what kills me is i know Viz isnt jumping at starting to do that past the obvs choices like DBZ and FMA but i would kill for Dark Horse to put out the same size/style deluxe that Berserk and Hellsing got for Trigun, since they still have the license as far as i can tell and it just started a new series
My first introduction to Manga/Anime was Ghost in the Shell. Via the free demo that came with Spyro the Dragon for the PS1. Very strange but cool concept/art style to fresh eyes. How time flies.
Fantastic video, Omar. Glad I kept my three hardcovers! Yeah you kind of have to read this 3x first read it with the notes but some of those you can kind of skim and not read literally every word. Then read it without the notes. Then the third time you read it, take even longer to read every word of every note.
I have no idea how many care about this, but I think I knew what happened. Original scanning could be like 300 DPI at the size. To increase the physical size, they would have to drop the dpi to 250 dpi. (Dots per inch) Fewer dots, less clear image. Also, this could be they combine flies but the printer didn't change the paper setting. Depending on the paper means it needs more or less ink. Not sure, but this helps me decide which version to get. Thanks, Omar
In Poland we didn't get the manga until 2003 (at least ours had the "naughty bits") and the anime on DVD until 2005 (there was a TV release in the 90s, but it was on a premium network).
Super grateful that you appreciate the "notes". I'm a Scientist and Manga creator. I've used actual academic/scientific publication foot-notes. May be a "bad habit" I have that doesn't translate well? We'll find out.
Always have the best detailed knowledge for collectors Omar your enthusiasm is unsurpassed. After watching so many manga review channels HOW is it possible Battle Angel Alita never appears in top lists hell nobody even mentions it . I have the six hardcovers I bought two years ago haven’t opened them because I’m fearful of a high let down James Cameron’s Battle Angel Alita film is one for the ages !!!! First time I saw it it didn’t click but then during lock down re-release it JUST ROCKED MY WORLD!!! Would love to have you review Battle Angel Alita it doesn’t make sense why it’s so neglected in the manga community?
@@UncleSteve94 no- haven’t even read it yet . I’m waiting for experienced fans and channel reviews to tell me to get cracking . And again , I’m so partial with Camerons Battle Angel Alita film I want the manga to be just like to film no deviations at all I love the film that much !!!!!
@@atheistsince1210 You bought books but won't read them until fans or a UA-cam channel tells you too? LOL. My dude, the movie is a Hollywood adaption so it differs from the books quite a bit. The books are better. Read them. Treat yourself :)
I can see the difference in colors but for the scans I think you needed to zoom in a little more kus from this distance I couldn't really make out a change
Dark Horse would make adjustments to the color portions of Ghost in the Shell that differ from the original work, they did it for the two Monkey King volumes by Terada as well. Dark Horse's second Print of GitS is still the best version in English. Since moving to Kodansha the image quality has degraded every time, compounded with poor paper choice. Blurry and muddy. The highest, most beautifully perfect printing of 1 and 2 are in the Solid Box set. The clarity is pristine. It will spoil every other version for you, it looks like it was drawn and painted right on the page. The paper changes if it's a colored page so it's suitable brilliant. Man Machine Interface benefits from that a lot! They are nearly as big as these new deluxe editions. 2 is the "Short Cut" version, which is unfinished, the box set was made as an apology for it not being finished yet, but it includes many scrapped drawings and pages and there is copious amounts of cum. 1 isn't censored either. Kind sad that scanning from a Solid Box copy might garner better results. I don't know what happened. If the art from the first two were shot on film, it could have degraded. But digital scans? Maybe degradation from being re-compressed over and over. When I recommend the series to friends I make sure they experience the Dark Horse versions. Being flipped is a small flaw when the quality is the best and 1 is uncensored, which, as you said, is actually very interesting and filled with world building ideas that I think are useful and fun.
I'm really happy to hear you give excited praise to the art in Man Machine Interface. There's very little like it. One of my favorite eras of Shirow. If only it was as good to read as it was to look at!
I'm sorry but it is not clear for me which edition you're referring to as: "The highest, most beautifully perfect printing of 1 and 2 are in the Solid Box set." Do you mean the: The Ghost In The Shell Deluxe Complete Box Set by Kodansha?
5:25. Some of these just need a reprint period and an oversized HC would be icing on the cake: Hotel Harbor View Domu: a childs dream Spiderman manga by Ryoichi Ikegami Hulk by kazuo koike Rumic Theatre and Rumic trilogy Number 1 would have to be Lone Wolf and cub. It is criminal that goseki kojimas art is scrunched so tiny in those pocket editions. The 3 in 1s aren't much better either.
Why are there some pages in color and some just black and white? Is it because of production costs? Never understood why mangas are mostly black and white. With colors, it's so much more alive.
I'll put up with a word being changed here or there but I won't buy something that has full pages removed. And it's not even because I really want to see those pages, it just makes it incomplete.
Thanks for the video! : ) Is the paper quality really that bad on the compiled edition? I'm thinking about buying it or the deluxe separate editions ... First option is 100 and the second is 145 Bulgarian levs ... It would be my first ever manga. : )
To throw in. In the author's notes, that were in the first missing sex scene, he drew only women in the scene because, "I did not want to draw a man's butt." Apologizing for how crass that sounds. I thought it was funny. Anything about having the wrong body parts were just nonsense since, in other parts of the story, cyberbrain interaction could involve all 5 senses, and there was no limitation on what type of cyborg body you ended with as long as the nerves could link to a spine. Quick correction. According the author notes, the Ghost" is pretty much the soul from a more shinto based outlook. One can download memories, personality, and thoughts to a computer, but without the 'ghost', there is a clear artificial feel to interactions.
I am getting the fully compiled version and the hardcover single versions (the censored versions) and I am so excited! I am one of those people who doesn’t mind it being censored.
@@amorbavian there isn't a wrong answer tbh. Box set has nicer paper quality so is technically better but I prefer having the footnotes readily accessible. Get whichever you find cheaper
While i agree that THE TWO PAGES Arent essential to anything really, isent not having them also kinda false advertising with the "FULLY COMPILED" title?
@@NearMintCondition thanks! Awesome stuff Omar. Binged your last couple videos this evening. Love the Batman/Catwoman book and the Worlds Finest looks right up my alley
@@mh96s49 Shirow being forced to compromise his artistic vision due to draconian market concerns from people like you does not validate your useless, unwelcome opinions. Art shouldn't have to conform to such petty requests. You disgust me. You're literally part of the problem.
Man we need Appleseed deluxe compiled of the 4 volumes. Also yes can’t wait for a top 10 wanted deluxe edition manga
We need this "top 10 most wanted manga in deluxe hc edition' ASAP. IMHO it could even be a top 15 or 20.
Top 20 👍
what kills me is i know Viz isnt jumping at starting to do that past the obvs choices like DBZ and FMA but i would kill for Dark Horse to put out the same size/style deluxe that Berserk and Hellsing got for Trigun, since they still have the license as far as i can tell and it just started a new series
@@FearMonarch I think they will. I am waiting on the Dragon Ball one. That would be a nice addition
@@FearMonarchgantz😊
GUYZ IM A WIZARD TRIGUN GETS A DELUXE FROM DARK HORSE IN DECEMBER
I'll start pestering DH for Gantz next 👌
I wish Dark Horse will one day release the Uncut Deluxe Edition, like their Berserk manga.
Would be a dream come true
I decided to get the boxset. 3 thinner books so better binding compared to one huge one
One more for the wish list. Never read it before and looking forward to it.
My first introduction to Manga/Anime was Ghost in the Shell. Via the free demo that came with Spyro the Dragon for the PS1. Very strange but cool concept/art style to fresh eyes. How time flies.
Same... hypnotized me
Fantastic video, Omar.
Glad I kept my three hardcovers!
Yeah you kind of have to read this 3x first read it with the notes but some of those you can kind of skim and not read literally every word. Then read it without the notes. Then the third time you read it, take even longer to read every word of every note.
This was a very helpful, informative, and thorough analysis of the options of reading material.
You sir, got yourself a subscriber.
Thank you so much for the kind words. Glad to have you here.
Much love for reviewing this! 😁
Ordered this. Looking forward to it.
I have no idea how many care about this, but I think I knew what happened. Original scanning could be like 300 DPI at the size. To increase the physical size, they would have to drop the dpi to 250 dpi. (Dots per inch) Fewer dots, less clear image.
Also, this could be they combine flies but the printer didn't change the paper setting. Depending on the paper means it needs more or less ink. Not sure, but this helps me decide which version to get. Thanks, Omar
Have you already done a "top 10 BEST" or "MOST ESSENTIAL" manga hardcovers? I think that would also be really useful!
He should
What's up all you Minties! I'm here for Omar's talking arm and hand. One of my favourite characters on this channel.
Thanks Omar!
In Poland we didn't get the manga until 2003 (at least ours had the "naughty bits") and the anime on DVD until 2005 (there was a TV release in the 90s, but it was on a premium network).
Super grateful that you appreciate the "notes". I'm a Scientist and Manga creator. I've used actual academic/scientific publication foot-notes.
May be a "bad habit" I have that doesn't translate well? We'll find out.
damn ... this looks awesome.
Always have the best detailed knowledge for collectors Omar your enthusiasm is unsurpassed. After watching so many manga review channels HOW is it possible Battle Angel Alita never appears in top lists hell nobody even mentions it . I have the six hardcovers I bought two years ago haven’t opened them because I’m fearful of a high let down James Cameron’s Battle Angel Alita film is one for the ages !!!! First time I saw it it didn’t click but then during lock down re-release it JUST ROCKED MY WORLD!!! Would love to have you review Battle Angel Alita it doesn’t make sense why it’s so neglected in the manga community?
You haven’t even read it?
I don't think the manga are neglected at all. Acknowledged classic that just about everyone would say is one of the best of the 90s.
@@UncleSteve94 no- haven’t even read it yet . I’m waiting for experienced fans and channel reviews to tell me to get cracking . And again , I’m so partial with Camerons Battle Angel Alita film I want the manga to be just like to film no deviations at all I love the film that much !!!!!
@@atheistsince1210 You bought books but won't read them until fans or a UA-cam channel tells you too? LOL. My dude, the movie is a Hollywood adaption so it differs from the books quite a bit. The books are better. Read them. Treat yourself :)
I can see the difference in colors but for the scans I think you needed to zoom in a little more kus from this distance I couldn't really make out a change
Thanks for sharing your amazing video I must get The Ghost In The Shell 1 Deluxe Edition. Enjoyed the since books 📚 😌 ❤ 1:54
Dark Horse would make adjustments to the color portions of Ghost in the Shell that differ from the original work, they did it for the two Monkey King volumes by Terada as well. Dark Horse's second Print of GitS is still the best version in English. Since moving to Kodansha the image quality has degraded every time, compounded with poor paper choice. Blurry and muddy.
The highest, most beautifully perfect printing of 1 and 2 are in the Solid Box set. The clarity is pristine. It will spoil every other version for you, it looks like it was drawn and painted right on the page. The paper changes if it's a colored page so it's suitable brilliant. Man Machine Interface benefits from that a lot! They are nearly as big as these new deluxe editions. 2 is the "Short Cut" version, which is unfinished, the box set was made as an apology for it not being finished yet, but it includes many scrapped drawings and pages and there is copious amounts of cum. 1 isn't censored either. Kind sad that scanning from a Solid Box copy might garner better results. I don't know what happened. If the art from the first two were shot on film, it could have degraded. But digital scans? Maybe degradation from being re-compressed over and over.
When I recommend the series to friends I make sure they experience the Dark Horse versions. Being flipped is a small flaw when the quality is the best and 1 is uncensored, which, as you said, is actually very interesting and filled with world building ideas that I think are useful and fun.
I'm really happy to hear you give excited praise to the art in Man Machine Interface. There's very little like it. One of my favorite eras of Shirow. If only it was as good to read as it was to look at!
So your saying get the deluxe Box Set by Kodansha ISBN-10 : 1632366428 ??
I'm sorry but it is not clear for me which edition you're referring to as: "The highest, most beautifully perfect printing of 1 and 2 are in the Solid Box set."
Do you mean the: The Ghost In The Shell Deluxe Complete Box Set by Kodansha?
@@theXaint The Solid Box set is what I mean and its exclusive to Japan.
@@dopecomics Thanks for clarifying. Too bad I don't read Japanese. 🙄
I want the original version with adult content. Will it ever be re-released in a collected edition?
12:20 thank for this review
Would love a top 10 deluxe manga wanted. Also wouldn’t mind overviews of Appleseed, Orion and Dominion.
This was on sale for 51% off on Amazon because of Black Friday so I got myself a copy (:
Same
Got my copy about 2 months ago. Almost forgot it was being released with the delays.
Read GITS a few years ago… one of those cases where the animated versions of the property are WAAAAAAY better than the source material
No.
5:25. Some of these just need a reprint period and an oversized HC would be icing on the cake:
Hotel Harbor View
Domu: a childs dream
Spiderman manga by Ryoichi Ikegami
Hulk by kazuo koike
Rumic Theatre and Rumic trilogy
Number 1 would have to be Lone Wolf and cub. It is criminal that goseki kojimas art is scrunched so tiny in those pocket editions. The 3 in 1s aren't much better either.
I must get a copy of this!
Nice, interesting!
I have the older version of ghost in a shell in Sri Lanka. Thinking of getting this version as it's a great manga story
Actually ordered it from watching
I got the box set, so I'm good. Awesome book though.
We need Masamune Shirows library in deluxe edition!
I kinda prefer the new printing and the subdued colors, except the bleed through
Why are there some pages in color and some just black and white? Is it because of production costs? Never understood why mangas are mostly black and white. With colors, it's so much more alive.
I'll put up with a word being changed here or there but I won't buy something that has full pages removed. And it's not even because I really want to see those pages, it just makes it incomplete.
Great vid! Could you recommend top manga for kids? Pokémon adventures, Zelda, and yotsuba are some my daughter, and I have in mind to read.
I have the singles and the OG 3 Book Boxset
Wish we had Dominion and Appleseed in hardcover format as well.
Wow very awesome 😊😊😊
Thank you! Cheers!
I wish this, akira & berserk would come in Absolute-sized format...
I have 2 volumes of it. I don't have the 1.5 book. Both are hardcover. 😎🤓
oh man thats a sold for sure
around 50$ on amazon for a whole omni of the complete GitS? boiii thats not even a question
Thanks for the video! : ) Is the paper quality really that bad on the compiled edition? I'm thinking about buying it or the deluxe separate editions ... First option is 100 and the second is 145 Bulgarian levs ... It would be my first ever manga. : )
To throw in. In the author's notes, that were in the first missing sex scene, he drew only women in the scene because, "I did not want to draw a man's butt." Apologizing for how crass that sounds.
I thought it was funny.
Anything about having the wrong body parts were just nonsense since, in other parts of the story, cyberbrain interaction could involve all 5 senses, and there was no limitation on what type of cyborg body you ended with as long as the nerves could link to a spine.
Quick correction. According the author notes, the Ghost" is pretty much the soul from a more shinto based outlook. One can download memories, personality, and thoughts to a computer, but without the 'ghost', there is a clear artificial feel to interactions.
This is great. My one complaint about the box set is it's hard for me to figure out which book to start with, since there's no volume numbers.
I am getting the fully compiled version and the hardcover single versions (the censored versions) and I am so excited! I am one of those people who doesn’t mind it being censored.
🎉
Mirror mangas should be a crime, its offensive
Yea worst is when they do like with Akira 30th Anniversary and they do rigth to left flipping but left to right mirrored reading.
So the boxset is the best version in terms of quality and vibrancy regarding the colors? I’m not a fan of darkened scans
Yes. It is.
What are the extra pages in the box set?
Translated sound effects and footnotes. The deluxe includes them on the relevant page so reprinting them in the back would be redundant
@shinji177 thanks. Which version would you recommend? I want to buy one and this video didn't really help me decide lol
@@amorbavian there isn't a wrong answer tbh. Box set has nicer paper quality so is technically better but I prefer having the footnotes readily accessible. Get whichever you find cheaper
While i agree that THE TWO PAGES Arent essential to anything really, isent not having them also kinda false advertising with the "FULLY COMPILED" title?
I want one piece and claymore to get hardcover editions, hopefully attack on titan in English so I can compare to German translations
I got the box set, I'm gonna keep it and pass on this new version 💪
Is there much of a difference between left to right Kodansha and Dark Horse versions?
It’s the actual DH translation, so not really.
@@NearMintCondition thanks! Awesome stuff Omar. Binged your last couple videos this evening. Love the Batman/Catwoman book and the Worlds Finest looks right up my alley
I figured you not giving us a list meant you didn't want any in deluxe.
my Italian edition is superior because the lesbian sex scene is not censored 🇮🇹🗿
I prefer the separate 3 individual volumes. Not a fan of big ass books
5:18 You will get sooooo many likes if you do this video, Omar...... 😁
I take it that GitS 2 also has the sex scenes edited out?
Kool edition but a pass for me wasn’t a fan of the anime back then and still not a fan today.
trust this manga is the worst ive ever read, i doubt anyone with understand 2.0
its nothing like the movie
I’m really glad it’s censored because I don’t like dirty scenes in what I read
Don't read then.
@@Coffy-chanI have read the censored version and it is amazing! I read the fully compiled version that this video is about and absolutely loved it!
@@mh96s49 Censorship is objectively bad. If you can't handle something, just stay away from it then.
@@Coffy-chan Shirow said that he was fine with it being censored so your argument is invalid
@@mh96s49 Shirow being forced to compromise his artistic vision due to draconian market concerns from people like you does not validate your useless, unwelcome opinions. Art shouldn't have to conform to such petty requests. You disgust me. You're literally part of the problem.
"Let's hate on the new stuff". Lmao. I would prefer to watch a more objective analysis on things like this.
This was filmed a few months back. Sorry what’s this referring to?