New Magazines: Dascomi, Aoha, Happining, Weekly Kairakuten

Last time we added a bunch of new magazines was in 2017, at which point I made a breakdown of how much content we had released by then. Here we are two years later, and by now, we've more than doubled that number. Right now, a subscription gives you instant access to 200 magazine volumes, containing well over 4,000 chapters and 500 illustrations. All in all, that's more than 75,000 pages worth of content. The value of the service grows with each passing day, and at nearly 6,000 pages per individual dollar, this is an amazing offer that you won't find matched anywhere else in our industry.

While you won't see any price hikes here at FAKKU, today we're pleased to bring you yet another massive value hike!

Our Anime Expo industry panel just ended, during which we revealed four new magazines joining the subscription. I'm sure you're all excited to hear about them, so let's not beat around the bush and jump straight to introducing you all to Dascomi, Comic Aoha, Comic Happining, and Weekly Kairakuten!

Dascomi
First up we have Dascomi. This magazine shouldn't need much of an introduction, because it's the relaunch of Comic Europa which we've previously published here on FAKKU. After a half-year hiatus, the magazine is now back under a new title, and with a monthly release schedule! The magazines aims to have a focus on multi-part series, which is very evident in the launch issue where every single story comes with a "Chapter 1" suffix.

This is only the first of several new magazines we're adding to the subscription, and we had to focus our efforts a bit for this announcement. While Dascomi will not be part of the first batch of releases (which starts right now), you can expect the first chapters to drop later this summer.

Vol.1 Lineup: Doumou, Hazakura Satsuki, Ohara Makoto, Onaka Emi, Arai Togami, Sumiyoshi, Mareo, Ban Kazuyasu


Comic Aoha
Speaking of relaunches, next up we have Comic Aoha, the successor to Comic Koh! As you may or may not know, Koh was discontinued late last year, and this is meant to pick up where that magazine left off. The first two volumes of Comic Koh had a great reception here, so it was an easy choice to jump on Aoha right from volume 1. Content wise, it's very similar to Koh with a focus on high school. Many of the chapters are also a bit more story driven than your usual hentai, including a 68 page chapter—likely the longest single chapter we've ever published—which is ready to be release in the next day or so.

For now, this magazine comes out four times per year, starting with the Spring and the brand new Summer issue. You'll see a combination of chapters from both volumes once we start releasing them. Based on those two, you can expect roughly 17 artists and well over 400 pages of content from each volume.

Spring & Summer: Kamo, Aoiro Ichigou, Berose, Blman, Chan Shiden, Futamine Kobito, Gokubuto Mayuge, Hidarite Tarou, Higeta, Inukami Inoji, Itsuki Kuro, Jagayama Tarawo, Kasei, KasuKasu, Kiiroi Tamago, Kirihara Yuu, Mame Ojitan, Midori no Rupe, Mikaduchi, Minasuki Popuri, Miura Kazuki, Morishima Kon, Narita Koh, Nekoyama Kushitarou, Ohisashiburi, Ooyoko Yamaame, Ryokucha Ism, sugarBt, Syoukaki, Unou, Wanao, Yuukiya Sai, Yuzuki N Dash


Comic Happining
Comic Happining is a bit unusual, as it was Wanimagazine's first ever digital-only magazine. Along with the FAKKU originals, this was an experiment inspired by our partnership, meant to gauge the viability of digital publishing—which was a fairly novel concept in the ero manga industry before we entered the publishing business. Needless to say, it proved to be a massive success both in Japan and overseas. I say this was their first digital magazine, because the next release will be the fifth and final volume.

We're working through some complications with Vol.1 right now, but we'll start releasing chapters from the other three available volumes right away. You'll see a lot of familiar names from Wanimagazine's other titles, such as Kairakuten, and some of them even made their debut here before they showed up elsewhere. You can expect around 9 artists and 150 pages from each of the five volumes.

Vol.2-4: Bareisho, Fujimaru, gonza, Guglielmo, Honryou Hanaru, Itsutsuse, Karma Tatsuro, Karube Guri, Matsuda Val, Minamino Sazan, Momoduki Suzu, Ogawa Hidari, Okinaga Umanosuke, Onigiri Unicorn, Ouchikaeru, Picao, Roteri, Shikkarimono no Takashi-kun, Shimetta Seiya, Yanyo, Yokoshima Nikki


Weekly Kairakuten
Which leads us nicely to our last and biggest announcement: Weekly Kairakuten! If Comic Happining was a proof of concept, this is in a way its spiritual successor. Imagine a second Comic Kairakuten, but instead of releasing physically at the end of each month, a handful of chapters are released digitally on a weekly basis. Not only is the format fairly unique for an ero magazine, but so is its focus on multi-part series.

Historically, when talking about ero magazines, oneshots have always been preferred over longer stories spanning several volumes. This is because the average customer typically only picks up an issue every now and then, and might even hop between different magazines. I think we're all too familiar with how readers can react when given chapter 2 of a series without the accompanying chapter 1, and the easiest way to avoid this is to simply not do series. However, with a digital library service where the reader gets access to older volumes, this is no longer a problem.

I've already touched on this earlier in the post, but this new magazine is in a way a direct result of our partnership with Japanese publishers that began four years ago when we first launched our subscription. Thanks to your continued support over the years, we proved the viability of digital distribution in the ero manga market, and that there's a demand for multi-part stories—both in Japan and in the West. We're very excited to launch this new magazine alongside our original partner—without whom, had they not taken that leap of faith with us all those years ago, none of this would be possible—and we hope you look forward to seeing more from some of the most popular artists across the Globe in the upcoming Weekly Kairakuten releases!

2019-07 Lineup: Mojarin, Esuke, Aoi Miharu, Kisen, Zasha, EROKI, Kanari Tokusaku

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Wrap-up

To sum it all up, we'll start releasing chapters from the first volumes of Comic Aoha and Comic Happining tomorrow, Weekly Kairakuten shortly after that, and Dascomi later this summer. Right now, we have a ton of chapters to go through after picking up all these new magazines, so we hope you'll be patient and look forward to all the new content coming to the subscription over the next few months. None of these are your standard, full-length monthly magazines (except arguable Weekly Kairakuten, quantity-wise), so we fully expect to catch up to the most recent issues eventually, at which point we can continue working on our previous bonus titles—such as more issues of Comic Koh.

Before I go, on behalf of everyone on the FAKKU team, I want to thank all of our readers. Regardless if you've been a loyal subscriber since day one and still have an active subscription running to this day, or if you only tried it out for a single month during a discount, your support is dearly appreciated. We're eager to work on these new magazines, and I hope you're just as excited and look forward to reading the upcoming chapters. Enjoy and thank you.

Dascomi: "The magazine aims to have a focus on multi-part series" - basically a magazine just for me...
Weekly Kairakuten: "but so is its focus on multi-part series" - damn... I can only get so hard...

On a side note: "oneshots have always been preferred over longer stories spanning several volumes" - the Goddess of Sequels and I say no...

Kairakuten Weekly #1 has 7 artists, so around 100-150 pages every week I guess? Looks like a magazine to me. I agree on Aoha and Dascomi but it's good news regardless. Happining is a little bonus. If they can actually keep up with the new releases the sub would be back on track and definitely an improvement over the last few months. I really miss G4M tho.

edit: Dascomi is monthly, Europa was bimonthly if I remember correctly.

Excellent news! ^_^

That's quite a bit of artist I know nothing off (probably cuz I'm really bad at remembering Japanese names unless I REALLY REALLY like their content haha)! New stuff is always great, hopefully there's a bit of something for everyone to find! (just gimmi some vanilla every now and then and I'll be more than happy already ^^ ).

Most excited for "Yuzuki N Dash", this artist onee san stuff is absolutely awesome for someone who likes doting elder sisters like myself <3

Good to see more magazine, but they're basically from the same publisher.
How about Comic AUN, Hotmilk, Anthurium, ExE, Megastore, Mugen Tenshi, Penguin Club, Shingeki.
Or specific fetish like LO, Towako, Unreal, Masyo, MILF.
Or series-like chapter magazine like Ananga Ranga, Gaticomi, Grape.

Hope to see FAKKU can make a deal with other publisher in the future and bring hentai to outside Japan too.

PS. If FAKKU follow Komiflo (FAKKU for Japanese only), this should get Comic Hotmilk and Megastore Alpha. Maybe FAKKU should go with these first.

Thank you!!

We have good relationships with pretty much every major ero manga publisher in Japan. However, the deal-breaker when it comes to bringing over their library to the West is all too often censorship. They refuse to publish their content uncensored, and we refuse to publish it censored. There are also a few publishers who aren't interested in overseas distribution for other reasons. It is extremely disheartening, but until something major happens with the laws regulating adult content in Japan, certain publishers are completely off-limits—both for us and any other Western localization companies. That said, we are very grateful to the companies willing to work with us, which is why we want to expand our partnership by bringing over more of their magazines and books.

I want to address this in more detail in a future post, but for now I can say that—excluding a few where I'm not sure—the majority of the magazines you listed are simply not on the table. I don't want this to get off topic, so please save any discussion on other magazines for that upcoming post.

I will also refer anyone who's not happy with these announcements to this topic and suggest taking any further discussion to that thread.

Well, it's not like that I don't like the new releases. Just curious why not any other publishers appear here.
I absolutely understand the point. If the publishers in Japan themselve refuse to make it overseas, it can't be help.
I'm sure a lot of people here is just want to read the official release instead reading from scanlators on the web outside even they have an alternative site in their hand.
I appreciate your work that brave enough to make this available outside Japan. Keep up good work!

And once again we see that the Japanese censorship laws are preventing the more cautious companies from exporting their products (or can lead to lower sales if exported with the censorship in place). Seeing how there is really no good reason for keeping these and we can see that this does have an effect on income from exports and therefore on taxes paid to the country itself, I'd say there is an argument to be made for finally getting rid of them without seeming like a pervert, and joining the freedom most of the world enjoys.



Whether these have the problem mentioned by YQII or not, it's certainly easier for Komiflo to pick up bigger new magazines, seeing how they don't need to put in the additional work of translating them.

Please do this and I'm more than happy to address any concerns there. Your comments in this thread will be delete to prevent them from derailing the thread.


It would make our lives a lot easier if Japan changed their stance on censorship. However, and I can only speak for myself, I don't think we as a foreign entity have any rights trying to lobby for law changes in another nation, so it's something Japan has so sort for themselves.

That said, this is also getting kinda off topic, so I'll once again suggest taking this to the other thread if someone wants to discuss it any further.

I'm pretty excited about Weekly Kairakuten, and it's nice to see that Europa and Koh are essentially continuing.

While i am excited about more content being published here, i have a few questions:

• Given the increase in the number of magazines being published here (and subsequently the amount of work the translating team has to do), will any of the magazines currently in the main line up (detailed here) be taken out of the main line up? I'm mostly concerned for X - Eros and Shitsurakuten since they are now on a bi - monthly release schedule.

• Since there will be more magazines being worked on, does that mean we will have to wait longer for most of a magazine's line - up on a particular month to be published? (I noticed that it takes three months after a magazine's release in Japan for at least 75% of its line - up to be translated and published here). And if so, is there a rough estimate as to how much longer the wait would be?

• Because Comic Aoha and Comic Dascomi are the spiritual successors of Comic Koh and Comic Europa respectively, what does that mean for the the older volumes of those comics? Will they be dropped?

I know that one of the big selling points for this site (I think) is that everything is uncensored, but I'd honestly be fine with some amount of censored content if that was the main issue preventing you from publishing something like Comic Lo (I'm keeping my fingers crossed it'll happen some day)

I'd have no problem with Fakku merely publishing things uncensored when possible if it meant we could have a greater selection of content, particularly for more niche content such as loli, shota, and kemono (of any sort).

Mind you, there may be a decent selection of kemono stuff here, but it doesn't have a tag, so I can't really look for it.

Those two going bi-monthly is a big part of us being able to pick up all the new magazines. Weekly Kairakuten and Dascomi are meant to fill that gap. Aoha comes out every four months, Happining is only five volumes. All in all, no I don't expect any magazine to leave the regular lineup.


It's too soon to comment on that. Honestly, many of these magazines are so new, we don't know the exact number of chapters we can expect on an average month. But again, much of this is meant to fill a gap, so it's not unthinkable that the completion rate of individual magazines actually goes up in the long run.


Older issues were never really part of the long term plan. I think there are something like 50+ issues of Koh, which is more than two years worth of content. Older volumes mostly served as a buffer for us to fall back on if we every run out of current content to work on (which has happened before). As both of these magazines pretty much pick and continue in the same fashion as their predecessors, our future focus will likely be on the newer releases.

That said, if we get caught up with current issues, we could absolutely go back and pick up, for instance, Vol.3 of Koh. In short, their status will remain as bonus magazines that we might do, while the newer magazines enter the main linup of releases.


I know a lot of people see it that way, but I personally never really did. It's nice, but I'd argue the ease of access and localization are the main drawn. Just look at regular manga/anime which isn't censored in Japan, yet that market is still doing very well overseas. If Japan change their laws, I'd be happy to give up the uncensored exclusivity if it meant full access to the entire ero manga market.


Understandable, but it's a slippery slope. If we allow some to publish their stuff censored, chances are some older partners also want their content censored going forward. This is actually something we've discussed quite a bit internally. When we started out, I was more open to the idea of publishing censored content, but I've changed my stance on it over the years. For the foreseeable future, censorship will remain a deal-breaker for us.

I think you misunderstood me, as I never suggested that we'd start releasing censored content. I was saying that I'd welcome it if Japan decides to abolish their censorship laws. That would mean we'd lose the exclusivity of publishing uncensored ero manga (because it would be uncensored everywhere), but it would allow us to work with companies who are now hesitant when it comes to overseas publishing. I believe that's a situation where everyone comes out on top.


Aoha and Koh have pretty much the exact same content, just under a different name. If you think of them as the same magazine, what we did here is we jumped ahead and started working on Koh 2019-03 and 2019-06. If we're caught up before 2019-09 comes out, we can go back and work on Vol.3 in the meantime.

Well I'm certainly looking forward to seeing more multi-part hentai series getting published, that's for sure.

Excellent announcement!