Jim:

>Ranma GN #15 is due in May with IY#6 and the Last MI GN.

So you're saying that the turnaround from the last MI comic to the last GN is 
going to be about 4 months, while it's about a year for Ranma?  Pfeh.  
Something stinks here.
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Tim:

[wait- didn't you unsub last year?  What brought you back?]

>>It might go back up again with the next crop of newbies- 
>>it's been a while since we had a decent-sized group
>>come in all at once.

>I think it has more to do with the waning popularity of Ranma--Viz 
>has really driven it into the ground with their slow releases 
>(someone please tell them to join the rest of the companies in 
>releasing volumes with more than 2 eps on them) and the fact that 
>Ranma has been over and finished in Japan for quite a while

As to your last (and first) point, I don't know if that really applies since we
rarely have any members coming from there anyway- most of us come from the US 
(I'm not forgetting or ignoring the other countries), and Ranma is still 
popular here, if the number of websites is any indication (or sales of non-Viz 
dependent merchandise).

Perhaps it's the ML medium itself that's losing popularity for a bit- real-time
message boards seem to be more popular right now and are easily accessible from
a simple link on a webpage.  I know Frank's MB is doing well, and Esashi's MB 
(though not Ranma-centered) is at the volume that the ML used to be at.

Or it could be that people just aren't finding out about the ML in numbers like
they used to.  Advertising and all that.

About the anti-Viz stuff, what can I say, since you know I agree with you?  Viz
still thinks it's 1992 and they're the only game in town.  Didn't someone here 
even experience their fan-snubbing firsthand with something that ended up 
essentially as "Go to hell, we're Viz?"

I think their main problem is overextension- too many series, too many 
magazines, too much anime to handle.



-Bradster, narrowly avoiding becoming a Crispy Critter by deleting the sig he 
was tempted to use