Aazealh said:Maybe the day they release a deluxe edition.
Oburi said:God let's hope so. Even though the chances are slim I do honestly believe it will happen one day. Maybe it'll be 20 years from now or maybe DH will get tired of not having any Berserk to sell us once we catch up to the Japanese, but at some point somebody has to go back and release this series with the respect it deserved from the beginning. If other series like Battle Royale can get deluxe editions I think we have a shot at least.
We are pleased to present to the fans of BERSERK an enhanced edition for their loyal support through the years! Contained in each deluxe volume are:
-higher-stock paper and 100% larger print size.
-select colored pages
-entire series collected into 10 massive volumes
-all new painted recreations of each cover
-glossary of terms and characters introduced thus far
-comments from creator Kentarou Miura at end of each episode
-previously unpublished materials.
The deluxe editions will retail for ¥6,000 and will be on sale soon. 12-Nov get!
That's funny, I bought DH copies because of the translation in the first place, I was a little confused by all that scanlations at that time. Oh, well I can still enjoy the art.Aazealh said:What Dark Horse uses or not is completely irrelevant; they have no legitimacy.
Konketsuji said:That's funny, I bought DH copies because of the translation in the first place, I was a little confused by all that scanlations at that time. Oh, well I can still enjoy the art.
Aazealh said:Dark Horse's edition remains better than scanlations in any case, so you have no reason to regret your choice.
Tirade said:From a quality standpoint, I think Berserk needs more work. Berserk is a money making title for DH, yet they constantly neglect it. Odd business move to say the least.
Gobolatula said:I know this has been discussed in bits here and there, but seriously... SERIOUSLY... What do you think Dark Horse's next move will be once they officially catch up with the Japanese volume releases. I personally hope they make some deal where you can purchase episodes online as they come out in Japan, but I seriously doubt that'll happen. Though it'd be a smart move.
I don't think much will change once they've caught up to vol 34. It'll just get released every 10 months or so instead of every 2.Gobolatula said:I know this has been discussed in bits here and there, but seriously... SERIOUSLY... What do you think Dark Horse's next move will be once they officially catch up with the Japanese volume releases. I personally hope they make some deal where you can purchase episodes online as they come out in Japan, but I seriously doubt that'll happen. Though it'd be a smart move.
Walter said:I would also love it if they sold the episodes online as they came out in Japan, and I don't really understand Oburi's aversion to it. Oburi, I take it you'd rather have the episodes in a physical copy, like a magazine? Seems to me that would cost a lot more.
This is absolutely true, I won't turn anything down. I just think that because a physical copy would cost more to produce than a digital one, it's less feasible for DH.Aazealh said:Either way, to be an official prepublication in English would be great, I think we can all agree on that. Digital or physical, I'll take anything they throw at me.
Walter said:This is absolutely true, I won't turn anything down. I just think that because a physical copy would cost more to produce than a digital one, it's less feasible for DH.
Quite simply, yes. Dark Horse is a business -- they're in this to make money. They're not going to invest in something unless they can feasibly make a large profit. Even in their highest form, episodic releases would be merely supplemental to the core volume releases, which is where the company makes their big bucks. And launching a whole new magazine or comic just to support Berserk's sporadic release schedule sounds like a risky investment to me for such a "groovy" company like Dark Horse.Oburi said:So would releasing the entire volumes online instead of book format. And they do that for some series that don't sell well. But for Berserk they never will, so if they did release individual episodes why would they go only online? to save a buck?
They apparently had one, SUPER MANGA BLAST. But it was canned in 2006: http://manga.about.com/od/mangamagazines/p/supermangablast.htmOburi said:They should come out with a monthly magazine though (if though don't already, I really don't know) that contain all sarts of Dark Horse related info and articles as well as new episodes from some series that month
Gobolatula said:I don't know how the US division of Shonen Sunday gets away with it, but they're offering free current chapters each week of Rumiko Takahashi's lastes series. I wouldn't expect Dark Horse to give us an online version for FREE, but... It'd be a genius move: like $.99 per episode or something. They'd have my money.
Someone should bring this up on the Dark Horse forums if they haven't already.
Oburi said:It's been discussed a little bit before, unfortunately those boards are a bit dead these days. I don't even think the Dark Horse moderators even look at those boards anymore. It's probably better to just email them directly with ideas and such, they aren't so terrible when it comes replying to emails.
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