Twillight Manga: For Twilight Fans Who Find Reading Books Difficult

In a move that seems like a no-brainer the Twilight books are going to be translated into Manga form, mixing the two passions of preteen girls Shōjo Japanese comics and sparkly vampires into a potent money making mix. The publisher Yen Press is so sure of this juggernaut that their first print run is set at whopping 350,000 books. What does seem a little weird is some sites are referring to the book as a Manga and some as a graphic novel adaptation; it is however labeled a graphic novel on the cover of the book.  What I can tell is it appears that these books will be a drawn and released in the Japanese Manga style and format, but marketed as a graphic novels probably due to the recent collapse of the Manga market especially the OEL or original English language Manga market that happened a few years ago here in the US.

Basically what happened is during the period 2005-2008 the Manga publishers were pumping out titles both domestic and foreign by quantity not quality much like the Anime market was at the time. Then when bit-torrent hit big people stopped buying, literally overnight. Because why buy something when you can get it for free? Well some publishers either went out of business or cut their output by more than half and most retailers got stuck with a ton of back stock that they couldn’t get rid of. Not only that you probably noticed most retailers are not carrying Manga and Anime like they once use to because some were burned pretty bad by the deal – just look at Best Buys selection nowadays. Well the “Manga” hits in March is commanding a hefty price-tag of $19.99 which is a bit expensive by both Manga and Graphic Novel terms, but Amazon is pre-ordering at $10.00(get your copy here!) and the title will be a hard-back edition. I think if they really wanted to take  the Japanese Manga thing seriously the story would be nothing but hot Werewolf boy on Vampire boy action, and Bella would be reduced to being the third wheel, I bet that would probably sell better; because the only thing pre-teen girls like more than Shōjo is Yaoi!