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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I personally think that anime and manga having a ‘pipeline’ helps them.

    • A publisher like Weekly Shonen Jump shotguns a load of new series into their comic and sees if any stick.

    • If a series is popular, then their individual volumes sell well, encouraging WSJ to continue publishing.

    • After a while, the popular series will most likely be given an anime (which nowadays tend to be very manga accurate), which tend to export better.

    • If the anime is popular, volume sales increase worldwide, and you have a massive hit.

    While this quite effectively creates new popular series, it leads to a massive manga graveyard.

    Western comics don’t really have this kind of pipeline and I’m not aware of any WSJ-like publications for new Western projects.



  • But I don’t see any reason why they “wouldn’t be able” to have a deal anymore.

    It’s this part of the article that stuck out to me:

    the DOJ suggested limiting or prohibiting default agreements and “other revenue-sharing arrangements related to search and search-related products.” That would include Google’s search position agreements with Apple’s iPhone and Samsung devices — deals that cost the company billions of dollars a year in payouts. The agency suggested one way to do this is requiring a “choice screen,” which could allow users to pick from other search engines.