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Capitalism infects everything it touches. Marx and Lenin were right.
Capitalism infects everything it touches. Marx and Lenin were right.
Wait it was on Prime?! Oops…
Did this even get streamed in the West? I wanted to watch it but couldn’t find it anywhere…
Mfw extroverts completely ignore my existence…
Glad to help. I’d been clamouring to see the novels licensed only for someone to tell me that was already the case, and then ask me if I meant fan TLs.
Fuck yes! This show was way better than it had any right to be, and I didn’t think I’d catch myself genuinely looking forward to it every week. Until then, time to read the light novels! Volume 5 releases Tuesday, for those curious; the series is licensed by Penguin Random House of all publishers…
I don’t think it’s an interest thing, but we’ll see. They also dropped “You Like Me, Not My Daughter!?” right before the final volume, I think.
Vol. 9 when? Seems like JNC dropped the series, unfortunately. I don’t have any confirmation of that, but that they’ve stopped uploading prepubs is a little concerning.
Holy fuck thank you! I had no idea Penguin Random House actually published LNs!
Yeah, uh…looking at that staff, little wonder it’s been delayed. Were I looking forward to this show, I’d be questioning whether it’ll air at all, given the length of the delay.
Western readers: “We want good translations, and we’ll pay for them by buying volumes.”
Japanese publishers: Use MTL
Western readers: “Yeah, we’re not buying that…”
Japanese publishers: surprisedpikaface.jpg
Yup. It’s all probability distributions fitted to a shit ton of text fetched either from data stores or through web crawlers.
Has this week’s episode even aired yet?
It’s not a distribution monopoly because the licensing firms then sell through other avenues (like how, for example, Seven Seas sell their books through Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, etc.). I’m notably omitting Yen Press and J-Novel Club in this discussion because they’re wholly owned by Kadokawa (the latter I don’t believe should have been permitted by the FTC, but what do I know).
But the content creator generally has little to no sway in foreign licensing decisions, as the publisher ultimately owns that IP in its current form. E.g., When a creator writes a manga in a Kodansha-owned magazine, Kodansha then makes the foreign publishing and licensing decisions, independent typically of what the author may or may not want.
My argument is that companies are offering money for the exclusive license to a work for a given region (i.e. licenses are sold on a geographic basis, or linguistic, in some cases), and thus the result is that there doesn’t exist a single distributor globally.
Because capitalism
Absolutely do!
Counterpoint: It does work well in practice, because it removes the bourgeoisie and the rent-seekers from the picture, ideally violently.