358/2 Days Are these official? And in English?

Browsing Amazon I noticed the first two volumes of the 358/2 manga. Very exciting and all but I remember the incident last year or so when I saw the next 3 volumes of the KHII manga up for sale and instantly bought them. When they arrived, they were all in German :( Anyway point is I can't see anything anywhere on the product to indicate what language it is in, and there are no user reviews.
I'm not even sure if they're official. Anybody know, or know of a way to find out before I buy them?

 

I think they no longer have the right to publish it.

I think there was a volume or two of Days that got published in English, but I'm not really too sure. I know they they did publish Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, and some of Kingdom Hearts 2.

It doesn't really matter anyway. Tokyopop shut down in the United States last summer.

 

I'm uncertain if they shut down entirely (others would know better than me), but I did hear they were dropping a serious number of their series, and only hanging on to the very best selling ones. I believe Kingdom Hearts was one of the ones that got the axe.

 

They do?! :0 Which article?

 

I think he's referring to
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-15/tokyopop-to-close-north-american-publishing-division

Basically what happened after that is any manga they had licensed (including KH) went back to their respective owners, so that they could license them to other companies. But like Krowley mentioned, I don't think Square/Disney have given the rights to another North American publisher yet to even start distributing them in English again. God knows when that will be.

 

Gasp! I just found out they weren't doing the rest of the KH manga. I am really sad now. I was really looking forward to getting the 358/2 Days manga. I guess this would also explain why volumes 3 4 and 5 never came out in English.

 

They are official, just not in English. As far as I can tell, there are no plans to officially translate and sell them here. They can be imported (as many fans choose to do) but if you can't read Japanese, you'll just be holding onto them as collectors items.

There may be fan trasnlations/scans available online, but I've never searched for them so I'm not sure.

 

For me, I think the people who sold the manga probably stole it from the company and sold it in their own language.

 

I'm pretty sure there is a portion of 358/2 days that is translated... As you have said so yourself, online. They never did finish the volumes of KHII (to my knowledge), which is actually such a big shame, considering how many years it's been since the game itself had come out.

But guys, Llave is right. SE are notorious for being slow with games... And even slower with manga.
I doubt they have anything on Birth By Sleep just yet... But give it a few years (considering the world doesn't end on 2015 this time), it'll pop up on the net.

 

If they got out before the American comics did, I don't think they would be official--would they?