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Anime Remix
Joined: 16 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:15 pm
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Pretty interesting... Wonder where this will lead to. 
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BassKuroi
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:00 pm
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| Anime Remix wrote: | Pretty interesting... Wonder where this will lead to. |
To communism.
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ZeroDemio
Joined: 10 Jun 2010
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:24 pm
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Wow!...
So the logic is... If there an obscure manga, we can now get it, and still support the creator in some form, by buying it off an exclusive website?
I'm not sure how to look at this but, dame I'm sure to say hello to Black Jack.
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ZeroDemio
Joined: 10 Jun 2010
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:30 pm
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| BassKuroi wrote: |
| Anime Remix wrote: | Pretty interesting... Wonder where this will lead to. |
To communism. |
We already live in a world where people do fansubs for free. I think we have already reached communism a long time ago .
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Mr. sickVisionz
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:26 pm
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Sounds like a bad deal imo. I don't think the amount of text to be translated per chapter justifies giving over distribution rights to this company and allowing them to sell his manga, creating direct competition with his own site.
I think he'd be better off just waiting for another person or going to a college and posting up a job offer for an exchange student or something.
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agila61
Joined: 22 Feb 2009
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Location: NE Ohio
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:41 pm
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| Mr. sickVisionz wrote: | | Sounds like a bad deal imo. I don't think the amount of text to be translated per chapter justifies giving over distribution rights to this company and allowing them to sell his manga, creating direct competition with his own site.
I think he'd be better off just waiting for another person or going to a college and posting up a job offer for an exchange student or something. |
How much direct competition is there going to be between a translated version of his work and his work in the original language?
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Andrew Cunningham
Joined: 01 Feb 2006
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Location: Seattle
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:23 pm
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| ZeroDemio wrote: | | Wow!...
So the logic is... If there an obscure manga, we can now get it, and still support the creator in some form, by buying it off an exclusive website?
I'm not sure how to look at this but, dame I'm sure to say hello to Black Jack. |
Say Hello to Black Jack was a massive best seller in Japan; a lot of the stunts he's pulling now are possible only because the series was so popular. I'm not sure how much that precedent would actually apply to more obscure titles. There are certainly less well-known manga I would happily translate for royalties only if the authors were as net savvy as Sato is, but given how reliant on their publishers the average manga artist is, I'm not seeing this becoming a trend.
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BassKuroi
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:02 pm
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| ZeroDemio wrote: |
| BassKuroi wrote: |
| Anime Remix wrote: | Pretty interesting... Wonder where this will lead to. |
To communism. |
We already live in a world where people do fansubs for free. I think we have already reached communism a long time ago . |
Well, if that's so, think something worst... maybe Armageddon...
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Mr. sickVisionz
Joined: 28 Oct 2007
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:54 pm
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| agila61 wrote: |
| Mr. sickVisionz wrote: | | Sounds like a bad deal imo. I don't think the amount of text to be translated per chapter justifies giving over distribution rights to this company and allowing them to sell his manga, creating direct competition with his own site.
I think he'd be better off just waiting for another person or going to a college and posting up a job offer for an exchange student or something. |
How much direct competition is there going to be between a translated version of his work and his work in the original language? |
100% of English sales goto this site rather than him getting some college kid to do it and 100% of sales going to his own site.
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