Was Viz's Macross II floppies (let to right) ever compiled into TPB?

[MinmayMusicManiac]

Just curious as i've heard conflicting accounts or years & never once have been able to ind solid evidence for them being in a TPB but it might just be rare.

 

[Shawn]

Sorry-what?
Can you explain what is a Viz Macross II Floppy is, and what is TPB.
These are some new terms for me, thanks!

[Graham]

TPB should be Trade Paper Back, AKA Graphic Novel.

In that context, I'm guessing Floppy means comic book.

I just searched and found this:

https://www.amazon.com/VIZ-GRAPHIC-NOVEL-MACROSS-II/dp/B00852IJHQ

 

 

[rsvictor1976]

12 hours ago, Shawn said:

Sorry-what?
Can you explain what is a Viz Macross II Floppy is, and what is TPB.
These are some new terms for me, thanks!

LOL,, I was confused by the terminology too. 

[Bolt]

I have several issues of that one. To have a complete graphic novel version would be cool.

[Seto Kaiba]

16 hours ago, MinmayMusicManiac said:

Just curious as i've heard conflicting accounts or years & never once have been able to ind solid evidence for them being in a TPB but it might just be rare.

I guess I belong to the crowd thrown by the term "floppy"... but Viz Media did publish a trade paperback of their mirrored translation of Tsuguo Okazaki's Macross II: Lovers Again manga adaptation in 1994.  It's actually reasonably easy to find on the secondhand market, though the individual issues are often even easier to find.

Here are two separate eBay listings for it.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/306041609829?_skw=Macross+II+trade+paperback&itmmeta=01JPB4B2DHA1WE4Q408ZAKR5BM&hash=item4741805e65:g:KfwAAOSwm6VmDdwK&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1fqTciFP4wJcTAwdNqKQpa6ONtKLTBej0Lgn2Sfg1iiVbx7H3BvQN9itqCCuClxqO6fCJcsqNAsE0PcbwlZ8%2BAfiwv02MvZAnY8fpWf7pm99fX1yY6jt8%2B2IUHscOOpdHQZxVJCqOBKxO8RcH9Isam8rA%2BPtmgyHBx580PZ5D7Dg9o04Jr0h5%2FEhShd%2FQf3BoOjOHFOlUp%2BPcvjoZ01UaP2ebYVsmxFJj8bvFItj5P3gWvkDecRknSKIAPT6uBYfsgyURe6y%2FgEQhvLxdhCElMH|tkp%3ABk9SR4KnrOSyZQ

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226610105426?_skw=Macross+II+trade+paperback&itmmeta=01JPB4B2DH6JMZP7M1Z7W6VA6N&hash=item34c303cc52:g:KAEAAeSw3Ctnt5aE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAABAFkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1df2wJiGA05LYnlOhjY8r82LAq0YIiOPt%2F54Rv1nMJOlf5CLR6P4lPXqH%2Bf0d%2B03%2FfQM5fJZM5JEdF3IgUIAf1MkYJ3VZJCdpG4%2FeRzCDKeIm35eL4516PIp%2BXIUMLBN7%2Baker2fNcV7hOJZ9QPqeKRfevLQnSvq0YrSjQyNV4KY%2F2KCboiLxE5Bsx%2FKEY8wb0x4GgGZ0J3RJy%2BDYF64S3YGilpi0ul6zSXZoVYoo9d%2B3HSVQ64lVaavVDto--iNkzifklSBmqBh1B51kwu4ycwWy1TdjfJGBrPDlKCjuSj4ovrtwhqyLS5QuZQczZrMG8%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4SnrOSyZQ

[MinmayMusicManiac]

sorry for confusing you by using floppies as that was a common term i hear used on other forums to refer to left to right manga in individual issue format

Edited March 15 by MinmayMusicManiac

[Seto Kaiba]

On 3/15/2025 at 4:53 AM, MinmayMusicManiac said:

sorry for confusing you by using floppies as that was a common term i hear used on other forums to refer to left to right manga in individual issue format

No worries.

I did some research because I was curious about the term, and it seems that the term "floppy" is more of a specialist, industry, or collector's term.  The sources I found claim it was coined relatively recently (about 20 years ago) to distinguish the American style of thin, staple-bound periodicals from the thicker, paperback graphic novels that were growing in popularity at the time.  Most people call that format a "comic book", out of long habit.

[JB0]

 I thought the thread was about a computer game on floppy disks.

[sketchley]

4 hours ago, JB0 said:

 I thought the thread was about a computer game on floppy disks.

I did, too. 😅

 

On 3/15/2025 at 5:53 PM, MinmayMusicManiac said:

sorry for confusing you by using floppies as that was a common term i hear used on other forums to refer to left to right manga in individual issue format

No worries.  Every site/community/version of English has their own words.  For example, when students do a test, is it "write a test", "sit a test", or "take a test"?  All are correct, but at the same time, mean wildly different things depending on who you say it to.

 

Nevertheless, I can appreciate how much more fun and easy "floppies" is than "mirrored manga", or the mouthful "manga printed in the Western left to right format".

[Sandman]

Didn't VIZ do a sequel comic to Macross 2? I vaguely remember this.

[Seto Kaiba]

3 minutes ago, Sandman said:

Didn't VIZ do a sequel comic to Macross 2? I vaguely remember this.

It did, yes.

Macross II: the Micron Conspiracy.  A five-issue miniseries set one year after the events of Macross II: Lovers Again.

[MinmayMusicManiac]

On 3/17/2025 at 11:31 AM, Seto Kaiba said:

It did, yes.

Macross II: the Micron Conspiracy.  A five-issue miniseries set one year after the events of Macross II: Lovers Again.

is that tehnically the first OEL Manga or did CPM beat them with the Project A-ko, Votoms, & & MD GEIST OEL manga

Edited Thursday at 01:55 AM by MinmayMusicManiac

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, MinmayMusicManiac said:

is that tehnically the first OEL Manga or did CPM beat them with the Project A-ko, Votoms, & & MD GEIST OEL manga

It's definitely not the first one, as Project A-Ko beat it to market by about eight months (March vs. November 1994).  

[Rhubarbarian]

Hey! I actually have the TPB of this from long ago.


I also have the first issue of the Micron Conspiracy, but the comic shop near me didn't carry any further issues and I never finished buying later issues when I was older.

That comic shop was the first place I could buy anime, RIP local La Crescenta comic book store from 1994.

[MinmayMusicManiac]

18 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

It's definitely not the first one, as Project A-Ko beat it to market by about eight months (March vs. November 1994).  

good to know as i'm working on a project archiving pre-Tokyopop OEL manga because there is NO WAY IN HELL those are  getting republished