[ SECRET POST #2734 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2734 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you know where to get free or cheap anime/manga, I'm sure there are plenty of people on f!s who would find that interesting and try it out in good faith. Some of them might even prefer it to pirating.

However, most of the industries being torn up by the piracy debate do a piss-poor job paying their creators. I've paid full price in the US for manga. I'd really like to know how much of that money goes to the artist. What I'd really like to be able to do is wire money from my bank account to theirs when I read and love a scanlation.

I get tired of watching Western anime/manga fandom tear itself up over how it's "ruining everything." Media made in another country should be able to sink or swim based on national sales. If it's orders of magnitude more profitable overseas, that should be an added bonus. If it doesn't export, or the exports aren't profitable, that should be very secondary to how the story did in Japan. Seriously. Anime and manga went through this stupid fad where it was bought and licensed by a whole slew of companies that made all sorts of blunders because they just assumed it was The Next Big Thing and would sell itself. They often didn't pay for good translations, adequate dubs, or even market what they were offering (generally at very high-end prices). And when the bubble burst and most of them went belly-up, the fandom self-flagellated over piracy.

Also, if you write a story, and people like it, they're going to translate it into other languages, possibly with your approval but more likely not. If they're selling their translations (as has happened with plagiarized, commercial works in India) I have sympathy for wanting it to stop. For something that's getting passed around completely free, though, not so much. And the likelihood that someone unscrupulous can poach your story for money and not get caught doing that goes way up if there are no free translations.

[(Anonymous)]

Your entire argument is invalidated by Pokemon, which sank like a rock in Japan. The only reason it was continued was because it made scads overseas.

[sporkly]

Where'd you get that from?

As far as I know, it initially sold poorly when it was released in 1996, but became very popular about a year after its release because of Mew rumors and Corocoro promotions. It didn't hit the West until 1998, where it was assumed it would do poorly because of its foreign-ness.

Reference if you're interested: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Pokemon-HeartGold-Version-SoulSilver-Version/Iwata-Asks-Pokemon-HeartGold-Version-SoulSilver-Version/1-Just-Making-The-Last-Train/1-Just-Making-The-Last-Train-225842.html

DA

[(Anonymous)]

One example out of an entire pool never invalidates an argument that's made based on general trends.

[(Anonymous)]

So that's why there's a giant Pokemon store in Tokyo? Because it sank like a rock? Okay then

[(Anonymous)]

There's not just one.