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Ramen
 Posts: 346 Location: San Jose |
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I will buy my manga wherever it is cheaper. If it is cheaper at Walmart, then so be it. Sure, I wouldn't buy it if I thought the company was truly EVIL, but I have seen no evidence that shows this. Illogical, ideological, unrealistic, unfounded left-wing rantings and character attacks will not change my opinion. If manga becomes very popular at Walmart, it can only be good for the industry.
Have a Merry Christmas everyone 
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Carol Maxwell
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EXACTLY! Walmart is good for Manga. If it was thought to be a bad idea by people who decided this, then they wouldn't have done it. Simple as that. 
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GATSU
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I'm sure they had the best intentions, but you know what they said about good intentions. Anyway, I predict that if this goes as far as it does, you'll see less new titles licensed, because the companies will be forced to make even more money off their current titles to survive.
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Carol Maxwell
Posts: 359 |
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Less new stuff would suck.
 So, if this were to happen, then, pull out of Walmart man!
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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It won't. Don't buy into his baseless Chicken Little act. |
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1705 Location: Indiana |
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*Looks up* Nope, the sky is still up there... |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Well, you know, I predict that Wal-Mart having anime and manga will lead to many small, independent anime and manga retailers going bust in small towns. Oh, wait... there aren't any small, independent anime and manga retailers in small towns! (Except for, maybe, college towns.) As for small, independent anime and manga retailers in cities and suburbs, will anime and manga at Wal-Mart put a dent in their business? Perhaps, but the anime and manga market has been migrating away from comic book stores for several years now, as mainstream video retailers have large anime sections for that small but big-spending niche, and mainstream bookstores carry manga paperbacks (with the manga publishers largely scrapping the single-issue format entirely), so Wal-Mart getting into the act is but one dent among many. |
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Emerje
 Posts: 7423 Location: Maine |
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Funny you should say that because I'm pretty sure Tokyopop knows what they're doing better than you do. They're getting by just fine without Walmart so I'm positive they went into this expecting to increase profits, not decrease them. Emerje |
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Carol Maxwell
Posts: 359 |
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That makes more sense because they're selling MORE not less. So, profits go up, more manga everyone else. So, it's all good!
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GATSU
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More products for sale doesn't necessarily mean more products are being sold. People never think about oversaturation until it's too late.
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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okay, and this would be oversaturation how??? People who want to buy it will buy it, regardless of where they purchase it. That much is clear. Oversaturation only works with business models, and not consumable products for one. (note I place books, magazines and the like as such because the content changes - even the story develops or changes from volume to volum of manga)
Obviously, they calculated that more would be sold based on their research of supply and demand. Oh wait... I forgot that you were on... no, headed up their research team to look into this. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Have you been going over my recent posts looking for an angle I might agree with you on? I agree that there is a market saturation point and that too many anime fans buy into the "Disco Stu Fallacy" that the popularity of anime will always grow at the same rate, but I see the advantage of anime and manga being distributed through Wal-Mart in that the people in small towns whom might watch anime on Cartoon Network but not be able to buy anime or manga except on the Internet now have a local retail venue to purchase it, because, as I've said earlier, small towns tend not to have comic book stores. I don't think this will have much effect on overall sales on anime and manga in cities and suburbs, but small towns are still relatively virgin territory. |
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Mohawk52
 Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Well I've checked my local Asda Supermarket, which are owned by Wall Mart here in the UK, and apart from a DBZ PS-2 game and a Poké-Mon movie DVD, there was not a scrap of manga of any sort available. Not unexpected mind you.
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Carol Maxwell
Posts: 359 |
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Maybe they just meant soley the Walmart stores.
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Crowley
Posts: 2 Location: Canada |
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Bit late now, but neither of those appear to have anything to do with Wal-Mart specifically denying women any rights. Yes, Wal-Mart is horrible to their employees, but you present nothing showing that women get 'stiffed' the most. |
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