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Get ready for the newest FAKKU box set to leave your mouths agape!
FAKKU is proud to announce our newest collectors box featuring the infamous creator of Victim Girls, Asanagi!
The Asanagi Box is the complete Victim Girls: R collection, including Flesh & Refresh with High School Girls, Molester Eradication Campaign, and You Won't Beat Me! The three individual books come in a stunning, glossy slipcover featuring original art from Asanagi along with a special art insert!
The box also enhances previous online releases with updated SFXs and other improvements, making this collection a real must-have for fans and collectors.
These girls play the victim but love every moment of it!
Infamous ahegao artist Asanagi was one of our planned guests for this year’s Anime Expo, until the event was cancelled due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. So while we regret not being able to interact with the artist, we do have some exclusive print content to share with FAKKU supporters.
This new Asanagi Box set is now available and can be purchased right away! With the individual releases already on the site, there's no digital version for this set. However, buying the physical box (directly from the site) unlocks the digital chapters to your account, and those will be updated with the improvements made for the box release—for new and existing owners. The updated chapters can also be purchased individually for users only interested in the digital edition; make sure you visit the gallery for the desired release and it will give you the option between digital (individual) and physical (complete box set):
Spoiler:
Asanagi Box: The Complete Victim Girls:R Collection ($80.00)
To celebrate the release of the collectors set, we're also holding a 25%-off weekend sale on all Asanagi-related ahegao merchandise listed below!
FAKKU x Fatalpulse ($18.75)
Ahegao Shirt ($30.00)
Ahegao Button Down ($75.00)
Ahegao Gift Wrapping Paper ($14.96)
This sale will last until Sunday, September 13th 2020 @ 11:59 PM (PDT).
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kodos23 wrote...
is this shipping right away or some time down the line.Available and shipping right away; there's no pre-order window for this item.
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AssasinZAssasin
Not Hentai Protagonist
Wow, that's quite the collection.
I'm glad for anyone who loves the series, hopefully they like what they see.
I'm glad for anyone who loves the series, hopefully they like what they see.
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After a week or so of having some Asanagi in my cart, I am greeted by this beauty. Nice work FAKKU!!!
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kenny390- wrote...
is this a limited time release?Available as long as stocks last. All doujinshi boxes have a limited print run, but might get reprinted in the future.
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$80 for about 120 pages of a doujin is absolute highway robbery. I've only ever bought Futabu from here, but was going to get this until I saw the absurd price. This is two-thirds the price of the actual dakimakura cover Asanagi put out at Comiket 97. Unless the "extra" stuff is actually shown so people know what they're getting, paying $80 for something that should be about $30 (considering a doujin here is usually $5, and then taking into account the special box) is absolutely absurd.
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gsusrocs wrote...
paying $80 for something that should be about $30 is absolutely absurd.I don't think you're taking into account that the doujinshi releases are considerably larger than the standard book size (B5 vs A5), and how this consists of three individual volumes hosted inside a slipcase rather than a single book release. Even a generous estimate would put the theoretical minimum cost at about twice that, but only when assuming a very simplified model for the printing process—e.g., printing four 25-page books is the same as printing one 100-page book, which isn't the case.
This is a special collectors item, and the higher production costs are reflected in the final product price. Omnibussing the content would allow for a cheaper product (that's why publishers do omnibuses over individual volumes), but our goal with these box sets is to go above and beyond and provide the highest quality product for the fans, and that includes the format of the item itself. Although, a budget version might be something worth considering for future reprints.
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YQII wrote...
I don't think you're taking into account that the doujinshi releases are considerably larger than the standard book size (B5 vs A5), and how this consists of three individual volumes hosted inside a slipcase rather than a single book release. Even a generous estimate would put the theoretical minimum cost at about twice that, but only when assuming a very simplified model for the printing process—e.g., printing four 25-page books is the same as printing one 100-page book, which isn't the case.
This is a special collectors item, and the higher production costs are reflected in the final product price. Omnibussing the content would allow for a cheaper product (that's why publishers do omnibuses over individual volumes), but our goal with these box sets is to go above and beyond and provide the highest quality product for the fans, and that includes the format of the item itself. Although, a budget version might be something worth considering for future reprints.
First off, this is better with giving information to justify the price. BUT, I have spent time in Japan, and have bought more than my fair share of physical doujins, so don't lie to me about the B5 size making it more expensive. Doujins in Japan, B5 size, are usually about 700 yen at stores like Melonbooks or Toranoana, so about $7, including the cut the store gets. Buying them directly from the artist at Comiket (which I did with Asanagi) is usually 500 yen for non-compilation works. So yes, I DID take the size into account, and that is how I arrived at the safe price of $30, because even at the store average price of 700 yen, that'd be about $21, and $9 for a cardboard box is fair.
You did give a tiny bit more info, but it's still not enough to justify that price, and from your words it sounds like it's high just because you're calling it a "collector's item" and want to exploit fans of Asanagi's work. What else justifies this price? It's still black and white, right? Are you using standard paper as used with doujins in Japan, or are you upping the quality to all glossy pages? Anyone that actually knows the price and market of doujins in Japan knows how this is robbery, and this is on the level of those resellers at conventions that go to Japan, buy a bunch of doujins, then bring them back to America and sell for like, $20-25 each.
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gsusrocs wrote...
As I tried to explain, it mainly comes down to printing. At least when it comes to our regular books, we match the quality of the best releases in Japan, meaning that depending on the publisher, our releases are at times higher quality than the Japanese version. Japan also has a more widespread culture of self-publishing, and print shops to meet that demand. By contrast, it's impossible to print our titles in North America (due to printers not being comfortable with the content), forcing us to print overseas and import the product. A doujin produced in Japan is a vastly different product than one produced elsewhere, and it's not a fair comparison.
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FAKKU Production Mngr
Hey everyone, just as a heads up - Staff was planning on going into the office to assist with orders today. However the air quality has more than doubled in number in the hazardous index for Portland, and unfortunately shipments are going to be delayed a couple days until the air quality becomes safer. The good news is rain and moisture is on its way so we are expecting the air to clear up. But until then we can't have people safely in the warehouse with the air quality of where it's at. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Anita7054
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No worries Fakku staff. You already have enough worries about your own safety due to the fires blazing the west coast. Let that be your first priority. I can wait for my box set.
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Yuri and Traps FTW
Bought, Box 5, cant wait to get my paws tightly around this set. This may not be the place for it but nutty idea. In the time of covid life is different (understatement) so how about hosting a online Fakku event. X artists over x days we as customers get to ask questions live via moderators. This may have been brought up before if not its a thought. Thank you for physical releases of Asanagi's work.