Physically Printing the Magazines
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YQII
FAKKU Translator
Just to add some figures:
Each of the two magazines have 22-25 chapters per month, and with X-Eros being around 500 pages in total compared to Kairakuten's 400, X-Eros chapters are obviously bigger. For example, the page count for the first four chapters (excluding color shorts) from last month were 18, 16, 20, 12 in Kairakuten, and 28, 36, 28, 22 in X-Eros.
If I'm to give an average, I'd say (again, excluding color shorts) the average Kairakuten chapter is 18 pages, and the average X-Eros is 26 pages long.
Each of the two magazines have 22-25 chapters per month, and with X-Eros being around 500 pages in total compared to Kairakuten's 400, X-Eros chapters are obviously bigger. For example, the page count for the first four chapters (excluding color shorts) from last month were 18, 16, 20, 12 in Kairakuten, and 28, 36, 28, 22 in X-Eros.
If I'm to give an average, I'd say (again, excluding color shorts) the average Kairakuten chapter is 18 pages, and the average X-Eros is 26 pages long.
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Daxter955
Count De Monet
punipuni wrote...
FAKKU should keep it simple. Start by printing every 4th issue of X-Eros and Kairakuten (or however frequent FAKKU is willing to print). If these prints become successful, increase that frequency to every 3rd issue, and so on - until the market grows enough to support monthly releases.The purpose of a magazine is to expose readers to a variety of content in order to grow the consumer base, so FAKKU should avoid playing favorites. In a magazine, readers get to see both well loved and unknown talent, along with a variety of styles and genres - some of which they might warm up to after flipping through a few times. That's what makes a magazine special, especially in printed form (online readers are more likely to skip unfamiliar content and develop "tunnel vision"). These chapters will eventually find their way into physical tankouban releases anyway, so it's a waste of potential to only print the "best" ones.
Also, does it matter if physical issues are distributed a few weeks later than the digital version? That's how tankoubans are currently being handled. Likewise, FAKKU could sell a "Paperback + Digital" combo to encourage more preorders from impatient readers (with the added benefit of gauging how many copies to print).
I love your idea but...subscriptions are a monthly thing and if the magazine comes out every quarter then how much is the book going to be? It would neat if it was included with the subscription (especially since you have to pay 4 months) but I'm sure Fakku! needs the funds to print these things out. They could bump up the monthly subscription for the paperback+digital combo but it's unknown as to how much everything is going to cost all together.
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623 wrote...
My one issue with a "Best of" anthology is diversity. It's no secret that Fakku users lean vanilla and while I'm not clamoring for every chapter to have a fetish, I'd just hope that at least 40% could stray from the beaten path. I guess what I mean is: good luck having an cuckold chapter in that anthology.Then again, since it's a limited run they're all going to sell out super fast anyway so I suppose it doesn't matter?
Edit: And yeah I know Kairakuten and X-Eros aren't all vanilla magazines.
World is not white or black, much like there's not just vanilla and cuckold porn. And it's not just Fakku really, the Japanese market as well is like it, you have very popular hardcore books, the bulk of the sales comes from happy sex. The hardcore subgroups are very vocal, very resourceful but they're still niche. As massively popular as he is (top name in Japan for 2014 before he left to do illustrations for light novels and non-h manga art), you'll never see Hisasi's fans fawning all over him shilling his patreon like it happens with an edgemaster like ShindoL, that's the difference. Hisasi has been working on art for a harem eroge, did you know that? It's supposed to be a big deal, but nobody talks about it. When ShindoL did the same for that elf thing, they couldn't stop spamming it on /v/, like any of those wicked Seishoujo games. If there's some freelance translator on 4chan looking for suggestions, cuckolds will swarm him with suggestions, whereas vanilla***s are like any other casual audience, they do want to be spoonfed, and sadly some of the scanlators are as casual as their audience. It's a simple matter of perception (hardcore/casual), magazines wouldn't be packed with vanilla (for a month X-Eros gets 3 chapters of cuckoldry out of 15-20, another month it gets none) if nobody was there to like it. Same with stuff like Kairakuten etc, only very selected magazines outside Wani grounds do always provide some). I'm saying this as a scanlator by the way, I only like to speak of things I've dealt with personally.
A.I. wrote...
Tsujoi wrote...
What do you guys and gals think about voting by the best "genre/tag"? That way more diversity could end up in the magazine run.depends...that´s unfair in it´s own way because it means some really good vanilla chapters might not enter just because it has to make space for chapters with other tags even if the quality of those chapters are inferior. And since it´s obvious NaPaTa, Homunculus and those already extremely popular vanilla artists would always be on the "best of" never having space for other vanilla artists that might be just as good.
maybe I´m too optimistic but I like to think if something is really good people will vote for it independently of the tags.
Thank you very much, you have no idea how much I support this argument.
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As far as this whole "chapter printing" goes, I think it's a waste of time. Magazines should release as quickly as possible, all of those available under Wani, and exclusively in a digital fashion. Paper only for tanks. Every month you let pass by more and more issues pile up, you'll never catch up at this rate, not in this decade.
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FoolyDooly
Bought With Mastercard
Personal opinion is that eventually, you guys should look up printing machine system for Fakku itself. There's those offered by companies such as HP and etc, and I'm sure at eventual point, we're going to have problem with shipping from outside again.
Plus, for training reason, having internal job as a backup is a great idea too.
Now, even with that.....
I'm personally against magazine printing, even if it was "Best Of", and what not. You can say this is rather funny, when one think about the fact that I bought all of the Fakku's book, and I'll probably buy it if it ever comes out. Issue is precisely that, though; Lot of the times, purchasing of a magazine is cheaper than buying tanko/volume, so it is justified. But to justify having that much work printed, usually something has to make up for it, and I believe that Fakku isn't ready for such sacrifice, whether it's paper quality and et cetera. Plus, I'm not really feeling the need of having to buy the bound chapters twice, in honest sincerity, since popular artists WILL get published, and hentai artists don't usually correct art (they do add-on pages, but that's entirely different matter in the first place).
I'm pretty aware my voice is probably going to get overrunned by others, but hey, we all can't be the good guys.
Plus, for training reason, having internal job as a backup is a great idea too.
Now, even with that.....
I'm personally against magazine printing, even if it was "Best Of", and what not. You can say this is rather funny, when one think about the fact that I bought all of the Fakku's book, and I'll probably buy it if it ever comes out. Issue is precisely that, though; Lot of the times, purchasing of a magazine is cheaper than buying tanko/volume, so it is justified. But to justify having that much work printed, usually something has to make up for it, and I believe that Fakku isn't ready for such sacrifice, whether it's paper quality and et cetera. Plus, I'm not really feeling the need of having to buy the bound chapters twice, in honest sincerity, since popular artists WILL get published, and hentai artists don't usually correct art (they do add-on pages, but that's entirely different matter in the first place).
I'm pretty aware my voice is probably going to get overrunned by others, but hey, we all can't be the good guys.
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asadefiled
King
I myself would love to see them printed if possible. I would assume it would be a lot of work though. Not to mention the prices. Still, I prefer hard copies to digital.
