Tokyopop Nabs Otsu-ichi’s Goth Novel and Manga Adaption
News came out today that Tokyopop is going to release both Otsu-ichi’s novel Goth and the manga adaption of it; the manga being noticeable for having art by Welcome to the NHK artist Kendi Oiwa. I’ve already read the Goth manga, and despite how cliche the title sounds it is one solidly awesome story, featuring a boy and a girl hunting serial killers with the added twist of the boy being a sociopath himself. After reading Otsu-ichi’s other novel, Calling You, I can’t wait to read this novel and see how it compares to the manga, along with enjoying another one of his works in English. Otsu-ichi is definitely one of the better light novel authors getting translated right now, and deserves more credit and attention for his great works. Right now it looks like the manga will come out in September and the novel in October. I’ll be sure to pick them both up then.
P.S. Later this month the first novels of Seven Seas light novel line are coming out, and it’s interesting to see that while there is a roughly a seven month turnaround time between Tokyopop’s novel announcements and their publications, it’s taken Seven Seas TWO FREAKIN’ YEARS to get anything out. Just felt like pointing that out.
Andrew Cunningham, who translated Calling You, has confirmed he did the translation of the Goth novel too, as well as some Otsu-Ichi work for the forthcoming US edition of Faust.
As for Seven Seas novel line, I’m hearing reports of the first few books (outside of the original release of Boogiepop, of course) being out in the wild already. The wait has been pretty painful, though, but I guess that had a lot to do with them trying to sort out proper distribution. I’d rather wait and be able to actually buy the books when they are supposed to be available, rather than suffer another situation like Boogiepop where no-one bothered stocking it even after Borders 3-month exclusive window had elapsed.
Comment on March 14, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
Yeah, the boogiepop situation was terrible. I can understand seven seas not having the clout of tokyopop in retail, but at the same time the constant pushing back of release dates without any real explanation was incredibly annoying. Now tokyopop has a good jump on the market and I almost wonder if seven seas will be able to get attention with all the light novels already out there, especially when none of their titles have a strong relation to any anime.
Comment on March 14, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
Wow, more light novels are getting licensed now…
It’s great and all but
But…..WHY HASN’T ANYONE CONSIDERED RAKKYO???!??
or 9’s
or Toradora
or Ookami to Koushinryou
Or almost every other Light Novel that I’m interested in.
Comment on March 14, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
Seeing as how every other type-moon anime has been licensed hopefully the kara no kyoukai movies will be too. Then there will be actual interest and we can have the Rakkyo novel in all its glory.
Comment on March 14, 2008 @ 11:41 pm