CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Why does it take so loonng?! It is like four months between each release and it seems like they already have it all

I dunno' , I just bought 3-5 today and it's so good ! >_O ... I've seen up to this part in the anime... but they take forever to realease new volumes. I suppose it just may be ShounenJump, because they have a lot of other popular series as well -- Like Prince of Tennis and YuuYuu Hakusho...HOPEFULLY. They are not going to turn into VIZ. Which, is ALWAYS late when they say they are going to release something.

- Kami

Hate to tell you this, but Shounen Jump is a part of VIZ. So the traditional VIZ tardiness probably still applies.

At least SJ isn't run by ADV, who never gives a release date, takes ages to release a new volume of a manga, and then royally screws up the translation. =) I hate ADV.

Oh yeah o.o - Spastically forgot that - >_< SO MANY... SUBDIVISIONS....
-Kami

Well, translating and formatting it to the English version you buy in the store does take time. I'm not sure how big a group of people works on every volume, so I can't tell you how reasonable the amount of time between volumes is, but the process is time consuming.

Actually, the reason hasn't been brought up yet. They could translate a volume every two months, if they wanted to. However, Naruto is currently running within monthly Shonen Jump, and they aren't going to release volumes past the point of the Shonen Jump chapters. Because there are only two or three chapters a month, it takes them four to five months to accumulate enough chapters for another volume.

Hmmm, that stinks