{"id":1787,"date":"2008-06-17T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/06\/17\/one-more-step-down-the-road-for-the-kodansha-rumour\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:25:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:25:24","slug":"one-more-step-down-the-road-for-the-kodansha-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"One more step down the road for the Kodansha rumour&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"otomo_akira3.jpg\" id=\"image1788\" title=\"otomo_akira3.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 223px\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/otomo_akira3.jpg\" \/>Dark Horse Comics&#8217; upcoming book reprints list, which is sent to retailers every Friday and which I referenced in my last post on the subject, featured a change worth noting last week. On it, the upcoming reprint of Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s AKIRA (which is a Kodansha-licensed title) has disappeared&#8230; for North America. Instead, the &#8220;Titan&#8221; edition for the U.K. is in its place (Akira is co-published in the U.K. by DH and Titan Books). I have independently confirmed that there is no reprint of AKIRA currently scheduled for North America, though there was one announced a month or two back.<\/p>\n<p>While this doesn&#8217;t confirm that something <em>is<\/em> happening, it certainly confirms that something <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em>. For any further comment on the matter someone who isn&#8217;t me is going to have to contact Dark Horse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Horse Comics&#8217; upcoming book reprints list, which is sent to retailers every Friday and which I referenced in my last post on the subject, featured a change worth noting last week. On it, the upcoming reprint of Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s AKIRA (which is a Kodansha-licensed title) has disappeared&#8230; for North America. Instead, the &#8220;Titan&#8221; edition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One more step down the road for the Kodansha rumour&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-manga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}