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samuelp
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I was just in Akiba today, and all the foreigners I saw there were in search of only one thing: porn. |
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Mohawk52
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Josh7289
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This is tentatively awesome. They need to find a good balance between price and availability and stuff. And promote it.
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Divineking
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I imagine that these publishers will be using their American counterparts(Viz, Kodensha USA, Yen Press...), since it would lessen complications if this is used as a marketing strategy to determine what to release here. My only worry with that is that if series that these english publishers have already licensed are simulcasted, is whether or not we'll see some improvement in the translations for certain series, i.e. Reborn(Viz's translations for that particular series are less than stellar). As for censorship for what's put up...I doubt we'd see it, but I'lll wait to hear details first. |
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samuelp
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Was that a rhetorical question? |
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Sunday Silence
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Well, if you compare American Porn Stars vs. Japanese AV Actresses, Americans go for more guttural vibrant moans and screams, while Japanese are more somber, meek/submissive. |
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mdo7
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This is the best news of the day
 . Kudos to them for trying to do this for North America market. I wonder if this will be brought to Europe also.
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nightjuan
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Fantastic news for those who live in the U.S. and quite possibly Canada. In that regard, this is certainly a major step in the right direction.
The same cannot be said, however, for the rest of the world. This is absolutely useless for those who live elsewhere or anyone who believes the point of legal digital distribution is to reach a global audience and attack worldwide piracy, not to essentially create and protect content ghettos by default. Illegal downloads have no borders and thus any legal effort that takes region-blocking for granted is going to be structurally limited in its effectiveness, if not turn out to be a self-defeating enterprise to begin with. Having said that...it might be a little premature to discuss the actual details of how the system will actually work, but I honestly wish this project the best of luck in spite of its inherent restrictions. At the very least, this does have the potential to eventually influence many U.S. fans into embracing legal distribution. Last edited by nightjuan on Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:25 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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mglittlerobin
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This is a step in the right direction, I do prefer my manga in print, but it is convenient to read it online, best of luck on this endeavor.
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Zin5ki
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That depends upon the regions to whom their scans cater, one presumes. |
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Mohawk52
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@Samuelp: I'll leave that for you to decide mate.
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garfield15
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I am very happy to read this news. It's a great step in the right direction (even though like, seriously now you're doing this? Well better late than never). I look forward to hearing more of this service.
Unfortunately, I sympathize with those living in foreign countries who are region-blocked from these services. As long as these things keep being issues, scantalators will always have a leg to stand on in these matters That being said, at least this opens some unlicensed manga opportunities hopefully. |
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Paploo
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The latest update makes it sound like the site will be run SigIkki/ShonenSunday style- free manga updates on a regular basis, with the site promoting the publishers back catalogues and releases. I'm assuming it'll involve domestic publishers as well [who were part of the Coalition announced over the summer], and will promote their works... I'm hoping they make them part of the process and help direct fans to their books- given Kodansha, Shuiesha and Shogakukan all have domestic divisions, I imagine they would do so.
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firedragon54738
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Cool some good new cant wait to see what to come
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matrixdude
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So does this mean that the openmanga.org is a bust then? Cause it sounds like they decided to cut out the people from mangahelpers and then get straight to the market, which isn't a bad thing. Glad to finally see the publishers get something right on the digital distribution end though. Scanlators will still do their thing, because there are regions that will be blocked from this, and who can beat free? I'll be laughing though if they do use scanlator translations, just because the sheer amount of manpower required to clean up, edit, and translate everything is enormous. Even more so on a multiple manga release site.
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