Talk:The Poe Clan

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The ja.wiki article offers some good sourced information about the record-breaking sales of the series, and its influence. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Dubious
"3 million copies"??? That's a gin-NOR-mous print run, especially for the time. Machine translations of the ja.wiki article and that source read that as 30,000 copies, which is impressive but not dubious claim. —Quasirandom (talk) 22:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You are correct about the extra zero. But for what it's worth, one very recent article says the total sales of all volumes of all editions of the Poe series is 3.5 million.Matt Thorn (talk) 13:49, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Chronology
Should I copy the chronology of the Poe Family from the ja wiki? Extremepro (talk) 05:39, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Possibly not until we get that publication info straightened out. Fourteen initial volumes, but we list nine -- eh? And usually the initial volumes are the tankobon edition, followed by a smaller number of bunkoban volumes, but going from 14 to 3 is a lot more collapsed than anything I've seen. A thought occurs to me: was that 14 a typo for 4, and the nine listed the 4 + 3 + 2 collapsed into one table with continuous numbering? If so, a) numbering MUST be straightened out, preferably by not being in a single table, and b) usually we only tabulate the original editions as the more encyclopedic information. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, this is getting complicated: I'm finding multiple statements that it originally was 5 volumes, not 9 (or 14), which is consonant to being compacted down to 3 bunkoban -- but then there's those volumes 6-9 on the publisher's site. OTOH, those 6-9 are not under the Flower Comics imprint -- and they are coming out up to two years after serialization ended. This is not making sense. (Also, there was a 1988 reissue we're not capturing.) —Quasirandom (talk) 20:00, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * But to answer the question: if we can rework it into a prose summary of the story, sure. Possibly transcribe it here, on the talk page, so we can edit it. Just the timeline on its own, without any context, would be ... confusing. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, a summary of the characters would be in order first. —Quasirandom (talk) 20:00, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

List of English-language manga reviews
I figured this could be useful to anyone who wishes to write a reception section.

Hakutaku: https://hakutaku.us/the-poe-clan-manga-review/ DoomRocket: https://doomrocket.com/required-reading-118-the-poe-clan/ TheOASG: https://www.theoasg.com/reviews/manga/the-poe-clan-volume-1-review/16002 Anime UK News: https://animeuknews.net/2019/11/the-poe-clan-volume-1-review/ Anime News Network: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-poe-clan/omnibus-1/.160736 Otaku USA: https://www.otakuusamagazine.com/poe-clan-manga-review/ The Comics Journal: http://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-poe-clan-vol-1/

– KuroMina (talk) 13:59, 4 December 2019 (UTC); updated 2 January 2021 (UTC)