Another reprint of the Saailor Moon manga...in small format

[mrploddy]

武内直子 文庫コレクション：美少女戦士セーラームーン 25周年プロジェクト公式サイト

Basic gist - manga to be reprinted in small pocket size format - hard as hell to read...

 

[NJ_]

Yawn, wake me up when there's a full color version then I can get excited.

 

[MementoNepenthe]

At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if they announced a re-release of the original tankoban version. Will we ever get a full-color release or those long-promised art books?

Still, I find that edited version of the perfect edition cover illustration interesting... Assuming they use that as the cover for volume 1 of this new release, I wonder if we'll get similarly edited versions of the other illustrations for the remaining volumes' covers...

 

[Neon Genesis]

I wish they would re-release the manga with the original cover art. I personally always liked that cover art a lot more than the 10th anniversary edition.

 

[Maraviollantes]

Yawn, wake me up when there's a full color version then I can get excited.

I'm pretty sure at some point in the future they will make it. For some two decades already Naoko and Toei successfully milked the franchise by selling us the same series in slightly different wrapping of remakes, retouches, reprints, reimagining, remasters, refreshes, and re-whatevers without making anything new. Selling the same manga, but colored, to the same people yet again at double or triple prices would quite fit into that strategy, and once again would save Naoko & Toei from the hassle of attempting to do anything new for yet another decade. So it's only a matter of time before they send a few manga volumes and a pack of color crayons to their freelance artists in Vietnam to prepare the new color manga release.

 

[Clow]

*rolls eyes*

These people can't stop producing cheap merch.

 

[onesurvive]

It would be cute to have a few in small format haha

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

It would be cute to have a few in small format haha

Maybe someday they'd also release a version in large format.

 

[onesurvive]

Well the 2015 or whatever ones were pretty large.

 

[NJ_]

Not large enough, they need to be statue sized.

 

[Clow]

The oversized "eternaru" edition.

 

[MementoNepenthe]

So, to summarize, there are:

- The original serialized run of the manga in Nakayoshi and Run Run
- The tankobon edition
- The shinsoban / re-release edition
- The "Moon Prism Box" pseudo-motion comic version of the shinsoban from the previous version of the official Sailor Moon website
- The kanzenban / perfect / eternal / re-re-release edition
- The bilingual re-release of the kanzenban (one volume released so far, including Acts 1-6, not 1-7, and thus not an exact re-release of the kanzenban)
- A novelization of the manga (ostensibly based on the shinsoban edition; only 3 volumes planned so far)
- This new bunkoban edition

Coming soon:

- An aizoban edition
- A soshuhen edition
- A wide-ban edition
- A digital / e-book edition
- A pop-up book edition
- An edition with simplified Japanese text
- An edition with classical Japanese text
- A reissue of the tankobon edition
- A reissue of the serialized version of the manga sold as individual comics (a la Tokyopop/Mixx Comix)
- A reissue of the shinsoban (with stickers)
- A reissue of the shinsoban (without stickers)
- A stereoscopic edition
- A life-sized edition

And still there'll be no fully colorized version.

 

[godot]

- A life-sized edition

That seems ... weird.

 

[Star Angel Haruki]

Meh, they'll just release a Sailor Guardian coloring book and tell us to have fun.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

Meh, they'll just release a Sailor Guardian coloring book and tell us to have fun.

Well, you may simply treat the whole manga series as a coloring book series, then you'll have ample time to kill while waiting for the Crystal movie.

 

[SailorSugababe]

Next version will be 5 volume version, 1 volume per arc 500-600 pages each




I would buy it...

 

[MementoNepenthe]

Then there'll be a complete series omnibus release with a cover made out of silver crystal.

 

[NJ_]

^....that actually sounds better compared to how Death Note was handled recently.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

^ Kodansha exec: "Thank you for giving me the idea for the next Sailor Moon manga version to be released - should've thought about that but somehow didn't. lol BTW, I'm coining it the "Bible version" & it'll be in hard, leather cover. Stay tuned."

 

[MementoNepenthe]