Facepalm Alert: No Kodansha Pub In the Works…Probably
Japanator’s returnee DickMcVengeance (wb!) has saved me an international call by chatting up Ali Kokmen from Del Rey Manga at the NYAF event yesterday and asking about those pesky Kodansha rumors.
Kokmen apparently told DMV that he had no knowledge of any new publisher in the works from Kodansha, and that Del Rey actually had people in Japan setting up contracts through 2010 at that very moment. Now, theoretically Kodansha could still be working something up without Del Rey’s knowledge, but it does throw off the original report that Kodansha is “aggressively cutting off the[ir] existing contracts,” which kind of makes the whole thing a bit suspect.
But this does leave the question: who is “Cthulhu” and why were they so convinced this is the case? Did we all just get uber-trolled, or is something going on? Tricky tricky…
Tags: del-rey-manga, japanator, kodansha, rumors
June 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Me: Hey, shouldn’t we ask him about the Kodansha thing?
(few seconds of silence)
Dick: Oh yeah…
So I twitter the news right afterwards, but the great Gia won’t accept it until it’s posted on Japanator. I see how it is. :-P
June 8th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Believe it or not? Not so much an obsessive twitter user!
I did link to you for the event coverage though. ♥
June 8th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I think maybe “Cthulhu” is “Screwball”’s new nickname.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:15 am
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