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TsunaReborn!
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Now what I want to know is what language are the manga in, annoyingly I can't read a work of anything other than English.... For some reason I'm going to answer my own rhetorical question with multiple?
Anyways I think the idea is really cool and he'll I would love to spend all day reading manga but when I go away to somewhere far away I want to explore and spend very little time inside my accommodation. Luckily the nightly rate is good. |
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the-antihero
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The only language they can really offer is English. Most anime/manga fans outside Japan can't speak let alone read Japanese. A Japanese product in English IN Japan? That was once an oxymoron till now.
EDIT: But then I remembered Afro Samurai EDIT 2: The text in the image looks Japanese. Doesn't look like the idea is feasible. |
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TsunaReborn!
Posts: 4713 Location: Cheltenham UK |
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I was thinking they could offer Spanish and/or French versions especially as France has one of the larger manga markets outside Japan... But that would only be helpful if a large amount of French reading visitors stayed in said locations also more people probably know how to read English than any other language so one "universal" language would make more sense....
I'm going to stop trying to think about this at this time of the evening 
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VORTIA
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Hell, I'm down for this! I may be Western, but I can enjoy muddling through Japanese language manga! Good times!
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Touma
 Posts: 2651 Location: Colorado, USA |
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I wonder if these might be intended for frequent visitors who probably can read at least some Japanese?
If I went to Tokyo I would definitely not be spending time sitting in my room reading manga. The only time that I would be in the room is when I could no longer stay awake and just had to get some sleep. A manga cafe makes sense because I often read while I am eating, but the manga apartment would not do anything for me. That is why I wonder if it might be for people who are not really there to party and see the sights. But the price seems very reasonable to me, even without the manga. |
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Dfens
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The picture which I'm assuming is just for reference shows all those Manga were in Japanese. But when they said foreigners they didn't say from which countries. You would think English but it could be French or even Chinese. Those two countries have a bigger market share than the United States based on how they get tons of series we never get and or long before we do.
Still other than the cheap rate for such a good place to stay at fully furnished I wouldn't spend the precious limited time reading manga which I could do at home. I plan on visiting Japan this year if my schedule permits and since it's not cheap to go their I can't afford to sit around when I plan on living it up. Last edited by Dfens on Sat Nov 01, 2014 9:22 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Hoppy800
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I like this idea a lot, the pricing isn't too bad either.
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animeaffairs
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You had me at "less than 5,000 yen a night". If the location is good - i.e., within walking distance of the main railway stations in the areas they've mentioned (Akiba, etc.) - then I'd happily rent one of these rooms even if I had zero interest in manga. For anyone unwilling to put up with shared facilities (which would rule out capsule hotels and most hostels), that's a pretty good price for a room in central Tokyo, much less one with all the mod cons. I've stayed in a broad range of hotel types across Japan, from five-star down to business tier and near-hostel, and if I can get a private room for about 5,000 yen a night in a major city I'd count myself lucky. And the fact that I'm actually interested in manga just makes the deal all that much sweeter. |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13630 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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If you have the money and you have speak/read a decent amount of Japanese, then it might not be as much an issue if the manga is in Japanese. If there's manga that isn't in Japanese or English, there's always the pictures.
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Mr. Oshawott
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With all those manga of many genres available, a visitor will have no problem finding one that he/she will enjoy.
However, unless they're decently translated into English, I'm not sure if this idea will fare well... |
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CarolinaMangaLibrary
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Each apartment would have a specific type of manga...
Hmm. Perhaps something for The Carolina Manga Library to think about for the future in the US. Maybe we can change it to be 24 libraries at cons with separate "rooms" in the bigger room with a cot or an armchair with a shelf of manga especially for each type of reader! |
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mdo7
 Posts: 6695 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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This is somewhat cool. A manga apartments catered for foreigners, whoever thought of this idea is very creative.
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MasterGhost
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I now currently live in Tokyo and if they had plans to open the apartments at places far from the city, I would gladly opt to live in one of those when I go on a vacation. Unfortunately these apartments are located in the vicinity and therefore there's no incentive for me to fork out 5000 yen a night just for the experience.
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noblesse oblige
 Posts: 282 Location: Florida |
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Wow. Talk about catering to a niche market! First you exclude all people without a strong interest in manga. Then you can exclude people that actually want to use their vacation to go outside and do stuff. Then, if I understood the article correctly, you narrow it down to people interested in a certain genre of manga? lol. I see. So they are going for the well traveled, japanese fluent, shojo loving hikikomori. They should have no problems at all keeping 10 floors of apartments full, lol.
I know this sounds like a dream for some fans, but I doubt this venture will end up working out. Also, you can bet those collections are going to be missing random volumes in no time. If hotels thought people stealing towels was bad......just wait 
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EricJ2
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That's just it--They're aiming it to foreigners, who think manga is really cool! (Not like their manga readers, who are obviously sad hikkikomori that would probably just barricade themselves in the apartment with their shoujo girls all day...) Between this and the "Cool Japan" push, there seems to be a double standard toward the Western craze for anime/manga that's starting to border on condescension-- As if they'd love for our interest to help sales and international exposure, but snicker behind our backs that we're taking it this seriously. 
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