Book Print Status in 2023-2025

In August last year new stock arrived for this Pandemonium in Blackwell's (this is not an ad, it is just the bookstore where I buy from). Was this an official reprint from your side or they just found some stock somewhere? To be honest I am interested to know not only about a possible reprint of Pandemonium but also for the rest of NaPaTa's physical version of his books. As far as I am aware you still publish books from this publisher. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me

I can't imagine why it wouldn't be our book, it's possible some random stock was found. As long as it has our logos on it then you shouldn't have to worry. I really encourage you to pick our book up from a local shop in the UK, it encourages distribution overseas so more of our books are available at a cheaper price versus overseas shipping :)

You misunderstood me it seems, sorry about that. The point of my question is if you plan to reprint NaPaTa's books and especially Pandemonium, if of course you can share something about it. The bookstore thing was not me doubting the authenticity of the books I buy from them, in this case your books I just wanted to point out how randomly new stock popped and the fact they haven't brought new stock since August 2024. I am located in E.U so I prefer Blackwell since they are one of the biggest bookshops in Europe that I can buy the books in considerably lower prices compared to Amazon Germany that I did previously. Thanks for the advice though!!

Napata is definitely an artist we would like to reprint, unfortunately at this time I can't give dates on when we intend to. Realistically probably not until next year, as this year we are prioritizing getting caught up with our current preorders and reducing the window time between preorder and receiving the product.
I think that's the biggest strain with supporters right now and an issue we want to focus on resolving.

There will be few reprints here and there for titles that are in extreme demand, however until we're caught up then that's what the focus will be. I do however intend to have a resurgence of reprints, so when we do achieve our first goal, reprints will be the second wave coming through. I hope that helps!

It is on the list of getting reprinted this year, with some improvements made to the box as well! :)

Hello i just wanted to ask if there will be a reprint of netoraserare vol. 1

Cause i already have vol. 2 and 3 and now im missing the first one in my collection. :(

Hello everyone,

I'm here just to give an update of where we're at and what to expect when it comes to print. We are aware the biggest complaint and problem customers are facing right now is simply the window length of preordering a book and receiving the book. Sometimes it takes well into a year, and that just simply isn't sustainable, fair, or even a reasonable time table for customers to be receiving their products.

We've been working since the end of last year to really address this with a goal in mind to catch up with print and have ourselves in a position where customers are only waiting a few months between preorder and release. It's with great hopes that one day that gap would be even shorter, but right now my focus is to get things back to the way they were.

What are we actually doing to catch up with print?

Since the end of last year, I created a timeline internally to hopefully come up with a way to create a flow of checks and balances with book production and keep books moving through different stages. To put it simply, giving the printer a handful of titles each month.

The idea as books files are accepted, verified, proofed - we were getting more books quoted, supplying files, etc. Ultimately that's what this job is, a conveyer belt of product to be produced with set stages that need to be completed in order to go to the next stage before shipped off and delivered to you. But if there is a bottleneck somewhere, then books get piled up, and you don't see that movement that we were hoping to see. Which is what happened. The printer could not get through the stages fast enough, but were accepting new titles from us, and they were building up. So we're handing them work files, we're approving proofs, but left wondering when they'd have the books finally printed. They knew this was not sustainable, and knew it had to be addressed, so they completely remodeled their own workflows internally. But during that process, it caused delays.

We had to create checks and balances to prevent problems from arising, and through trial and error we had to work together to get the process working.
I've been doing my best to keep this page that's stickied updated so customers know what stage their books are at: [Locked] FAKKU Books: Release & Reprint Status

Things that have changed to improve work flows:
*Set checkpoints and stages that must be met and approved before going to the next step, no skipping steps to prevent "surprises" happening with print quality in order to try and complete a book faster.
*Printer has scheduled containers to leave their facility every 3 weeks for ship vessels so that books do not sit for weeks and weeks awaiting an available containers for vessels, they know every 3 weeks they must have more projects completed to fill those containers
*Weekly meetings to ask about each and every title, communicate about where they're at.
*No waiting around, once books are all approved after quoting with file submissions and the proofing process begins, more books are added to get quoted

Have things actually improved this year?

The short answer is: Yes. I'm extremely happy with how things are going now.

The longer answer is: We currently as of originally posting this have 14 titles, on 2 different ships, in 3 different containers, and enroute to our distribution center, expected to arrive in August (beginning and end). We currently have 4 titles that have arrived to our distribution center, ordered to be delivered to us to our own warehouse, and expected to arrive at the very end of July/beginning of August to fulfill to our customers. We currently have 12 titles in various stages of production (6 with proofs all approved, 6 titles expecting proofs this Friday). We are submitting quotes for 7 more titles this week into next week to begin supplying files. Things are cooking. We have officially submitted all 2024 titles and this next batch will be 2025 titles, we have made it into the current year for things.

In comparison from when we began this timeline goal:
Our first batch last year while our printer was struggling with turnaround took 270 days from file submissions to the printer to in our hands at our warehouse. That hurts my soul and is so incredibly unsustainable. That is almost 9 months. That's the same amount of time to create actual life.
The next books took 190 days, shaving off 3 months of agony and turned it into a 6 month turnaround. That's closer to what we need, but still feels painful since these are books that were originally put on preorder in 2024. Now that we're getting into 2025 titles, that large gap is going to continuously shrink and we catch up.

I cannot express how serious we are taking this, and I realize it has been miserable on the consumer side as well waiting for things you paid money for, but it is actively getting better as we continue, and I hope to make it even better in the future.

If you follow me on my Bluesky, sometimes I post pictures of our projects, but be warned that I do post other things as well - the best way to keep up to date with things is simply through the stickied thread: [Locked] FAKKU Books: Release & Reprint Status

Fixed! And yeah, it sucks, I'm sorry. It's getting better but it's hard to assure people until they actually start seeing it. It felt like we were being given empty promise after promise as well, but the weekly meetings with our printer has really helped and seeing the books move and put in containers to ship has really uplifted my spirits. I hope customers also feel that relief as well when they start seeing books come in regularly.

Hii ☺️!!

Not sure if this is the right place to ask about this, but I figured I'd try anyway...

I know that a lot of older volumes probably won't ever see a reprint, or at least not anytime soon.
Hence, I'm not going to ask about your plans for any particular title as of now.

Instead, I was hoping to gain insight about how many overall copies of certain books currently exist (forgive me if that information is classified)?

PuniKano
Melty Maiden
Lickety-Slit
Hot Honey Ecstasy
Strange Goddesses

As FAKKU has grown a lot over the years, the difference in magnitude between earlier and more recent print runs surely must be enormous?
I tried picking titles from different points in the timeline; I'm looking to understand in general how rare the really old titles truly are ^^

Like many others, I'm waiting for my chance to snatch some titles I'm missing second-hand;
but given how elusive they are, I'm starting to doubt I'll ever be able to find them :(((