That said, I will say that Kodansha Comics QC is something to be desired. Further to that, for Negima!, they dropped some of the extras even though the translators translated the materials and both Del Rey and Kodansha had been using the stuff for nearly the whole series.
]]>The Akira editions Kodansha is reprinting are the exact same editions as the ones Dark Horse released.
The Kodansha editions missed their original ship dates, but the first 3 are available now.
There was a 2 year gap between when the Dark Horse editions went out of print and when Kodansha reprinted the first volume. By the time they’re done reprinting the series, volume 6 will have been out of print for nearly 5 years.
]]>Every single one of their releases to date have missed their shipping date, and they’re already on a _very_ generous shipping schedule. The result is that some of the bestselling perennials in manga publishing–AKIRA and GHOST IN THE SHELL have been unavailable for nearly 2 years now, and there are no answers to customer concerns why this is so.
I see the Akira titles all for sale at Amazon and apparently in stock, save for volume 4 which is on pre-order. So I was hoping for clarification on this item since the title does mostly seem available now.
Were the titles retranslated from scratch (as Dark Horse is doing wonderfully with their rescues of Chobits) or did they just use Dark Horse’s original translations?
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