Article from NicheGamer includes a statement from Seven Seas Entertainment, who localize manga and novels.
They have several imprints for manga, including Ghost Ship for some racier titles - https://gomanga.com/
Fans of Mushoku Tensei and Classroom of the Elite noticed that 'localization' had butchered various texts, and the publisher was forced to respond to it.
Of course, these editorial travesties may not be the only ones. You can judge whether their response is adequate; they will be issuing new versions of both titles, at least.
People like to say anime fans are gonna hold the line against this bullshit
The only way to 'hold the line' is to gatekeep. Anime, manga, and games are too big already; there's no helping it, there are enough normies involved.
At least anime has fan subs to counter "localizers", and since anime is too expensive to mass produce, even the nicher titles tend to be covered.
The same doesn't apply to manga due to the bulk of material, barring more popular titles due to demand for consumption between release of source material and when the Western publication can catch up. If this delay ever narrows, we're super fucked.
Novels? Games? Almost hopeless. The reward-to-effort ratio is far too small, so if companies like Yen Press and MangaGamer engage in "happy localization", nothing's going to change except for a few fan-obsessed cases.
Keeping Western companies in check, to me, is a lost cause. The worry is when Japanese companies are going to be subverted - the process is already under way and growing momentum every year - and what those implications are.
Article from NicheGamer includes a statement from Seven Seas Entertainment, who localize manga and novels.
They have several imprints for manga, including Ghost Ship for some racier titles - https://gomanga.com/
Fans of Mushoku Tensei and Classroom of the Elite noticed that 'localization' had butchered various texts, and the publisher was forced to respond to it.
Of course, these editorial travesties may not be the only ones. You can judge whether their response is adequate; they will be issuing new versions of both titles, at least.
Of course the HQ is California. Stop censorship .
The only way to 'hold the line' is to gatekeep. Anime, manga, and games are too big already; there's no helping it, there are enough normies involved.
At least anime has fan subs to counter "localizers", and since anime is too expensive to mass produce, even the nicher titles tend to be covered.
The same doesn't apply to manga due to the bulk of material, barring more popular titles due to demand for consumption between release of source material and when the Western publication can catch up. If this delay ever narrows, we're super fucked.
Novels? Games? Almost hopeless. The reward-to-effort ratio is far too small, so if companies like Yen Press and MangaGamer engage in "happy localization", nothing's going to change except for a few fan-obsessed cases.
Keeping Western companies in check, to me, is a lost cause. The worry is when Japanese companies are going to be subverted - the process is already under way and growing momentum every year - and what those implications are.