Anime director Makoto Shinkai is among the ones leading the charge to spread Japanese literature, and to (ultimately) take over the novel market of foreign countries.
theguardian.com
Japanese novels now account to almost 50% of all novel sales in the UK
Japan's publishing market is genuinely the strongest in the entire world and it's only the immense hubris of the diversity and inclusion inmates running the asylum that is Western publishing that stops us from dropping everything and becoming like them. Most fiction published in English speaking markets sells less than 1000 copies.
50% of all novel sales
That's not what it claims there.
Isekai dominates all.
to be fair, you have to add English prose when translating
literally me literature
of all translated fiction sale
Not total sales, but I only just barely skim read the article.
Anyway, good. More power to them if they aren't like the shit we get I watch braindead anime and read inconsequential SoL and escapist manga but I read books too and it's never novels but non-fiction stuff that I can learn about my interests from. I'm reading a book about the local geology at the moment.
and it's only the immense hubris of the diversity
Actual diversity is great: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." The problem with "diversity" as defined by the west is it's superficial diversity where people look different but all think and believe the same things.
We're in a global world now--let's draw from the entire globe's cultural output--whether it be from Japan, Russia, India, etc.
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
He never meet an African American.
You're absolutely correct. No offense, but are you autistic? I've heard that autistic people have a certain level of built-in immunity to marketing scams, I'm wondering if that's at play here.
He never meet an African American.
And neither have you, IESLB bro.
Why does the newspaper graphic look like something out of the 90s
Why does news like this rarely get posted (it has Shinkai in it) but Chinkfags and Gookfags are free to obnoxiously brag and shill their trashy webnovels
Yeah but British people can't read English so American novels have to be translated into their language.
Everything has to be negative towards the Jap now or else it will hurt the feeling of Korean and Chinese mods
50% of all novel sales sounds ludicrous and I don't know why you even tried to claim that.
Either way the charts are always chick lit so if Japan has perfected coffee shop novels then I'm not surprised they're there.
nta but I have.
I feel like nogs are fine outside the US, but something about African Americans is just unhinged
translated
If you're a headliner reader and not someone who looks at the actual article they're you're no better than someone who gets their news from twitter/tiktok/ or reddit
Thanks for pointing that out. I was staring at the OP thinking that the sheer implausibility of the lie (if a lie it was) meant that it should be real, and I kept wondering if I should open the link and have my worldview shattered.
I don't read anything. Not even the headline. If it looks interesting, I post it.
If you ask chatGPT to generate a good clickbaity OP for whatever you want to post (image or link), how useful are its answers?
I dont get it i thought everyone hated Japanese light novels?
Were they just lying?
I know but the word diversity is tainted by the group misusing it.
True
It's weird when you see what people say and do and it's completely different lol
No, that's normal.
The fact remains, however, that the genres of Japanese fiction that are popular in the UK – crime, young women’s literary fiction, comfort books – are “heavily curated”, as Fincher puts it, to the detriment of other genres that are popular in Japan. “We’re not seeing very much hard sci-fi,
Anons keep complaining that the Japanese stopped writing scifi, and it turns out that it's actually the anons who are just not reading it.
They were being little tsunderes
but something about Americans is just unhinged
FTFY
She and Her Cat novel was amazing. It's so different from other Shinkai novels. Maybe it's because he wrote it years after releasing the short, which gave him time to actually take in everything and contemplate what the story meant to him.
The new ones always come out months before the new films are even released, so I think that's the biggest difference.
Japanese SF sucks ass though
Japan is the focus of fetishsism from the rest of the world. Their fiction is better, for sure, but all this stems from simple fetishisism. It is offputting that the rest of the world stands there and jerks off to Japan and don't take their lead as if theY would let them anyway.
Bestselling translated novel sales, not total novel sales, dipshit.
This book will change your life
The west can't be like japan unless it stops with the dei and everything like that
The people can't even make their own stories because they are softened by more companies
Basically the people lost their voice a long time ago in the west.
Will it make me any less of a failure?
Will I get a job and the attitude required to work at that job for more than 2 weeks?
Will I learn to speak to people without running away?
Will I learn to start caring again?
Basically the people lost their voice a long time ago in the west
This but with everything
You can even see it in architecture and other stuff
There is a devide between what the people truly want and what companies want.
i can quite comfortably buy manga in my country, with a decent selection now
just walk in the store and pick whatever, even some less popular series
the problem is that its usually censored and im questioning the quality of the translation
forget the usual spelling mistakes and typos in regular tld books, i bet there would be rewriting of lines just like burgers are doing
especially since the company that has basically monopoly in my cunt for manga and novels is a complete shithole run by an unhinged femoid with an ego and a guy that cares only about squeezing money
last time i checked one of their releases was for Sono Bisque and ofc the Juju nip was completely covered up with the towel
thats why i still pirate everything for now
there is no point in putting out quite a lot of money for an absolutely inferior product
ill probably learn nip and make a yen or dollar bank account before the official release situation improves
Oedipus bros...
Are you under the impression that those shitty isekai light novels like Overlord are under the same category as legit jap novels?
so what? how is this manga related? nobody cares about bongistan
Hey whats the title of the first Harry Potter book again?
Western publishers are all about DE & I.
What they choose to publish reflects this. They pick works from "marginalized" groups (white women and non-whites) with "woke" (cultural marxist) themes, regardless if an audience for such works exists or not.
I see this happen in other areas as well. My sister now watches korean dramas, this would have been unthinkable a decade ago when western media wasn't as poisoned by this shite. It's also the reason why anime has become more popular with normalfags. Even if a lot of people can't put it into words, truth is that western media has gone downhill this past decade.
outside the us
Ask bogs about that woman that was chocked to death by oral rape
She was enjoying it. Women love rape.