Kiseki random news

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Apparently Tokyopop's version of Clamp no Kiseki is on an extended break with Volume 7 nowhere to be seen. It's a shame since many USA fans only have half a chess set now...with no board in sight.

Anyway, if you had been one of those people collecting this item, check out their forum here.

but be aware "There is no answer. We do not know when volume 7+ will come out. As soon as we know, we will tell you.
Any further questions on this topic (except a reasonable update query post at a rate of one per month) will be moved to the Deleted Threads section where no one can see them. Thanks!"---from the tokyopop moderator

clearly, emailing them and posting in their forum is not a way to contact them...but I'm sure if they get enough bothersome emails, they'll realize that fans still want them. There was one poster somewhere saying that they'd received a reply saying that there will be no new Kiseki releases this year.

Alternatively, it is being released in Spanish and French; both which are almost all out from what I understand. Japanese versions can still be found at many online stores for as little as $13.00 which is about what they are worth..comparing that to Tokyopop's $29.99 retail price..haha, I wonder why it wasn't selling?..haha.

Comments

[ekas.livejournal.com]

Would you happen to know any stores where I could find the Japanese versions at?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

animaxis and jpqueen have them. both have real-time inventory so the stock status changes everyday. at jpqueen, you can view items not-in-stock and sign up to have them email you when it is in stock. both stores are based in japan so you might want to buy alot to make the shipping price worth it.

ebay is another option.

[von-questenberg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd heard about this... xd Yep, they are way overpriced. Yet I still buy them. Perhaps the price will come down when they pick the series back up. *wishful thinking*

[nekogoesnyaa.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn it. I was wondering about that. They just HAD to stop before the X ones came out, didn't they? Those were the ones I wanted most, and I can't read Japanese, so...

Maybe they will down the price when/if they release the rest. I had a total fit when I bought the first one for $30, and opened it to find the book was only, like, a mm thick or something. Still ended up buying the Tokyo Babylon one, but yeah.

TokyoPop, you are pricing geniuses.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

yeah, saw it at the bookstore and was like hm...I'd rather buy 3 books over an overpriced pamphlet and plastic toy. i do love the covers. i hope clamp releases an artbook with all those illustrations.

[cjloveslink.livejournal.com]

I had to e-mail tokyopop about releasing no. 6 and they were like you have to check out this forum thread and I was very upset to see that they might not finish it. I already have 1-6. I hope they keep making them or I'm gonna get people to sign a petition.

[chiapetzukamori.livejournal.com]

while I hated the price tag as much as anybody here....

weren't they originally selling for that much in Japan?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

they were 1500 yen retail price in japan, about $13 here. at amazon.jp, sometimes, they were less like now, it's 580 yen, about $5 here. (shipping is the killer for that one item though)

so yeah, tokyopop's version was way overpriced...which is why i pointed out walmart.com's price of $14 a long time ago, but then i heard people had trouble getting it from walmart. tokyopop's distribution to walmart must've fell through.

i didn't really want all of them, but at a lower price i might've gotten more of my favs. ^_^

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

its' being released in chinese too... but it's going extremely slowly, and it's only up to volume 10 or so ^^;;

and it's definitely cheaper O___O;;

[kawaii-syaoran.livejournal.com]

Uhm, hi! ^^ Sorry to bother you but, would you happen to know a website where it is being released in Chinese? I'd love to get my hands on the Chinese version of it. ^^

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

actually, i have no idea whatsoever ^__^;; my guess would be that yesasia may have it, but i'm not too sure. i buy mine in my local manga stores, so i don't know where you can get it online ^^;;

[kawaii-syaoran.livejournal.com]

Oh okay! Thanks! ^^

[phobi.livejournal.com]

Wah, that's depressing. ._. I'm going to wait a few months before I do it, but I might just buy the rest of the set in Japanese. It would really pain me, since I barely know Japanese at all. I guess it'd be a good opportunity to learn the language. >>;

I live in Israel, where there are a total of 4 shops in the entire country that sell comics and manga (bookstores don't sell them here), so I've been ordering them especially through one of the not-so-local comic book shops. Luckily a few other people here took interest in them after I ordered a batch, so they'll keep on bringing CnK here if and when TP start releasing it again.

-grumbles- After all the trouble I went through to get the first half of the series, I'd die a little if they stopped releasing it or started releasing it in a totally different format or low quality. D: