Friday, September 29, 2006
I Need A New Hobby
A follow-up to this post, here's how the release dates for upcoming volumes of Oh My Goddess! stand at the moment:
* Release date changed several times between initial announcement and revision noted on 9/29, but I'm not going to list all the interim revisions
** Indicates a discrepancy between dates on Dark Horse's site and TFAW
I fully expect these dates to change again, so I'm creating this page so I can update it when future scheduling revisions come out.
If Oh My Goddess! Volume 3 really does come out on Nov.15th 22nd, it will have been almost half a year since the last volume of Oh My Goddess! came out.
(This all started when I remembered that Sebastian / Althalus had posted a question on Dark Horse's message boards about when Oh My Goddess! Colors would be coming out, since the release date of Sept. 6th had come and gone and the book still hadn't appeared anywhere. I checked the thread and there were no updates from anyone at Dark Horse. So I looked at the product page for the book and HA HA HA Dark Horse had pushed back the release date yet again, adding almost four more months to a delay that was already more than a year late.)
UPDATED 10/18/06: Three books have been pushed back even further. Dates have been updated in the chart above. Strangely, Oh My Goddess! Colors is no longer listed with the rest of the series, but it's still listed on Dark Horse's site as of this writing, and it even shows the same release date of 12/21/06. Searching the site for "Colors", however, doesn't return the book. I wonder if this is an indication that Dark Horse is going to be cancelling the book.
UPDATED 12/19/06: OMG Vol. 3 did come out (I got mine a couple weeks ago from Buy.com, which is still running those great Google Checkout deals) but other volumes have been pushed back a week or two. And Oh My Goddess! Colors still doesn't show on the main series page, but Amazon and Buy.com do list it. Meanwhile, fans on the Dark Horse message boards aren't too happy with the publisher's silence on the delays, even going so far as to wonder if Dark Horse has lost the license to the manga.
UPDATED 2/2/07: Some additional slippage for a couple volumes, but at least the series is actually coming out again. Also: Dates in bold indicate books that did come out (presumably on the dates listed, although I often ordered them later). Finally, here's a link to a page that's tracking delays with all of Dark Horse's books. UPDATE #2: Apparently Oh My Goddess! Colors has been cancelled according to this post over at the Anime on DVD message boards. 5:13 PM | |
A follow-up to this post, here's how the release dates for upcoming volumes of Oh My Goddess! stand at the moment:
Anal-Retentive Tracking of Updates to Oh My Goddess! Release Schedule
| Book | Original Release Date | Revised Release Date (as of 2/2/07) | Release Date on TFAW | Release Date on Amazon |
| Oh My Goddess! Colors | August 2005 * | apparently cancelled | No longer available on TFAW's site | 12-21-06 * Release date still listed as 12-21-06 but availability shows as "This title has not yet been released" |
| Oh My Goddess! Volume 3 | June 2006 * | 11-29-06 | 11-22-06 | |
| Oh My Goddess! Volume 24 | August 2006 | 12-27-06 | 12-27-06 | 12-28-06 |
| Oh My Goddess! Volume 4 | October 2006 | 02-07-07 | 01-24-07 | 01-31-07 |
| Oh My Goddess! Volume 25 | December 2006 | 02-28-07 | 02-21-07 | |
| Oh My Goddess! Volume 5 | 02-14-07 | 03-21-07 | 03-14-07 | |
| Oh My Goddess! Volume 26 | 04-11-07 | 04-11-07 | 03-25-07 | |
| Oh My Goddess! Volume 6 | 06-13-07 | 06-13-07 | 06-25-07 |
** Indicates a discrepancy between dates on Dark Horse's site and TFAW
I fully expect these dates to change again, so I'm creating this page so I can update it when future scheduling revisions come out.
If Oh My Goddess! Volume 3 really does come out on Nov.
(This all started when I remembered that Sebastian / Althalus had posted a question on Dark Horse's message boards about when Oh My Goddess! Colors would be coming out, since the release date of Sept. 6th had come and gone and the book still hadn't appeared anywhere. I checked the thread and there were no updates from anyone at Dark Horse. So I looked at the product page for the book and HA HA HA Dark Horse had pushed back the release date yet again, adding almost four more months to a delay that was already more than a year late.)
UPDATED 10/18/06: Three books have been pushed back even further. Dates have been updated in the chart above. Strangely, Oh My Goddess! Colors is no longer listed with the rest of the series, but it's still listed on Dark Horse's site as of this writing, and it even shows the same release date of 12/21/06. Searching the site for "Colors", however, doesn't return the book. I wonder if this is an indication that Dark Horse is going to be cancelling the book.
UPDATED 12/19/06: OMG Vol. 3 did come out (I got mine a couple weeks ago from Buy.com, which is still running those great Google Checkout deals) but other volumes have been pushed back a week or two. And Oh My Goddess! Colors still doesn't show on the main series page, but Amazon and Buy.com do list it. Meanwhile, fans on the Dark Horse message boards aren't too happy with the publisher's silence on the delays, even going so far as to wonder if Dark Horse has lost the license to the manga.
UPDATED 2/2/07: Some additional slippage for a couple volumes, but at least the series is actually coming out again. Also: Dates in bold indicate books that did come out (presumably on the dates listed, although I often ordered them later). Finally, here's a link to a page that's tracking delays with all of Dark Horse's books. UPDATE #2: Apparently Oh My Goddess! Colors has been cancelled according to this post over at the Anime on DVD message boards. 5:13 PM | |