One Piece Volume 9 for North America is out now for those who are intersted. You can find them in Barnes and Noble if you think I'm lying because I'm not. I have the new volume on my lap right now. The next release for volume 10 will come out in April 2006….....slow Viz.....anyway that is all I can say.
-Boodles and ChouChou are hosting the SBS.
-I found few Usopp Gallery pages with nifty american fanarts.
yeah he isnt lying i have it too. I laughed at the gin question
@joekido:
The next release for volume 10 will come out in April 2006….....slow Viz.....anyway that is all I can say.
It's necessary. I seriously doubt the English OP would even pull profit if it wasn't serialized in Shounen Jump; notice how, despite being significantly cheaper than other Shounen volumes like Naruto or Bleach, it doesn't sell too well. If we're lucky, the Shounen Jump magazine will be discontinued around Alabastia, which will allow faster publications.
i want them to cut off at the grand line and then do monthly or bi montly (hopefully monthly) publications
_ Originally Posted by mr.allsunday
Nice job jumping on the bandwagon there Aethos, I can only wish I was as cool as you_
i want them to cut off at the grand line and then do monthly or bi montly (hopefully monthly) publications
You mean publish the volumes at that rate? Nuh-uh, that will never happen. Companies want to have a constant flow of things to prevent "backlash" in the money flow; as in, Viz doesn't want huge demand that results in lower quality (remember the volume recall for OP a while back?) or apatheticism. OP isn't Viz's most profitable property, not by a long shot (I blame them as much as 4Kids), but it's still a source of revenue!
If you mean Shounen Jump magazine…isn't it monthly already?
yeah though there is one series that viz has that is gonna catch up to the manga in japan soon. Thats beet the vandel buster. They only have 9 tankoubans and viz is at 8 and the 9th is coming out in feb. I think beet is still running in japan, if its not i'll be pissed.
Yup, Volume 9 "Tear" gonna get that soon.
You can already order it off of the Shonen Jump site.
Saw it at the bookstore.
Well, I'm going to the bookstore tomorrow to spend my giftcards, so I'll be sure to get it.
It's necessary. I seriously doubt the English OP would even pull profit if it wasn't serialized in Shounen Jump; notice how, despite being significantly cheaper than other Shounen volumes like Naruto or Bleach, it doesn't sell too well. If we're lucky, the Shounen Jump magazine will be discontinued around Alabastia, which will allow faster publications.
It's cheaper than Naruto and Bleach?
Don't the advertisement pages in every volume reference the Naruto and Bleach issues for sale with the text "7.99 or less!" (which actually I like; the copy of Hellsing 1 I got was marked like 15.00, but was still 7 second-hand)
Aside: Damn, why didn't you let me know a few days earlier; I went to Borders on Monday and didn't bother looking. Browsed the Colour Walk, decided it wasn't worth 15 bucks, and bought Eyeshield 21 1 and Death Note 1.
It's cheaper than Naruto and Bleach?
Don't the advertisement pages in every volume reference the Naruto and Bleach issues for sale with the text "7.99 or less!" (which actually I like; the copy of Hellsing 1 I got was marked like 15.00, but was still 7 second-hand)
Yup, seems stores have trouble keeping OP off their shelves. Border's Books, possibly the most expensive store I have ever seen, prices OP at $6.99 and Naruto/Bleach two or three dollars more. At a convention I went to a week past in SF, OP was selling for $5.99…quite odd for a convention, I might add.
Yup, seems stores have trouble keeping OP off their shelves. Border's Books, possibly the most expensive store I have ever seen, prices OP at $6.99 and Naruto/Bleach two or three dollars more. At a convention I went to a week past in SF, OP was selling for $5.99…quite odd for a convention, I might add.
It's probably the dub, and I mean it in several ways:
-By widely disemminating the "OP aims young" image, shops may price it assuming that parents might not be willing to blow eight dollars a book for their kids.
-Perhaps many dubbies won't buy OP tankos because they're lapped by the dub. Why spend money to see Arlong again when you already "know" the story? Bleach isn't dubbed, Naruto isn't dubbed so far along.
Or other theories:
-Perhaps the OP otaku (who would buy tankos of stories they've read) have, in unusually high numbers, subscribed to ASJ or bought original (or other translation) volumes or download scanlations. As a more resourceful group, they're less dependent on Viz products and therefore buy fewer copies.
Yup, seems stores have trouble keeping OP off their shelves. Border's Books, possibly the most expensive store I have ever seen, prices OP at $6.99 and Naruto/Bleach two or three dollars more. At a convention I went to a week past in SF, OP was selling for $5.99…quite odd for a convention, I might add.
Why would the stores do that? That does not make any sense.
quite odd for a convention, I might add.
Was it the last day of the convention? Conventions usually lower prices on their stuff on the last day.
It's probably the dub, and I mean it in several ways:
-By widely disemminating the "OP aims young" image, shops may price it assuming that parents might not be willing to blow eight dollars a book for their kids.
-Perhaps many dubbies won't buy OP tankos because they're lapped by the dub. Why spend money to see Arlong again when you already "know" the story? Bleach isn't dubbed, Naruto isn't dubbed so far along.
Or other theories:
-Perhaps the OP otaku (who would buy tankos of stories they've read) have, in unusually high numbers, subscribed to ASJ or bought original (or other translation) volumes or download scanlations. As a more resourceful group, they're less dependent on Viz products and therefore buy fewer copies.
Otaku are generally stupid, especially if they refer to themselves as such. The "average anime" guy/girl usually knows enough to realize that Anime is usually heavily edited, and what more could be entailled by a company called "4Kids"? Obviously, OP is not Hamtaro or Doreamon!
Also, I doubt the dub really has much affect on the manga readers. Just a feeling, really; A poor dub didn't stop the later explosion of DBZ popularity. OP just has a very unconventional style (interpreted by westerners as "weird"), such that it looks cartoony, so it's less Japanese than other Anime, and gosh, Japanophiles cannot like anything that's western! I mean, it's taboo!! -.-
We'll see how OP sells when Alabastia comes along. A more mature story might bring in a more mature audience.
@joekido:
Why would the stores do that? That does not make any sense.
It's the holiday season. Naruto has sold out, there's a couple Bleach volumes, and a shelf filled with One Piece. Doesn't that send some sort of signal…?
Was it the last day of the convention? Conventions usually lower prices on their stuff on the last day.
It was the last day of convention, aye. However, I still do not see why that would lead to a massive deviation in price between manga serialized in the same magazine.
Yup, seems stores have trouble keeping OP off their shelves. Border's Books, possibly the most expensive store I have ever seen, prices OP at $6.99 and Naruto/Bleach two or three dollars more. At a convention I went to a week past in SF, OP was selling for $5.99…quite odd for a convention, I might add.
Well, this is not true in my experience. I have never seen One Piece sell for less than $7.99 here, no matter which store I go to in any city in SoCal. The volumes seem to sell well, I have seen the shelves stocked, only to see them nearly empty a few weeks later.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa
I'm in socal and it's exactly as cosmicdebris describes, though I generally don't go to book stores because reading is unhealthy.
I buy the Viz Media graphic novels, because I can sit on the couch and read them; rather then on the computer like I do for the current. I don't care if I already know the outcome of the battles, as long as I can read it whenever I feel like it without somebody complaining that I'm on the computer or having to click on the next page everytime I'm done reading the last.
And yes, I do have Volume 9. It was pretty damn good, if I might say so myself.
-Perhaps the OP otaku (who would buy tankos of stories they've read) have, in unusually high numbers, subscribed to ASJ or bought original (or other translation) volumes or download scanlations. As a more resourceful group, they're less dependent on Viz products and therefore buy fewer copies.
Viz's poor translation of "X/1999" (known as "X" in Japan) was what motivated me to learn Japanese and translate manga. Needless to say, I haven't bought a damn thing from them in about four years now, and don't have any intention of doing so anytime soon.
I own a couple of the Japanese tankouban and intend to continue buying the rest as soon as I have procured the necessary funds.
It was the last day of convention, aye. However, I still do not see why that would lead to a massive deviation in price between manga serialized in the same magazine.
They just want to sell it before the convention is over, and will lower the price to do so (I've even convinced people to lower their prices at conventions on the last day. :happy: It's easier than you think.)
Still don't see why that would lead to a massive deviation in price between manga serialized in the same magazine? Me neither, but that's how it seems to work.
@CosmicDebris:
The volumes seem to sell well, I have seen the shelves stocked, only to see them nearly empty a few weeks later.
It's the same thing with the bookstore near my house. Volumes 5 and 6 sold out so fast that I had to order the books online.
Yeah I started buying OP Volumes last month and I went to Barnes and Nobles to buy volumes 4 and 5 and those were sold out. So the next week I went to Books-A-Million and they had one copy of volume 4 and 5 left.
Well, this is not true in my experience. I have never seen One Piece sell for less than $7.99 here, no matter which store I go to in any city in SoCal. The volumes seem to sell well, I have seen the shelves stocked, only to see them nearly empty a few weeks later.
Same here, every place I've ever seen One Piece has it for the same price as most of the other Shonen Jump titles. Viz sells a few titles for slightly more, like Tenchi Muyo, but I don't think I've ever seen One Piece cost less than, say Naruto or Shaman King.
On the other hand, I hardly ever see more than one or two copies of any given volume of One Piece when I visit a bookstore and those are almost always gone the next time I go by.
I don't think I've ever even seen a copy of volume 6 in any of the bookstores.
Complicating things since 2009.
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and state that Southern California is going to (likely) be more expensive than 90% of all other retail stores across the US, just because of the costs of running a business down there. I am in Northern California, and the Border's Books I visisted was in Davis, which, I could safetly say, has the most expensive real estate here outside of San Fransisco. The convention I went to was in San Fransisco.
Generally, retail stores should sell manga for cheaper prices than from Viz itself; otherwise, what's the incentive to buy from their stores? That doesn't look to be good business for me, unless:
(A) Parents are desperate and don't know better.
(B) People are not willing to make the effort to buy from Viz.
(C) They're just idiots.
Disregarding the last one, out of courtesy, (A) + (B), plus the income required to live in Southern California, I safetly indicate why stuff is more expensive there.
-Perhaps the OP otaku (who would buy tankos of stories they've read) have, in unusually high numbers, subscribed to ASJ or bought original (or other translation) volumes or download scanlations. As a more resourceful group, they're less dependent on Viz products and therefore buy fewer copies.
I'm subscribed to ASJ and plan to buy the JV tankos, but I own 1-8. Just because the translation doesn't suck THAT much, and because it's nice to have something to read offline.
Luffy: I'm the King of the Pirates!!
Sailor: A Pirate King? Well I did'nt vote for you <– sif rip of holy grail.. anyhoo YAY, might go fly to america and get it 
On a side note, I had just gotten the new (Feb. 2006) issue of Shonen Jump, and I really think that Viz still doing a good job the current arc, and personally, I don't like reading manga online, I think someone else said it on this thread before, but I much prefer sitting in a comfortable chair actually holding a book in my hand as opposed looming over a computer monitor 
Also, they seem to be running a contest where you write your own text to some acutal manga panels (p.148). Sounds interesting…
Do you know how many readers are going to submit the dialogue used in MSN group version?
hahaha i was planning to do that hahahha or make something preverted like the last panel i thought about "boy usopp sure has a nice ass"
sanji is looking at usopps ass
_ Originally Posted by mr.allsunday
Nice job jumping on the bandwagon there Aethos, I can only wish I was as cool as you_
hahaha i was planning to do that hahahha or make something preverted like the last panel i thought about "boy usopp sure has a nice ass"
sanji is looking at usopps ass
ROFL!!!
ahem…I looked for it when I was buying 11 One Piece card game booster packs last monday, but all I saw was volume 1-8...
I order all the Viz manga from Amazon. It's the only way, me living in England and all.
Heh, waddya know, I just got it today. Lol I also agree that the Gin question is funny. But it does kind of puzzle me…where DID he get those mallets/balls-on-a-stick thing?
Where do you get it where the postage doesn't rip you off?
I usually get 'em at discountanimedvd.com, but they're $5.80 or so there, plus $6 postage, so I'm losing $4 on each volume. I don't want to travel all over town at 2.25 a gallon to find them, and I'm guessing trying a random comics shop may not work, given it's not even supposed to be out yet.
So how did wagomu become rubber band of doom? Silly Viz.:rolleyes:
well, should be in the Shops in the UK next week. (I mean non-amazon) and I plan on picking it up then. Although, I have noticed that One Piece tends to sell out on the day they get it in unlike others like Naruto and Bleach (god knows how many volume 8 of Bleach my local shop has) Usually each viz manga costs only £5.50 so its cheaper than amazon too.
Two questions.
1. How far does this go into the Arlong arc?
2. Does Sanji have his dubbed names for his attacks?
The last book ended at 71, so I'd expect to 80 or 81.
I think in that range, the only attack he really does is 'Collier Coup' against poor sweet Mohmoo. And that's what it's called.
81 it ended at tears
@EvilGamerX:
So how did wagomu become rubber band of doom? Silly Viz.:rolleyes:
Hey, hey, hey! At least they didn't say something like, "rubber band of the next dimension."
Ah, thanks guys.
Well, I'm glad I don't have to read "Turkey Tenderiser" and "Pulled Pork Pound Surprise", when I get this manga.
@EvilGamerX:
So how did wagomu become rubber band of doom? Silly Viz.:rolleyes:
Well, as long as they're keeping the whole story intac and continuing to do good with the translation, I really don't care what little additions to attack names they come up with. (And it's good that Viz is keeping the French words in Sanji's attacks, Leg-O-Wham Supreme = ick")
The "Usopp Hammer! Usopp Hammer! Usopp Hammer!" sequence was still in the most recent issue, that had me laughing for a while XD.
You mean, Usopp**'s** Hammer
=P
@EvilGamerX:
You mean, Usopp**'s** Hammer
Meh, same difference XD
I dunno….is it possible Viz was adding "of doom" in place of "certain death?"
Also, remember they have to fill large word balloons with short english words sometimes
Riding a Rhino is safer so we Ride a Hippo for Adventure!
~Bobobobo BO-bobo~
PS: I am a big fan of kittens:love:
Well, as long as they're keeping the whole story intac and continuing to do good with the translation, I really don't care what little additions to attack names they come up with. (And it's good that Viz is keeping the French words in Sanji's attacks, Leg-O-Wham Supreme = ick")
The "Usopp Hammer! Usopp Hammer! Usopp Hammer!" sequence was still in the most recent issue, that had me laughing for a while XD.
Yeah, I actually bought that issue of Shonen Jump because I realized it only cost $4.99. :laugh:
I dunno….is it possible Viz was adding "of doom" in place of "certain death?"
Also, remember they have to fill large word balloons with short english words sometimes
Unlikely, in the original its just "Wagomu (Rubber band)" . Although in Japanese, since its written top to bottom, that probably gave them alot of space to fill in the ballon like you were saying. In addition, the vowels could be extended in the Japanese print (Wago(long vowel mark)mu), so that also gives them more space to work with.
They changed, "I'll pay with my body" To "I'll pay with kisses".
They changed, "I'll pay with my body" To "I'll pay with kisses".
I was kinda expecting that line to change one way or another.
I was kinda expecting that line to change one way or another.
I think they changed it mostly because little-kid Nami has to say it. In my experience of VIZ, they usually keep stuff
Riding a Rhino is safer so we Ride a Hippo for Adventure!
~Bobobobo BO-bobo~
PS: I am a big fan of kittens:love:
I think they changed it mostly because little-kid Nami has to say it. In my experience of VIZ, they usually keep stuff
Yeah, that is true. VIZ did cut out a majority of the swearing in One Piece, but they've been doing pretty good with the series otherwise.
