Thread: Potential Upcoming Events Continued (Updated: 01/08/2017)

Originally Posted by Zenoswitch

They're doing an amazing job with the translations lately, and have been dependable with what the customers wanted with the content they're releasing. Doujins will take a while if they can set up a foundation for Comiket or not. Company made doujins aren't a problem though.



That reasoning there is more with Japan's view if the western international market is dependable. That's not really a DMM only thing. Which goes back to the reputation of western publishers for Japan's content. Which again, Nutaku is a publisher. So let's compare to the good, bad and the ugly with our western publishers. 4kids filed bankrupcy due to all the shenanigans they pulled with the classic anime such as Pokemon and Yugioh. Yugioh being the nail on the coffin where they filed the lawsuit that caused 4kids to go bankrupt. Funimation has an iron claw with not participating with any crossovers and only want to release the first few seasons and some of the dvd releases. They don't bother with anything else. For the publisher of Shakugan no Shana Light Novel and Spice and Wolf novel. Both publishers only released the first 3 volumes and didn't bother releasing the rest for 7 years. At the very least Yen Press rescued Spice and Wolf but Shakugan no Shana's rights are still with that one publisher.

As for the good, Yen Press is going for stable releases on most of the popular novels, and slowly rescuing the old light novels. Crunchy Roll is decentish with the manga and anime content. While Google is safe as a western publisher for manga.

Now let's look back to Nutaku and their quality of what they done. Most of their deeds are actually very similar if not an incarnation of 4kids with translation quality, release quality and how they even drop content all together. So it's really a no brainer if the original company doesn't feel safe having Nutaku publishing their games.

There is also a big cultural related difference even if this may sound like a blunt old story it isnt. It was one of the reasons why fakku choosed to kill all free content and actualy make money now that they can give back. Ive read lots of storys. Theres reasons why the japans are not trusting the internetional market... but what they dont see is that it did develop. Fakku is a great example. Especialy in some cuntrys as mine (germany) things have quiet changed a lot. Licensing is actualy taken seriouse now other then 10-20 years ago. I know every anime fan who streamed his animes, read his mangas, doujinshis, hentais, ovas, music and whatsoever for free in the internet (mostly because childrin dont have hundreds of bucks to spend) can feel the changes. If they can just manage to dump prices down like in japan where mangas are litelary something you read once and then throw away and figures cost 1-15$ where they would cost 60$ here everyone would be able to afford it even childs and teenagers (who been the biggest audiance). Im just throwing this out without adressing everything thats attached to that. Its a two sider. They have to work to make a market here too. Its not like the consumers (we) are not willing and there.