Thread 283572123

If you don’t support authors by buying physical manga, blu-rays, or merch, then you’re part of the problem.

>>283572123 (OP)
I'll start buying when the shipment doesn't cost more than the product

>>283572123 (OP)
Aqua? Built for NTR.

shipping stuff from japan is too expensive so I buy digital
fuck you

>>283572123 (OP)
Aqua would totally support piracy.

>>283572123 (OP)
Nips don't care about overseas sales. If you want to support a series you have to import shit new using a proxy shipping service.

I am keeping my American money, and the incentive to warp creativity to attract more Americans, OUT of Japan

I buy doujins to support artists directly

>>283572123 (OP)
Why don't the authors just make a patreon?

>>283572123 (OP)
I’m whatever on random merch unless it truly sparks an interest. Too much useless crap lying around otherwise. But I do love to collect manga

>>283572828
I’ve always wondered about this. Surely it wouldn’t hurt to have the supplemental income

>>283572755
That won't help them any.

>>283572123 (OP)
I'm poor, anon.

>>283572123 (OP)
If you aren't japanese, you are part of the problem

>>283572123 (OP)
>you’re part of the problem
I can believe it, but which problem exactly?

>>283573132
The blood is not on my hands

>>283572123 (OP)
don't care, i torrent everything on a stolen laptop using my neighbor's wifi

Sorry but 80 year old nippon execs are just retarded. I will not consume their retardation

>>283572123 (OP)
Do the creators even get a lot from the western releases? It's not that I don't want to support people but these must go through so many hands if they see anything it's got to be really trivial.

>>283572123 (OP)
They actively make it as difficult as possible for foreigners to buy their stuff. They do not want you to buy it. Why are you going against their wishes?

>>283572123 (OP)
I shill manga I like online for free to make other people buy it.

buying manga?
in this economy?

>>283572123 (OP)
No. Anime and manga are free media that exist in the internet cloud for free. The whole reason why they got globally popular in the first place is because they are easy to find, upload, stream and share. And they should stay like this.
I go to the cinema to see Chainsawman and sometimes re-read chapters on mangaplus, but I haven't paid for an anime media otherwise since 2015, and never will.
I pay rent for my room, my internet, my electricity and heat, my insurances and thousand other things, plus taxes. I own nothing but I WILL be happy - by watching cartoons for free until the day I die.

>>283573773
So you believe animators should work for free?

>>283572721
The publishers might not care much, but the money sometimes matter to smaller mangaka. Although it's not guaranteed they actually know where the money comes from.

>>283573649
As far as I know, the percentage they get is fine, but I think people might overestimate how many copies the average series sells in the west.

>>283572828
it's seen kind of like prostituting yourself and that's shameful