Why are their barely any webmanga scanned(translated), while the webmanwha is done in masses?
10 years ago
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Everyone knows series like Tower of God or Noblesse from Naver, and with this a lot from Naver and other webmanwha is released a lot.
But my question is why the number of translated webmanga is so low. For example Comico a Japanese sites for webcomics (webmanga), the number of scanlations or better said translations is so low, that you can count them on one hand.
Can someone give me a reason why the releases from webmanga are so low?
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Member10 years ago
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Quote from deadphoenix
Everyone knows series like Tower of God or Noblesse from Naver, and with this a lot from Naver and other webmanwha is released a lot.
But my question is why the number of translated webmanga is so low. For example Comico a Japanese sites for webcomics (webmanga), the number of scanlations or better ... Because most Webmanga do not have to rely on a fixed released schedule.
One-Punch Man, for example, releases whenever the heck it wants to release (even with their announced released date). They can change their minds and release a chapter 1 day earlier or 10 days later with a simple note of, "Artist was sick for this or that reason" with no repercussions. Korean and Chinese webtoons can do the same thing, but most of them don't have a psychical book publisher. So they are less likley to do this.
And most Artists in Japan are not fully dependent on their online comic money to care about art/story quality. Most of these webmangas don't even have LEGITIMATE EXPERIENCED editors backing them.
This is my opinion. Scanlators will only work on web-mangas that are extra-ordinary, have famous artist/author backing it, or is connected to an popular manga publisher (shounen jump).
10 years ago
Posts: 525
The answer is probably simple: Japanese webmanga are not sufficiently popular enough among the people who translate manga into English.
10 years ago
Posts: 170
Because the vast majority of them are terrible and few people want to dig through them to find the good stuff, let alone actually translate them.
