ntfakku wrote...
I'm just wondering is it normal to do newest to oldest chapters or vice versa when it comes to book releases?
The majority of books are ordered newest to oldest... ish. You typically always see any color chapter(s) at the very start of a book, and the first couple chapters after that are generally the most recent ones in some order. After that it's a bit of a mixed bag depending on the artist, but it's rarely strictly in order. One reason for this could be that related stories weren't released in order, which is the case in
Heat Alert; and most bonus chapters/pages are new illustrations made for the book that go together with the main chapter, like the first color pages in
Melty Gaze or all the bonus pages in
Kogals, Sluts, and Whatever.
One obvious exception is when there's a single continuous story in a book. This is the case for both
It's a Straight Line Once You Fall In Love! and
Metamorphosis, and chapter 1 was naturally released before chapter 2, and so on. Also if an artist already has five books under their belt, there's sometimes not much of a stylistic difference between their oldest and the newest work, so you might see those titles in order, but the chapters might very well still be shuffled around a bit.
If it's just a compilation of mostly unrelated stories, and especially if it's an artist's first book, they're hardly ever ordered based on the original magazine publishing date. The simple reason for this is that an artist (hopefully) improves over time, and they want to impress the reader when you first open up the book with the best they have to offer. The only one I can think of is
After School Vanilla, and that's because it stood out to me exactly because it was a debut title ordered from oldest to newest. I suppose Key was one of the most highly praised debut artist of 2014 for a good reason.
PS: I linked to the promo pages for most of these titles since that let's you see the chapter release dates even if you haven't bought the book.