Forum - View topicMuv-Luv Alternative Manga Debuts in English on Friday
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cookiemanstah
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well now this is a goddamn surprise. Muv-Luv has enough of a Western audience to warrant this?
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invalidname
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Your skepticism is warranted. After all, this manga series sat out there for 13 years without being licensed by the likes of a Seven Seas or a Yen Press. But, speaking as a fan, one thing that’s distinctive about the Muv-Luv fanbase is their extreme willingness to spend money. It’s a small fanbase, but it’s all whales. Consider, for example, that the Kickstarter to bring over the visual novels raised a whopping US$1.2 million… as much as the next two VN kickstarters (Clannad and the Grisaia Trilogy) combined. Not because they had more backers, but because the average backer pledged over $150… well above what it would take to just get Steam keys for the games. What I find interesting about what aNCHOR is doing right now is the degree to which they’re taking their relationship with the EN audience into their own hands. They clawed back the distribution of the games on Steam from Sekai Project (and earlier from Degica), and now they’re releasing the manga themselves via various ebookstores, including the indie-friendly Gumroad, where they get a much better cut of the profits (an aNCHOR rep on the Muv-Luv Discord said they stand to make 3 times as much from every sale on Gumroad as on Amazon Kindle… no wonder they’re pushing the “super high resolution” version on Gumroad so hard). Earlier, they sold the artbook âge graphicers directly to international fans via Pixiv, and the Muv-Luv Alternative CODEX (a 400-page book of lore, mecha designs, and interviews) via Steam. So, I don’t know, maybe when you have that intimate a relationship with your fanbase, you can just sell them stuff directly instead of going through middlemen. It’ll be interesting to see if other JP creators do the same thing, assuming digital goods continue to be fairly easy to sell across borders. EDIT: Unfortunate that the article doesn’t actually link to the manga’s home page, which has the links to the various ebookstores. Here ya go: https://muvluv.com/en/alternative-manga/ |
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ryanvamp
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I hope it does well. I can't support it since I'd have to import it and the taxes/shipping are a nuisance, not to mention the pandemic situation making online purchases very uncertain atm.
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Wrangler
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As far i can tell, there been at least two versions of the main story done for Muv-Luv Alternatrive. One was bit more light hearted, other dark dark, with gore of the Alien people eater things. (i hated that, honestly.) I'm glad franchise is getting another chance, but i'm curious which version being released.
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