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Here it goes

http://www.ihostia.com/omkee43nm3w2.htm ... 20-%2044.0

source : ritual of course!

Sweet!

I like Kayna's expression on the title page.

thanks !

multi rehost : http://www.multiupload.nl/LIB90WH3IF

The multi rehost just redirects to some page about hollywood screwing over filesharers and internet users.

NKato wrote:The multi rehost just redirects to some page about hollywood screwing over filesharers and internet users.

It works normal here.

Wow i thought the next one only comes out in 3 days.

Well this is mostly a talking chapter, mostly to show some more of what happend to certain characters. Especialy Ido and his assistant.
Well pretty short again, yet again Yukito seems to be taking his time.

In the end though, this new development brings up the question what ever will happen if Gally finds out what Sechs did to Figure?

NKato wrote:The multi rehost just redirects to some page about hollywood screwing over filesharers and internet users.

Mediafire mirror:

http://www.mediafire.com/?n4kg5triosb1in2

othergrunty wrote:Interesting to see the Barjack doctor and him actualy getting a backstory, considering he only appeared in a single scene in the original.

Actually 2 scenes:

1) When Den fights Vanado.
2) When Buick learns that the surviving brains of the Barjack soldiers will be put into the Heng's shells.

With the way this substory is going, I wonder if postswipe-Ido will find the disc that preswipe-Ido made and will thus pull a Kryten (with all of his "erased" memories being unerased). But knowing Kishiro, I doubt thatll happen, and in reality, old Ido is truly dead and any relationship Ido has with Alita will be something new. Better than nothing...!

I didn't understand a thing, but I found it to be very touching, I really liked this chapter

I am liking this a lot...still hoping for a translation on 113 I think, but w/e I have a decent idea about what is going on.

I am kind of wondering if the Japanese fans of Gunnm were bitching about the sometimes hairbrained-ness of Zott and this is Gunnm getting back to basics.

This brings me to the greater question, what is the Japanese Gunnm scene like at this time? We are kind of a pirate little forum, (Thank you so much Ripper), is Gunnm popular still? what ages read it? I assume it still has to be marketed somewhat for adults, the gore has really become next level (Figure's arm, Alita commiting the Camlam incident...).

just wondering.

well, let's take a look at japan numbers : GLO is not in the 2011 overall top 50 at least...



...although there was barely any GLO publication last year, due to change of editor.

not even in 2010 top 50 of authors, lowest was 1.5M. so, no real success at home, because of the female hero and too serious SF (lack of magical school girls).

i guess it's because the whole thing is legendary, that it can't stop from its own weight. The original series forged fond memories for a whole generation of european and american kids (us)

my guess is that kishiro sells 10x more overseas what he sells home... just in France it was more than a million overall copies every year so it would rank him in the top 50 (while a lot of others japmarket-only authors would get out of the international ranking)

that's how you become a legendary niche author in your own country

as for the community, at least there is a raw provider for us, so i would guess it does exist ²

i guess it's because the whole thing is legendary, that it can't stop from its own weight. The original series forged fond memories for a whole generation of european and american kids (us)

my guess is that kishiro sells 10x more overseas what he sells home... just in France it was more than a million overall copies every year so it would rank him in the top 50 (while a lot of others japmarket-only authors would get out of the international ranking)

that's how you become a legendary niche author in your own country

In the year 2010, Gunnm: Last Order was the 7th most sold manga in France.

http://jesulink.com/noticias/4105

In Spain, Gunnm: Last Order was in the Top 10 of the most sold manga for the months of November and December of 2011 (usually the yearly release dates of the Gunnm Graphic Novels... yep, here the editors publish Gunnm once or twice a year).

http://ramenparados.blogspot.com.es/201 ... -7-13.html

http://ramenparados.blogspot.com.es/201 ... 14-20.html

http://ramenparados.blogspot.com.es/201 ... 21-27.html

http://ramenparados.blogspot.com.es/201 ... -5-11.html

HumanRage wrote:well, let's take a look at japan numbers : GLO is not in the 2011 overall top 50 at least...

that's how you become a legendary niche author in your own country

as for the community, at least there is a raw provider for us, so i would guess it does exist ²

As far as i can tell it also sells well in germany. I also have not seen any manga selling shop in my city where they didn't sold Last Order or at least the original.

Also are the japanese still so stuck up that they can't like female heros in non magical girl or high school stories? Well at least the whole female hero problem would explain the strong focus on male looking Sechs, Toji and Zekka in Last Order. Kishiro trying to gain more attention.

Problem however is that we don't know how much he profits from the overseas sells.

HOWEVER the strong oversea sells would explain why Yukitopia has a english side which also includes the possebility of sending in fan designs.

Essentialy he takes his western audience serious.

... which also makes him a stranger amongst other JP authors. also, all the references to west hard rock bands, multi cultural backgrounds and words, etc.

while on the opposite, jap editors barely consider the outer market, sufficient for them to sell licences while they could have opened local offices and start translating worldwide, to collect money directly.

But they don't want that. eventually, you won't be surprised anaymore about how f*cked up are the japanese people