2nd reason, we love to stick our nose where its don't belong in foreign affair. Gosh, people can't even pinpoint the countries we are at war with on a freaking map.

4th reason, the system set up that way. Even on the news, w ...

I never said two wrongs make a right in that we should just look at our own culture. You've pretty much been putting words in my mouth since I started posting on this forum. I'm not going to continue telling you my reasoning behind ...

That's not what I was saying.I was just saying I was more personally effected because I was Asian which was why I was prompted to use the example of Asian portrayal in movies as a means to show that racism is everywhere in pretty ...

I'm just saying that racism is everywhere and to look at a one particular medium and judge it as being racist isn't really all that different from taking a glass and dipping it in the ocean and expecting there to be fresh water in the cup ...

I'm just saying that before we judge another culture, we should look at ourselves. Also last I checked, Asians also found in America too.

Before charging anime and manga for being racist, I believe its better to look at ourselves and how we portray Asians for instance. In movies most Asians are portrayed as foreigners.

As an aspiring game developer I've thought should I have characters of other ethnicities in my games. The thing is I have quite limited social circle which includes very few people with different ethnic backgrounds. If someone asked me w ...

I know that some publishers back in the days used a similar approach: A lot of work was done in a bullpen/studio fashion and credit would only be give to the lead artist. Even now, with manga, an entire "staff" could be working o ...

-If a person is denied of government jobs, rights, services, etc due to race, ethnic, religion, yes that is racism ...

Sure pal popular manga like Naruto, One Piece and/or Bleach break sales records cause "most of them get it for free". Go read some statistics and get to know something, you might be surprised. Well ofc if your brain is capable o ...

This thread was originally about JManga, which is technically a new and small company.

You seem heavily focused on arguing that companies like VIZ can do well. For one thing, I never said they couldn't. Second, they focus heavily on t ...

In the case of manga licensing, if a company licenses too many low-audience manga series, they'll only be focusing too much effort on series that may just as well not get many readers over the short-term. You already know for a fa ...

I explain tiers as more of a way of generalizing what kind of population of readers is expected from a manga series once it starts coming out. Usually, the heavily cliched ones these days get more readers than the somewhat uncommon gen ...

Regardless of what you think I'm implying, the reality is, they really can't compete with free.

And One Piece is probably a poor example to throw out, since it's an extremely popular series and chances are, the licensee com ...

Licensee companies only have so much money to spend on translators and editors, and we're not looking at a company with like, 1,000 people. It's only like 100 people at most, and that's stretching it....

That is quite easy to explain. The scanlators don't have to deal with making an agreeement with the Japanese manga companies about the rights for licensing and for the period. Scanlators just scanlate whatever they like and drop it wheneve ...

Well, do realize that companies have to actually pay for translators to translate series. That, and they have to actually license the series as well. Since it costs money, they can't just do whatever series they wished to. Scanlators on the ...