FAKKU Books: Uncensored!?

Fact is that the massive majority of stuff that's been taken down won't ever be made available even for money. I doubt anyone's that naive.

Using maybes for both chances make it sound like 50/50 while it's more like 1/99. Most of those works won't be deemed profitable to warrant a translation even if they're risk-free.

We would have, however this deal caused Wani to be aggressive about this issue as whether westerners can access free stuff or not or means money now, unlike before.

I'm aware of that, however the reason Wani started this was to prevent Japanese from accessing content, they weren't in the western market so had reason to push further in order to prevent scanlated content in English. Now they do. Fakku turned the first encounter into an opportunity for itself at the cost of everyone else in the scene. The process that started will kill non-doujin scanlation as other companies begin to follow suit and there'll be even less translated content to access for readers. There's no doubt there.

It could have been so, but then the reason would be another company. In this case, it's Fakku.

It doesn't really work like that as Crunchyroll demonstrated. Many groups died with nobody to replace them. Many groups now merely pick CR script and put it on TV recordings. And that was for anime, here we have hentai, which already limits the potential amount of contributors. It won't be how it has always been. Threat of legal pursuit will marginalize the output of the scene.

Overall, I'm not sure that'll be the case as there'll be many works that's going to be considered as 'unsuitable for western audiences'. Not to mention that some authors would be less preferred just based on sales figures. I'd happy to be wrong, of course but I doubt it as we already have many previous samples of what gets officially translated and what isn't on Fakku store.

We don't know that Wani really had intended for such a venture. But if we're to believe Jacob's story, a company would have no reason to work with a pirate of their works if they already made a move on the market themselves. They'd have someone else scheduled for this.

Dropping out due to commitments etc is the normal wear and tear ratio of such endeavors, however legal threats drastically reduce potential newcomers greatly, not to mention curbing already present in the scene, as we're seeing this year with this Wani episode. Hentai isn't really like manga though, it's still porn. So the people that'd be working on it are already way more scarce than normal anime or manga.

Whether or not if actually necessary is easy to answer: Fakku won't be doing every new work and they won't be doing every old work either. There'll be tons of old and new stuff that will be sitting out there. Anyone following the procedure of Japanese games getting localizations would be aware of the problem. There'll be stuff you want but will never get. It was always like this, but there was a chance that you might have gotten it later. Now that won't be the case. I'm checking top sellers in Japan and most viewed galleries on some sites, and it's safe to say popularity doesn't essentially mean good stuff.

Even though there are as controversial stuff, (there really is) I really doubt they'll be able to do lolicon in USA. They'd eventually have to take a seat over there. I'll believe when it happens.

When is [Ishikei] TiTiKEi going to be published?