Not sure if this has been said before, I searched for a topic and didn't see any. I apologize if it has.

Anyways, the Azumanga Daioh manga is being released with all four volumes in one in English soon, by ADV of course.

It's set to be released November 7th in one handy 686 page book, for $25 (or $16.49 from Amazon)

Here it is.

I know I'll be buying it when it comes out! =D

Well, I would say that their time would be be better spent catching up on Yotsuba and Gunslinger Girl, but I see they already have! Hooray! :D

Well, it's been out for a week now. I managed to snag a copy, and I gotta say, it's... thick.

...Really thick... o.o

Mabye i should pick this up. Granted i have the original 4 volumes, i have had to by them each twice because they got destroyed over time more than any other manga in my 1000+ collection. It could be good to have this back up.

i'll probably buy it for a friend, because i already have it in my tiny tiny manga collection.

its at a really good price though.

It's a small thing but I'm glad in this new omnibus edition they've fixed the whole business in early volume 1 of Miss Yukari being a Spanish teacher in the translation before they changed her to being an English one. Now she teaches English from the start.

I wish there was a bit more Azumanga merchandise on Amazon. A calander for the new year would be hugely appreciated.

It's like 4 books, in one! Should I still buy this even though I already have the original 4? Let me know if it has any special features.

There are no bonuses or anything, but for $25, it's worth it just to have it in your collection.

I could use the new book to lure unsuspecting friends into my Azumanga hobby.

It has the special feature of not having to choose which volume to pack with you on a trip! :aha:

I'll definitely have to track this thing down! :lol:

Did you find it in a local store or online, Paste?

I got it at the Borders near Super G. You probably know where it is. :P

:P Well of course.

It's near CompUSA, right? I get the Border's and Barnes&Nobles mixed up, sometimes...

But yeah, I'll definitely have to pick this thing up. :D

Yep, that's the one.

Gah, it's so weird talking like this on the internet. XD

Once you get over the whole "OMG SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW IN MY CITY" part, it gets easy :lol:

Yeah, but in my school? :blink:

It definitely is. :lol: Good to know I'm not the only person in this cancerous blob of DuPont and tax-free-shopping we call a state.

Okay, I will admit. That's definitely absurd as far as coincidences go...

Comp U..what? (They all went belly-up here. ;p)

Heck, for that matter, I have a hard time finding a Waldenbooks anymore. :(

Yeah, apparently the one here is closing up soon, too. :/

Guess no one has a need for a computer anymore, eh? :P

lol 1-4 in one manga.



Bought @ waldenbooks @ South hill mall, puyallup, WA

has some cool extra art, plenty of osaka everyone!!! lol my fav is this one :D

yeah i saw one a barnes and noble, but i already have the originals. is the artwork in the original mangas?

His second pic is. The cover art is new.. I'd guess it's recycled magazine art or something like that.

I have all the original Japanese ones, but I kinda want to buy these English ones. But, I really don't need to...but one thing I was really curious about was if Yukari does teach English or Spanish. I'm glad she is teaching English in the manga. I think in the dubs(from what I have heard, she teaches Spanish), Yukari should have just taught Japanese.

Yukari teaching espanol was purely ADV's doing. In the original versions, she teaches English.

Funny how that thing is almost the size of a dictionary!(seriously)
I only have volumes 2-3, but within a few weeks, i'll have them all(and probably that 4-in-1, even though i'll have them all the volumes already)

I bought the omnibus volume a few months ago, also at my local Waldenbooks.

I found the translators' notes included in the volume quite helpful. :yomi:

Expecially when you didn`t get a joke or two!

Yeah, I probably could have figured out some things like "radio exercises", but I had no idea who Nurikabe and Karakasa are, or the significance of the hawk, the eggplant, and Fujiyama. :huh:

Even if you didn't know the meaning, you still probably laughed because it just came out of nowhere :P

I know I did :D