i dont understand why comixology forces people to navigate right to left for manga. i get the novelty of pretending my phone is a book with pages that curl, but its not a book with a permenant binding.
mangapill or mangakalot since you cam scrape them easier.
In no universe will fan translations ever be monetized officially. If you’re going to have a PAID subscription service, what incentive do scanlators have to offer up their work for free for you to make money off of? Obviously they won’t. If you solve this by paying them? Then it’s not free labor anymore, and you might as well be paying your own professional translators.
I wasn't talking about using that for all manga, just for ones that didn't have enough viewership to release an official translation for. As for whether the scanlators "offered it up" it really doesn't matter since most of them are fine with aggregate sites reposting the translations anyway, and it's not like they could really complain regardless since they're technically pirating the manga from the publisher. This is more or less a way for the publisher to play nice with fan translators instead of making a fool out of themselves like so many other companies do with DMCA takedown fiascos. The fan translators get a tacit degree of legitimacy and access to potentially paid translation gigs if they're good enough, and the publisher gets some free translations and free advertisement to offset the profit losses from piracy, which is simply inevitable.
I have, you need to be into 5 isekai shows to get into it mainly, but it's good & fun.
So it's probably more due to the recession than anything although I specifically mentioned Tokyopop and Borders because at the 2007 peak 50% of manga bought where series licensed by the former and 40% where sold at the later.
I don't know about publishers using fan translations because a) it kind of feels a bit scummy on the same level of certain comic books stealing art from fans and passing it as there's and B) apparently the original publisher/author can request some aspects to be translated a certain way. the only one I can remember is AoT where a few gear/weapons we're requested to be called something different when there where more accurate translations. I think I remember a few other cases but I have to go digging,.
borders ended up having giant sections of manga and gunpla near its closure...barnes and noble looks the same today.
An official licensor stealing fan translations and putting it on their official, paid subscription service is very different from some random website rehosting scanlations and raking in the ad revenue.
Pandemic has created a real explosion in sales from both long time collectors and those new to the hobby if the various places they post about their collecting is any indication. It's not helped by the feeling of false scarcity, created by shortages and supply chain issues, making people jump on new titles as soon as they come out rather than typically waiting which in turn makes more people rush to buy when they see things going OOS. More disposable income too since so much was shutdown and it's pretty easy to buy manga online.Well it looks like manga sales in the US finally surpassed its former 2007 peak
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Article doesn't give an exact number but guessing from the graph its around $240-245 million
Still nothing compared to the japanese market which made 612.6 Billion Yen (around $5.5 billion) in the same year.
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The cancer has metastasized.
is in the series. Even more slow paced than Slime, while also has some subtle exploration of feelings of isolation which is primarily shown through the slowly brightening world of Koguma (shown visual in increase the color saturation) as she gains new experiences. I have to say that the episode where Koguma rescues Shii after she wiped out on her bike into a river was one of the funniest of the season in Koguma's entire lack of care. Telling Shii to drag her waterlogged body up the side of a ditch, not calling any emergency services, putting her into her Super Cubs front basket to drive her back in winter weather, stripping her and throwing her into a hot bath (something you don't do), and then saying it was all thanks to her Super Cub being a Super Cub. Series features a lot of unintentional comedy that boosted my enjoyment.
The creator of the manga is quite the silly perv. Nothing like the creator of Nagatoro, but definitely into some silly ecchi stuff.
I'm glad that they are going to be making another season of Ascendance of a Bookworm. It started out as a slice of life and then took a turn for the magical. The whole class system in their world was interesting, but I'm sure season 3 will show up sometime next year.
I’m already starting to see people on Twitter getting pissy.
"people"
we're farming saga now gangAs for recent announcements, I am excited for the second season of Vinland Saga that was announced today.
Hell yeah, deforesting 4life
I remember reading somewhere the Kadokawa was pumping up production of these things.
