DBS animangas doesn't exist in english

[AndLad92]

4 so called "animangas" (a book consisting of still pictures from an anime movie and inserted texts) have been made of the movies BoG, RoF, Broly and Super Hero.
I know that these animangas aren't quite as enjoyable to read as the DBS manga, because of the format, but I would especially like to have the animangas from BoG (since that arc wasn't very well adapted in the DBS manga, since a lot of the content was skipped) and also RoF and Broly, since those two arcs got skipped in the DBS manga.

However, as far as I know, these titles doesn't exist in english, but they do exist in japanese, french etc.

Do you know if these titles exist in english and if they don't, how come? One would assume that the market with english readers is a pretty large market

[VegettoEX]

Viz has released English versions of these kinds of books when they own both the anime and manga rights to the same series: see the three(?) Naruto movie versions, and a slew of Inu-Yasha versions.

For Dragon Ball, the manga rights are with Viz, and the anime rights are with FUNimation/Crunchyroll. Obviously this creates SOME kind of split, because we notably haven't seen any Dragon Ball animanga, and we notably haven't seen any non-Toriyama-illustrations Daizenshuu releases.

It could be a total roadblock, or it could be one that's just enough of a hurdle/complication that they don't think it's worth their return-on-investment.

Additionally, while I don't know the release dates of all these books, at a quick glance it looks like a 2007-2008 timeframe, during a key bubble period for anime and manga. I doubt there's a willingness to flood the market with this stuff in the time since.

[AndLad92]

So there's a difference in who owns the rights for the manga dependent on which language the animanga can be released in? The thing I'm confused about is that these animanga titles do exist, but only in a lot of other languages than English

[VegettoEX]

So there's a difference in who owns the rights for the manga dependent on which language the animanga can be released in? The thing I'm confused about is that these animanga titles do exist, but only in a lot of other languages than English

To be more clear, these are a "book" (manga) release... but the actual underlying material that it is printing isn't manga-original, it's anime-original. And since Viz doesn't release both the Dragon Ball manga AND anime in North America (like they do with, for example, Naruto), that means someone else's rights are inherently intertwined.

As I already stated, this doesn't mean it CAN'T happen (as seen by the other-language international releases)... it just means there's more to be worked out than it would be in a much simpler situation (again, like with Naruto). Anything can happen anywhere with enough time and money.

It could be that FUNimation/Crunchyroll didn't think it was worth their time / wouldn't give them enough revenue to make it worth their time.

It could be that Viz themselves didn't think it would be worth their time or effort.

It could be that they were previously interested in doing it, but past performance of the Naruto, Inu-Yasha, etc. volumes led them to think it would therefore not be worth their continued time or effort.

We don't know the reason or reasons, but those are all legitimate possibilities. Just because something exists doesn't mean the licensees have to (or want to) release all the associated minutia that goes along with it, and the longer we go further out from their original/contemporary releases, the less attractive of a product they all seem.