Those previous omnibus manga I mentioned had been successful also as individual volumes, and/or were released directly to omnibus in the first place. It seemed a shame to have all this story material that had been translated and lettered, and just allow it to fade away.īut doing a Kurosagi omnibus program had risks, too.
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There was the idea that it could be used to give Kurosagi a fresh start-after all, the series had first launched in 2006 into a very different market: before the "manga boom" ended, before the closure of the Borders bookstore chain, and of course, before the Great Recession. But it can work well with some titles, and in fact Dark Horse had been using it with various manga since the late 2000s-on CLAMP's and Kazuo Koike's works, on Trigun, and others. The omnibus format for manga has advantages, but it's not necessarily appropriate for all series-particularly, of course, new manga, and manga where it's not clear how long the series is going to be. It wasn't their fault, and they didn't do anything wrong it's just that there weren't enough of them. It's frustrating for everyone-not least for the people who bought every volume of Kurosagi and supported it all the way. I feel bad about it-I want every manga publication program to be a success in the end, even if it's only a modest success. That's what happened with Kurosagi-we'd put out 14 volumes of a good series, but even after all that effort, had lost money doing so.
Cover to omnibus number one by Bunpei Yorifuji.Īnd then you have manga series where the earlier profitable volumes don't outweigh the later unprofitable ones, and if you keep going, after a certain point the entire series is going to be at a loss. Then you have manga series where the decline is more rapid (or is starting from a lower initial sales point), so that later volumes do start to lose money on an individual basis-but the series as a whole is still popular enough that the profitable volumes outweigh the unprofitable ones, and when the series is over, there's still some profit left. "Decline" may be relative-there are manga series where the first volume sells the best, but the series as a whole remains popular enough so that none of the later volumes ever sell poorly enough to lose money on an individual basis.
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It must have truly dropped off the radar, as there was actually a volume 14 in-between there ^_^ Kurosagi followed a basic trajectory that's not unusual for manga, or other forms of serial media-its first volume sold the best, and then after that sales started to gradually decline. Can you take us on the road from the series' English language hiatus after volume 13 in 2012 to the announcement of omnibuses five and six at Anime Expo 2019? Re-releasing Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service in an omnibus format in 20 seemed like a gamble, but this appeared to be the catalyst for the series' return.
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