Kodansha's U.S. debut falls short of promise - Hawaii Features

A rather large envelope arrived at "Cel Shaded" Central last week containing two unexpected surprises: "Ghost in the Shell" and the first volume of "Akira," the first two manga bearing the Kodansha Comics imprint in the U.S. Regular readers of this column will recall that I wrote last month about Kodansha, one of the leading manga publishers in ...

[Oliver]

I agree with you 100% and you would expect the US arm of Kodansha to treat manga with the utmost care and respect for the original material, but they just rushed out of the gates with the worst treatment of any manga title released this year. Re-writes and flipped pages were so 2002, and everybody's kicked that habit by now, so why is Kodansha USA behind the times? Are they going to re-release the same exact editions of old Tokyopop material, too?