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NEWS: North American Anime, Manga Releases, May 13-19




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Wakazhi



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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:11 pm Reply with quote
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*Note: The Squid Girl Blu-ray Disc collection was slated to be released on April 10; however, during that week Amazon did not list the collection as being in stock, and it was not included in that week's list. It is included in this week's list since both Amazon and Right Stuf now have the item in stock.


That's weird. I got my copy of the Squid Girl blu-ray on April 18th from amazon.
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KogSothoth



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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:44 pm Reply with quote
I've got a question kind of relating to this: When do English manga publishers tend to announce their licenses? Is it random or are there certain events where they talk about it? I know that Comic Con had some licenses revealed last year, so I'm definitely waiting on this year's.

This is because I want to start collecting some series in Japanese, but I'd rather have them in English. I don't want to buy a whole series, then have the license unveiled the next day, and I also don't want to sit on my hands for a year crossing my fingers 'so and so' gets licensed.
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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:21 pm Reply with quote
I don't know if there's a super-easy "wait for this event where everything is announced" answer. Usually publishers will make announcements at panels of major cons—Yen Press and dark horse did so at Sakura-Con (and Vertical at both MangaNEXT and Anime Boston) this spring, and there are usually announcements at SDCC in the summer and NYCC in the fall (there may be others; I just browsed through a few of the convention reports in ANN's news archive). But frequently a title may just pop up in an Amazon listing (after which it may or may not be confirmed by the publisher), and I think DMP announces stuff every so often in emails.

So... I hope that helps. There really have been times I picked up a couple volumes of a title in Japanese, only to have it announced a couple days or a week later. I just tell myself it's nice to get an early preview, since announcements are usually for books that won't be out for several months at least :)
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KogSothoth



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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:50 pm Reply with quote
Okay, thanks Very Happy

Guess I'll hold off on buying major things until summer. There's some manga I'm sure won't be getting licensed so I can also grab those in the mean time, aaand it's not like I'll be finished getting all the English stuff I want for a while.
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mgosdin



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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2012 4:46 am Reply with quote
Wakazhi wrote:
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*Note: The Squid Girl Blu-ray Disc collection was slated to be released on April 10; however, during that week Amazon did not list the collection as being in stock, and it was not included in that week's list. It is included in this week's list since both Amazon and Right Stuf now have the item in stock.


That's weird. I got my copy of the Squid Girl blu-ray on April 18th from amazon.


Yes, it is odd. When I read that I thought maybe the Squid Girl Blu-ray's were sitting in a warehouse waiting for a check to clear. But, it just may have been a SNAFU plain & simple.

Mark Gosdin
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