^The key here being pre-teen…..Vagabond is unedited....though like I said earlier, in Vagabond, it's just...there. It's not like the sex scenes are a focus or anything like that.
I agree, I would very much ahve liked at least a few more volumes. The problem is now...the magazine is way ahead of the volume release. It's like an 8 month gap and if they continue 4 chapters per month and 4 volumes per year, the gap grows by about 2 months each year.
In my opinion the key is to have the following release schedule:
October - Volume 55
December - Volume 56
February - Volume 57
April - Volume 58
June - Volume 59
August - Volume 60
The thing is, we're already halfway through volume 57 and it's only July 2010...we'll be done volume 57 at the end of August but the volume won't be out until next April, which is pretty ridiculous. The gap used to be 3 - 4 months max between the magazine and the volumes, but they now have Naruto and One Piece volumes way behind the magazine.
I can only immagine this is an attempt to make people buy the magazine as within a year it will be 10 months ahead of the actual volume release...only problem is, the magazine becomes less and less worth the money considering they only run One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, and Crap...I mean Ultimo. They don't even run 4 chapters of Naruto anymore...not like space is an issue with only 4 series...for that matter, if they're only going to run 4, they should catch up Bleach and do 4 chapters of each...and still release the volumes within at least 4 - 5 months of when the chapters for that volume are done in the magazine, not 8 - 10 months later =/