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Le Secretaire Comtesse Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:58 pm
As much as it kills me to report this, I'm going to have to do so. Dark Horse Manga has postponed Hellsing volume 10. Instead of coming out on April 28th, it will come out May 12th.
Frankly, I am extremely angry by this as I don't see how merely translating one volume of a manga could take this long. Any thoughts on this?
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:27 pm
well this is a guy who takes a year and a half to bring one volume out
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Le Secretaire Comtesse Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:29 pm
Yeah, but the problem is Hellsing 10 was released in Japan March 27, 2009. :/ The problem doesn't lie in publishing it the first time...as that has already happened in Japan.
Oh, and the release date seems to keep changing. Wikipedia now has it for May 15th. I'll keep an eye on the date, as it keeps shifting.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:31 pm
Sorry for the douple post.
I'm going to leave this link here. It's Dark Horse's website on the Hellsing 10 page. :3
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/16-721/Hellsing-Volume-10-TPB
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Le Secretaire Comtesse Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:42 pm
AHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRG!!!!!!!!!!! I wait so long and mark my calender and everything! crying Hmmm. You know, maybe reading it online might be the problem. I was looking at the deviant Art page of the writer of the Sonic the Hedgehog comics(which I like) and he said that he might stop making them because people weren't buying them anymore and just reading them online. Also, my sister found out that Darkhorse was asking Manga Scan websites to take off their manga from the site. So, I think that that might contribute to it.
But it's probably not the whole story.
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:18 am
Yeah, between Amazon.com and online manga sites, we're killing manga publishers (and bookstores too). It's quite sad. That's one reason I'm against reading manga online unless the series I want to read is only in Japan. If a series I read online comes to America, I'll still buy it, and I'm still going to buy Hellsing 10.
Overall though, bookstores could be a thing of the past. Heck, manga and anime could be too. People watching anime online is having the same effect on anime companies in America. (I'm heavily guilty of this due to the fact I don't have a good anime supplier anywhere around me.) This is one reason the HU dub had to be postponed. Now, Geneon went under, and their liscense for HU hasn't expired yet.
Once it does, I expect FUNimation to take HU and continue the dub.
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Le Secretaire Comtesse Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:05 pm
This is exactly why I'm nervous about getting into the comic business. Nowadays, the rate of comics and manga series getting cancled is high.
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:12 pm
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Le Secretaire Comtesse Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:45 pm
As I already explained above, Americans are nowadays just going to the Internet to read manga/comics and watch anime instead of buying them. This is dramatically hurting the publishing companies and bookstores that supply them because they aren't earning profit from selling them. The original company that actually produces them the first time (such as Japan or Korea) don't have such a big problem since the readers actually have to wait for the books to be released. In order for the manga to be put on the Internet, it must first be finished and published. When a manga is published in America, chances are, it has already been published in another country. Therefore, any online free manga website can get ahold of the original, translate it, and post it on their website. This saves the reader money, but the companies lose money, therefore threatening them. Some of the smaller companies may go out of business. Dark Horse is actually one that is going to various manga sites requesting Hellsing, Blood Plus, Trigun, ect. to be taken off. Onemanga.com is one of these sites that may have Hellsing and Trigun listed, but you can't read it. FUNimation, an anime company also the one in charge of Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate (well, almost) has been going around to anime sites requesting the same thing.
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:45 am
But the cool thing about FUNimation is that you can go on to You Tube and watch episodes of Soul Eater actually put up by FUNimation themselves for free. I think they'll do that with other anime, too, but I'm not sure.
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:23 pm
I've read the ending online already, but I'm still getting the 10th volume. There's nothing quite like reading a book; it seems so much more natural than reading online.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:57 pm
I have a feeling Kohta's saying "dammit, translator died again >=( i hope nobody figures out why it takes me so freakin' long to publish Hellsing books..."
...Actually, I'm not sure. Could be related to the dip the economy took. And to add to the above discussion, I don't ever wanna see my beloved manga go away, which is why I refuse to read vol. 10 online. 3nodding And Kohta deserves every penny of royalty he's getting when I buy the books.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:20 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:33 am
I don't know if any of you are aware of this, but the final version of Volume 10 contains 20 pages of "additions and corrections," including 6 pages of new material.
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:00 am
The dates getting closer and closer. I was able to get my hands on the Japanese edition of volume 10 when I went to San Francisco. I'm curious as to what the new pages say. I can't wait to get the English version when it comes out.
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