Likhos01 wrote...
Their printing quality is more or less that of standart american manga, it's rather disappointing in quality.
The Icarus Publishing printings are still in the wild, I believe. I have Aqua Bless and Witchcraft from Icarus, and it is better paper quality and size. Project-H does have digital versions, but I haven't seen them.
Mr.Everwood wrote...
Looks like FAKKU! really is the best :P
By the way, did you know that he's only 28 years old?
That seems extremely unlikely, both by personal appearance (he looked at least mid 30s if not 40s) and experience (college grad at 22, several jobs, then eromanga), and his first work came out at least in 2006.
blackice85 wrote...
peb2000 wrote...
To be fair, Project-H has announced in their forum that they won't be cutting chapters in future releases (Cute Devil Girlfriend got a limited reprint with a missing chapter restored). They've also cut their digital release prices, and have floated the idea of higher quality print editions on their Twitter feed, so it looks like FAKKU's competition may be having an effect.
Yeah I wasn't happy with some of their decisions but I'm glad that they're revising their policies. It seems they had some changes in leadership somewhere, and previously they didn't seem to think it was a big deal to customers to censor. It's sad that they likely can't or won't do anything to fix books that were already released, but going forward they seem to be getting better.
But yes, I agree, competition is a good thing. Fakku already has a decent number of books out for having started with nothing, and being new at publishing too (compared to Project-H which I believe is a subsidiary of another publisher). There's no way they'll be able to ignore Fakku.
Project-H announced they would stop cutting chapters at AX2014, at the same time Fakku announced they would begin publishing, so they would appear to be unrelated.
In general, the issues they've had have not been because they didn't think it was a big deal, it's that publishers said "publish censored or you can't publish" and printers put limits on what they would print (a super big issue, as I'm sure Fakku can attest from their search), and Project-H went along with that because they didn't have leverage. There were uncensored exceptions, probably from rights purchased when Icarus went into the Aegean (I feel bad for making that joke).
Now they have the experience and the stability to push back and say "no, this is what our customers expect, no deal if we can't provide it." Also, Icarus printed from Taiwan, and Fakku is doing it from Hong Kong, I think (deliver already!), but Project-H is printed in Canada. If you know the censorship issues with Canada, you just winced, and realized why a chapter might go missing.
They didn't have a known userbase like Fakku did. They are not a subsidiary, but an imprint; basically publishing speak for a publisher subdividing itself to target different audiences, but the same people in charge of all of them. I don't know much about their specific situation beyond that, but the other sections don't appear to have been around very long before Project-H was created.
This is all just my take, of course, but I think it's an informed take.
Jukey wrote...
I think I was sitting behind him... but I'm not sure because I don't remember his face from the few seconds I saw it at the Project-H hentai festival.
That's interesting. I know I was sitting behind him, and Kamitani, the other artist Project-H invited, was with him. I pointed them out to my two friends who had also gone to the Project-H fest, but otherwise tried not to blow their cover.