Japanese publishers' idea of fighting against manga piracy: kill all legal options and launch their own website that is only available in USA (kmanga).

Gee, I wonder why that didn't work!

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For real, I'd pay for anime, manga, hentai, manhwan, western comics, etc. if there was just one site or a group of sites that:

required just one account and/or one subscription for all of them
was available worldwide with no restrictions
was fast
let me pay in any currency
translated everything in different languages

Fuck yeah I'd pay for that. Sign me the fuck up for that awesome legal option.

Instead we have whatever the fuck is going on right now. Fan-subs and fan-translations are mandatory because their shit isn't translated either ever or not in time. I want to give you my money for what I want and so that you make more awesome shit, but you fucking won't let me.

The ships have to sail 🤷

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] spacesatan@lemm.ee 33 points 3 months ago

Crucially: let me have the damn files.

Why would I pay to use your awful webreader or streaming client when reader apps with good UI and quality video players exist.

[–] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not paying for shit lol

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You forgot to mention the absolutely idiotic way kmanga works.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd mention that if they allowed me to even access the front page from my country. :)

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They had some sort of point-based scheme, nuf said. It was so monumentally stupid I can't even describe it without getting upset.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

They do it to get you to buy points because they seem incapable of understanding any monetization strategy besides paying-per-chapter

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Also have a crappy pricing scheme that people have been pushing against for years, while Shonen Jump rakes in money by having their app and monetization not suck