Talk:Red Colored Elegy

Refs dropout
Just a checklist of the available and/or used resources:
 * Official Drawn and Quarterly page
 * Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Recommendation for OVA
 * Manga nominated for Harvey Awards
 * Deb Aoki lists manga as best "quirky"/"artsy" manga of 2008 : ANN profile for OVA
 * The Comics Reporter
 * The Japan Times
 * Other TCR review
 * 7th place in About.com poll for Best New Classic or Reissued Manga
 * Top 10 manga 2008 by Publishers Weekly.
 * Discovering Manga: PG Rated Manga.
 * #292.
 * The reviewer left some notes notes. Cartoonist Eddie Campbell reviewed it on his blog.
 * Adam Stephanides Old review + Comment on English localization with answer from publisher. Adam Stephanides is RS per  so has done critics for TCJ.

We are done with the current available references


 * Except from Chris Lanier's review in The Believer (magazine) January 2009 issue
 * Publisher Weekly review need to CRTL+F to reach it.
 * PW Comics Week's Third Annual Critic's Poll Got two votes in that one.
 * Manga Cast podcast review Ed Chavez is RS see That press release. another news one more news.
 * Steve Duin's review, Steve Duin write for The Oregonian, here his profile. Not a manga expert review but still it's nice to have coverage in a major regional newspaper website.
 * Reviewed by Ryan Holmberg in Art on Paper, Vol. 13 N°2 November/December 2008. A pity we don't even have an excerpt.
 * Article on PopMatters.com about "Red Colored Elegy" PopMatters.com. Probably RS enough for some room.

Red Colored Elegy Music
There is big hit single related to Red Colored Elegy by Morio Agata the bad is that we will have hell time to find RS to this one. I did some research on amazon.co.jp. Need to dig it. Not RS material but still enjoyable a vid of Morio Agata singing his hit. --KrebMarkt 11:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * We could just mention that there was a single made due to the popularity of the manga. Btw, how is Bill Randall's blog RS? Extremepro (talk) 11:47, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You missed the previous episode ;)
 * It happen that Bill Randall reviewed Red Colored Elegy for the Comics Journal issue #292. His additional blog comments should be viewed as a complement of that review. --KrebMarkt 12:50, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Ok, using the OVA website, we can assert the existence of the song thanks to detailed staff description. Unfortunately we are going to fail to prove that it was a hit. According to the Ja wiki, 1972 in Japan music, it ranked 37th (single chart?) for that said year. --KrebMarkt 03:56, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If it was ranked then it should be on the Oricon charts. Try there. Extremepro (talk) 11:33, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Found that the single was released as an album in 2004 here but no rankings ><". Extremepro (talk) 11:58, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This is a best Box set with 3 CDs that was unlikely to make it into the charts. The higher price + demographic targeting the +50 years olds did not help.
 * Not sure we will find anything about the 1972 release because Intel was just at its beginning with the Intel 8086 released in 1971. So the data were not stored on what we call know a computers :( I will still try to dig something --KrebMarkt 15:12, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Found that still not the half million claimed by Morio Agata article. --KrebMarkt 19:04, 13 September 2009 (UTC)