There's a misconception that it doesn't help at all, but that really true.
Do you buy English volumes of manga to support authors?
Also the first part of the statement, the 2nd just made it more obvious. Don't want people getting the wrong idea.
Yes, in Spanish. Let's be real, I'll never learn Japanese.
From what I'm reading, the money made from overseas sales helped feed the author (they were near broke at one point) but the actual sales criteria to extend a series doesnt give a fuck about overseas sales. The author would've pulled their own series even if it did pass the criteria cuz they didnt get enough moeny to pay the bills. The criteria just adds up their domestic numbers. Doesnt care about overseas physical and storefront digital distribution.
So yea, go back to pirating.
but the actual sales criteria to extend a series doesn't give a fuck about overseas sales
Makes sense. If they are being published in whatever format domestically, weekly/monthly etc. The potential overseas sales of compiled volumes are too much of an abstract to justify keeping said serialization.
yeah we're going to keep licensing your series because in a few months or years there's a potential chance we might make back some amount of money in the foreign market
That's a big what if gamble.
Yes and then I donate them to the library when I no longer want them. I buy most of what I read.
Nowadays, I only by physical manga if the series is
1. Completed on near completed
2. Less than 20 volumes long (though I can stretch it to 30 if I REALLY like it)
I buy digital Japanese only. Mainly on sale though, so probably doesn't help things not get cancelled.
digital Japanese only
this is the way
digital Japanese
same
If you're doing it to "support the author" then you should obviously be buying it in japanese to cut out the extra middle men who will take their own cut
Sure, if I walk into a magazine store and there's one I want right there.
what he thinks happened
The manga had more sell through in the west, and he received royalties from the units moved
what actually happened
Based on the past performance of Akame Ga Kill the licensees paid more upfront for the license, he received his take of this money
I would but how do I get reprints of a older manga series in English if the distributor won't reprint them? Sometimes they stopped translating the manga and the series is incomplete
Yeah, but it's very tough if you like to have physical books. I haven't found a way to have them shipped to the other side of the world that isn't horrifyingly expensive. Which sort of makes sense because paper actually weighs a lot and the demand is pretty low, so your only option is basically paying a japanese guy to send you a box personally.
Collecting manga and anime blurays in japanese is actually a fucking expensive hobby when 99,9% of people take the more convenient options (digital and translated works).
Speaking of digital, since it has the same price as physical, what happens with the difference of the printing fees? Who gets extra profit, the publisher, the author, or both?
This
I tell them on twitter I like their jobs and send them unsolicited erotic fanfic. Almost as supportive as buying volumes in English
Or just take trips to japan occasionally and bring them back.
The publisher, it's always the publishers.
I'm talking about saving money here anon
Depends of the quality of the English release.
Also the size of my physical backlog.
It's not that it doesn't help the author, it's just that japanese companies care more about local success than overseas. Take Silent Hill as an example. The series was big in Europe and America, but a minor hit in Japan so it got shafted badly. And bear in mind that local sales would make them more money than overseas sales because they earn less money from the latter.
Japan is a pretty cheap place to vacation these days. The books themselves cost pennies generally so if you're already going its basically free.
It depends on the licensing deal. If they're licensing one of those 2-6 volume manga that already ended in japan, they usually take a flat paycheck once for licensing and that's it, since it's easier and they figure that it won't sell that much overseas anyway.
Wasn't this shit popular after the anime adaption? It was one of the series even casuals talked about.
The original series yes. I'm sure almost no one knew this part even existed.
Well that explains it. And yes I didn't. The talk about "volume 4" confused me since I remember that the series had way more volumes.
Do you buy English volumes of manga to support authors?
A volume can be like 5€ on Bookwalker while sevenseas is going to sell it at 15, even the english digital version on Bookwalker might be 10.
I gotta say, this year I finally did buy some Manga but because they simply weren't available otherwise. I am a bit upset that despite posting it in a thread and uploading it on catbox I haven't seen anyone reupload it on nyaa or a manga aggregator.
I buy English volumes of manga and light novels because I like the tactile experience of physical media. Supporting a given creative considering the odd web of relationships in the publishing world isn't particularly straightforward, and things outside of anyone's control can cause problems. I'm remembering waaaaay back when LN's were finally starting to make their way west, Tokyopop butchered their Kino's Journey release so hard, Kadokawa revoked their license. The deal is expired by now, so another publisher could theoretically acquire the license, but that's unlikely. Voting with your dollar is wildly unpredictable, and you never know when you'll lose.
Nyaa is locked to newfags and the demographic of Anon Babble doesn't use aggregators besides mangadex which doesn't allow officials
Repost the catboxes and I'll put them on nyaa
Thank you.
desuarchive.org
What happened to Danke empire? They uploaded the previous volumes.
Anon Babble feels semi dead these days and the few anons that are active stick to very specific threads and to make it worse most don't share and reupload anymore.
In the past I just needed to post the mega for a doujinshi I have scanned and some anons would re-upload it on five different places within hours. Now I have to do all the uploads because nobody else does. Nobody even scans doujinshi of seasonal shows anymore. I dislike crunchyroll as much as the next guy but without official subs we would be fucked these days. The mainstream shounen might get subs and everything else would be left to rot. The community as a whole is pretty passive these days. I think it's partly related to phones and their general uselessness.
probably yen press assassins finally found his hideout
No, I buy the Japanese volumes.
yes I support what i like fair is fair
Sometimes. Less than I used to. I've been buying stuff in Japanese more recently since I'm trying to learn. I generally only buy stuff I can't find pirated versions for or stuff I really really like though.
Anon Babble doesn't use aggregators besides mangadex
Name a manga aggregator that both allows user uploads of official rips and doesn't downscale/watermark the images.
Not him but I use Suwayomi and read mangaplus shit on it, there must be a bunch. It's not from mangaplus directly since they always delete everything but the first and last ten or so chapters.
No, I only buy the Japanese version either digitally or physically from a scalper (I have no choice, living in Europe sucks).
I used to buy paper volumes, but after having to move a few times, my old collection is still stuck in another state. Digitally I dislike supporting DRM, so I tend to buy if there's a steep sale or a DRM-free Humble Bundle, but otherwise pirate.
And/or donate money directly, if they have a setup for that.