NEVER underestimate the power of money especially now.
The Japanese currency is EXTREMELY weak right now, it's great for foreigners who want to visit as it's cheap but I'm hearing domestically people can't afford to travel out.
Fortunately Japan is great for 'stay vacations' but this currency value probably enabled this to happen.
This is as clever a scam as if Microsoft had a totally unrelated company that helped it achieve its goals called Microware. They're laughing at you with how obvious they are and how you can't call them out on it.
Blackstone plans to expand Infocom’s original content, focusing on genres popular with its primarily female readership, a demographic with growing disposable income.
Zero. It makes zero difference. At least they're marginally smarter than Disney though. Going for IP that are already popular with females instead of buying ones that aren't and trying to force it.
I always thought solid books were more popular due to doujinshi keeping the bottom line cheap enough I guess I’m showing my age when I missed the digital books overtaking physical.
Doujinshi are passion projects and sold at break-even prices just to get it out to as many people as possible (as well as avoid unwanted attention from IP holders if it's a parody).
The Japanese industry is heavily built on people buying the same chapters plural times.
Its why they still do "every store that sells this volume has a unique original art" model. People will sub to X magazine or buy the chapters in tokens online, and then go buy multiple copies of the same volumes later to get all the extra goodies. And then the Limited Edition version later that has the figurines/shirts/etc bundled.
So its less digital has overtaken solid books and more like "online piecemeal has overtaken giant magazine subscriptions." Because rather than pay for the full Shounen Jump for a single series you can just pay a fraction for the one you care to read.
So lacking the necessary skill set as well as the luxury of the necessary time and money to divert my entire life into developing said skill set...nothing. I can do nothing.
Great advice for those who are already well positioned to take up the quest, but I was hoping for something more practical for the rest of us to contribute.
Yeah just heard about it from here
They're not Blackrock OFFICIALLY but they do the same kind of shit with housing and had an illegal child labour scandal so not looking good.
Oh and 'yo ho me hearties' WON'T help you because this is the actual SOURCE they're going after.
No.
The true source of A&M was and always will be doujin circles.
NEVER underestimate the power of money especially now.
The Japanese currency is EXTREMELY weak right now, it's great for foreigners who want to visit as it's cheap but I'm hearing domestically people can't afford to travel out.
Fortunately Japan is great for 'stay vacations' but this currency value probably enabled this to happen.
But they're not coming for our stuff...they promised!
If they can't subvert it, they just buy it.
People who think that Asia is somehow isolated from all of this are terminally naive. Greed is global.
Pretty sure they gonna push to ban various titles
Blackwater.. blackstone... blackrock... hmmmm
Fuck.
(((Western))) subversion incoming
RIP
Surely this will end well
Don't know how much of a difference there is here, but reminder- BlackSTONE, not BlackROCK.
They used to be the same company and both engage in the same sort of garbage.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/blackstone-or-blackrock-schwarzman-and-fink-did-it-on-purpose.html
This is as clever a scam as if Microsoft had a totally unrelated company that helped it achieve its goals called Microware. They're laughing at you with how obvious they are and how you can't call them out on it.
Edit: Changed for accurate comparison.
Zero. It makes zero difference. At least they're marginally smarter than Disney though. Going for IP that are already popular with females instead of buying ones that aren't and trying to force it.
It’s e-books. When do people actually buy e-books of manga? People either buy the physical book or “yar har.”
The Japanese do. Its why sites keep trying the "token" system globally to massive failure each time, because its hugely successful in Japan.
I always thought solid books were more popular due to doujinshi keeping the bottom line cheap enough I guess I’m showing my age when I missed the digital books overtaking physical.
Doujinshi are passion projects and sold at break-even prices just to get it out to as many people as possible (as well as avoid unwanted attention from IP holders if it's a parody).
The Japanese industry is heavily built on people buying the same chapters plural times.
Its why they still do "every store that sells this volume has a unique original art" model. People will sub to X magazine or buy the chapters in tokens online, and then go buy multiple copies of the same volumes later to get all the extra goodies. And then the Limited Edition version later that has the figurines/shirts/etc bundled.
So its less digital has overtaken solid books and more like "online piecemeal has overtaken giant magazine subscriptions." Because rather than pay for the full Shounen Jump for a single series you can just pay a fraction for the one you care to read.
Realistically, what actions can we take?
Fella from the 80s had a good notion for it. Drove back the tide for a good forty years. Waves be a crashing once again against Japan Shores.
Creating, financing and only buying from our own entertainment industry.
So lacking the necessary skill set as well as the luxury of the necessary time and money to divert my entire life into developing said skill set...nothing. I can do nothing.
Great advice for those who are already well positioned to take up the quest, but I was hoping for something more practical for the rest of us to contribute.
Welcome to literally every other hobby of the last 15 years.
Providing monetary support is about all I've been able to figure out already. Happy to do it when and where I can but I worry it won't be enough.