Comments on: Why Can’t I Find This Volume?

By: hamster428

hamster428 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:10:03 +0000

I’m also missing Goong 8, which I’ve first started to look for in the Spring. The price on it is only getting steeper by the day now >__<

By: Lori Henderson

Lori Henderson — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:13:23 +0000

@Aurora – I’ve already got Goong, and am fortunately up to date on it, but it doesn’t surprise me to hear that Yen has done this again. Manga is just not like books in that you can usually read just one and move on. And Goong…that is a tough one because it can be so addicting!

@CrispyF – Dark Horse is rather annoying with their on-again, off-again publishing schedule. I have often wondered if the reason they hold back releases is to just drum up attention for them.

By: CrispyF

CrispyF — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:53:35 +0000

Eden: It’s an Endless World volumes 8 and 9.
I am seriously considering either paying £40 for them via Amazon marketplace, or getting an iron bar and going down to the Dark Horse publishing house and beating them repeatedly until they cough up one of the several volumes they have held back, which I assume they will be selling to contribute to the company pension fund.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:00:11 +0000

I feel you on Pig Bride 4. -_- I only have my copy because I noticed that Midtown Comics amazingly still had it in stock! I bought it up when I had the chance, so now I have volumes 1-2 and 4. I’ll get the other two volumes sometime, hopefully before they mysteriously go out of print as well.

I would advise you never to check out Goong, though. Volumes 5 & 8 are also OOP on Amazon, and 6 & 7 are listed as “Ships in 6 – 12 Days”— which means they’re probably OOP too. Thankfully, I’d already gotten 1-7… but I have no idea how I’m going to get my hands on 8. I’m not paying $40 for a single volume. o.o What is it with Yen Press and not keeping things in stock?

@Heather Ward: Swallowing the Earth? Oh, now I feel a bit evil. The person selling it for $58 on Amazon is me. xD I found it in a used bookstore for $10. I’ve never liked Tezuka’s stuff, so I don’t mind trying to make a profit off it.

By: Lori Henderson

Lori Henderson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:16:56 +0000

@Heather – Yeah, that is a surprise! I wonder though, since it was DMP and not Vertical that released it if they didn’t get the same terms as Vertical does.

@Powder1984 – Please, rant all you like! I’ve had the same problem with Sgt. Frog 21, which came out in the same wave as Happy Cafe. I thought I had a line on it, but it got cancelled just before shipping. So frustrating when that happens!!!

By: powder1984

powder1984 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:59:13 +0000

I know your pain! With Happy Cafe 8 being the last volume released by Tokyopop I’ve been going nuts trying to find it! At first I thought that because sites like RightStuf weren’t including Tokyopop releases after mid-May that maybe it wasn’t released at at. But lo! Thanks to my manga peeps on twitter I learned it does indeed exist. I used to work at a certain bookstore so I texted my friends still working there if there was a copy to hold it for me and I would have flown down the expressway to get it. Unfortunately they had only up to volume 6. I got so used to pre-ordering Happy Cafe from Amazon that when even they didn’t get the new release I kinda knew I was going to have a fun time trying to find it.
Long comment but I just wanted to take the opportunity to rant!

By: Heather Ward

Heather Ward — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:46:41 +0000

The title I have problems with is Swallowing the Earth by Osamu Tezuka published by DMP. I never thought waiting 8 months on that title would cause me so much problems, especially with the publishing success Vertical has enjoyed with Tezuka titles.