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Update #3: Advance copies are here!
It's an exciting day!
We've just received an advance shipment of just over 200 brand new copies of YOUR print run of Swallowing the Earth! All of these copies will go to backers, and we will be shipping out rewards starting tomorrow.
Thank you for your patience and support!
Ben & Kwame
Update #2: Thanks to you -- a new title!
We have secured permission from Tezuka Productions to run another Kickstarter campaign for a brand new book by the master: Barbara. This is a very strange and dark title, but I was optimistic that it would connect with people -- and that seems to have happened, since we've already hit our target just 48 hours after launching!
This literally only took place because of the support of this project's backers. Without your support we could never have opened up this whole new route to getting niche manga into the United States.
Meanwhile, the new print run of Swallowing the Earth is on its way to us from the printer in Canada, and we're on track to ship it out in February as promised.
Thank you for taking a chance on this -- and if you're interested, I hope you'll consider joining our project for Barbara as well! We have some great rewards lined up, including a digital companion to the book with an original essay by Helen McCarthy (The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga) and original T-shirts and posters. Of course, if you'd rather wait and check out the book when it comes out, that's fine too -- thanks to its backers, Barbara will be getting a conventional release as well.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-osamu-tezukas-barbara-in-english
Update #1: We have big plans - and questions for our backers!
Thank you for your incredible support!
I was shocked (pleasantly!) at how many of you also want to see this book printed once again. As you can see, we have far exceeded our target, and we are now preparing to send the book off to the printer. In a couple of months new copies will be headed our way, and then out to you, along with whatever other rewards you selected!
If you haven't pledged yet, don't worry, you still have until Dec. 11 to get your copy, plus all the other deals on this page.
And if you chose an option that comes with extra manga, then remember you can make your selections anytime and send them to me in a message - I'll reserve your choices.
Thank to you, this isn't the end of Digital Manga on Kickstarter - and we'll have a really exciting announcement to make after this project ends!
In fact, I'd like to hear from you right now. How would you like future projects similar to Swallowing the Earth to be printed? Would you be willing to pay extra for larger-than-average manga pages? What about hardcover? Embossed? Crocheted? An after-reading mint in the back? The goal of this whole endeavor is to make manga the way YOU - the readers - want it, so let me know! Either message me through Kickstarter, or e-mail me at ben@emanga.com.
Ben Applegate
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Greg Webster on December 19
Elizabeth, can you elaborate? I'm not really aware what you are talking about. In my experience, a good portion of what English has received is modern products that are in fact non-mainstream, which is why they are much cheaper to license and bring over.
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Seth Goonetilleke on December 21
I would pay any extra amount for book with all of the bells and whistles that were mentioned above, though large pages and hardcover would be most important to me.
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digitalmanga on January 19
Actually, the titles we'd like to go after (and I think this is reflected with Barbara) are titles that may get a great deal of respect in Japan but are much more obscure in the United States. It's this gap that makes it tough to bring these books over to the U.S. market.
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This is it... the "Zephyrus Package," for the ultimate manga fan. It includes everything above and more: $20 to spend on eManga.com, a total of 25 volumes of any manga from the list to the left (or up to five additional copies of STE), signed Vampire Hunter D novel 1, signed Speed Racer, signed Vampire Hunter D manga Vol. 1, a thank-you note from DMP, AND an original Vampire Hunter D manga T-shirt, a tour of the Digital Manga offices next time you're in the Los Angeles area, VIP treatment at ALL future convention events we run -- that means you can cut in line for guest signings and guaranteed front-row seating at our panels! AND most exciting... One Japan-only hardcover full-color Osamu Tezuka art book - Choose either "Romanesque," a beautiful collection of Tezuka's drawings of his female characters - heroines, femmes fatales and more - or "SF Heroes," a dynamic collection of Tezuka's robots, aliens, samurai and more. We have only one copy of each, so these are first come first served!
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Digital Manga, Inc. (DMI) is one of the industry's most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the Western Hemisphere - specifically through the licensing, importation and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for the North American mainstream and subculture markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the expansion of Japanese pop culture institutions into global arenas.
Haven't got mine yet either... Are they still sending them out or did something happen? Tried looking for an answer at there facebook page but they never answered my question :/
We had a shipping snafu and a few of the shipments went out late -- I'm sorry! Everyone's books should be at least on the way by now.
got my copy! reading on and on :)) Thanx a lot guys!