Forum - View topicNEWS: ALC Publishing, JManga to Publish Namori's Yuruyuri Manga
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thomas8166
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Of course. I fully respect your freedom to express your opinion. Just wanted to comment on the fact that you're pretty vocal on what you don't like, instead of what you do. No offense meant! |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2232 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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Perhaps you've noticed, but Jmanga is pursing the very smart strategy of licensing manga which have anime adaptations which come from smaller publishers (like Recorder and Randoseru, etc...) Yuriyuri is another good example of this, and their previous relationship with ALC from Poor Poor Lips and Kimi no Tamenara Shineru worked very well. I bet that Jmanga wanting to publish it was very important in ALC's decision to license it. |
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minirop
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yes, please, do a physical release
(and from other titles, like "soredemo machi de mawatte iru") |
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yuricon
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Thanks everyone who has shown interest in these titles.
I want to clear up some confusion about this news. JManga is the entity that holds these licenses, not ALC. At the moment, these are digital releases only. I've written about why digital is a better choice for Yuri a number of times on Okazu, so feel free to look over there for my opinion on the topic. Tl;dr version - while there may be a *few* of you would would like this in print, there simply aren't *enough* folks who will pay for it to be in print to make licensing something like Yuru Yuri viable. Bear in mind that it's still running and is already an 8-volume series. If you can find 3999 friends who will also pay for 8 volumes of it in print, I'll license the print version. ^-^ Getting actual commitment of $ from the Yuri audience is harder than fans realize (most fans kind of assume that they are speaking for another 10,000 silent people when they post...but they really aren't.) The Yuri audience is very fragmented, geographically and psychographically. It's relatively easy to get 100 people to "hell yeah!" a title, but that doesn't translate into 1000 sales...or even 100. Harsh fact, but true. I've been dealing with this niche for over a decade now, I really know it better than anyone. ^-^ In regards to the kind of odd "accusation" that since I dislike a thing, why would I work on it...I don't hate Yuru Yuri. I can see that Ichijinsha's putting a lot of money behind it and it's paying off. I didn't *like* it for myself. I'm allowed. More importantly, I *love* Yuri as a whole and want to see as many people get to read as many Yuri titles as possible. And, because of the above harsh reality, I think digital is honestly the best way forward to do that. The Yuri audience is small, even accounting for global numbers. Distributing paper books overseas is expensive and not cost-effective. Digital, however is a great leveler. I and all of us at ALC are very proud to be working with JManga on these titles, and we're thrilled to have the chance to bring more Yuri to a global audience. We hope that if these titles do well we can bring other titles from Ichinjinsha to you, as well. Thanks to all of you for your support and interest! Cheers, Erica Friedman Yuricon & ALC Publishing |
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yuricon
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[quote="samuelp"][quote="Surrender Artist"]
Just wanted to clarify this. I don't honestly know what you mean by Het/Angst Yuri. The kind of Yuri I like best is two adult, out women who are in love with one another and make a life together, such as Fu~Fu or even a story like Aoi Hana, which is about a teenager, but a very remarkable young woman coming to grips with her identify. None of that is Heterosexual or Angsty. I admit I don't much like anime or manga that states at little girls' crotches or underwear, which really seems to upset some people. GUNJO was angsty. I'll give you that.  But it was exceptional.
Cheers, Erica |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4471 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Good luck on the digital-only release. I hope it's a success, even though there are still those of us luddites only interested in reading manga on paper.
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JManga
Company Representative
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We will look into the prospect of Print-On-Demand and such. At the moment, we do not have the print licenses for it, but if you would like us to release them, please, contact us at [email protected], so we have more feedback for the publishers. |
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yu3lora
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Eh!!. Please release it physically! We would love to have it on our book shelf.. 
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