What is License Line?
Put simply, it's a semi-regular feature on Nagareboshi Reviews in which yours
truly posts about a certain anime/manga series that truly, desperately needs to
be licensed and put on my shelves ASAP - from the obscure but well-deserving
manga to the stream worthy but not yet DVD licensed anime.
I’m gonna keep this
short. We’re all busy folks this time of year and I’ve got a god awful stack of
homework to get to. So this is yet another request for a Tokyopop license
rescue, this one a bit timelier considering what I’ve been blogging about
lately.
If you have been
reading this blog or following me on Twitter, you know I’ve been reading the
manga adaptation of Type-Moon’s visual novel Fate/Stay Night – and totally
loving it. I love the characters, the magic, the action, the world-building;
even the fan service is good.
Problem is, it was
released in English by the now defunct Tokyopop (I’m not counting their ‘comeback’
only a while ago as a proper return to business) and only came out with around
ten books before closing. This means I’ll be soon running out of F/SN graphic
novels to read and will either have to – gulp – turn to scanlations or wait for
someone to rescue it for English release.
Really, I can’t see
why any manga publisher would not want to bring out Fate/Stay Night. The F/SN
film is set to come out on DVD and Blu-Ray later this year, and the prequel
series Fate/Zero is a huge hit with fans. Someone could easily re-release the
first ten volumes in omnibus format then continue from there with
standard-sized graphic novels. And since the manga is still going in Japan,
there won’t be an absence of material to release for Type-Moon fans.
And while I’m at it,
Geneon and Funimation both hold the rights to the anime. Are y’all actually
gonna do anything with that? Just
saying. It would be nice to be able to buy the anime without shelling out over
a hundred bucks for an out of print box set.
Feel free to agree or
disagree with me in the comments! Or post links to sexy fanart of Rin and
Saber, I can dig that too. Wink wink.
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