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Kiri ☂ ([personal profile] taotrooper) wrote2007-11-04 01:32 am

I do like color pages

I forgot to mention that I've had the following dialog at least twice this weekend, regarding the Barcelona con, since it was featured in the news.

Close Relative: So, why didn't you go?
Me: I'd totally go, if you pay me the trip expenses!
CR: Oh, alright, I'll pay for it.

Now, what I don't know is if they were joking or not, because the first question is always in a mocking tone. I'll ask them next year in advance to see what happens. I'm betting they'll tell me to fuck off.

But anyway! Looks like Norma and Glénat -manga publishers here- are planning to fuck me in the butt. Like the former wasn't doing it already.

Están estudiando editar los artbooks de Full Metal Alchemist y Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle en 2008.

So by the time I'll be over with Furuba and most of my series will be on hold, they might flap artbooks at me. And since I'm a cheap bastard, I so will end up buying the Spanish editions instead of importing the originals.

Respecto a RG Veda, si está tardando en salir es porque la edición está siendo revisada por las mismas CLAMP. De hecho, han comentado que la edición será digitalizada y será una versión totalmente exclusiva para España con nuevas portadas y páginas a color.

Basically, they've been working on a re-edit of RG Veda for a while. Now they're saying that they have CLAMP supervising the new edition (not that I blame them, because I've heard awful stories about the first one, but a part of me wonders if it's true when they're so busy). Also, this edition will be so OMG only-for-Spain exclusive it'll be digitalized, and have color pages and "new covers". Okay then. Color pages are awesome, even if I'm sure they'll charge us extra and my wallet will BLEED. But regarding the covers, I'm certain it won't be new art, but taking a different illustration as a base. You know what would be really cool, Norma? If each cover was focused in a different character! :O So much of Ashura is bad for the stomach *nods* Like, we could have the six stars, Kujaku, Taishaku, Ashura-oh, and the last one can be an obligatory main pairing one or something else.

Rurouni Kenshin - edición integral (Rurouni Kenshin Kanzenban, 23 tomos), de Nobuhiro Watsuki.
Las aventuras del samurai más popular del manga en una edición integral de lujo. Si aún no has leído esta obra, aquí tienes la oportunidad de hacerlo a lo grande. Incluye páginas a color inéditas en España.


Holy craaaaaap, Rurouken in kanzenban edition! *____* This is terrible news for anyone but me, because I never got around to buy Kenshin, and now I can with the pretty color pages. Of course, it'll be sooooo expensive and my wallet will be ANEMIC by then.

Oh, and I'll get around the Halloween meme tomorrow. Now to bed.

[identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
I've heard awful stories about the first one
A friend of mine has the first Norma edition of RG Veda (that's how I read it, actually) and it's really, *really* awful. The pages look like newspaper and the ink is so saturated that you can hardly see the details.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
It was the time when Norma were just a brand new company and knew shit about edition. It was so ugly, some manga fans today still remember how bad they were and they refuse to buy them anything, even if now they're one of the shiniest companies and they learned their lesson. It looks like they had troubles to renegotiate the series for the new edition, because the Japanese knew about the newspaper volumes and wouldn't trust them again, but I might be confusing this with something else.

Sometimes when I surf on eBay.es, I see several second-hand volumes. People are so looking forward to get rid of the old volumes...
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[personal profile] solesakuma 2007-11-04 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, Norma was heralded as the WORST.COMPANY.EVER. for a loooooong time. XDDDD
And what's a kanzenban edition???
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
They're supposed to be re-editions in bigger volumes than tankoubons, and are usually better edited and more deluxe than the original. Also, they usually have new cover art. Says the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%C5%8Dbon) that it's like a special collector edition.
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[personal profile] solesakuma 2007-11-04 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, I see.