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Thursday, July 07, 2005

20TH CENTURY MONSTERS
What's up with Naoki Urasawa's English Language Books?

Hey there folks, I forgot to mention a little tidbit I picked up at this year's Book Expo Canada regarding the disappearance of Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys from the publishing schedule.

It turns out that though Viz wanted to run 20th Century Boys and Monster concurrently, creator Urasawa was the one against the move. He felt that his art had developed so much between the end of Monster and the beginning of 2CB that it would be something of a disservice to his work to have them not be released in chronological order. In fact, he was fairly insistant about it, and so Viz had to relent and cancel 2CB, with it not to appear in English until after Monster is finished it's run. It was implyed that they were going to have a fairly quick release schedule on Monster though, which was awesome.

I actually bugged them a little about the proposed book design, which was a little more Shonen Jumpy (juvenile) than the content of the series implied, so it'll be interesting to see what it looks like when it ships...

So, you know, I'm actually still pretty bummed about the whole thing but I really do feel that what the creator says goes, so if this is what he wanted I'm glad Viz respected it. I guess we'll all just have to wait. Still, September can't come soon enough...

Another mystery solved!