Forum - View topicNEWS: IDW Extends Partnership with Toho to Launch 'Kai-Sei Era' Connected Godzilla Universe Comics
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mdo7
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Just a little FYI: IDW's Godzilla comic series do get Japanese translation and releases in Japan. A company called Phase Six is responsible for all the translation/releases of IDW's Godzilla comic/graphic novels in Japan. I believe back in 2022, Phase Six got to translated & released the 1995-1996 Dark Horse comic in Japan for the first time. I don't have the sales number in Japan, but after seeing IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog comic did so well in Japan to the point where they had to re-print vol.1 in Japan due to high demand (and let me remind you that Sonic doesn't have a big fanbase in Japan compared to the US/North America), it makes me wonder how many other American comic book/graphic novels based on Japanese IPs could do well in Japan if it got translated and released over there. So maybe there is a market for American comic book/graphic novels in Japan if it's based on a Japanese IP (again, that's my impression of it after seeing IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog and IDW's Godzilla comic got translated and released in Japan).
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Beatdigga
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This seems to be IDW's attempt at creating an equivalent to the Energon Universe, a licensed property hosting a shared universe that gets interest in the books for the property. Granted, IDW has been treating Godzilla fairly decently, Godzilla Monsterpiece Theater was amazing, but it feels like a lot of companies are chasing the success of the EU, even if I think the ultimate goal of Kirkman's is to get that animated.
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MFrontier
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Glad to see IDW capitalizing on Godzilla though I wonder how much Godzilla is actually in the main comic with that synopsis.
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