| According to ANN, Sasahara Hikaru, the CEO of Digital Manga Publishing (DMP) confirmed the report on Yaoi Review that DMP is preparing a "legal scanlation" site. They plan to acquire manga from Japanese publishers and provide the fan-made translations via the website. The income will be divided among DMP, Japanese publishers and the fan scanlators. The initial lineups will be hundreds of titles mainly Boys Love (Yaoi) manga. After the release of warning by the Japan-US manga publishers' alliance, MangaHelpers announced to stop posting commercial manga and shift their activity to doujin manga. MangaFox removed VIZ Media titles from their list. OneManga hasn't reacted to the warning, but the top page has been under maintenance. Source: Anime!Anime!, ANN Story by CheshireSin |
dtshykJun 22, 2010 6:59 AM
| Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... |
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| Oh man, that sounds pretty damn good! I'll totally be looking there if it goes up~ |
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Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... Me too ¬¬ |
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| I guess it's a step in the right direction. |
| Sounds like OpenManga actually has some traction but yaoi? Really? If they want this thing to succeed, they need to have Naruto, Bleach, One Piece and a bunch of shoujo stuff and then put it for free on the site at the same time it's in stores. Everything else will fall into place once that happens. I hope. |
| How come manga like Naruto and Bakuman hasn't been taken off by sites such as MangaFox if they're removing VIZ media licensed products? |
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| Interesting news about MangaHelpers there. Also, MangaFox has recieved quite a bit of backlash for going PG-13, from what I hear. MangaHut recently had that big to-do, and so there's barely anything up, and a lot of people abandoned the site. OneManga is properly confusing me and probably everyone else by starting up 1000Manga. |
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Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... same... On a side note, it was interesting to hear about MangaHelpers and MangaFox but I'm still surprise why OneManga haven't done much yet. |
Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... im thinking thesame thing |
| Even if this affected manga I actually care about, I'd probably stick to piracy for convenience's sake. Still, official scanlations seem like a good idea. |
JadeMatrix said: Interesting news about MangaHelpers there. Also, MangaFox has recieved quite a bit of backlash for going PG-13, from what I hear. MangaHut recently had that big to-do, and so there's barely anything up, and a lot of people abandoned the site. OneManga is properly confusing me and probably everyone else by starting up 1000Manga. Dont say it damn it. They are watching us. |
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| This won't end well. Not for us, not for them. |
The initial lineups will be hundreds of titles mainly Boys Love (Yaoi) manga. ): |
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Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... My thoughts exactly (¬_¬). |
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| It is up to the producers to figure out how to make money on the internet. They have to change their business model and adapt to the new technology. It is not up to consumers to know which manga is "legal" to read online in their country. Some mangas are licensed and can't be posted and read. Some are not licensed and can be posted and read. Others are licensed but not available for purchase. I buy a manga after I read some of it online. It is another form of advertising. Sorry for the rant. I got off topic. I am just glad to see that a producer is making an effort to change and not just punish consumers. |
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SlaughterChichi said: Oh man, that sounds pretty damn good! I'll totally be looking there if it goes up~ |
| Oh AWESOME...... Wait a sec wat? |
| My Nuts Jumble. |
| I'm having trouble seeing how this would be profitable, except perhaps through online ad revenue. Like CrunchyRoll with anime, this is bound to fuel illegal rips also.... or maybe I'm missing something. |
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Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... This. Also interesting to see the main scanlation taking action against this already. They are really serious this time. |
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renjikuchiki1 said: another way the capitalists are trying to exploit the workers.... we need to share the works freely.... and allow the government to pay the authors with money they uselessly spend on the army The hell are you going on about? This is a GOOD thing. You can not spin it into a bad thing without looking like a tool, or an elitist. |
| Hope it spreads across other genres. I have no complaints. Way to go DMP x) |
| I'm looking forward to it! Hopefully the legal scanlations won't be limited exclusively to BL :) |
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Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... It seems someone has the same idea as me but...yaoi =____=''' |
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| Imagine a future where the only available scanlations are yaoi... ...my eyes, they bleed. |
Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... QFT >_> |
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Raypture said: Yaoi but no loli? Revolt my friends. We'll take our time with that...^^ But well it's a good beginning =) And see it from that side guys, there will be many girls ;D |
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Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... Same thing happen to me........ |
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| Yes, success lol, I love how the ecchi lovers here hate yaoi =) Homophobic peeps. You'll get your turn of fun later. For now, this is great news and it's DMP, of course that company licenses most BL titles. |
| Yaaaay!!!! I love yaoi soooooo much X3 hehe |
| Thats great news :D i'm sure lots of people will be happy about this :) |
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| God help us all... No,....it's over...it's all over..dammit!!! There's only one way to correct all of this madness....we have to go back in time! |
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| this sounds pretty much what i thought should happen. if they go at them with force and threats, they will simply go underground or find other means. this doesn't mean there wont be any illegal sources, but at least there will be a legal avenue. unfortunately, if in the end its still not free, there will be no solution. |
Kenju said: God help us all... No,....it's over...it's all over..dammit!!! There's only one way to correct all of this madness....we have to go back in time! If you think Yaoi is the cause of the end of the world....I have news for you. The greeks are still around. -shot dead- |
kisami said: this sounds pretty much what i thought should happen. if they go at them with force and threats, they will simply go underground or find other means. this doesn't mean there wont be any illegal sources, but at least there will be a legal avenue. unfortunately, if in the end its still not free, there will be no solution. It will however put an end to the people who say they only read scanilations because they won't want to pay huge sums of cash for books. |
| I don't care much for Yaoi/Yuri and that kind of stuff but this is good news. I don't think a lot of those get licensed overseas and this is a step in the right direction for the industry to take as a whole. Hopefully this catches on. |
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| I'm not sure about this idea yet... it depends on the price and quality control. I don't want to pay for files when I could be spending the money on other series in book form. Furthermore, it's essentially paying for scanlations, and while I'd be fine with sending the Japanese licensing company a small fee in order to read them guilt-free, I don't want to pay the scanlators or DMP (especially DMP, since it sounds like they're not doing anything for these titles but organizing and hosting things). the_seventh_l said: Also, LOL at people who don't know DMP publishes a bunch of yaoi manga. |
Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... i loled at the same time |
Raypture said: Yaoi but no loli? Revolt my friends. |
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| I fully support this... with hope that they move on to other genres later. |
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Nishitomi_Negi said: Chibi_Hige said: Got excited until I read "yaoi" and "BL".... Me too ¬¬ Opposite for me. |
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| It's a step in the right direction, I suppose. I hope other publishers will eventually follow, as I don't care about yaoi and BL. |
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