[Locked] FAKKU State of the Union 2016

Oh, you are quite right about this. I'm just wondering if anyone would have the balls to go and say the same directly to any of the big music or movie companies, for example. But yes, most of the pirates are clearly not lost sales since they never would have paid anyway. And others can quite well decide that they like something enough to come and pay for a legitimate copy later - I would likely not have as big a CD collection if I hadn't had the chance to listen to them before buying them, for example. And as far as Fakku goes, this is also the reason for a lot of the book requests that have been made - people have read the scanlated versions before and loved them enough to want to own a proper printed English version as well.

Well, I'm quite content not to pirate any Fakku releases myself, though, even if I still need to buy a few more books. Just added two more today.

Maybe I'm not understanding this properly, but why did you have to get rid of the entire yaoi tag? I don't see how that has anything to do with licenseship, pegging is gone too? I can here for a site to read hentai because I am sorry, but I don't have $13.00 a month to read, especially not now that two tags that I really enjoy are gone. I don't want to see you fail, but my support isn't really here for you anymore.

The tag isn't really removed, in the sense that there won't be any more yaoi. They've removed all unlicensed content, so you if you don't see the tag, then that means that there isn't yet any licensed content in that genre. Eventually as they publish more magazines and books with those genres, the tags will again be used as necessary. I know that with the two magazines they have at the moment, certain genres just don't appear often or at all.

Those tags are hidden because there isn't any content to put under them. They'll return once we work with a publisher that releases content with those genres.

This, so much. With manga, I read it online, and if it's good, I buy it (about 300 English volumes so far).
It WOULD be the same with Fakku except for the fact that a), Fakku shipping charges to the UK are stupid, b), the payment and subscription methods are poor and c), what Fakku has at the moment simply isn't worth paying for, so I just go to other sites and get it all for free.

I do agree with you on the shipping being very expensive, living in Estonia myself, but I have still not let that stop me from buying quite a few books by now. Can't really say anything bad about the payment methods or current content, though.

I am glad someone else is looking at this without flipping out the "moral card" like a Templar in the crusades. You are absolutely right, piracy does not hurt the sales. In fact, hollywood director Lexi Alexander agrees with this and so does HBO. While manga, doujin and the likes are different products from movies and music it is also true that anyone who pirated them before, despite having legal and available avenues, would most likely just ignore the products outright without piracy anyway.

Of course this is not to say that FAKKU is wrong. What FAKKU has done good is that it opened an avenue for those who want to buy legitimate copies and it's a fact that there were some who were unable to do this despite wanting to do so just simply because there were no outlets for them. Basically FAKKU made it so that those who were forced to pirate them don't have to do so anymore but it doesn't mean that those who don't see the products as things worth their money should force themselves to buy them. It's actually quite a simple idea, if your customers like your product they will buy it, if not well fuck it. It's just funny how some immediately write off this kind of argument just because they saw the word 'piracy' in it.

Has nothing to do with piracy and hurting sells. If the companies didn't mind the non license we're working with aka wani and Hit Shuppansha(if we there working with) then the purge wouldn't been this time or next time. But the companies jacob is talking to or feeling out said they don't want to work with pirates. Wani probably had the same feeling and this was the footnote to the contract.

It not like there a lack of sites nor a dump torrent of the unlicensed content on the public trackers.



If it original content and/or the artist is willing to then yes. There been two doujins buyable here already and some on the subscription. One was physical, but that was a special for Anime Expo and a short run in the store.

the problem I have is: I see it as selling out, sure FAKKU was getting a shit ton of CND's but this place was one of the best organized to say the least aggregators of doujins, and the fact that Wani and that other company continously harassed scanalators and fan translators like Lustlady and others who were even translating doujins that aren't being translated HERE now legitly..
its just the toxic thinking of the japanese business culture in japan thats so bad. you think anime here in North America can get expensive legitly? try Japan a 4 episode Blu-Ray costs $80 USD, a whole season of of 24-25ish can cost up to $400USD for physical media and thats not taking into account whether its DVD or Blu-ray or either being a Special Edition. you know they restrict anime on sites like Hulu and Crunchyroll there so as not to compete with physical media (DVD, Blu-Ray) sales? yeah its pretty shady, then they have the audacity to throw shit fits over a product they weren't even offering to sell in North America being freely translated and distributed in another language?

of course its a well known fact that the businesses over there don't give a shit about the overseas markets, its only about the domestic market (Japan) that they care about. the NA and EU markets are afterthoughts.

That was my youth here in the states. Just in the last 10 years has it been affordable to buy anime.

100$ a season for ranma 1/2 dvd or vhs.

I have been a silent FAKKU user for years and will have to FINALLY put down my two cents on this topic.

While other sites existed, FAKKU was my first choice when it had what I wanted. Why? Why would I choose FAKKU instead of other sites? I chose FAKKU because it had the most comprehensive collection of even the rarest doujins at the time. When someone mentioned a doujin I should read, I could come here and find it, H or non-H, and look no further. I was able to find everything here or if I couldn't, someone on the forums had the answer I was looking for.


Now that you have taken away the original content, my reasons for choosing this site have vanished. I can understand that you guys don't want to deal with any problems with illegal content, but this is just turning more and more into just business wise. I mean, I am not trying to say something in the lines of " hey, piracy is the way!" but. . you guys are slowly turning into those pay sites which many have try to keep themselves away from and thus many loved FAKKU for. This is just going to turn into a win-lose situation no matter what. You guys will just win in the end and thus we will have to ether pay to read these dojins or just sadly leave.

Why is there no yaoi?

Jacob

I completely understand your decision to make things right, one can't truly hope for the best when you don't FEEL It's not right, in that I am even willing to pay the subscription's value twice.

However, the content that was taken out will take a lot of time in order to come back, many of those were pretty rare works; as many others, I didn't know of this change until it was too late, though I can't say I am really heart broken, but It pains me to say that although your intentions are good (don't get me wrong I truly support It) they will make the trip very difficult.

I have know and used FAKKU for many years (7 whopping years, since being a young teen), when I could I even bought a few books, but most of the merchandise you sell won´t arrive to south and center of America. (excluding online content of course)

I won't say farewell, It's not written in stone how things will go, I hope for the best... It has been a great voyage.

See you soon


"A dreams stops being a dream when you wake up... and find that It is still there"

We haven't published the yaoi books yet. Plus there no yaoi in the magazines we have license to yet. May change eventually.

Are the doujinshis gone for good? I know a lot are fan made but some are made by pros. Just want to know if there's a chance they'll come back.