Manga Force: The Ultimate Collection

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Manga Force - The Ultimate Collection
The Manga Force logo
Editor	None credited
Categories	Anime
Frequency	Fortnightly
Publisher	Manga Entertainment
First issue	2007
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	http://www.mangacollection.co.uk
ISSN	1469-459X

Manga Force: The Ultimate Collection is an anime magazine available in the United Kingdom published by Hachette Partworks in association with Manga Entertainment Ltd. Mistakingly, the magazine refers to anime as manga, which is common for a Manga Entertainment publication.^[1] This can lead to confusion to those who discover Japanese animation.

It is released fortnightly at £8.99 (€14.99)and comes free with a DVD and information on that DVD. The average Manga Entertainment DVD title sells for around £12.99 without a magazine.^[2] There will be 50 issues^[3] in total.

The first issue, published in late 2006 but not available to purchase until early 2007 and came at a special introductory price of £2.99^[4],as opposed to the regular price of £8.99.

1 Issues
2 Subscription Offers
3 Street Fighter Error
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Issues

Ghost In The Shell
Blood: The Last Vampire (includes issue 3 free)
Macross Plus Episodes I-II (free with issue 2)
Akira
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
Ninja Scroll
Macross Plus Episodes III-IV
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End Of Evangelion
(Listed on the DVD and magazine as being Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie, but the disc mistakenly included Street Fighter Alpha: Generations instead.)
Heat Guy J Episodes 1-4
Macross Plus The Movie
Tokyo Underground (listed on the case and in the magazine as being Episodes 1-4, in fact the DVD also featured episode 5)
Appleseed
Heat Guy J Episodes 5-8
Dead Leaves
Tokyo Underground Episodes 6-9
Perfect Blue
Heat Guy J Episodes 9-13
Tokyo Underground Episodes 10-14 (includes issue 20 free)
Street Fighter Alpha: Generations (free with issue 19)
X
Heat Guy J Episodes 14-17
Virus: Virus Buster Serge Volume 1
Tokyo Underground Episodes 15-18
Black Jack
Virus: Virus Buster Serge Volume 2
Heat Guy J Episodes 18-22
Vampire Wars
Tokyo Underground Episodes 18-22
Virus: Virus Buster Serge Volume 3
Orguss 2 Episodes 1-3
Psychic Wars
Heat Guy J Episodes 23-26
Orguss 2 Episodes 4-6
Tokyo Underground Episodes 23-26
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
Bubblegum Crash
Sword For Truth
She, the Ultimate Weapon Volume 1
Armageddon

[edit] Subscription Offers

The publishers offered a number of free gifts^[5] for those who subscribed to the collection rather than purchasing each issue from their newsagent. Subscribers would receive two issues of Manga Force on a monthly basis (as opposed to one issue fortnightly, two issues instead around every four or so weeks), and postage and packaging would be free. However, only subscribers from issues 1, 2 & 3, 4 or 5 were entitled to free gifts.

With the first delivery, subscribers received a Manga Force T-Shirt and a free promotional poster for Akira with this delivery. The poster was initially for 'early bird' subscribers (who sent orders away within seven days) but was extended to all subscribers later.

Depending on when a subscription was taken out, some subscribers would receive some issues for free with their first delivery. If taken from issue 1, issues 1 & 3 were free. If from issue 2, issues 3 & 4 were for free. If from issue 4, issue 5 was for free. If from issue 5, issue 6 was for free. Subscribers could not take out a subscription from issue 3 as it was packaged along with issue 2 as a bundle.

With the second delivery, subscribers received a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Episodes 1-4) DVD with their delivery. Many subscribers received a letter of apology stating that due to high demand, the DVD was unavailable until more were produced. Subscribers received this free gift in the third delivery.

With the third delivery, subscribers received a Manga Force watch along with their delivery.

With the fourth delivery, subscribers received an Akira: Production Report DVD, a behind the scenes look at the Akira film. This was the final free gift as part of the subscription package. After this, subscribers simply received two further issues with each delivery.

As part of the subscription, subscribers will automatically receive binders as they become available, costing £3.99 (€7.50) each, and special issues that the publishers may produce. The first binder was given out with issues 11 and 12.

[edit] Street Fighter Error

An error was made with issue 9, which mistakenly instead of giving Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie, gave the Street Fighter Alpha: Generations OVA instead.

This was partially fixed through the subscription package of issues 11 and 12, where the correct Street Fighter Alpha movie was included in issue 12. There was no given explanation for the error or an apology for the mistake, and the DVD was given in a simple white packet, unlike the regular DVD packaging the DVDs were given in.

It was not until the subscription package of issues 15 and 16 that an official letter of apology was sent in regards to this error.