This might be something you're not supposed to answer, but I might as well try asking (and forgive me if this was mentioned before and I missed it) - did FAKKU approach Kitty Media about a partnership or was it the other way around?
Micah wrote...
Pragmatically speaking, I don't think Fakku will have an issue with hosting ero manga and doujinshi. Very few Western companies are interested in ero manga licenses, and doujinshi*, of course, can't be licensed. And the Japanese artists and publishers don't have the resources to pursue their properties, or even really anything to gain from it.
At the same time I don't doubt that if they continue forging partnerships and setting up more deals, eventually someone in some company somewhere in the world is going to look at the site and go, "Wait, they're also hosting
what...!?". But yeah, given the odd situation with doujinshi, this standing of having legal and not so legal stuff up at the same time is likely to last way longer than that weird period Crunchyroll was in for a while. Still, it's probably only a matter of time...
It's too bad Simon Jones was captured by brigands or whatever, it'd be interesting to see his take on this on the Icarus Publishing blog.