Love Hina Download Service on J-Comi Makes a Good Start
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11-28-10, 5:03 AM
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The free download service of Love Hina manga on J-Comi website began on November 26th. The total number of the downloads has reached one million times in three days. J-Comi website Previous topic: Mangaka Akamatsu Ken To Launch Free Download Service of Discontinued Manga Akamatsu Ken said the users have purchased significant number of items through the attached Amazon Associate program. He was perplexed to see they have bought not only his Negima manga but also USB cables and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei manga. He jokingly complained that it's humiliating to earn money with the help of Kumeta. The beta test of Love Hina download will end in one month and Akamatsu will decide whether to launch J-Comi service assessing the performance of the beta test. Source: Akamatsu's web diary Modified by dtshyk, 11-28-10, 5:21 AM |
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11-28-10, 5:19 AM
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Love hina is kinda outdated.. and I hate its ending btw... was it continued by any chance?? (-. -) Haruka, y u no bring scissors?!?! (LB!) |
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11-28-10, 5:37 AM
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And Akamatsu tweeted yesterday: "All these downloads and not ONE AMAZON AFFILIATE PURCHASE?" Oh well. |
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11-28-10, 6:08 AM
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That's great! I was really hoping this would do well. |
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11-28-10, 6:14 AM
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Score 1 for technology :D Can't wait to see how this will improve *thumbs up* | "In my time, the wowd is WUINED AND WIFEWESS!." - Paradox (Yugioh: Bonds Beyond Time Abridged Movie) | |
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11-28-10, 6:22 AM
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that's just 1M in Japan, if he does this internationally I'm pretty sure it'll triple that and maybe more hopefully if it does prove useful we may see Negima! on there up for downloads as well as other manga from his collaborators..  |
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11-28-10, 6:43 AM
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....So Akamatsu has some kind of joking beef with Kumeta?  |
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11-28-10, 6:50 AM
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Funny, I read that it was the other way around...      |
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11-28-10, 6:50 AM
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Oh I thought he's complaining coz of this "All these downloads and not ONE AMAZON AFFILIATE PURCHASE?" |
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11-28-10, 7:03 AM
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vault2049 said: Funny, I read that it was the other way around... Yes, kinda misleading right?     |
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11-28-10, 7:19 AM
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So, as far as I'm reading here, the downloading business beta version that Akamatsu's handling is a success, right? then what's with the.. underMebius said: vault2049 said: Funny, I read that it was the other way around... Yes, kinda misleading right?  -- I'm looking for "The One" and I'll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time. Think you can do better? -- -- The World God Only Knows -- Toaru Majutsu no Index -- Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai -- |
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11-28-10, 7:30 AM
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I can't really tell with my limited japanese, but I think in the web dairy entry he added another paragraph to the tweet, apologizing for not understanding how Amazon counts the purchases.  |
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11-28-10, 7:44 AM
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Cashdaxxx said: Love hina is kinda outdated.. and I hate its ending btw... Something old is bad? And I loved Love Hina's ending, what else could you want? Anyway 14 downloads from me alone, I own all of Love Hina but decided to grab them anyway, try to teach myself Japanese using it. My anime list |
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11-28-10, 8:27 AM
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Well that's nice... Though it would be nice if they released translated ones as well x\ AND more manga other than Love Hina and Negima in the future... underMebius said: vault2049 said: Funny, I read that it was the other way around... Yes, kinda misleading right?  |
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11-28-10, 9:16 AM
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Hahaha, it's funny to see Akamatsu joking about Kumeta, two great manga authors in my opinion. Million downloads in just three days. Either Love Hina is even more popular than I thought or maybe just many people REALLY want this thing to work. |
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11-28-10, 9:37 AM
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They should add a donations button so they can keep i going for the people who do want it to work i would donate for something like this. |
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11-28-10, 12:14 PM
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Good. With this business model coming up, acceptance for downloading manga will rise and soon all of my favourite manga will be up. Everything's going according to plan  |
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11-28-10, 1:02 PM
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Akamatsu, Kumeta and Hata Kenjirou (Hayate no Gotoku) crack jokes at each other like this every once in a while. They're friends.  My kingdom for a bottle of plum juice! |