Megatokyo Gets Licensed by Kodansha

July 12th, 2007 at 12:12 am (Anime, Articles, Take)

Megatokyo to Publish in Japan via Kodansha - Anime News Network

This just came to me via my feedreader (thanks Google!).

FredArt Studios and Dark Horse Comics announced that the Japanese publisher Kodansha has licensed the Megatokyo comic series. Kodansha’s Faust magazine will publish a 30-page translated preview and an introduction to manga-influence works in September. The quarterly, square-bound Faust literary magazine features serialized novels, interviews, essays, and manga. The magazine is planning to expand with an English version of itself in 2008.

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Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston began Megatokyo as an online comic in 2000, and Gallagher continues to release new web installments three times a week on his own. The story tells the misadventures of two foreign otaku stranded in Japan and the unusual characters they meet in and around Tokyo. In addition to the current English releases from DC Comics’ CMX imprint, the title is already published in German, Polish, Italian, and French. According to Gallagher, Kodansha first approached him about a Japanese edition last year.
Guess this is good news for Fred, now that his “manga” gets published, and licensed to boot, by a Japanese publisher.

Wonder if there are any other grassroot OEL’s willing to aim for this so-called “impossible dream”.

6 Comments

  1. Hinano said,

    July 12, 2007 at 1:28 am

    Why is his POS manga being picked up by Kodansha. Dear god why don’t GOOD artists get picked up instead of his POS artwork with no coherent plot. This is like overrated at its finest

  2. Ronin AnimeLover said,

    July 12, 2007 at 1:39 am

    Hinano Said:

    Why is his POS manga being picked up by Kodansha. Dear god why don’t GOOD artists get picked up instead of his POS artwork with no coherent plot. This is like overrated at its finest
    So you think that this was a bad acquisition on the part of Kodansha? That they should have picked something else more deserving, like the talented doujinshi-ka’s?

  3. lanie-emon said,

    July 12, 2007 at 7:19 am

    I’m a fervent supporter of Mega Tokyo, and I reckon this is good news indeed. All the best…

  4. Ronin AnimeLover said,

    July 12, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    lanie-emon Said:

    I’m a fervent supporter of Mega Tokyo, and I reckon this is good news indeed. All the best…
    So am I.

    The only gripe with the webcomic is how they’re going to present the first volume, since the transition from 4-panel strip to its current format would deter initial readers.

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