English release of Devilman never ever? With all the more controversial

>>15441524
Wasn't there an extremely obscure English release in Japan by Kodanasha?

>>15441524
Why the FUCK is DMP doing the remake instead of the original?

>>15441524
>English release of Devilman never ever?

The Italians are getting a one volume Devilman hardcover edition of the whole manga later this year. So who knows, maybe something good is cooking for the English fans.

>>15441524
Devilman G is being released in English. If it does well, they'll probably release the original as well.

With the new show coming in 2018, I think it will happen sooner than later.

>>15441524

Is Go Nagai's manga released in Spain? If it isn't then I'm surprised considering how much they love Mazinger over there but I'd be even more surprised if any of his works see an English release considering how perverted they are at times then again I'd want it just to see SJWs breakdown over Honey.

Devilman was released in French, but it was a recent re-release.

>>15441621
>I'd want it just to see SJWs breakdown over Honey.

Most manga released over here are ones involving girls constantly getting naked

>>15441524
Nobody gives a shit they just want more Mazinger

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Would it even be able to be released raw in America or even the UK given what's in it and that even babies and such are killed in it?

>>15444404

You get novels like Blood Meridian, A Song of Ice and Fire and Eragon published which features babies getting smashed or killed I don't think it'd be much of a problem here in the UK.

I'd be more worried about Cutie Honey though. I can see SJWs having a massive shit storm especially regarding the statue scene.

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>SJWs
Why do you people care about the opinions of them?

>>15444413
>novels
We're not talking about novels, are we?

>>15444432
God all those side stories were fucking retarded. Go's little brother is nowhere near as talented as Go himself.

>>15444404
Pretty sure us Amerifats can get away with anything we want content wise as long as its in a comic or book, If Crossed can be here Devilman can as well

seven seas chose some shitty reboot/sequel/whatever instead of the original
even calling it "a good intro to devilman" over the original fucking thing

>>15441621
You're really stupid if you think SJWs are even going to notice Cutie Honey getting released over the mountains of other shit they're busy whining about.

>>15441621
>I'd want it just to see SJWs breakdown over Honey.
Too bad. They don't notice anything that isn't 100% mainstream and constantly shoved in your face. They don't know anything about what they complain about and are just mad that things exist that aren't for them.

>>15441524
OP
There was only one volume published in 1986 by VIZ + a bilingual edition by Kodansha from 2002-2003.

I have both. The bilingual edition is a bit wonky, but acceptable.

The 1986 is incredibly rare and I never saw one in years. Probably was pulled from the market in fear of radical christs.

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>>15446852
There's also Danzig's botched Shin Devilman localization under the Verotik label. They ruined the art by adding badly done color and putting obnoxious nostrils on all the characters.

>>15446280
Are there even SJWs that give a shit about manga? I've seen them occasionally for anime but only ever currently airing garbage.

>>15446856
Didn't that make Nagai really mad

>>15446960
yep

>>15445955
That's not the only reason. The main reason is that there isn't a manga culture in the US.

For example, Go Nagai was totally unknown in France and people only ever heard his name through Grendizer. They didn't even know his other works like Devilman and Mazinger. They actually got Devilman released in 2000 by Dynamic Vision but no one paid attention and it sank like a stone.

Now with the availability / accessibility of the internet, information can be much more easily gained about an author, and Devilman was released again about 2 years ago, and it was well received. Manga-news (a popular site for manga news in French) even gave the last volume 20/20 (A perfect score).

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>>15446960
Source? What did he say about it?

>>15446852
Isn't the bilingual edition hard to get? Also, there aren't any scans, so can you give a few examples and compare it to the TL? Pretty please.

>>15447122
The article only says he was displeased.

Nagai behaves rather well in public.

>>15447110
>The main reason is that there isn't a manga culture in the US.

Nah, there definitely is one but the industry is not as booming as it was in the 2000s.

>>15447125
No, he's right. There's really no manga culture in the USA.
>b-b-but we have a couple companies
Doesn't matter. Manga is insignificantly niche. It was actually more mainstream in the late 90s and early 00s, but after the death of Tokyopop (good riddance) it's been an even smaller market.
>During the restructure, Tokyopop laid off 39 positions, equating to 35%–40% of its American workforce.
>In December 2008, citing "dramatically low sales" in the publishing industry as a whole
Hell, even American comics aren't doing so hot. Manga is in an even worse state.

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>>15447122
I am uploading a few pictures.

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>>15447772
>Isn't the bilingual edition hard to get? Also, there aren't any scans, so can you give a few examples and compare it to the TL? Pretty please.

Since I have no other translation, I can't help. It is just feeling by reading the text.

Also, the bilingual edition can be found in Japan still, but it won't be cheap.

I got mine, because I politely asked one Japanese seller via ebay if he could help me.

But the 1986 issue by VIZ is truly a lost treasure, since it was the only official English translation available in the US market.

I was really lucky to get both, but VIZ it's volume is not corresponding to the Japanese release. It stops with Akira's finished transformation into Devilman at the disco.

Furthermore the introduction claimed VIZ wanted to publish 2 further issues on Devilman, so what does that mean?

Only VIZ have an answer.

>>15447782
>But the 1986 issue by VIZ is truly a lost treasure, since it was the only official English translation available in the US market.

I've already said this before, but it isn't. Verotik released part of Devilman.

>>15447134
So niche every bookstore has a large section taken up by manga

>>15448031
>muh anecdotal evidence
So niche that the biggest publisher cited dramatically low sales

>>15448031
Print is a dying medium overall, a vast majority of non-academic book stores will disappear within the next decade and print will be a luxury/novelty.

>>15448075
>We have a large section for this because no one buys them so we keep ordering more

Genius. The manga sections have expanded in all the book stores I've been to in the last few years along with carrying tons of other weeb shit.

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>>15448031
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>>15448101
I'm the guy who posted >>15447110

Let me clarify. When I say there is no manga culture in the US, what I really meant, is that it's not comparable to the one in France.

I own Vol 1 of the bilingual edition, I want the rest

>>15448101
>post proof of quotations of actual company sales and reasons why they dropped out of the market
>you post some anecdotal bullshit with no proof about a small number of bookstores you've personally been to
Holy fuck you retard

>>15448121
What that doesn’t tell you is how much TokyoPop was pouring into ventures outside of just publishing manga. Primarily shit that nobody fucking wanted, like OEL manga and reality shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBa74V2djnk

>>15448121
>One company goes out of business after releasing tons of shit no one cares about
>Tons have popped up since

rlly makes u think
It's such a dying market that it's expanded and we're seeing more niche titles published every year.

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Even if they are tons of manga on shelves in stores, that doesn't mean people actually buy them.

It's like the VN market nowadays. Yeah, there's a bunch brought over every year, but they only sell "just enough" to keep bringing them over.

Manga was more mainstream back in early 2000s especially because of companies like TokyoPop. If you can't wrap your head around that, then either you're too young to remember or haven't done your research.

>>15448391
Too thick for me. I'd rather have them separate volumes.

>>15447760
>kyaaaa
>help
Okay. Now that makes me question the accuracy or it, but from what you posted, it does look good. However, the art in those pics look different from what I remember reading.

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>>15441524

There's a loose adaptation. The demons arrived on Earth during WW2 and have since integrated into human society. A demon doesn't have a physical body and so must possess and bond with a willing human.

>>15450191
tokyo pop, that evil company that tried to americanize initial d way too much to make it the next fast2furious, ruining the show in the process.

>>15450198

Source?

>>15450200 #
Considering the shit they did they did to folks they hired to make original manga for them, calling them evil isn't too far off from the truth.

Manga sales did go down in the late 2000s but that's far from the only reason TokyoPop shut down. They failed to cut back accordingly, Kodansha withdrew their titles, Borders closed up shop, etc.

>>15450786
Fuck Tokyopoop they set manga translations back. Several translations they made had to have fan efforts to retranslate because the Tokyopop version was garbage, flipped, and sometimes bordered on being a straight up rewrite.

>>15450793
> TFW no retranslation of Lupin III from fans or another publisher.

>>15450792
>Considering the shit they did they did to folks they hired to make original manga for them, calling them evil isn't too far off from the truth.

story?

>>15448084
>Print is a dying medium overall, a vast majority of non-academic book stores will disappear within the next decade and print will be a luxury/novelty.

"No."

>>15451574
I think this article covers the basic gist of things.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/tokyopop-hey-dude-totally-bad-contract/

>>15451618
>"No."
Since you put 'no' in quotes I am meant to take it as sarcasm and thus you're really saying 'yes'? Am I reading this 'no' meme correctly?

>>15447782
>But the 1986 issue by VIZ is truly a lost treasure, since it was the only official English translation available in the US market.

Got a picture of the cover? I never heard of this.

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>>15450793
I think the FLCL manga, .hack//LOT and the volumes of Gatekeepers they did are the only Tokyopop manga I still own. I sold or threw so many away because the print quality was just so bad. My Love Hina volumes were practically falling apart when I downsized my manga collection last year and I barely read them compared to Ranma and Ruroken which were just fine.

Do you guys remember when they re-did their site so that it was myspace but for anime loving losers?

>>15452043
The only titles I ever bought from them personally were Lupin III and Cyborg 009. They're still in relatively good condition but I think that's more due to luck than anything else.

>Do you guys remember when they re-did their site so that it was myspace but for anime loving losers?

No, but I don't doubt they would do something like that. Frankly, I couldn't have been happier when that cesspit went under and I wish they would die permanently.

>>15452207
It can't be truly dead until that hippie Stu Levy can vanish from the face of the Earth.

>>15450191
As a librarian, I can say it depends on the manga. Shojo stuff like Sailor Moon, Shugo Chara, and Full Moon o Sagashite circulate very well at my library.

Really, we had too much manga back in those days.

>>15444760
Crossed?

>>15452043
>FLCL manga, .hack//LOT
Only ones I own as well. I remember reading Battle Royale manga and fucking hated how many dumb issues there were. I remember there were just several printing errors at really key moments that thank god the person who scanned it went and made translations on their own for the raws of those pages.

I remember I originally turned down reading Parasyte manga because the Tokyopoop version was awful. I remember how they flipped the manga and changed Migi's name to lefty. I also remember it was LOADED with swearing like an amateur fan sub.

>>15450198

Which Devilman character is she based on?

>>15446867
They're too preoccupied with trying to wreck American comics to care about manga.

>>15452645
They do complain about them as far as I'm aware, but thankfully they can't directly bother Japanese creators due to them living on the other side of the world and not giving a shit what non-Japanese think.

>>15452014
yes, this is the one.

>>15447134
>using Tokyopop as an example
They grabbed super cheap licenses completely at random by the truckload regardless of how shit they were and were run by a retard who thought he could sell all that garbage with some lame advertising. The worst and most cherry picked example you could possibly use. Dark Horse manga does well

>>15444432
Which side story is this one?

>>15452227
>Shojo stuff like Sailor Moon, Shugo Chara, and Full Moon o Sagashite circulate very well at my library.
That's because the majority of manga readers (and readers in general) are women.

I wonder which of the 3 versions of the manga would be released in america.

>>15441540
Yeah but it cost like $1000 for a whole set now days

>>15454282
Woman are alot less pleb as manga readers than they are as book readers though.

>>15454719
I paid 150 $ for all. I can only repeat it. Ask politely and be kind, maybe than you can obtain for a similar price.

>>15441524
English Linebarrel manga will be released first.

>>15454909
That's just American women anon

>>15455274
>Ask politely and be kind,
I don't think Amazon.JP cares about that but alright

>>15457716
>going to amazon for used book
shiggy diggy 2017

>>15457697
Then you'll be waiting forever.

Devilman will be one of the most popular anime by the end of next year, so I hope it will at get a release in at least english.

>>15457724
It's pretty hard to find Devilman bilingual anywhere else. They only show up on ebay when the planets are aligned.

>>15459027
>Devilman will be one of the most popular anime by the end of next year
If you're referring to crybaby, it looks like flash shit that only hipsters will stick by.

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What I'm curious about is that if the bilingual edition is even an accurate translation.

>>15454682
None. Because it never will.