Mely, two weeks ago:
In the hope that what makes the licensing inevitable is saying out loud that something will never be licensed, I predict the following will never be licensed:
Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi, because clearly there is no audience for subtle, strange, sad, and magical tales based on Japanese folklore and an almost ecological understanding of folk magic;
Done!
Telophase tries it out in comments:
*optimistically mentions again that there is NO POSSIBILITY that Records of a Yokohama Shopping Trip will ever get licensed*
Anyone listening?
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
I’ll play!
Boy, I’m just certain that no manga company will license more work from Iou (Sexy Voice and Robo) Kuroda, because he’s so talented and innovative.
There.
It’s too bad no one will ever, ever translate those Candy Candy mangas so that I can know what that anime I watched as a kid was all about…