Kai-Ming Cha of Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week has a nice roundup of the manga news. This struck me as interesting:
Yen Press announced plans to simultaneously publish its books in the U.S. and the U.K. “Imports from the North American market has kept the U.K. manga market from growing,” said Yen Press co-publishing director, Kurt Hassler. “To prevent this, we’re going to move our print runs straight to the ground in the UK. We want to give them an opportunity to get behind manga.”
If current trends hold true, pretty soon everything is going to be published everywhere simultaneously. In omnibus editions.
Meanwhile, Ed Chavez has more info on the Seven Seas panel and CMX’s license of Crayon Shin-chan.
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Good to hear Crayon Shinchan’s being picked up again but CMX? Are they going to TenTen it? I can’t see DC just letting all those naughty shin-chan bits go uncensored. There’s goes Mr.Elephant. I wonder what kind of butchering they’re going to unleash on the cultural references?
I am still having problem believing Shin-chan’s being released here. I have some 40 plus shin-chan manga so I’m a huge fan, but Shin-chan is basically a HOUSEWIFE manga. Married women is its core audience, and they do a lot of pop culture reference for that group. How are you going to translate things like Kanryuu Tours (middle age women travel to Korea in packs to pay homage to their favorite Korean dorama locations) or the huge popularity of 24 in Japan? Shin-chan’s is extremely eccho (perverted) for a 5-yrs old boy… how can this be allowed in this hypocritically puritanical land? Sigh, this is a title probably best left untranslated.