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PR: No More JManga? Try eManga.com: the Digital, Download-to-Own Alternative




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Primus



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:09 pm Reply with quote
Pretty sleazy PR DMP.

Gotta get money I guess...
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ZeetherKID77



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:50 pm Reply with quote
Unless they start offering stuff that used to be in JManga's catalog I'm not jumping on this. Sorry. A bunch of yaoi series cannot replace Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and the discontinued Del Rey series.

Oh, and DMP ditching releasing Nanoha StrikerS' manga still annoys me.

Plus didn't DMG hire scanlators at one point and people started getting suspicious? Yeah, not supporting this at all.

And I just realized they're selling Vanguard Princess, which is a FREEWARE GAME. This company sounds like a scheme and I'm now completely uninterested in them.
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oriana3k



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:00 pm Reply with quote
ZeetherKID77 wrote:

And I just realized they're selling Vanguard Princess, which is a FREEWARE GAME. This company sounds like a scheme and I'm now completely uninterested in them.


As far as I can tell, only the Japanese version of the game is freeware. Even the game's official English site has a link to purchase it from Amazon.
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:20 am Reply with quote
ZeetherKID77 wrote:
Unless they start offering stuff that used to be in JManga's catalog I'm not jumping on this. Sorry. A bunch of yaoi series cannot replace Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and the discontinued Del Rey series.
That's true - it's especially silly since yuri was always one of JManga's better points and eManga has exactly none of that.
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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:11 am Reply with quote
So what are the chances those guys will pick up yuri manga?
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:39 am Reply with quote
Probably little to none, but I've decided to at least send them a screenie in the hopes they plan to consider rescuing titles.
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agila61



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:49 am Reply with quote
darkchibi07 wrote:
So what are the chances those guys will pick up yuri manga?

Even without some of the other micro-niche manga that JManga had, if emanga had a similar selection of yuri titles, I'd be there in a shot. When I was trying out various online readers last year, emanga stood out as the most useful on both my netbook and my Nook Color ~ better than JManga, better than Viz online, better than Yen Press online ~ except none of their titles were titles I was interested in reading.
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ZeetherKID77



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:42 pm Reply with quote
Oriana3k wrote:
ZeetherKID77 wrote:

And I just realized they're selling Vanguard Princess, which is a FREEWARE GAME. This company sounds like a scheme and I'm now completely uninterested in them.


As far as I can tell, only the Japanese version of the game is freeware. Even the game's official English site has a link to purchase it from Amazon.

The English version also appears to have SecuROM DRM. There is no reason to include that in a game you can get for free elsewhere. The only other change is one character's outfit being made more modest, but that's fine. SecuROM is not fine.

Frankly I'm annoyed that a company is trying to piggyback off JManga's closure when their selection of titles is stuff I don't want and one title that JManga actually had (Elemental Gelade). Add Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer and Hayate X Blade and then we'll talk.
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