It’s less protest and me further explaining my decision to not spend time examining the comics.

Like that one grey pointed out: humor is subjective, yeah? I know why the comic is funny, and I can say: “Some people will definitely find this funny!”...but, at the end of the day, I don’t find it really funny, so there’s nothing for me to say.

I’m actually gonna stop doing these because the joke’s gone stale.

That’s kind of the point. You have to look at the work contextually, since it takes place in Japan and is primarily for Japanese readers and involves a lot of their cultural views on death and justice.

No, but then we get into murky territory of “What happens when piracy is left unchecked in a market a producer has no intent of selling in,” which leads to stuff like what happened to Spider-Man comics being published in Mexico during (iirc) the 80s. Because Marvel had no way of officially enforcing their…

Y’know that’s fair.

Not arguing the morals of it, but arguing the entire stance of “Piracy hurts sales,” because it’s a) only true for smaller publishers, and b) contingent on the idea that markets not sold to (the Russian example someone else brought up, for instance) somehow contribute to the entire idea of “piracy hurts interest and…

The business model might be different, but I’d say the effort put into them might be similar if we count things like “In the time it takes an author + their assistants to do 15 pages a week (or thirtyish a month), a webcomic artist of comparable skill is also (typically) working on future pages/finalizing colored…

Ah, yes: the wonderful “It doesn’t matter if a sale happened, I’m going to count not-sales and will never be sales as losses anyway,” argument.

ya’ll make boots sound so delicious

would you like some wine to go with you boot, sir?

see the thing is.

when has public shaming of a male actor ever resulted in a sustained blow against their careers?

Most of HentaiHaven’s biggest draws were uncensored, blu-ray quality rips of fairly popular hentai, so legitimacy wasn’t keeping them from that.

I think it’s a “Chicken or the egg” situation, really. BluRays and whatnot make the most money, so companies can recoup the cost of animating everything, but piracy has—by and large—made hentai a failing business in the West...while Otaku still heavily drive the market in Japan because they love collecting physical…

Grady is the guy who “legitimized” Fakku by stealing translations that did not belong to his team and then charging people to read them, all while issuing DMCAs to translators and groups who wanted to provide things for free despite him. He then used this as the base to catapult Fakku into “a business” by…

Part of that is due, largely, to the increasing costs of animation and the push from Otaku for more NTR and borderline Loli/pedophilic content.

Rampant piracy and Western/US attitudes toward hentai and all of its associated good/bad/whatevers are consistently cited as the reason why more and more publishers in Japan refuse to work with translators/publishers in the US to get their work available legitimately.

6k is a fucking joke.

Thanks for the more nuanced take, though—that’s kind of the point with these posts, to spark a discussion about a comic most people say is difficult to read, but which I don’t really see as that difficult to read.