Comments on: ANNOUNCE: TEKKON KINKREET: BLACK & WHITE ALL IN ONE EDITION

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MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Late linkblogging — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:56:12 +0000

[...] Christopher Butcher has an advance look at Viz’s new edition of Tekkon Kinkreet. [...]

By: blauereiter

blauereiter — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:31:09 +0000

It will be interesting to see how the audience in the States will respond to this animation film.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:01:35 +0000

John- I think the prevailing wisdom amongst publishers is that any book intended for an older AND more mainstream audience than your average manga, can’t be bothered to learn how to read books L to R. It’s hard to argue that, because the most successful ones–the Tezuka from Vertical and the Tatsume from D&Q–have been flipped.

(That and this was already flipped, re-sound effect’d, and lettered back in the day. I can imagine they’d like to keep the bottom line looking as nice as possible considering that there’s no way it’s gonna do SJ numbers…)

By: John Jakala

John Jakala — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:20:09 +0000

Any idea why it’s being printed L-to-R? Simply because that’s how it was printed in PULP and it’s easier/cheaper to re-release it that way?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:19:06 +0000

Good catch! I would imagine that since the interiors are flipped, the cover image is flipped as well. That red cover is ACTUALLY from the Japanese edition, who knows? The english version might be flipped too.

- Chris

By: Nick H

Nick H — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:18:09 +0000

Looks like they’ve flipped one of the images, as the line over the eye changes sides from one cover to the other.

By: Huff

Huff — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:34:59 +0000

Awesome. Props to Viz for making my double-dip worth it, though I probably would have bought it even if they printed it on toilet paper. Shame the film is supposed to be mediocre.

By: Hugh Stewart

Hugh Stewart — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:51:04 +0000

Man, I am 1000% excited for this comic. The movie looks pretty great as well.

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:07:18 +0000

Thanks for the reminder, Chris! I totally just pre-ordered it. ^__^

By: Dominic Bugatto

Dominic Bugatto — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:03:25 +0000

Can’t wait. Set one aside for me buddy.