While browsing for manga online, I think I noticed that the Europeans (ie: France and Germany) get a lot more manga than the Americans. Is this true?
For example, One Piece Vol. 36 has already been released in Germany, Vol. 28 in France, while American readers are still waiting for Vol. 8 (Comes out in October). 20th Century Boys and Monster have been released on a regular basis in France. Okama's (an artist that I've recently taken an interest in) manga Cat's World has been released in France, which makes me think that France will possibly see his new manga collaboration with Hideyuki Kurata (creator of R.O.D) "Cloth Road".
Can someone familiar with all of this comment? Does anyone in the US who speaks German or French import manga from Europe?
An article at ICv2 <http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/6901.html> reports that U.S. manga releases for 2005 will be around 1,000 volumes.
Anybody know how that compares to European countries?
Holy shit! Manga in Europe is fantastic.
Dont forget manga in Japan please...
>>4
Thinking about manga in Japan makes me sad... They can choose between all the good stuff.
Look at it this way:
The World = Public mens bathroom.
Japan = Penis
Manga = Urine.
Europe = Urinal.
North America = Toilet.
The urinal is getting way more urine, but once in a while, some dude embarasssed to display his small penis in public will pee in the toilet.
The UK gets not-so-much manga. :(
Manga isn't as big in Germany as it is in the US, the UK or France, but comics in general are and most of the manga titles are published by the established major comic publishers, so that provides for some fairly popular titles coming here relatively soon.
Additionally, manga have been getting bigger and bigger ever since they were really a new concept that was started to getting marketed in the 90s. At first, they'd just publish anything that was somehow popular in Japan or in the west where it already got published. Right now, the policy has notably shifted to a) pushing out the manga that are a guaranteed hit because of their license (e.g. Pokemon) or b) customer base wishlists which are taken into consideration.
>customer base wishlists
Please to explain.
here i get released:
translated in my motherlanguage:
one pice
shonen Jump(with naruto,shaman king,samurai x)
and a bit more
translated in english i can get almost everything , but not the lates releases like X astray fx.
It's logical, I think, because France has a longer (or more unbroken) tradition of accepting comic books as appropriate reading material for adults.
The Comics Code may have been 50 years ago, but its effect on the US comics industry is still present, much to the industry's detriment.
>>9
The Publishers use message boards for communication with the fans and look which series are most requested. Sometimes they even have a special thread for wishlists.
For anime we have wunschliste.de, a private website listing a lot of tv series with the possibility to vote for series you want to see in tv. I don't know how many tv stations actually look at this, though.
I think tokyopop is pretty big in germany
>>13
Not really. The biggest publishers of manga are still those who were the main players before the manga craze began, Carlsen Comics & Ehapa/Feest
I don't mean to derail this thread, but where can I find more Okama material? I've only found Hanafuda scans and art from his HP, of which I posted my favorites here:
http://img2.iichan.net/2/res/12822.html
Supposedly a Cloth Road translation is in progress by this group:
But no signs of Cat's World or any of his other works... ｡･ﾟ･(´Д｀)･ﾟ･｡
Share/Winny triggers on "okama" will net you a lot of stuff.
>>16
You probably already know this but he has a short manga in the art book//manga anthology called Robot.
Which is out in US.
>>17
You are an evil man for suggesting that and I am an evil man for laughing over it.
I was completely serious, actually, but I forgot to mention that the keyword should be kept in western script, because that's how he likes to write it, and that makes it a very good and exact trigger. If you do write it in Japanese, then, well...
Why did he name himself Okama anyway? That's pretty weird.
>>21 should be more tolerant!
Let's take it 2 the extreme.
LOL! Sure, that's one way of thinking it... ;)
Japanese paint chat.come hare
http://www.takamin.com/oekakichat/user/oekakichat3.php?userid=221132
Gosh, there's an English version of 2ch!!!! This is so funny!!! Anyway, I agree we don't get enough manga in the U.K. (not sure about the rest of Europe but I guess it's the same). What a pity we don't have something like Kinokuniya here. However, there's BK1 and you can basically get all sorts of stuff from them at a relatively cheap price.
>>26
Bring your friends!
Do you ever get manga re-translated to use British colloquialisms?
>(not sure about the rest of Europe but I guess it's the same)
The only complaint Germans voice regularly is that Carlsen and the other big continental French publishers are pushing Shoujo too much and that we do not get enough Shounen/Seinen.
>>29
Sounds like North America.
Does Europe get all the shitty "Original Manga" and Korean crap as well?
Yeah, France is number two biggest manga market
We have plenty of manga at stores, it's kinda odd that America read less manga than France
American doesn't read book.
>>32
Sad fact. Americans are more interested in animu :'(
I'm french and yeah France is the second largest country editing mangas. But concerning anime lol you can dream. Even tough they get licenced pretty fast, it takes years before you can put your hands on a DVD. And a big problem concerning anime editing is the packaging... You can even find some that look like they were maid with paint... orz. But it also depends on the editor. For example French Collectors edition are damn good.