Will the final Strawberry Panic novel release?
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I was about to buy the first two volumes of SP and Ballad of a Shinigami but now I read the last ones have been canceled :saaad:. Are they still worth buying (although we won't have the end)? Or I better save the money for anything else? On top of that I live in Argentina, getting these books is pretty difficult, and now that I found a way to order them I came to know this sad news.
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While Seven Seas won't be publishing any further volumes or doing any kind of reprints of the existing volumes, the books that we did put out are highly regarded by the fans that did read them. So if you want to get a chance to have the most authentic light novel reading experience (original size, color illustrations, japanese name order and honorifics retained), then I'd say they're worth tracking down as they'll likely be collector's items soon as they're all out of print and are getting harder and harder to find at all.
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Japanese name order and honorifics retained :luv:
I really wanted to read the SP novel (and many others but they aren't translated). I'll buy them. Plus here they are 9 USD each :happyhappy:, only 1 more than in the US, things tend to be more expensive in Argentina (sometimes much more). It seems cheap to me. Just one thing, are the endings of volume 2 (both SP and Shinigami) too much of a 'cliffhanger'? Or do they end nicely but with the final open for the 3rd volume?
I really wanted to read the SP novel (and many others but they aren't translated). I'll buy them. Plus here they are 9 USD each :happyhappy:, only 1 more than in the US, things tend to be more expensive in Argentina (sometimes much more). It seems cheap to me. Just one thing, are the endings of volume 2 (both SP and Shinigami) too much of a 'cliffhanger'? Or do they end nicely but with the final open for the 3rd volume?
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well well
seeing i own the anime and am happey with it. loseing out on a light novel i never collected to start with means nothing. Though i do have both manga books 1 and 2 of this series and understand 3 will never grace my shelfs. sigh.. I will finish what i can now that said is vol 6 of Tetragrammaton labyrinth makeins shelfs and is venus versus virus vol 6 7 and 8 makeing shelfs. if so i will be happey with that from this company. I have alot of title from Viz and even ADV manga that i collect. Ah gunslinger girl will you ever catch up the Japan releases.. i know the answer to that one with Adv's problems. Though Viz has never let me down Bleach and Hayate the combat butler being two of my most well collected titles. Loseing a title like moon phase hurt a little getting to vol 12 and seeing that Tokyo pop just stopped carrying the title would not have stopped me from collecting the title. though.. starting a title thats never going to be finished after the fact might hurt. Sola anyone? one book to ever be released.. but i'll end up owning the anime box set someday anyway. Being a true fan i collect anime titles of manga i really enjoy and collect the manga if the story lines go beyond tha anime. Black lagoon or say if i really like the manga princess resurrection manga is better than the anime by far... just some thoughts by a collector.
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Did the market really drop out?
I would love to see the sales sheets. I also noticed the book stores from my state and i go to many! do not carry a lot of seven sea's titles or if they do only a few and those seem to be random.
It's almost like the story line for those titles ran into a wall all of a sudden and were given the drop more for the content than for the sales figures. This would make sense with something like strawberry panic taken in that context and a few of the other drop's as well when looked at form that stand point or mind set.
it reminded me of a time i went into borders asked about a book from there manga section and was told by the person working there that she wished she could burn all the manga books. I am not kidding her words. I told her this is why america was great each to there own!
So It would be intresting to see the sales sheets for those titles and just how well or not well they did. I was also sad to see other publishers drop titles as well.
As someone who collects both anime and manga both and enjoys both by the way i like the bleach manga just fine and the anime and will keep collecting both as long as there made.
I am sad to see the manga for strawberry panic will never be finished since the story line is just a little differnt form the completed anime! The anime is good by the way.
But I am happy to own the two titles of strawberry panic that are out. I am very HAPPY that Tetra and venus virsus virus are done and out. I collected both those as well. So i was really happy those are done and out. I would not say I would never collect your titles though. keep putting out stuff I enjoy reading and i will buy it. Though at this point with your not finishing three titles i would have collected I will not buy only # 1 of any title or something with only 2 out unless it really really appeals to me like strawberry panic did.
Sola was only one manga and i would have collected it as well but i learned only one was ever released here. Now the flip side haveing collected something like T. Moon phase up to 12 and knowing that in japan there's the last 4 i think. I would consider buying the last for in japanese just to get someone to translate the pages in pencil just to know the silly end of the story.
Same thing with Gunslinger Girl By ADV only 6 novels ever came out with about 10 in japan. I would consider doing the same thing for those as well since i enjoyed the first 6 and would want to know the end. As a fan there's nothing like knowing a books made it into french to the current title but not here in the states! how nuts is that!
So keep putting out titles i would collect and I will collect them. So far you have made three that I own. with three more that i will never collect due to there being no more of the title and it being left incomplete.
though thank you for the titles i did collect very much! such titles like tetra and Venus Versus Virus and even strawberry panic.
Hey ADV shut down how about picking up Gunslinger Girl? is that even possible?
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It's almost like the story line for those titles ran into a wall all of a sudden and were given the drop more for the content than for the sales figures. This would make sense with something like strawberry panic taken in that context and a few of the other drop's as well when looked at form that stand point or mind set.
it reminded me of a time i went into borders asked about a book from there manga section and was told by the person working there that she wished she could burn all the manga books. I am not kidding her words. I told her this is why america was great each to there own!
So It would be intresting to see the sales sheets for those titles and just how well or not well they did. I was also sad to see other publishers drop titles as well.
As someone who collects both anime and manga both and enjoys both by the way i like the bleach manga just fine and the anime and will keep collecting both as long as there made.
I am sad to see the manga for strawberry panic will never be finished since the story line is just a little differnt form the completed anime! The anime is good by the way.
But I am happy to own the two titles of strawberry panic that are out. I am very HAPPY that Tetra and venus virsus virus are done and out. I collected both those as well. So i was really happy those are done and out. I would not say I would never collect your titles though. keep putting out stuff I enjoy reading and i will buy it. Though at this point with your not finishing three titles i would have collected I will not buy only # 1 of any title or something with only 2 out unless it really really appeals to me like strawberry panic did.
Sola was only one manga and i would have collected it as well but i learned only one was ever released here. Now the flip side haveing collected something like T. Moon phase up to 12 and knowing that in japan there's the last 4 i think. I would consider buying the last for in japanese just to get someone to translate the pages in pencil just to know the silly end of the story.
Same thing with Gunslinger Girl By ADV only 6 novels ever came out with about 10 in japan. I would consider doing the same thing for those as well since i enjoyed the first 6 and would want to know the end. As a fan there's nothing like knowing a books made it into french to the current title but not here in the states! how nuts is that!
So keep putting out titles i would collect and I will collect them. So far you have made three that I own. with three more that i will never collect due to there being no more of the title and it being left incomplete.
though thank you for the titles i did collect very much! such titles like tetra and Venus Versus Virus and even strawberry panic.
Hey ADV shut down how about picking up Gunslinger Girl? is that even possible?
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