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BodaciousSpacePirate
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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:46 pm
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Based on how much I paid for the previous release - relative to how much I remember paying for the average manga volume at the time - it certainly felt like I already HAD the “deluxe edition”. 
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GATSU
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:52 pm
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Not sure it's helpful to Kodansha's bottom line or the U.S. manga market in general, when they still have Joe to offload, and JoJo's Steel Ball Run is out next month. Oh, and of course, the other Kamui is pricey and niche. I think, with these and Kingdom, they're pretending this is Japan's market again.
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Deacon Blues
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:09 pm
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| GATSU wrote: | | Not sure it's helpful to Kodansha's bottom line or the U.S. manga market in general, when they still have Joe to offload, and JoJo's Steel Ball Run is out next month. Oh, and of course, the other Kamui is pricey and niche. I think, with these and Kingdom, they're pretending this is Japan's market again. |
Considering the Ed had mentioned Vertical barely broke even when they released the original versions of this, this is one hell of a gamble for Kodansha now. This cover is absolute trash, to be honest. It's such a disservice to the beautiful artwork that Yas drew for the series. Not only that, they're not including any of the extras (not even sure if we'll get color pages), plus this thing clocks in at 880 pages, so that means that depending on the paper quality, it'll be over two inches thick and not something that makes for an easy read. It's worse than most college textbooks! The original versions were pretty crummy quality-wise as it was (terribly glue, cracking of binding, pages falling out over time), so I can't see this being much better. I preordered just to see (for review purposes), so I'm hoped to be proven wrong.
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Kicksville
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:21 pm
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| Deacon Blues wrote: | | Considering the Ed had mentioned Vertical barely broke even when they released the original versions of this, this is one hell of a gamble for Kodansha now. |
Is it not possible that may have changed and it made good profit later? I still see volumes of this on sale at like every bookstore manga section. I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing (like Akira perpetually being everywhere).
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GNPixie
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:35 pm
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| Deacon Blues wrote: | | Not only that, they're not including any of the extras (not even sure if we'll get color pages) |
Colour pages are included.
| Quote: | | The storied Gundam franchise’s “First Season” that set new standards of verisimilitude for televised sci-fi animation returns in comics form at the hand of one of the initial creators! The definitive account expands on the classic narrative with the same sense of purpose that lit up the screen more than four decades ago.
This new edition collects the original bestselling twelve-installment English release into six oversized volumes. All of the many color pages—unusually numerous for Japanese comics—have been retained…only at a larger size. The master’s artwork has never looked so grand!
(Does not include essays and illustrations from the original release that are not the author’s own) |
From the Chapters/Indigo Canada blurb about these editions.
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MFrontier
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:34 pm
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| GNPixie wrote: |
| Deacon Blues wrote: | | Not only that, they're not including any of the extras (not even sure if we'll get color pages) |
Colour pages are included.
| Quote: | | The storied Gundam franchise’s “First Season” that set new standards of verisimilitude for televised sci-fi animation returns in comics form at the hand of one of the initial creators! The definitive account expands on the classic narrative with the same sense of purpose that lit up the screen more than four decades ago.
This new edition collects the original bestselling twelve-installment English release into six oversized volumes. All of the many color pages—unusually numerous for Japanese comics—have been retained…only at a larger size. The master’s artwork has never looked so grand!
(Does not include essays and illustrations from the original release that are not the author’s own) |
From the Chapters/Indigo Canada blurb about these editions. |
Ah, so maybe I will actually get this.
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Fluwm
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2025 2:08 am
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| BodaciousSpacePirate wrote: | Based on how much I paid for the previous release - relative to how much I remember paying for the average manga volume at the time - it certainly felt like I already HAD the “deluxe edition”. |
Forget how much you paid (per-volume the MSRP was about the same as most mass-market Manga); the original release (in English) was two-volume hardcover editions with lots of color pages, printed on oversized, thick, glossy paper. It very much *was* "deluxe" relative to other releases.
Definitely gonna keep my eye out on this to see just how much better of a release it ends up being... but from that little blurb, it doesn't really sound all that different than what we already have.
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