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[Nacchi]

Not only that, why do they all have brown hair? And why does Eito look remarkably like the mc from his prized disciple's webmanga?

Ha, you are right. I totally forgot about Ayato. Maybe they traded designs: Matsuda got to borrow Aria's design for Princess Iriyaa and Matsuena copy&pasted Ayato for Eito. If you add the main characters from Matsuena's Gaiden stories you have enough people for a copy of Osomatsu-san, the name fits as well.

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[Tessaiga]

Already at auction

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Edited by Tessaiga, January 09 2019 - 02:11 AM.

[Nacchi]

I went to yahoo auctions to look at the price. 890 yen for something that cost them only a postcard and a stamp.Still better than the Kenichi bonus illustrations that are listed for thousands of yen.

[Nacchi]

This time there are 6(!) different store bonus illustrations: animate, gamers, toranoana, melonbooks, comic zin, and bunkyodo. I wonder if there will be a madman who'll get all six.

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Edited by Nacchi, February 04 2019 - 01:01 PM.

[Nacchi]

The obi/spince card of volume 4 says that over 220.000 copies of Kimi wa 008 have been printed to far.

(I made a mistake when I made a similar post about volume 3 when I thought the 170k were copies sold, but it's copies printed).

 

Volume 1 hat 80k-90k copies, that leaves about 43k-46k copies each for the first print of volumes 2-4. The print run went down quite a bit, didn't it? But it's now closer to the amount they actually sell.　On the positive side there should still be first print editions of volume 1 left for quite a while. Toranoana even has store bonus prints left over.

[Tessaiga]

Holy Shit

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Edited by Tessaiga, February 19 2019 - 10:51 AM.

[Nacchi]

Volume 4 review.

http://nononsensesno...entry-3351.html

[Nacchi]

New 008 wallpaper featuring chapter 50's main color page. https://websunday.net/download/

[Nacchi]

Someone actually did it. Twitter user AyRWhpKHfipti36 got all 6 store bonus illustrations.

I wonder what they are going to do with 6 volumes. 1 for reading, 1 backup, 1 backup for the backup, 1 backup for the backup for...? Funny thought, but they are most likely going to sell them to one of Japan's many used book stores.

Edit: I read the tweet again. They write that they've got all bonus illustrations from volumes 1-3 as well. I'm envious.
https://twitter.com/...067684534337537

Edited by Nacchi, February 28 2019 - 02:40 PM.

[Nacchi]

Matsuea is already working on illustrations for volume 5. which is sheduled for May 17.

https://twitter.com/...583549004197888
I think this one might be the cover illustration. That or the b/w illustration at the beginning of each volume. What was that one called again?

 

Volume 4 was ranked #36 (week 1). No exact numbers or rakings for week 2 so far.

[Nacchi]

To celebrate the release of volume 5 on the 18th Shokugkukan is giving us free chapters to read on Sunday Webry.

 

https://www.sunday-w...com/series/1210

 

They are uploading a new chapter every second day.

This promotion lasts until the end of May. Once it's June the free chapters will be gone.

[Nacchi]

Book-rank is working again and I can finally post sales data for volume 4. Unfortunately all data for previous volumes seems to be gone (for now?)

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[Delirium Trigger]

That low number seems quite concerning, to be honest.

[Nacchi]

I've seen another estimate that says volume 4 sold about 26.6k. Kimi wa 008 did decline a bit, didn't it? But it's still doing better than most other manga in Shonen Sunday.

 

And now for some important news: They announced an official TV commercial for 008 in this week's issue of Sunday.

I wonder if it's going to be fully animated like the one they did for Tokiwa or more like the ones they did recently for other Sunday series. (Example)

 

Chapter 60 spoilers:

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Having lost one of their two coins teams Delta 3 thinks about what to do next. Their first impulse is to go after the guys who stole their coin, but Iceman suggest that it might be better to try stealing coins from another theam nearby.

Sounds reasonable, but Nohara objects. Their attackers told him they went for Delta 3, because they are the weakes team and a bunch of idiots. Nohara doesn't mind being called an ideot, but he won't let them insult his friends. Delta 3 decides to avenge Nohara, who actually has a pretty good idea how to track down the other guys.

Eito and Ayame free Nohara by pouring vinegar over his bounds and then they're off to chase after their lost coin.

The other team is rather suprised that the "idiot team" mangaed to find them, but they're still confident that those idiots don't stand a chance against them. However, they forgot that Ayame, a real agent, is one of the team members.

[Nacchi]

Volume 5 is going on sale in a few hours. To celebrate it's release they have already uploaded the TV commercial to Youtube.

 

 

Furthermore there will be free reading samples from Shun Matsuena's previous works on Sunday Webry (and possibly most other ebook stores).

• Kenichi volumes 1-10
• Tokiwa volumes 1-3
• Tatakae! volume 1

 

Matsuena's editor posted pictures of the new volume.

[Nacchi]

Kimi wa 005 is out. You can ready the first two volumes for free on Sunday Webry. They also have a readig sample for volume 5: Click the white 立ち読み button next to its cover.

 

Important news: The digital version of volume 5 contains all bonus illustrations except for the pink cover backside 1st print bonus and the obi/spine card (but nobody cares about the spine card). Previous volumes only had the omake chapter and the front cover included.

 

Stores that sell the print version:

CDJapan, honto, amazon

 

Digital:

bookwalker, EBJ, rakuten, honto, kindle, Webry

 

 

And here's a collection of all free Matsuena manga on bookwalker, but you'll find the same free books at any other ebook store.

Edited by Nacchi, May 16 2019 - 12:36 PM.

[Delirium Trigger]

Really? That's cool.

[Nacchi]

Chapter 61 spoilers

 

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Team Delta 3 easily defeats the other team this time around. They grab the other team's coins and gadgets, but when one on them mentions that they are going to be expelled from school Eito and Nohara feel sorry for them. After a short talk within their group Eito returns one coin to the other team.

And that's how they'll act from now on whenever they encounter another team: They take their gadgets and all coins except one.

Meanwhile the teachers are watching and commenting on Iceman's team, who noticed that their team performance went up by 7%. It's a small increase, but he appears to be kind of proud(?) of their achievements.

 

Next week well get color pages.

 

Matsuena reactivated the BBS on his website. The one where you link your fanart on pixiv works fine for me. The regular BBS however, won't even let me view any entries.

[Delirium Trigger]

Ah. That's great. Does it have the old BBS art too?

[Nacchi]

He started from scratch, unfortunately. The only two post right now are test entries made by himself.

 

First sales data for week 1 (May 13-19): 11,172 (rank 36 on Oricon's weekly ranking). Pretty good when you keep in mind that it was published on a Friday and had only 3 days of sales to count towards the ranking.

 

Let's see if sales stay that way or if everyone rushed to buy their copies during the first few days and sales drop drastically after that.

Edited by Nacchi, May 23 2019 - 03:32 AM.