Manga Collected Editions

[SkyMason21]

Welcome to the Manga Collected Editions thread! I've wanted to make this for a while and I'd love to help anyone get hooked on manga. I don't really have much to else say but I will try my best to keep this thread going and update it with more info. Any and all criticism is welcome (I really could use the help and advice). I will be post about new licenses as they come (with extra links about each series). I also will try to add the Japanese Publishers each Publisher is able to license from (eventually I want to add the individual magazines each Publisher tends to License from).

Rules:
1. Discussion of ongoing series: As this is a Collected Edition thread, try to keep detailed discussion of the weekly & monthly releases of series to a minimum. The New Manga/Anime Lounge Thread (http://community.comicbookresources....a-Anime-Lounge) would be a better place for that.


Licensed Manga
Licensed Series List http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...d=1&sort=title. This list isn't up to date, but it's the best I could find.

If you don't find a series listed there check baka-updates (http://mangaupdates.com). (Google the name of the series + baka updates and the series listing should be the first link you see).

Publishers

VIZ Media:
Series List (https://www.viz.com/calendar/)*This is their release calendar.
Formats (inches): Standard (5 x 7.5), 2-in-1 & 3-in-1 (5 x 7.5), Signature (5.8 x 8.2), Viz Big ( 5.8 x 8.6)
Licenses From: Shogakukan (co-owns VIZ Media), Shueisha (co-owns VIZ Media)

Kodansha Comics USA
Series List (http://kodanshacomics.com/series/)
Formats (inches): Standard & Omnibus (5 x 7.5), 2-in-1 Volume & $12.99 Books (5.8 x 8.2),Exceptions: Akira (7.4 x 10), Ghost in the Shell (7.4 x 10), Vinland saga (HC)(6 x 8.3)
Licenses From: Kodansha (Owns Kodansha Comics USA)

Seven Seas Entertainment
Series List (http://www.gomanga.com/serieslisting)
Formats (inches): Standard (5.1 x 7.2), Larger Trim (5.8 x 8.2)
Licenses From: ASCII Media Works, Ichijinsha, Kadokawa/Kadokawa Shoten, Media Factory, Shonen Gahosha

Yen Press
Series List (http://yenpress.com/books/)
Formats (inches): Standard (5 x 7.5), 2-in-1 Volume (5.8 x 8.4), Hardcover (6.2 x 8.8), Color Omnibus (7.5 x 10.5)
Licenses From: Kadokawa (Owns 51% of Yen Press), Square Enix, Kondansha

Vertical Inc
Series List (http://www.vertical-inc.com/books.html)
Formats (inches): Standard & 2-in-1 Volume (5 x 7)
Licenses From: Kodansha (Owns part of Vertical Inc), Kadokawa

Dark Horse
Series List (https://www.mangaupdates.com/publishers.html?id=204)
Formats (inches): Standard(5.1 x 7.2) *Their Omnibus editions don't seem to have a specific trim size

[SkyMason21]

New Licenses for 2016 (Recent ones I had the links for)

Vertical adds: Mysterious Girlfriend X, The Gods Lie, Devil's Line (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...e-manga/.90846)

Kodansha adds: Queen Emeraldas, Complex Age, and Forget Me Not (Queen Emeraldas, Yui Sakuma's Complex Age, and Nao Emoto's Forget Me Not (Soredemo Boku wa Kimi ga Suki)

Udon Entertainment adds: Rose of Versailles (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...s-manga/.90349)

Yen Press adds: My youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected, Handa-kun, Log Horizon: The West Wind Brigade, Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet, Sword Art Online: Mother's Rosario, Demonizer Zilch, Taboo Tattoo, How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...no-more/.90112)

VIZ Media adds: Kuroko's Basketball (Kuroko no Basuke), Haikyu!!, Yona of the Dawn (Akatsuki no Yona), 7th Garden, Everyone's Getting Married (Totsuzen Desu ga, Ashita Kekkon Shimasu), and Monster Hunter (Monster Hunter: Senkō no Kariudo). (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...n-manga/.93970)

Yen Press adds: Space Dandy, Dimension W, Overlord, Boy & the Beast, Scumbag Loser, Corpse Party - Blood Covered, Unhappy Go lucky (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...e-beast/.94051)

Fantagraphics adds: Otherworld Barbara (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...raphics/.94703)

Yen Press adds: Asterisk War, Re:Zero Manga (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-novels/.96025)

Seven Seas adds: Holy Corpse Rising, How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King, Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, Lord Marksman and Vanadis, Love in Hell II: Death Life, Magia the Ninth, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, Monster Girl Encyclopedia, My Girlfriend is a T-Rex, My Pathetic Vampire Life, NTR: Netsuzou Trap, Please Tell Me! Galko-chan,Pride and Prejudice, The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...-at-seven-seas)

[Thesanmich]

Was waiting for a thread like this to pop up.

[AJpyro]

So should we begin by not listing the big 3/or so of Shounen? How about manga that hits the double digits but doesn't go past 40?

[Balakin]

finally someone since I couldn't muster up the energy for it. Cheers!
Also, I think it would be nice to have recommendations for manga newbies, essential readings and what's the current state of their english translations.

[Kurtis K]

I'm currently reading this and it's very good. I need vol 2. soon.

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VIZ introduction:

The Perfect Edition
Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.
Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”

[Batarang]

Is there anyone here who follows the Vinland Saga ? How are the quality of Kodansha's Vinland Saga HCs ? I really want to get in to this manga series but one of my friends told me the quality of the books are terrible... :/ is this true ? :/

[SkyMason21]

Is there anyone here who follows the Vinland Saga ? How are the quality of Kodansha's Vinland Saga HCs ? I really want to get in to this manga series but one of my friends told me the quality of the books are terrible... :/ is this true ? :/

I had to go back and check my volumes since I haven't read them in over a year. Volume 1 first 3 signatures have detached from the paper/spine (sorry I can't remember what it's called), due to poor gluing. Volume 6 is sloppily glued as well but no issues yet. 5 is noticeably better than all of the others but the rest look ok. None have any gutter loss that I can recall (there aren't many two page spreads anyway).

This made me go check through some of my other books and now I found the bottom of my Bride's Story volume 7 wasn't glued. Now I need to get that fixed.

[Batarang]

I had to go back and check my volumes since I haven't read them in over a year. Volume 1 first 3 signatures have detached from the paper/spine (sorry I can't remember what it's called), due to poor gluing. Volume 6 is sloppily glued as well but no issues yet. 5 is noticeably better than all of the others but the rest look ok. None have any gutter loss that I can recall (there aren't many two page spreads anyway).

This made me go check through some of my other books and now I found the bottom of my Bride's Story volume 7 wasn't glued. Now I need to get that fixed.

As i feared... very poor quality... i think i will pass on vinland saga unfortunately. Thanks.

[SkyMason21]

Pick ups from the last couple of weeks. Tried out Dimension W and really enjoyed it. Art was surprisingly good. Rising of the Shield Hero's release schedule continues to be a mess. Vol 3 was listed for May and it shipped out March. Vol 2 was listed for late April and I got it in early February. Glad to get them earlier but I'd rather it have a consistent release schedule. Vol 4 just got listed for May so they can't mess that up at least. Excited to read Tokyo ESP vol 4, finally finish vol 3 and it was fantastic. Vertical's done a great job with this series, can't believe they'll have it caught up by November (14 volumes in a year and 1 month).

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[SkyMason21]

Kodansha USA announced 35th Anniversary Hardcover set for Akria in 2017 http://kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/pos...nt-1-akira-the

Kodansha Comics will release Akira: The 35th Anniversary Box Set. It will feature Vol. 1-6, the complete series, in large format hardcovers, plus the Akira Club art book. For the first time ever in English, the series will be presented in the original right-to-left format, with unaltered original art and Japanese sound effects with endnote translations.

Kodansha also announced Vinland Saga Book 8 for Fall 2016 http://kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/pos...2-vinland-saga