Awww Taiga is never happy T-T
Lately there has not been much news in the industry to talk about, but this caught my attention. Manga Publisher Seven Seas has begun marketing campaigns using Twitter. In the case shown below, they have provided hints at their new licenses they may be acquiring. According to the article provided by ANN there were 3 hints or riddles at new license acquisitions. The one that drew my interest was Toradora!
Article found via Anime News Network
The North American manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment is revealing three new licenses through puzzles on its Twitter account between Sunday and Tuesday. The hints for the first manga title are the anagram “Toad Roar” and the first stanza from “The Tiger” poem by William Blake:
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?The artist Zekkyō launched the manga version of Yuyuko Takemiya‘s Toradora! light novel series in Monthly Dengeki Comic GAO! magazine from MediaWorks (now ASCII Media Works) in July of 2007. In this “superdreadnought of romantic comedies,” a high school sophomore named Ryūji Takasu is ostracized because his angry-looking eyes make him look like a troublemaker. Meanwhile, there is a tiny but short-tempered girl named Taiga Aisaka who is also shunned — even by her own family — as the “Palm-top Tiger.” Taiga agrees to help Ryūji get closer to his high school crush, if he helps her get close to her own crush. The 10th and final volume of the original light novels shipped in March of 2009.
When Monthly Dengeki Comic GAO! ended in February of 2008, the manga moved to Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine from the same publisher a month later. The third compiled book volume of the manga shipped in January. The light novel series also inspired a television anime series which ran in Japan from 2008 to 2009. NIS America released the first DVD volume of the anime earlier this summer.
Seven Seas Entertainment will not have a panel at this week’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, but it will have a booth (#2303).
Source: AnimeOnDVD
Wait--look there is that smile! Taiga is glad to be back!
I have been noticing a good many companies have turned to twitter, facebook, and other sites alike for advertising campaigns. It is nice to see the anime industry jumping into the mix as well. I enjoy Seven Seas work and hope this riddle of theirs really does turn up to be Toradora. I would definitely buy it! It makes me pretty happy to see these companies interacting more with their consumers.
Do you think the answer to the riddle is Toradora? What do you think about online marketing? Would you buy a Toradora manga?
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I would love to read Toradora, such an amazing show.
How could it not relate to Taiga? The haiku started with the words; “The Tiger”. Mind you I’ll wait for confirmation from then until I start celebrating.
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I would love to read Toradora, but we don’t know how trustworthy these hints are. In 2007 we were promised Zero no Tsukaima light novels, but they never came, and then the news of it disappeared from their sight.
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Toradora manga? Why not?
wait… I haven’t watch Toradora! yet.. ><
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Yes I as well would love some toradora but satou has a good point.
@DoctorDazza: I agree there is no other show it could relate too, unless it is some obscure title no one has heard of, so I do hope it is released.
@Satou: I hate to say it but you may be right, but for them to announce it like that and get everyone worked up I cannot see how they would let us all down like that. Just hope they wont release 1 vol. and stop with it =.=
@Mikoto: Hellz yeah! right!?
@Johndiew0107: You should, it is an excellent romance comedy that really stands out from the rest in its genre.
@Kurisuhanto: I just hope they do a shoddy job on the artwork and use the name to sell books =.=