This past week I also purchased my first digital
manga volumes after buying myself an iPad (oh my credit card, it weeps!).
Not exact matches
As for the
manga adaptation, I think
after at least a
volume worth of chapters have gone by, we will be hearing an announcement from Kodansha about it being licensed.
The
manga really took off in popularity
after the anime began airing (you can see it on Crunchyroll), and last week, four of the seven
volumes out so far made the New York Times
manga best - seller list.
After that, though, the list gets quite diverse; the second ten includes several different
manga, two
volumes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and a Captain Underpants book.
I am tempted to squee about the eventual debut of the Starlights (
volume eleven), but they're around so briefly in the
manga that I'm not sure you'll love them as much as I do
after prolonged anime exposure.
After an eight year hiatus the supernatural
manga laced with all that glorious homoerotic tension (perhaps biggest understatement of the new year so far) will be returning to publication with the release of its twelth
volume in Japan.
So
after I read the latest book,
volume 11 (one of my best
manga of last year), I wanted to make sure I pre-ordered a copy of
volume 12.
Reminiscent of how odd it was seeing Tokyopop titles on release lists months
after their shutdown, so to will
manga readers get that with two Bandai Entertainment
volumes on this week's shipping manifests.
You've also seen his work if you were among the three or four people who bought the Robot series of art books, first from Digital
Manga Publishing (DMP), then from Udon, then not at all, since the U.S. release was canceled
after the fifth
volume out of 10, ostensibly due to low sales.
Vertical Inc has the first
volume scheduled to be released next summer, a couple months
after Kodansha Comics will begin releasing the new
manga version of the same story.
The Legend of Zelda
manga for example, we aren't due to get the first
volume until February...... and there are 3 MORE
VOLUMES SLATED
AFTER THAT!!!!
This will be the
manga's final
volume after 8 long years (going on 9) of publication.