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2012-01-29, 15:10 | Link #19262 |
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Actually, I found a good source for Manga sales figures, only it's in Japanese.
This page seems to have all the info. And if that page doesn't have it, that website seems to be the go to place for statistics on Japanese publishing. |
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Iran says to stop some oil sales, inspectors visit
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...80S01720120129
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2012-01-29, 15:31 | Link #19264 | |
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Did you only read the part that interested you, or did you bother to actually read the overall discussion? The decline of manga magazine sales have nothing to do with digital medium. Simply put, the combined effects of killer titles ending (DB, GTO) and lesser population of kids attributed to it. (In case you didn't know, there's a serious national crisis going on in Japan with lower bitrh rate and much less children) In fact, that number you see in mid 90s was result of fad bubble. It was a peak of the client interest. It simply situated back to what it was before. This all came before the digital alternatives came about, and has nothing to do with the current discussion. Japan has the LARGEST reading population in the world. Newspapers, magazines and novels continue to stay strong in printing business, despite the rest of the world. The former two is attributed by exactly what I have been saying, Japanese commuting culture and Kiosks. Also, your last sentence is completely wrong. You're suddenly switching to US market, not Japanese. The graph is accurate, and I have discussed it in many threads in the past. What he doesn't seem to realize is market trends. He's looking at the peak time as "the norm", when clearly the graph says otherwise. It's often used by the otaku in 30s bitching about how "things used to be better it sux now" by bringing up the golden days of WSJ. You know, we had better crap when we were younger..... in any generation, and youth today sucks rhetoric.
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2012-01-29, 15:51 | Link #19265 | ||
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Also, while decline in sales is not solely due to the growth in digital as a medium, you cannot say that it has nothing to do with it either. Also, if you read my post, you'll see I said that decline in circulation was due to "a variety of reasons". Not just growth in digital. Just like the decline in western print media is not for one single reason (after all it's been on a decline since the 50s). Quote:
Likewise, According to the Ken Akamatsu interview, manga magazines are no longer the channel through which publishers profit, it's now primarily tankoubons. The magazines, taken on their own, currently run at a loss. As far as I'm aware, Tankoubon are not usually read on the commute (though they can be). But I think it's incorrect to attribute everything to Kiosks and commuting, when Japan has such a large subscriber base, which would imply that it's not all about commutes, and it's certainly not all about kiosks. Anyway, when every Japanese person has a $200 tablet which can automatically download titles from the web for viewing, we'll see how well Kiosks fare. EDIT: @ Graph: even if you ignore the 90s peak, you can't ignore the negative slope every magazine has had since 2000. |
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2012-01-29, 16:01 | Link #19266 |
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Those of you still using Facebook will want to wake up and do a review of your new Timeline "feature" that Zuckertwit is forcing on the user base come 2 Feb 2012. Stuff you *thought* was private may suddenly go public, etc (usual drill of "fuck the user preferences, expose it all).
http://www.pcworld.com/article/24892...d_to_know.html
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So you agree that they should completely abandon print medium, even though it's doing just fine, and put everything on digital? THAT is what this discussion was about if you even bothered to go back and check on the flow of the conversation? Quote:
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Again, your suggestion that internet piracy is killing the magazines is ridiculous. No, you didn't say that, but that's what you people are implying. Since there's no digital alternative to those magazines, the only alternative is pirated copies of manga. Yeah, no. Why don't you actually go back and read the discussion? I never said "there's no decline in print sales". You're just jumping the gun without even bothering to read what the entire discussion is about. I said, the print decline in Japan is FAR more gradual than the rest of the world, and digital medium is attributing it far less, and on top of that, it has a threshold of demand that gives it a safety net. I don't really see any point replying further when you continue to ignore the actual topic. I'd rather argue with Ahn who was actually on topic.
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2012-01-29, 17:04 | Link #19268 |
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I'm not saying Piracy is killing Manga. It's a factor sure, but I'd actually blame video games more.
Also, I don't see how an experienced selling multi-million copy selling manga artist is a bad source to cite. |
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Manga is not dying. It's not even close to dying. And again, it's not in line with the actual discussion. You never even came close to being on topic. Quote:
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2012-01-29, 17:21 | Link #19270 | |
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- being an insider, he might have an agenda. Maybe his personal sales are declining, so he publicly declares manga dead, as to not look bad? It is doubtful if he can be considered an objective source. - for an already established artist, any change is bad. Where other artist may see a chance, he will surely condem it. - it may very well be that for him, anything that does not sell "multi-million" copies can be considered dead. But other artists used to smaller numbers will disagree. - it seems he is actively pushing digital manga distribution, so his stance in this is obviously biased. Not all may apply in this case. But to basicly say "manga is as good as dead" is a bit far fetched imo. It seems weird. |
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2012-01-29, 17:59 | Link #19272 | |
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1. He doesn't (seem) to have an axe to grind with the current system. For instance, he's not using JComi as a publishing platform for himself. He still publishes his own work through Kodansha. 2. From his article, he seemed to say that change was needed in order to better facilitate the entry of new artists. 3. Unlike the other member of the discussion (takekuma) he did seem to be dissatisfied with anything that didn't sell millions. However, he wasn't declaring manga "dead" because of it. 4. He's only pushing digital distribution for works that are out of print. He's not really competing with publishers for new works. The discussion was mainly focussed on trends within the industry, and there wasn't really any finger pointing, just thoughts on a general stagnation and lack of new talent. Jump (a magazine known for looking for new talent) currently has only one mangaka under the age of 30 (that I know of) Naoshi Komi. According to Akamatsu it was worse when it came to editors, with opportunities for new editors being limited. Now don't get me wrong, it's not that there isn't plenty of young manga talent in Japan, but most of them aren't coming up through the "magazine" system, most of them are getting started in doujins. That's a big change from 20 years ago, when self publishing was difficult and rare. Also, I'm not saying manga is dead. But Manga magazines as we know them will be dead. Read the discussion, it's interesting. Also, we can argue all we like about the status of print in Japan, but one thing is true, none of the traditional manga publishers have managed to get any kind of presence online, be it in English or Japanese. Certainly this has damaged the english market. The first thing that comes up if you search for "read manga" is Mangafox, followed by MangaReader, and not one of those websites is a legal website, giving a revenue stream to the original publishers. That in itself is a big failing on the part of the publishers. There's no coherent online policy, particularly where the international market is concerned. |
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2012-01-29, 18:06 | Link #19273 | |
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Uh, dude.
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Market trend is only a portion of why this argument is unrealistic. NO ONE is arguing against online publishing, you're boxing shadows for no freaking reason. So please, if you're gonna butt into a conversation, at least do so after you read the actual discussion first, otherwise you're just a rude noise.
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2012-01-29, 18:14 | Link #19275 | |
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Why do you think WSJ has a strict policy to CONSTNATLY dismiss a title if it's not popular enough to meet their standard, replacing it with a different newcomer? And the argument of age is laughable. Oh, so if you're not under 30, you must not be a new mangaka. Right. Most manga outlets have places where new people can start off on. If the new manga seems like a sure hit, which is decided by the editors, they may give the rookie a Major League status right away. If not, they'll start him/her off in a magazine more suited for risk management. This is not an unhealthy business practice, publishers have simply gotten smarter... like you know, any company. It's funny. One one side, you have people who bitch and complain that Magazines cancel titles too easily. Then you have these others that argue they don't recruit new people enough. It's like there's no satisfying anyone. And it's even more funny coming from Akamatsu, the "I produce products and cater towards popular sales" mangaka. He knows business and sales alright, but he MOST DEFINITELY HAS AN AGENDA. LOL.
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It's not a mockery, at you, but simply a newspaper comic like joke. So don't take it personally.
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Though, come to think of it, is Beelzebub popular? Could it be considered the new big thing? Quote:
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2012-01-29, 18:43 | Link #19279 | ||
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Forum discussions evolve that way. Quote:
For instance: Spoiler for Interview excerpt:
Sorry for the quote dump. Another problem they cited was that per page pay rates have stagnated since the 80s. Mangaka are being payed the same rate now that they were in the 80s, despite the fact that significant inflation has occured in the intervening period. |
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Your "argument" is simply throwing perspective such as what you quoted here into my mouth, and arguing points without even a cause. Let me paste my own quote again. Quote:
I DARE YOU. And no, me saying "Manga industry isn't dying, it's not even close to dying" doesn't even come close to that. Unless you believe there's absolutely nothing between "death" and "healthy". On TOP of your fallacies and strawman, what makes it worse is, my argument of why "manga industry isn't dying, and doesn't need to abandon its medium" is response to scanlation issues overseas and lack of digital medium, sorting into people seeking piracy. You completely IGNORE the purpose of an argument, and throw poorly documented strawman crap, just to try and win an argument, butting in from side... when it's completely off the track and has nothing to do with argument on hand. After telling you half a dozen times to be on topic, to which at first you claimed you were, suddenly shifts to "oh but that's not what we're talking about anymore"..... NO SHIT it ain't, you steered it off the course forcibly. Jesus F-ing Christ, I'm done with this guy. Quote:
Beelzebub is doing pretty decent, along with few others including Sket and Nurari. That's limiting the perspective to the shounen magna field, the largest one, of course. From what I see, business line material hasn't really changed in... forever, and shoujo manga seems to be even faster circulation of titles. Seinen manga hasn't changed much in both content and creator, but you know what? It's always been like that. As far back as I can remember, even back in the 80s, they were pretty much the "same crap". As for the first question, intervals have been pretty consistent. Dragon Ball was obviously the golden age of Jump, and it's been replaced by One Piece. The manga that last long time, have always lasted long time. Hit series come and go, and that hasn't changed since I was reading Kinnikuman, Dr. Slump, and City Hunter back in the days. Quote:
Or the fact "big timers" already had their seats back then too. "Cracking into" manga industry isn't harder nowadays. In fact, it may be even easier as the windows have widened. It's "harder" to immediately crack into the big seats of major magazines, but not the industry itself. Now you have to actually prove yourself. Oh, boo-hoo. You can get a MUCH BETTER perspective on manga industry growth from reading stuff from manga gods like Kazuhiko Shimamoto's Blue Flame than someone like Akamatsu. Or listening to his radio rants.
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