Seven Seas Offers Free Downloadable Manga For Sony PSP

Adam Arnold · Site Admin Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Location: Seven Seas

Seven Seas Offers Free Downloadable Manga For Sony PSP

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(Los Angeles, April 20, 2005) – In a revolutionary move for the manga industry, Seven Seas Entertainment announced today the release of 155 pages of downloadable manga content specifically converted for optimal viewing on the new Sony PSP.

The entire first chapters of the four flagship Seven Seas titles -- Amazing Agent Luna, Blade for Barter, Last Hope and No Man’s Land -- have been been made available on Gomanga.com for manga fans to download and read via the Sony PSP’s built-in photo viewer. Each special preview consists of thirty to forty pages of story and gives readers on-the-go the perfect opportunity to sample the Seven Seas titles.

All visitors need do to access this free content is to visit Gomanga.com, download their choice of four zip files and simply follow the included instructions for transfering the manga to their PSP’s memory stick.

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Vyper · Great White Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Location: Cambridge, MA

That's an awesome move, guys! Especially since this week there were a number of DVD titles released specifically for the PSP. Ride the wave!
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Kaito The Ramen Bandit · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:47 am Post subject:

*twitch twitch* now that's a good reason to get a PSP
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Glyph · Buccaneer Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Location: Colorado

Oooh! What a neat idea and thing to do! Smile

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Adam Arnold · Site Admin Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Location: Seven Seas

Glad everyone has been digging the downloads. ^_^

As someone else might have and issue with fuzzy or small text, I would like to point out that while most of our PSP pages can be read on their initial load, you may need to use the PSP's zoom capabilities (press the triangle button and this will bring up the viewer menu).

Hope that helps!
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chokran · Barnacle Joined: 21 Apr 2005

thank you seven seas for being so innovative and quickly jumping onto the psp manga train. really appreciate your efforts, especially all images having the same orientation (unlike lots of other stuff out there).
if you are able to do something about the fuzzy, hardly readable fonts (even at 100%, zooming up to 200% shows that jpg compression messed up the fonts), you surely have won a new customer for the (hopefully) upcoming chapters.

Adam Arnold · Site Admin Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Location: Seven Seas

In the majority of cases, the pages are readable on their first load without need of being zoomed in. This is due to each page being specifically cropped to only show the actual panels with limited white space. I realize that scanlations generally appear on the screen vertically, but we wanted to ensure that the pages displayed properly on the first viewing without need for turning the pages manually via the hardware.

To zoom in, please use the triangle button and use the up and down arrows to move the page from left to right to view both sides of the page in full. Any jpeg compression is due to the files being resized with PSPhoto to ensure they cycle correctly on the PSP.

Again, we are only releasing the first chapters of our launch titles for the PSP to give readers a taste of our series. The first volumes of Amazing Agent Luna, Blade for Barter and No Man's Land are in stores now with Last Hope Vol. 1 hitting stores this May. Fans of Courtney Crumrin creator Ted Naifeh will be happy to hear that his excellent shoujo manga Unearthly will be out this September.
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MDR · Barnacle Joined: 21 Apr 2005

Im not able to find the place to download the files. Can u help me out?

Adam Arnold · Site Admin Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Location: Seven Seas

The easiest way is to go to Gomanga.com and click on the links in that first news item (the one about the PSP). Those take you to our manga property pages (they are also linked at the top under "books"). The download links are halfway down the page in the blue box on the left.

You can also use these links:
Amazing Agent Luna
Blade for Barter
Last Hope
No Man’s Land
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