Japan makes Twilight cool!

I am neither condemning nor praising Twilight. (Never read the books, but saw the first movie and I didn't hate it entirely. I'm more of a Harry Potter man.) Moving on. I wanted to share something cool. I saw these a while ago, but I was reminded of them with the recent hubbub over New Moon.


The books probably aren't my kinda thing, but if I saw these, even I would take a second look:

More appealing than apples and chess pieces? The Japanese release of the novels were given a manga makeover, at least on the outside (the inside is just Twilight in Japanese). To be clear, these aren't manga, just the covers given to the novels in Japan. You'll notice that one of the books is listed as number "13". I'm almost certain there aren't that many novels in the series. It's common for novels in Japan to be released in parts, so for example, the first Twilight book might be divided into 2 or 3 individual volumes. I don't know why that is. Maybe Japanese text takes more page space? Also, I'm not sure how common it is for foreign novels to be given manga-like covers. Maybe they're marketing this to the light novel crowd? I dunno.



I really like the style. It makes it look like a hip shojo manga. I prefer this to mopey K. Stew and R. Pats (let's just ignore the fact that I called them that). The artwork is done by mangaka Ryuuji Gotsubo, whose soccer manga, Sasameke, will be released by Yen Press in just a few months. So if you like what you see here...check out Sasameke! And while we're on the subject of Yen Press, they're releasing a Twilight manhwa.

If you wanna see the rest of the covers just search "トワイライト" on amazon.co.jp Rest assured, they all feature Edward-san and Bella-chan dressed stylishly while practicing abstinence. In conclusion: manga makes everything slightly better.

Oh god, I just made a Twilight post.