan. Some kids must like it enough that a manga adaptation is made.


It's actually somewhat common. A lot of western properties get manga in Japan, usually at the commission of the American company in an attempt to market the property in Japan. More often than not they always die off in less than a year, though. Magic the Gathering, W.I.T.C.H., My Little Pony, Barbie, Mass Effect, now Angry Birds.

samuelp wrote:
Nakayoshi might be the right move considering its young audience here.


Here in the states most fans of Angry Birds, like most smartphone app games in general, tend to be women. Makes sense to make it a shoujo manga. Easily marketed plushies certainly don't hurt either.
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Asterisk-CGY



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:10 am Reply with quote
We did just get a Angry Birds Transformers musical opening today.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:32 am Reply with quote
It's an English-teaching tool. Any phone game can get an adaptation these days. Can't raise awareness of something unless ya try.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:43 am Reply with quote
An app game turned manga. 0 _0 Interesting.

Stella? Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_yEIE2I2o
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Drac



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:31 am Reply with quote
Well the art style of the comic is cute at the very least. Still I find it funny that the Angry Birds people want to market a girl-centric off shoot to their "boys" game.
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