NYCC 2013 New Manga

[Morcombe]

So NYCC is going udnerway, what series will the usa publisher pick up this year?

KODANSHA

1 - www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/kodansha-comics-adds-attack-on-titan/before-the-fall-a-choice-with-no-regrets-spinoff-manga

2 - www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/kodansha-comics-adds-uq-holder-seven-deadly-sins-manga

3 - www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/kodansha-usa-adds-attack-on-titan/junior-high-manga-guidebooks

So far:
Nanatsu no Taizai as The Seven Deadly Sins
UQ Holder
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Attack on Titan: Junior High.

I'm hoping Kodansha give us a little more manga. was hoping to see Yamada and the 7 witches or Hajime no Ippo but I guess he's sorta a lost cause .
I enjoy sport manga and Weekly shonen magazine have a basketball, baseball, football (Soccer) and Tennis selection. why cant we get these.


VIZ

1 - www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/viz-adds-terra-formars-ore-monogatari-black-rose-alice-manga

So far:
Terra Formars
Ore Monogatari as My Love Story
Black Rose Alice
Battle Royale: Angels Border
Time Killers
Seraph of the End: Vampire reign

yeah av never heard of any of these. Kinda disappointed with this.


VERTICLE

1 - www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/vertical-adds-moyoco-anno-in-the-clothes-named-fat-manga

2 - www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-11/vertical-adds-attack-on-titan/before-the-fall-light-novel-series

So far:
In the Clothes Named Fat
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (Light Novel Edition)


Verticle is a weird company that publishes freaky manga mostly.

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Kodansha = AWESOME!!!
Viz: meh, dont care.
Verticle: why do you even exist. get some regular manga dammit not all these weird things from nowhere.

[Kyubey]

Kodansha's pretty awesome, from what I've seen. Personally, I'm really excited about what they're doing with Vinland Saga. The upcoming English volumes are looking up to be genuinely amazing. They also seem to be rather chill as a company as well. Their Tumblr account is especially informative.

Viz, I think, has also been doing some things that really deserve attention, Like everything involving SJ Alpha. They weren't always so swell, to be sure, and they're still not flawless, but at the same time they're trying incredibly hard to meet the high expectations everyone has for them, which is very nice.

Verticle, I don't know anything about, which I should probably fix. It's great that there's someone who's picking up the weird things from nowhere, though. I will have to look into some of their releases in the near future. Also, if they're releasing light novels, I may just have to go to their office and start burning things until they start translating and distributing Baccano! and LoGH.

As for the releases mentioned... yeah, only heard of a couple of them. Not interested in any of them. Aside from the fact that there are suddenly all these AoT spinoffs. That amuses me to no end.

But still, great info, Morcombe. It's very helpful. Keep threads like these coming!

[Morcombe]

YEN PRESS

1 - www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-12/yen-press-adds-high-school-dxd-demon-from-a-foreign-land-ani-imo-he-my-only-vampire

So far:
Highschool DxD
Iiki no Ki as Demon from a Foreign Land
Ani ga Imōto de Imōto ga Ani de as Ane-Imo
Junketsu + Kareshi as He's my Only Vampire
Void's Enigmatic Mansion
and a fanbook to an Alice manga.

Highschool DxD = yay from me. the anime is awesome. still nee dto wtach season 2 though.

But is that really the best they can do? 1 shonen manga is all we get and the rest are shoujo. that really sucks.

I'm guessing that Toaru Majutsu no Index is a lost cause....honestly wtf Yen Press how the hell do you not have that series yet. Railgun does great for seven seas so get us its counterpart or at least give it to seven seas dammit.

so far all I can say is thank fuck for kodansha.

Sure Viz are trying but thur annoying me. I want Beelzebub, Medaka Box, Kuroko no Basuke, Assassination Classroom, Shokugeki no Souma and they deliver stuff I've never heard of. are any of them even popular or big sellers? cause I see the sales charts every week and none of them stand out.

I don't think Seven Seas are attending NYCC so I think that's it for the new manga coming to us english language readers.

[CJ]

I have no proof of this but I think they aren't bringing over Beelzebub and Ass Class because of cultural issues.

I've brought up the issue with Ass Class in these forums before. At it's core, it's about a classroom finding various creative ways to kill their teacher. I guarantee if the series was published it would be connected with a school or other related shooting, even if it didn't have anything to do with it ("The shooter was seen at a bookstore in the "comic" section, where this series is located."). I think that Viz is trying desperately to compromise with this series. If we do see it published, it'll be wrapped in plastic with a mature label. It's sad because I do want to support the series and the volume covers are really really cool.

Beelzebub's has the nudity issue. Years ago, Dragonball was a banned book because of Goku's nudity. Again, if Beelzebub ever gets published, we'll see it wrapped.

I'm too excited about The Seven Deadly Sins. I'll be sure to pre-order the first two volumes at least. I love what it's doing for women in Shonen, but that's only one of many reasons why I adore it.

[Kyubey]

Morcombe, the reason we keep getting shoujo is because the shoujo audience are the ones who are buying the volumes nowadays. While Naruto and Bleach do always reach the very top of the charts due to the sheer volume of their fans, for whatever reason, it's the teen girl audience that's actually showing up to the bookstores and making their purchases. Make of that what you will, I guess, but it'd be a mistake to completely disregard that demographic when discussing what series are published over here.

Yeah, CJ, the AssClass issue is an interesting one, especially since blaming the media for real world violence really isn't anything unique to America, if it isn't outright worse in Japan. (anyone remember the Nice Boat?) Honestly, there's any number of reasons it hasn't been brought over, but if the US audience can show there's a market for it, a release in SJ Alpha, at least, is sure to follow.

Beelzebub, however, most certainly can be chalked up to cultural differences. I mean, years back we had people in the US freaking out over the family bath scene in Totoro, for cryin' out loud, how do you think they'd react to a perpetually naked infant?

Personally, I'm aching for Gintama getting another chance here. Seriously, the scanlators for that series have noooo sense for comedy. Sadly, it had its moment here, and nobody bought it (and then had its moment again when Sentai filmworks made a noble effort to bring over the anime), so there's little hope for it to come back to these shores. Breaks my heart, it does.