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Dejiko
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Yet another publisher? I could post again about market saturation since they do not seem to be targetting a niche public and are fishing in the same pond as their competition is... but it's becoming kind of obvious so I'll leave it at this
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Kagemusha
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Heh, I hear you. Any idea on what titles are going to be released?
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Haiseikoh 1973
 Posts: 1590 Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas. |
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Toboe
 Posts: 138 Location: Rakuen |
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This is another EigoManga type deal, where they round up a bunch of American artists and publish their 'manga'.
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Dejiko
Posts: 276 Location: Holland (between Great Britain and Germany) |
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Oh, in that case... they might stand a chance. The artwork so far looks more authentic and professional than the stuff EigoManga puts out. Also, unlike EM, their artists sure don't seem 'rounded up' to me. And yes, there IS a market for derative Japanese style comics, not just in the US by the way. I agree we have a fair bit of catching up to do, but I wouldn't dismiss any artist on the reason he or she wasn't born in Japan (even though I wouldn't go as far as calling them mangaka, that seems kinda silly because there's this perfectly fine English word 'comic artist')
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aoie_emesai
 Posts: 52 Location: Necessary? |
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Humm... intresting.... Maybe the US manga companies will stand a chance against the japanese.
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Cloe
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I would love to give you a round of applause!! You're the first person I've seen who hasn't immediatley ripped into American manga the very moment anybody brings it up. I quite agree though... calling them mangaka is a little silly... and manga-influenced is probably a better description than straight "manga." But still, there's some great stuff on this side of the Pacific too. |
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Dejiko
Posts: 276 Location: Holland (between Great Britain and Germany) |
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-takes a bow- (thanks )
Really? That's kind of scary...  . I have no warm feelings for super hero artists who slap a manga-style head on their characters and pass it off as being being manga, but fan artists who are every bit as serious as their Japanese counterparts deserve support, even if their skill is not on the same level yet.
Not just America, people all over the world are creating their own interpretation of Japanese comics. We've got a couple of really good artists in Europe as well
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Toboe
Posts: 138 Location: Rakuen |
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Dejiko, your assertion flies in the face of conventional wisdom. So far the numbers prove that sales of American-created manga titles are a drop in the bucket compared to Japanese titles. When I say "drop in the bucket" I mean "absolutely miniscule". There's a market but it's really, really small; it doesn't help that the general quality of American-created "manga" doesn't stack up to the Japanese stuff, no matter how diplomatic you want to be about it. This Seven Seas stuff, aside from the One Piece rip-off (click on the peeing dog for a preview of it) looks prety high quality to me, so maybe they'll be the exception to the rule.
It'll be interesting to see if you're right or not. |
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Kenshin5000
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I agree that that manga with the detective (I think) and the dog seems like a One Piece rip-off. But that wild west manga seems to be of very high quality. The Wild West (without any sci-fi attached like Trigun) could make for a really great comic, manga or not.
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ACDragonMaster
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You know, it's only the style that resembles One Piece, and Japanese manga artists sometimes borrow from each other's styles, anyway. Watsuki Nobuhiro (author of Rurouni Kenshin) used a style similar to One Piece to write his second work Gun Blaze West. And then went back to his own style for Busou Renkin when that didn't work.
Point being, drawing style really isn't any indication, for all we know the artist might've designed that without knowing of One Piece at the time. My biggest complaint is that the pages seem to be reading from right to left. If you're originally writing somethign in English, and especially if you want a mainstream audience and not just anime fans, you really should stick to the natural format for the language... |
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Dejiko
Posts: 276 Location: Holland (between Great Britain and Germany) |
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That may be so, but that's also just about the sort of ratio I see at the shelves of my local import bookstore. I'm not claiming that non-Japanese manga will be a big competitor to the genuine stuff in the foreseeable future, just that the quality (not quantity) gap will become smaller over the next few years.
I see these better looking works as a forerunner of a bigger wave (see how well I'm elaborating on the sea motif? ). Look at Korea, their original comics didn't resemble manga too much, but after an entire generation of artists was weaned on them, Manwha sprung up and became an industry in its own right. It wouldn't be far fetched for such a thing to happen in other countries where these conditions are met. Actually, with the increasing exposure of anime and manga outside of Japan, I don't think we'll have to wait that long.
Huh? Did Middaugh leave Del Rey manga already? He was there up until this press release. Boy, the manga publishing world sure is a fast moving place
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
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No, he's still with Del Rey.
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Kagemusha
Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
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There obviously is always going to be a market for Amerimangas; Antarctic Press is proof of this. There have been successful things like Jill Thompson's death, but this appealed to the mainstream comicbook audience more than it did the manga audience. In any case, they are going to need alot of great talent in order to be successful.
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Dejiko
Posts: 276 Location: Holland (between Great Britain and Germany) |
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@Lian: doh, proof that I shouldn't post anything prior to actually waking up...
That sentence was kind of nasty to read the first time around
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