Forum - View topicNEWS: Kadokawa Purchases 51% Stake in Yen Press
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Amara Tenoh
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This should prove interesting.
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Silver4000
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I hope this means that more light novels will be licensed.
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TUSF
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It should. In the last year or two, Kadokawa has been going out of their way to internationalize in various ways. Actually, I wonder if the recent DMCA event of Baka-Tsuki, by Kadokawa had something to do with this. (recent being just a couple months ago, but still. It's one of the few times a Japanese company has stepped in, and shut down fan-translation projects) |
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Tempest_Wing
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I wonder how this will affect pricing.
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The Hollow Shrine
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I hope this means there's a bigger chance for Dantalian, Gosick, maybe finally a new license for Shana or other Dengeki Bunko titles.
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KamikazeJawa
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Cons:
-Goodbye independence -Goodbye non-Kadokawa/Shueisha titles ever getting licensed Pros: -Shit-ton of Kadokawa manga and LN licenses incoming -I mean we always have Seven Seas... |
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Mc-Taz
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This just about sums up my feelings about this news piece. I would love to see all of this happening. Or if we could see the Future Diary manga finally completed as well. If anything, I hope it means that more light novels and manga will be brought over as a result. I get the feeling that they wanted to get their own publishing arm in North America without doing it all on their own like Kodansha is doing with their brand here. Yen Press already has the infrastructure and relationships setup for them. |
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NegativeZero
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Maybe they can finally rescue some of the stuff that Tokyopop's still sitting on the licenses for, like Kino's Journey.
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TUSF
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Yen Press was never independent though? It was always under the thumb of Hachette, one of the (if not THE) largest publishers in the US. Yen Press is now just in the hands of TWO giant publishers.
That is most likely the case, I would say. I wonder what this means for Non-Kadokawa titles that Yen Press has. How many are there? |
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Silver4000
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Exactly, I found it weird when a Japanese company stepped down on that. Maybe we'll get to see the license of the series that were taken down. |
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+ 光
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I just hope this means a Bungou Stray Dogs license, among many others.
Anyway, I went and did some research and found that the following Yen Press titles are from Kadokawa: - Another - Blood Lad - The disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan - Drrr!! - Highschool of the Dead - The Meloncholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and - Romeo x Juliet. So a lot (most, I might even say) of Yen Press titles are from other publishing houses. I've also noticed that Kadokawa's titles are all over USA publishing houses. E.g. Viz Media has Deadman Wonderland, and Vertical has Tokyo ESP. I might have missed some titles, given my quick search, but the conclusion I can make is that Yen Press will still license titles from other publishing houses, just like it always has. This might just mean that of new licenses, half of it will be Kadokawa titles. |
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maxwell3094
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I had hopes that Kadokawa issued that massive DMCA with the intent of bringing over those series in the near future instead of just leaving us with no way of reading them in English. With any luck that will be what they end up doing through Yen Press now. I'm looking forward to seeing what will most likely be a huge wave of incoming Kadokawa LNs. I hope this doesn't stop them from licensing any more non-Kadokawa LNs though. |
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TUSF
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That's not a comprehensive list at all. You only included series that were published directly under a subsidiary with "Kadokawa" in the name. Kadokawa has a lot of child companies. Things like Black Bullet, SAO, Mahouka, Kagerou Daze, Re:Zero, The Devil is a Part Timer, and so on, are missing form your list. I was going to write a more comprehensive list, using Wikipedia, but really, around a quarter of Yen Press's manga fall under Kadokawa. Maybe more. Last edited by TUSF on Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:51 am; edited 1 time in total |
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G S Palmer
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I have two worries about this: 1) I hope this doesn't mean Yen stops publishing series from Square Enix, since they're the only publisher over here who does (it probably doesn't, but still...) and 2) I hope this doesn't mean Seven Seas will become unable to license series from Kadokawa/their subsidiary, Media Factory.
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macloud
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Except that Yen press has, prior to this, released a lot of NON Kadokowa titles - for example Brides story and Emma [ ENTERBRAIN Inc], Yotsuba& [ASCII media works inc] and Bunny drops [Shodensha publishing Co. Ltd] - i'm sure others can quote other titles and companies] While it may not mean independance in the literral sense, it does mean we'll potentially see a lot less new titles from those companies in the future coming from YP. Last edited by macloud on Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:57 am; edited 4 times in total |
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