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0:00Making this video required me to do
0:02something I never thought I’d do:
0:04socialize. Remember that manga about a
0:07boy named Denji? One day, the final
0:11chapter came out, and there were people
0:13saying, "I hope the volume or
0:15compilation book has extra pages with
0:17content that improves the ending by
0:19extending the story." That didn’t
0:23happen, but I saw people praising
0:25Chainou Man. Praising it. Chainou Man,
0:28which one is that? Chainou is a word
0:30that doesn't exist. Anyway, they
0:32praised Denji's manga for not joining
0:35the trend of giving endings via DLC by
0:38putting extra content in the volume,
0:41because that should be in the chapter
0:43on the day it premiered. That was
0:47comparing it a bit to Boku Nojiro,
0:49which put an epilogue in its final
0:51volume. The same with Yuchutsu Kaisen,
0:54calling that DLC. But the reality is
0:57that if Shane Sou Man included more
0:59story, it would have been fine, because
1:01more than a trend of adding content to
1:03the volume, it has always been done,
1:05even extending endings and adding
1:07epilogues. Sure, that "ending via DLC"
1:11thing might be an internet joke, so the
1:13important thing is that I did some
1:15research and saw an opportunity to
1:17explain how a manga volume really works
1:19and the treatment they give to stories.
1:22What is a manga volume? That little
1:24book where several chapters of a manga
1:26are collected, that's why they call it
1:29a compilation volume. And to be even
1:32more specific, the volume is where
1:34animation studios get the content to
1:36adapt to create the anime you like. If
1:40you buy one, you'll see there are pages
1:42that contain illustrations of random
1:44situations, character information, or
1:46shorts called OMAKES. These are called
1:50extra pages or simply extras that come
1:52between chapters or also at the end of
1:55the volume. Why there are extra pages,
1:59how important they are, how they can
2:01modify a story or complement it
2:03naturally, how many chapters a volume
2:06can have to influence this, and how
2:08exactly it's decided what to include in
2:11those extra pages and the number of
2:13them is today's topic. By the way, this
2:18video features information provided by
2:21Wickly Chonen Fan, whom you can find on
2:23Facebook. Today they will accompany us
2:27spiritually because I will speak the
2:28whole script, but if something goes
2:30wrong, they are the ones getting
2:32canceled. That said, this is "Blessed
2:35be the art of collecting." Did you know
2:38that manga also have a beta or demo
2:40version? In video games, those concepts
2:44like demo or beta are an incomplete
2:46version of a game, a simple
2:48demonstration used to attract people to
2:50buy the full game in the future. DLCs
2:54are things that come separately from
2:56the full game, additional content or
2:59add-ons of all kinds. In terms of manga
3:02, it works like this. Chapters first
3:05come out in a magazine, which could be,
3:07for example, Weekly Shonen Jump. In
3:11that magazine you can find chapters of
3:13different manga as well as ads, news
3:16about future series, video games,
3:18surveys, one-shots, or shampoo for bald
3:20men—why not? The point is that it is
3:24a magazine made to be thrown away. You
3:26can collect it if you want, but that is
3:29not its main purpose. Now imagine that
3:32one of them might have, let's say, 500
3:34pages, let's assume that. And suppose
3:37you buy one for just a single manga,
3:40like Dragon Ball back in the day. You
3:42would only be interested in about 15 to
3:44a little over 20 pages out of the rest,
3:47so the rest is no longer useful to you.
3:49Besides, its paper is not the most
3:51suitable for preservation, nor is it of
3:53the highest quality. So the art of a
3:56manga cannot be fully appreciated, and
3:59some manga must even limit their
4:00content because there has to be room
4:03for everyone. That a chapter suffers
4:06cuts, therefore, is common and normal.
4:08So, in reality, when Shonen Jump puts
4:11manga in its magazine, take them as a
4:13demo or beta, because the full version,
4:16100%real, no fake, is the volume that
4:18compiles its chapters along with any
4:20modifications or extra additions they
4:23want to include. So if there are—I
4:25mean, if there are additions in the
4:28volume, it really is most sensible to
4:30say it is part of the complete and main
4:33content. Just like in a game, sometimes
4:35you start reading the included files
4:37and data; it can be the same thing. And
4:40with the above said, that means
4:42including an epilogue or adding pages
4:44that extend parts of the story or even
4:47modifications is standard practice; the
4:50volume is the important version meant
4:52for collecting. It is normal that you
4:56don't know this, since Shonen Jump is
4:57published in Japan along with other
4:59magazines and I don't know if you are
5:00in Japan—maybe you have been—but
5:02you don't live in Japan, and if you do
5:04live in Japan, then I suppose you
5:05already knew, right? Anyway. And just
5:09as video games have Deluxe or Ultimate
5:12editions, manga have Kanzenban editions
5:14, which is like the perfect edition of
5:17a manga that includes new covers, a
5:19custom dust jacket, and color
5:21illustrations. Some pages are larger,
5:25and what's more, this manga edition is
5:27so pro that it reads itself; you don't
5:30have to do anything. If you want an
5:33example that confirms how the magazine
5:35chapter is a beta, there are cases like
5:38Jujutsu Kaisen or One Piece where they
5:40sent in unfinished drawings that they
5:42were able to finish in the volume,
5:44because that is what volumes exist for
5:47anyway: to take care of the details and
5:49allow the mangaka to give more love to
5:51their work. if they wish. That is also
5:55part of the benefits of buying a
5:58collectible volume. Imagine you are
6:00following an ongoing manga. The day
6:03comes when its chapters are released
6:04and you read it digitally if you don't
6:06live in Japan, taking advantage of the
6:08fact that there are ways to read those
6:10chapters on their premiere day. But if
6:13you read the chapter on the day of its
6:15release, then you read the beta version
6:18from the magazine, which was scanned to
6:20extract it so you could read it; when
6:22it arrives in the volume, it could have
6:24modifications, and along with those
6:26modifications, there are the
6:27aforementioned extra pages. Many times,
6:31those modifications are unavoidable.
6:34Why? First of all, obviously marketing
6:37things to attract you to buy the volume
6:39. But there is a mathematical reason as
6:42well. When a volume is printed in Japan
6:44, the idea is that the total number of
6:46pages in the book must be a multiple of
6:4916. The reason is that when they make
6:52the books, they don't print page by
6:54page. They have a huge piece of paper
6:56called a signature, and it is folded in
6:58half several times. From those folds
7:01come the pages. In this case, each fold
7:04must yield 16 pages. It's their lucky
7:07number, the one that makes the most of
7:09the sheet and is appropriate for
7:11production costs. It seems to be even
7:14more important; if you are a mangaka
7:16and your content doesn't add up to a
7:18multiple of 16, guess what? You're sent
7:21to a dungeon to reflect, and you'll say
7:23to your editor-in-chief, "But, sir, I
7:25want to see my family." And your boss
7:28will say, "You should have thought
7:30about that before giving me content
7:32that doesn't add up to a multiple of
7:3316." Now think about this. A manga
7:37volume usually has about 200 pages on
7:39average. It can be more, it can be less
7:42, I don't know if there is a minimum.
7:44And I read that a maximum can be 240,
7:47but even then, exceeding that can
7:49happen and the difference is noticeable
7:51. Some increased their page count
7:55abundantly. Then, imagine that in the
7:58case of weekly manga, because there are
8:00also monthly ones, maybe they compile
8:0210 chapters in a volume, depending on
8:04how many pages each one has. In the
8:07case of monthly manga, well, they
8:09surely compile fewer episodes. Let's
8:12assume we have a volume and we want to
8:14include 10 chapters of a weekly manga,
8:17each with 18 pages, just as an example.
8:21And if you multiply 18 by 10, that’s
8:25180. That is not a multiple of 16. Keep
8:30in mind, besides that, chapters aren't
8:32the only content. These volumes include
8:36pages intended for inside covers,
8:38credits, and mangaka comments, among
8:41other things. There you have more pages
8:44to take into account. With all that,
8:47let's suppose the result still isn't a
8:49multiple of 16, and you're a mangaka
8:51one step away from being exiled from
8:53the country. I mean, come on, how can
8:56you not reach a multiple of 16, you
8:58failure? Ah, but there's more. Look at
9:01this page from Jujutsu Kaisen. It's
9:03from when it was released in the
9:04magazine. Now look at the same
9:06situation in the volume. There are
9:08changes in the layout of the panels.
9:10It’s normal for this to happen
9:12because the magazine has ads, and
9:14removing them for the volume leaves
9:16blank spaces to fill. Changing a page's
9:20layout to avoid those blank spaces is
9:23part of the job. Including redraws is
9:27very possible, but for that, mangakas
9:29have assistants helping them out. Also,
9:32there are illustrations that require
9:35two pages to look good, the so-called
9:37spreads. When moving that to a volume,
9:41then. You will have to change the
9:43layout again so that the illustration
9:45that needs two pages can be properly
9:47displayed. So I told you all that stuff
9:50, and guess what? You still don't have
9:53a multiple of 16. I mean, not only will
9:57you not see your family if you're a
9:58mangaka, but we’ll use your soul to
10:00get Dragon Ball Super out of hiatus.
10:04Fortunately, this is when extra pages
10:06are lifesavers, and they can be filled
10:09with basically anything. Is it
10:12important to fill them? Well, yes, it
10:14gives the volume more value as a
10:17collectible item. For example, Uma
10:20Musume included illustrations related
10:22to a chapter, character data, or showed
10:24design sheets for other characters.
10:28Jujutsu Kaisen usually takes the chance
10:30to share character details, anecdotes
10:32from Gege Akutami, or even explanations
10:34of certain techniques. One Piece has
10:38the SBS section where Oda answers fan
10:41questions. Katekyo Hitman Reborn had a
10:45section with illustrations sent by fans
10:48, or that extra page could even be
10:50filled with a message from the author
10:52explaining something, whatever. The
10:57point is that no box should be left
10:59empty and that the multiple of 16 is
11:01reached, but it's not as bad as I made
11:03it sound. Extra pages provide good
11:06opportunities. Some take advantage of
11:10this to improve their story,
11:11capitalizing on the fact that in the
11:13volume they won't have the space
11:15limitations they had in the weekly or
11:17monthly magazine, because they won't
11:19have to share space with anyone else.
11:23Volumes are the opportunity to polish
11:25details. Araki, the creator of JoJo's,
11:28added extra pages in the final volume
11:30of Stone Ocean. Spoilers for Stone
11:34Ocean, for those who haven't seen it,
11:36in the original edition there is a
11:38transition that can leave you with
11:40doubts about what happened, but in the
11:42volume they include extra illustrations
11:44that now make it clearer that the
11:46universe has been reset. But anyway,
11:49the point is, that is one occasion
11:51where the additional pages were a
11:52little help to better explain the story
11:54. In fact, while we're at it, including
11:57extended chapters is also normal. Demon
12:00Slayer added 10 pages to its final
12:02volume. Saint Seiya also added seven
12:05pages to its final chapter in the
12:07volume. There is a case of a cancelled
12:10manga that for its final volume had so
12:13few pages after the last chapter that
12:15they added one-shots so it would reach
12:17approximately 200. Maybe 200 is the
12:20recommended minimum, now that I think
12:22about it. Some add epilogues to their
12:24stories in the volume. Horikoshi from
12:27My Hero Academia did it. One day his
12:29story released its final chapter and
12:31later it had an epilogue in the volume.
12:34By the way, an epilogue is something
12:36placed after the conclusion of the main
12:38story, as in this case. Said epilogue
12:41was announced in advance. Also, those
12:44things are always going to be announced
12:46. Keeping ultra-secrets for when you've
12:49already bought the volume wouldn't make
12:51sense, because by announcing it, they
12:53encourage the purchase of it. So if we
12:57look at Fujimoto with Chainsaw Man once
13:01again, that name never existed. If we
13:04look at Fujimoto who created the Denji
13:07manga, people who expected an epilogue
13:09out of nowhere had no chance, so there
13:12was no more content, and there wasn't
13:14even an epilogue because nobody felt
13:17like having one. It happened to the
13:20mangaka of Kingdom that one volume
13:22wasn't enough to put in all the final
13:24part of an important arc. On that
13:26occasion, they couldn't make an
13:28exception with more pages, from what I
13:30see. Instead, he took advantage of the
13:32extras to explain to the reader why
13:34this volume isn't conclusive about
13:36something important as would have been
13:38ideal. Gege Akutami is criticized for
13:41telling character facts off-camera
13:43because some would have preferred to
13:45see rather than read or hear. The
13:48reality is that volume extras provide
13:50this help so the mangaka can focus on
13:52the main story without affecting the
13:54pace of the work. Sometimes it recounts
13:58events, gives explanations, and other
14:00times it shares very random details.
14:03Also, don't just assume that every
14:04Jujutsu Kaisen extra is the most
14:06transcendental thing in the world. One
14:08of the extras could easily be that
14:10Itadori doesn't scratch his balls for
14:13fear that Sukuna might bite them. All
14:15that is valid, but I still have to
14:17mention something. When it comes to
14:20epilogues, there are cases where the
14:21epilogue was made for another medium
14:23just because they felt like it.
14:26Recently, Black Clover did an epilogue
14:28in its guidebook, and Demon Slayer also
14:31included an epilogue in its fanbook. It
14:34won't always be in the volume. The best
14:37one of all, in my opinion, is with Slam
14:39Dunk, where its author is such a legend
14:41that he made an epilogue by drawing it
14:44on school blackboards, just as if it
14:46were an art exhibition in a museum.
14:49Look at his happiness while drawing. Ah
14:51, pure cinema, that. Then, in other
14:55cases, there's Dr. Stone, which ended
14:57in one volume, but Boichi, the artist,
14:59already knew they would do a miniseries
15:01that ended up becoming another volume.
15:04Does that seem strange to you? There
15:07are manga that supposedly end and
15:09continue in one-shot format that become
15:11more volumes, or even come back to life
15:14with a second serialization, so to
15:16speak. Good heavens. Maybe, in the end,
15:20there are cases that fit the DLC
15:22analogy at this rate. Therefore, the
15:25final moral of this video is: "Be
15:28careful with multiples of 16." Oh, by
15:31the way, the multiples of 16 thing
15:34isn't universal. For standard manga
15:37volumes, it can be very frequent, but
15:39there are general cases where it can be
15:42a multiple of four, 8, or 32. It all
15:46depends on the size and format of the
15:48book in question, because if we also
15:50talk about format and size, I mentioned
15:52that in manga there is the standard
15:54edition called Tankobon, and the
15:56Kanzenban, which is the premium edition
15:58. In cases like Dragon Ball, its
16:02Kanzenban edition has included small
16:03modifications at the end, very small,
16:05but it is new content. Because, check
16:09this out, publishers in other countries
16:11make their own versions of the volumes,
16:13like in France, which has an
16:14anniversary edition of Blue Lock, which
16:17even has sketches of the first episode
16:19of the anime, if I remember correctly;
16:21but it definitely has content that
16:22other volumes from Japan don't have.
16:26Also the Hashira edition of Demon
16:28Slayer, which are larger volumes and
16:30finish the story faster because they
16:32cover more chapters. There are
16:35countries that can also have
16:36modifications like that. Why am I
16:38telling you this? Because man, this
16:41manga culture is so vast that a single
16:43video isn't enough to cover it all.
16:46Consider everything I said here as just
16:49one part of that culture if you're
16:51interested. But the final moral, for
16:53real this time. Collecting volumes is a
16:56way to preserve that culture, so I'm
16:59grateful for that. I'm also grateful to
17:02Weekly Shonen Fan for providing me with
17:05all the information. The only way this
17:08video could go wrong is if Weekly
17:11Shonen Fan betrayed me and gave me
17:13wrong information. In that case, I'll
17:17track down where he lives and send him
17:19to the pits of Hades. But the thing is
17:21simple. If this video goes wrong, blame
17:25Weekly Shonen Fan on Facebook. If it
17:28goes well, then I am the mastermind. Oh
17:32, I spat on the microphone. Thank you
17:34for giving me your time to watch this
17:37video. As always, if you want more
17:39content, you can check the channel, my
17:41Twitter, or my WhatsApp channel.
17:44Special thanks to the channel members
17:46for supporting with their membership,
17:48to the WhatsApp channel participants
17:50for being there, and to Weekly Shonen
17:51Fan for contributing to this video. The
17:54link to his page will be in the
17:56description. If everything goes well,
17:58we'll see each other another time. Take
18:00good care, be happy, and remember how
18:04great the ending of Stone Ocean is.

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