Gate 7 to be published in French "Animeland" (again)

[kitsune-no-ame.livejournal.com]

Animeland announced that they will resume publishing Gate7 in their magazine. Much like Kobato. is published in the Japanese "Newtype", Animeland issues from March to June 2011 will contain one translated chapter* (that's 4 chapters in total. I'm guessing that'l cover volume 1?).
Génial, n'est-ce pas? Clamp surely loves France.

Source (all French):
[kazé-manga]
[animeland]

*This time it's not for free though, one must pay an up-price of full 0,80€! xD"

Comments

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

It seems like they are going to release half chapters:
March: chapter 1 part 1
April: chapter 1 part 2
May: chapter 2 part 1
June: chapter 2 part 2

But my question is: does it mean they are going to release 20 pages chapters (it feels weird, especially since they are making the customer pay more money and everything, you would imagine something worth the extra money, not just around 20 pages...), or are they actually hinting that the 'chapter 1' that was released earlier this month in Japan was actually only a 'half'?
So the '80 pages per chapter' announced years ago was still going after all...?

[kitsune-no-ame.livejournal.com]

Considering there's only one chapter out so far, only publishing half chapters would make sense but I don't know for sure.

Honestly, half or full chapter, for only 80cents I think it's completely worth it. I hope it's separate booklets again, I want to collect them.
Plus it doesn't say if one MUST purchase the magazine with the chapter, perhaps it's like their usual "special edition" (with DVD, other magazine etc.) and you can refuse to buy it and just take the magazine w/o goodie and up-price. Still, it's a pretty fair deal.

[hoshiko-2000.livejournal.com]

Well, it is thanks to France that we got to see a kiss in gate 7...

[kitsune-no-ame.livejournal.com]

Haha really? I didn't know about that xD

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

Plus it doesn't say if one MUST purchase the magazine with the chapter, perhaps it's like their usual "special edition" (with DVD, other magazine etc.) and you can refuse to buy it and just take the magazine w/o goodie and up-price.

They did say: they wrote they were going to release 2 versions of the magazine, one version with the chapter, and another without...

I'm hesitating about purchasing them, since the tankubon will eventually be released, I'm asking myself if I shouldn't be patient and wait, but the final volume will very unlikely include all the color pages though =__=

And I forgot to say so in my first post, but thanks for the precious information ^^

[hoshiko-2000.livejournal.com]

Yeah. CLAMP said in an interview during the recent CLAMPfest that the reason they made Hana and Chikahito kiss so early on was because French fans had commented during their recent-ish visit to France about the lack of kissing in their mangas.

[kitsune-no-ame.livejournal.com]

Ah yes I remember that comment. It's so true, I often see this kind of comment in French forums. We're so passionate xD

[kitsune-no-ame.livejournal.com]

I figured that would be the case. They never force their extras on the customer, that's something I value.

I don't mind the up-price, so I'll probably buy the magazine edition and the tankoubon. Since I don't live in France I pay my magazine about 2€ more than the French, so I'm used to paying more anyway^^;;