@ kizku
same thing about manga in Portugal
i read manga a lot but the thing is a volume of manga here costs about 11 euros (That's not certainly cheap
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) and the prices stil go up because more and more ppl wanna read manga (want to buy manga they like to help publishers) but as it is right now, it is just beyond ridiculous.
As you said, manga in japan is around 3-4 euros (not even more than that) and so ppl just buy them the normal way (and it would certainly help my poor eyes if i could do that too) but the thing is: to order even just one volume of licenced manga from the US or any other part of the world is WAAAAY expensive and if it were not for sites like mangatraders or mangaupdates i wouldn't even know how good a manga series is (lets face it, most of the series are just cliched junk) and i would never have bothered buying it for real (even though the offer is just about 10 licenced popular series here - sad, i know...) and honestly, 11 euros! What do they do with so much money, where does it go?
If they seriously take down sites like mangafox (not that i ever used it before) or mangatraders (** I LOVE YOU GUYS !!! **) I wouldnt have spent around 100 euros buying licensed stuff (believe it or not only around 7 volumes of manga) to help with the whole thing (way oversized publishers who milk us out of our money like crazy) and honestly i dont even believe that has to do with anything anymore, they just want more.
My point being: i read a lot of manga, pretty much only unlicensed stuff (since i buy the licenced series - whether they are in english or french/spanish (OH, POOR ME!! THE LENGHTS I GO TO READ MANGA... - self pity kicking in) and if they do take legal action against manga related sites then the whole thing will only go downhill:
- manga readers will either leave the whole manga thing behind in hopes of seeing better days or
- the manga scanlators will stop caring about being licenced or not and release their things on closed forums or whatnot.
Either way, a great deal of people will only just stop reading it and stop buying the licensed volumes because there will be no real fans to buy an overpriced 1.4 cm wide A5 sized book; and honestly, no one will care enough to continue this ridiculous situation - as i believe it bears resemblance to other countries around the world. Life is just too expensive in order to do that so they will be just shooting themselves in the foot.
either way, i miss manga traders
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