I'm thinking this may be behind why FUNimation changed their logo to Gold.
New Official Viz Manga Discussion
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@Lobster:
^I KNOW It sucks. That's what I've been saying since DAY 1.
Exactly, We should have gotten that color logo, but instead they gave us this Nylon Suck-Fest.
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@Tokoro:
That's less about knowledge and more about eras. Ranma 1/2 is one of Viz's earlier manga projects, having started on it in the early '90s with what amounted to monthly comic books. (actually they did UY first but that didn't get the notice since Ranma was a bit more recent at the time) Prior to Inu Yasha and DB/Z, Ranma was "the" manga Viz was known for…and releasing the anime alongside it helped too. (but then again, I guess I've been at it for a long time considering that Viz's Ranma vol. 1 was the first manga I ever got)
same here with Ranma being my first manga and all, but still even without the popularity that series in SJ get it was still completed. I can't see them just stopping One Piece. Besides look at Case Closed. That's still going too yet the anime did horrible on adult swim despite it actually being good.
sniff sniff Do I smell a rugrat?
God, I'm no fossil but I wonder if you've lost all your baby teeth if you weren't around for the Ranma boom.
Before anime was searchable on Google (fuck, before Google) Ranma was Japanese animation in the States.
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Hold the goddamn phone. Your profile says you were born in 1984. How are you a year younger than me without knowing the huge force that Ranma was in the US?
Becauuse I was the only anime fan arorund my area and during that time around 1999-2002 I frequented pokemon forums, and pretty much had no knowledge of the rest of the anime community. So Ranma actually being a boom. Is news to me since I never knew anyone but me who read it around where I lived.
and before the late 90's I didn't even have a computer so as I said I basically knew nothing about the anime community until around 2003 when I started branching out into different series.
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I like the Gold, it helps it stand out to me on the shelves at bookstores.
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I was at the bookstore today and noticed they had on display three new Art Books Viz just released and they were all hardbacks. Anyone else hope Color Walk 2 gets the same treatment?
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I like the Gold, it helps it stand out to me on the shelves at bookstores.
One Piece is comic book gold!
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I was at the bookstore today and noticed they had on display three new Art Books Viz just released and they were all hardbacks. Anyone else hope Color Walk 2 gets the same treatment?
Only artbook I noticed at mine was the 2nd artbook for Fullmetal Alchemist. Don't think it was hardback tho.
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Damn, I'd love Color Walk 2 to be in hardback. That'd be a pretty penny though.
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@dirtmonkeyAL:
Damn, I'd love Color Walk 2 to be in hardback. That'd be a pretty penny though.
Plus it was never hardback in Japan, so you'd think doing something like that solely for the US release would be a little odd.
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eh while the art books and the databooks are nice and all. I don't really see the point to even owning them. It's not like they provide info that you haven't already seen in the series. If anything I bet after buying them they mostly just sit on the shelf collecting dust.
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eh while the art books and the databooks are nice and all. I don't really see the point to even owning them. It's not like they provide info that you haven't already seen in the series.
Give me the names of Buggy's, Krieg's, and Whitebeards ships.
Tell me the birthdays, favorite foods, and height difference between each strawhat.
If you can't, I don't blame you. That information DOESN'T appear in the manga at all. You read them in the data books. And that was just from the recent 3rd one. I need me those books in english.
Oh, and the art books. No need, already got them in japanese. Only reason to release them in America was to give them an easier means to buy them.
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Speaking of Viz data books, are they ever going to realease the 2nd Kenshin data book. I was assuming it'd come out soon after the manga ended it's serialization here, but it's been over a year now, I want my Kenshin Kaden.:sad:
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@LC:
Give me the names of Buggy's, Krieg's, and Whitebeards ships.
Tell me the birthdays, favorite foods, and height difference between each strawhat.
If you can't, I don't blame you. That information DOESN'T appear in the manga at all. You read them in the data books. And that was just from the recent 3rd one. I need me those books in english.
Oh, and the art books. No need, already got them in japanese. Only reason to release them in America was to give them an easier means to buy them.
I just don't understand the point of shelling out money for them. That's all I meant.
but yeah I guess they would make good collector items and provide further information that the series doesn't cover. I guess I just felt tthat way because I felt that the manga graphic novels are the only thing worth investing in.
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Only two chapters for issue 60, and interview with the Anime's director and chief character designer, and a letter from a One Piece fan, in which Viz 'plans to do more with Luffy and the gang'.
If you have any questions, bombs away.
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A fan letter? When was the last time they printed one of those?
Oh yeah as of the third quarter of 2007 One Piece ranks at number 21 on ICv2's top 50 Manga chart.
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Are the results for the DBZ Season 3 boxset winners out yet?
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@Yuugi's:
Only two chapters for issue 60, and interview with the Anime's director and chief character designer, and a letter from a One Piece fan, in which Viz 'plans to do more with Luffy and the gang'.
If you have any questions, bombs away.
What's the cover? Number of Bleach chapters? Number of Bobobo chapters? If you could answer those, that'd be swell.
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What did the fan ask?
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"Do more with Luffy and the gang?"
Jesus tap-dancing christ, VIZ! How vauge can you people get?
Looks like I really will have to submit multiple letters now.
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Maybe they're just going to add even more episodes per DVD.
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Maybe they're just going to add even more episodes per DVD.
No, even if they still have the rights I doubt they'll be releasing more DVDs with the episodes they have.
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Three chapters of Bleach, one Bo^7 (I think), and Naruto was on the cover, along with Atem in the corner. Also, YGO ended with it's best two chapters ever. Sad to see it go, to be honest, hopefully they will publish Yu-Gi-Oh! R soon.
The fan letter:
_I personally think One Piece is the coolest Manga in the world! You guy's should do more features on it.
Matthew Kerner_
Or something to that effect.
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Big question regarding ONE PIECE this month:
Boost or Point?
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@Yuugi's:
Three chapters of Bleach, one Bo^7 (I think), and Naruto was on the cover, along with Atem in the corner. Also, YGO ended with it's best two chapters ever. Sad to see it go, to be honest, hopefully they will publish Yu-Gi-Oh! R soon.
The fan letter:
I personally think One Piece is the coolest Manga in the world! You guy's should do more features on it.
Matthew Kerner
Or something to that effect.
Bo-bobo: Well at least they're through the Shibito/Kuruman fight. That means the next issue is the start of the J fight…(wish they would just do all three J chapters but with Naruto starting the timeskip next issue, fat chance)
Bleach: So...guess those two finally showed up. People wondering about "that emo Hollow thing" in the new Wii game finally meet him...and that other guy.
YGO: Its...over. Sad to see it go since it was one of the building-blocks for Viz, but all things come to an end. (that and they still have YGOGX...YGOR is not confirmed so far)
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Boost, not point. If I remember correctly one of the names used were 'Limb Boost' or something.
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Why is the curse still upon us.
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m glad Viz didn
t fuckup the One Piece plot the same way 4kids did it.I don't think that would even be a possibility that would come across anyone's mind.
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No, even if they still have the rights I doubt they'll be releasing more DVDs with the episodes they have.
Well that was only a joke. I've seen very little, if any, edited OP DVDs in stores which gives me the message that their release is pretty much dead. I find it really funny though that they say they have "more plans" for the series yet in the same issue they cut it down to two chapters again.
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So, Viz is going with continuity just like FUNi is with the 4kids dub…I am worried they're gonna call Ace "Trace". We'll find out in a few chapters at the end of drum.
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NO they said in the manga Trace will still be Ace,
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NO they said in the manga Trace will still be Ace,
They also said Mr. Satan would remain Mr. Satan in DBZ.
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Because volume seventeen has ten chapters and Viz likes to publish their chapters so that two chapters from one volume are printed with one from another we got two chapters this month as to not mix things up.
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But Point is Boost.
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I'm sure his Whitebeard Pirates tattoo is going to get changed but I doubt they're sticking with Trace.
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Dammit, I really hate art edits but they will most likely change his tattoo. I'm still sad Oda had to change the mark himself.
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@ Yuugi's Black Magician
How many chapters of Yuyu?
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I do believe there was two, ending the Sea Man battle.
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If they did anything for One Piece, they should do what they did with naruto and just do the Alabasta arc real quick, like 2 GNs a month or something. I'd rather them get to Mocktown already.
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@Yuugi's:
I do believe there was two, ending the Sea Man battle.
That's … that's lame-ish ...
You know what, I'm going to Borders today anyway. Since I'm up-to-date on what VIZ has of One Piece out, I'm collecting some Yuu Yuu Hakusho. It's not much compared to what the big picture might be, but it did used to be my favorite anime.
I think it deserves better than what's happening to it now. Seems that even its fans are abandoning it really.
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Well with the Alabasta movie coming out…They should keep going at the pace there goining.
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Well with the Alabasta movie coming out…They should keep going at the pace there goining.
Weren't you banned?
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Well with the Alabasta movie coming out…They should keep going at the pace there goining.
I believe thats already out….Aren't they working on a Drum Island arc movie now?
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Yes, he was. Now he is back.
It's called "temporary ban".
I've heard of it… but hasn't he been banned for like 2 months?
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I believe thats already out….Aren't they working on a Drum Island arc movie now?
I think he means the Funi version of the Arabasta movie.
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@Really:
I think he means the Funi version of the Arabasta movie.
Didn't know Funi was making a version of it. Thats another thing, you'd think that SJ would want to stay with the dub somewhat with Skypeia. By this rate when SJ reaches Skypeia, the dub could be at Enies Lobby or Water 7.
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It could just be that Viz Media likes the pace One Piece is going at right now, not to mention they're busy with putting out the product more likely to sale (i.e. Death Note, Naruto, Bleach).