Forum - View topicSince there's anime bootlegs.....
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fighterholic
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Does that mean there is a such thing as manga bootlegs?
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hikaru393
Posts: 525 Location: champlin MN |
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i have heard people say they have a bootleg manga they said it was translated and released in english.
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Asuka
 Posts: 118 Location: Burlington, NJ |
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It isn't really viable financially. With DVDs, the bootleggers can get a a complete product done with $3-4 total production cost at most. Books require printing presses and more time and effort to create. On top of that, there's a much smaller profit that would be made with bootlegged manga as opposed to bootlegged DVDs.
Hikaru is likely thinking of something along the lines of scanlations(the manga equivalent to fansubs). |
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HitokiriShadow
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As far as I know, the only 'bootleg' manga are scanlations, where someone scans the Japanese (or in some cases, another language) manga and then translate it into another language.
As for physical bootlegs, I've never heard of them. I don't think it's very practical to bootleg manga. Manga is already pretty cheap and it's a lot of effort. Bootleg DVDs just take fansubs or rips from legit DVDs and burn them to DVDs with a few menus to make it look somewhat real. |
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fighterholic
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Well, here's the thing, people were talking not too long ago that Anime Castle sells bootleg animes, so I just want to make sure if I were to buy manga from them, I wouldn't get something that's "fake".....
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hikaru393
Posts: 525 Location: champlin MN |
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yeah that's what it was scans.
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Asuka
Posts: 118 Location: Burlington, NJ |
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You can get things cheaper elsewhere. The manga AC has will be legit, but why support people who sell bootlegs at all?
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9903 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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In the old days when neither copyright laws nor WTO existed, all translated manga (in Taiwan) were bootlegs, with very poor printing and translation quality (much worse than electronic scanlations today). |
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Kagemusha
 Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
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I suppose technically scans on a CD could be considered bootlegs. I've seen these from time to time on Ebay, selling 26 or so volumes of Berserk for five bucks. But I doubt that actual bootleged books have appeared in North America outside people printing out scans and stapling them together.
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Zalis116
Moderator
 Posts: 6921 Location: Kazune City |
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If you read through the Pirate FAQ and other sites mentioned in the "Spotting a Bootleg" sticky, they say essentially the same thing...the costs and efforts are too much to create bootlegged manga books, when it's much easier to crank out more convincing and profitable DVDs. There are scanlations, but at least there's usually no profit made from them. (Aside from people who sell to gullible souls on eBay.)
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