[ SECRET POST #2022 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2022 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 088 secrets from Secret Submission Post #289.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[catystorm]

Once I would have given a shit.

Now, I realize that my tastes are obscure enough that if I'm lucky enough to have a series translated and localized I will buy the hell out of it. But chances are it's not going to be, so I don't even bother looking for it.

Or, in the case of series I really loved, the title gets dropped three to four volumes in while it's still running.

I support the industry. I may not buy every single title I've ever glanced at, but I buy a fair amount of manga every year. What I'm waiting for is a good digital solution, because the main reason I slow in purchasing it is lack of physical space to store it. We're starting to get that with anime (we've got a ways to go but it's definitely in a better place than it was even two or three years ago), but manga still has a long road ahead of it.

In conclusion, I read scanlations, I don't often buy the physical copies any long; please, judge away, asshole.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Oh for God's sake, I'm not judging *you* at all. If you were telling me the line I mentioned: "I read scans because I can't afford manga", then I would judge you. But since you would buy it if it were available? Rock on.

Re: OP

[catystorm]

The issue here is, though, is that people change. I used to be very much like that, I read scans specifically because I was working long hours and barely making ends meet. Food > manga and all that. Being a poor student does that to someone. Why pay at all when it's available online for free?

Any and every time I've encountered that attitude, it came from younger fans. And young fans DON'T have excess money to spend on manga, and if they're anything at all like most teenagers I know telling them off and "judging" them for it is just going to spur the opposite response. Fandom gets younger every day.

Is this a war that's going to be won on all fronts? No. But I think that the tactics need to be shifted. Maybe that's just me.

(My biggest pet peeve is the people who read the manga in the store, it's actually contributed a great deal to me no longer buying some manga, because I can't get a damn volume that hasn't had the spine bent or greasy fingerprints all over the pages. I really wish stores would go back to shrink-wrapping the volumes.)