Fakku Content

So i wanted to make a topic concerning Fakku's publishing when it comes to books, more specifically "vanilla" content but kinda all genres in general. Basically let me start by saying i don't hate "vanilla" i just believe there's just too much of it, going into the subscriptions there are a ton of "vanilla" chapters but that's to be expected, Fakku has no control over what gets put into those magazines so no can blame them, doujins are more selective and offer variety, however the books seem... well biased?

At first glance you may not think so but after counting up all the books there are more or less 44 "vanilla" books and when compared to every other genre only comes out to 3 or less books, sure if you add all the non vanilla books together you get a more even layout but 1 shota book, 2 futa books, etc. its kinda bad especially when you're a company advertising equal treatment towards hentai artists.

Ok so how do you fix it? Well simple just add more non vanilla... and you might say "but that's what the book suggestion forums about" and you would be right except at this point there are so many books suggested that its hard to tell if Fakku took our suggestions or if it was coincidence. So then why not just make a list of most requested books (within reason) and mark them off once they get added? 3 artists i know could get added would be Takeda Hiromitsu's "sister breeder", shindol's "anthology", and Butcha-U's "Pooters" series, why these 3? they've all been on Fakku one way or another and are considered well received in the U.S. Will my suggestions or criticism change Fakku to add more non vanilla doubtful, will it just fall on deaf ears most likely but well im just hoping more people here will want more non vanilla content and maybe take a break from "vanilla".

Still doesn't make sense though, the more niche something is the more people would pay for it. So they should still make the same in profits.

The vast majority is sex not vanilla, the books that i mentioned (not including shindol) are all pure sex titles with no genre attached to them. Also ignore almost half your customers is kinda bad practice.

Alternating would be great, well it's up to Fakku.

Ok so basically your data reflects only on your site and not any outside sources right? From where i see things from the 3 that i mentioned Takeda has more popularity in the west than most of the artists you publish, my reason most of his content is pirated and translated within a month of release, although he doesn't publish on Wani he does a lot of self publishing work on doujins, he's published a manga, an H-game, an H-video, had his manga made into an anime. If that isn't popular i don't know what is and not to mention he has been suggested repeatedly by your users on the book suggestion forums way more than the artists that have currently been published.

As for what you said @YQII all three of them mostly self publish and don't really work for one specific magazine but that shouldn't be a factor that pushes away great artists, that just isn't fair to all sides of your customers. The thing is all 3 of them are popular but just not with Wani at least not full time every month or so. From what i can tell your teams decisions are basically coming from Wani or at least mostly active in magazines artists which is really really flawed imo because this makes the book suggestion forums pointless since most suggestions are from non Wani artists, if maybe you made a list of Wani or other publishers we could suggest from it would make it clearer who we would like to see more of. You may be able to find more artists in Kairakuten but i can guarantee i can name higher quality artist that would sell more on Fakku than you could, those 3 are just examples of big names that you could work with more easily.

That still doesn't explain why you don't rotate releases such as 2 vanilla books and 1 different genre book, currently you have what 5 vanilla books coming up? There's no way you can't get 5 non vanilla between now and next summer to do a simple rotation to have some variety in books.

I mean sort of? There is no real consistency and the quality of art seems lower when you compare non vanilla books to vanilla, i've looked up several of the the artists you mentioned Higenamuchi's art doesn't really hold up very well especially if you compare it to the top sellers, Marui Maru is great but we only have that one shota book, Fanaticism isn't really non vanilla it is mostly dark but its got 3 vanilla chapters, Melty Lover is not non vanilla it has 1 rape chapter that's it and SAVAN isn't really used to dark tones, the rest have come out long ago and nothing breaking into the best sellers has been released since or anyone on ShindoL's and Takeda's level.

The thing about Higenamuchi's art that i don't like is the sketchy lines, one tone shading, the guy has no eyes, and the lack of detail going into the body, as well as his poses.

I generally define vanilla as basic sex with romance. I mean i could get specific with what artists i would like to be here but Fakku wouldn't just publish them just because i said so and having to cross check which artists are from Wani can be a pain and id rather they just give us a list so we don't ask for the impossible.

That's a very disingenuous way of trying to move the goal posts. Not only is it clear that you and the Fakku publishing team have different definitions when it comes to what constitutes "non-vanilla" content, but when presented with a range of work published by Fakku in the last year that falls within their definition you say, "well actually, what I meant was you aren't publishing enough 'non-vanilla' content THAT I LIKE" while taking the opportunity to slam artists you personally don't feel measure up to your standards while claiming it's simply falling outside your "objective" definition of "non-vanilla."

Would it be great to see Sister Breeder and The Pink Album published in Fakku Books? Of course it would; I doubt you'd find a lot of people in this thread who would disagree on that front. But publishing is a difficult business; between the timeliness of the material, the legal work to get everyone to sign off on a publishing deal, and the sheer market forces, not everything will make it over: it's just a reality. Fakku is not beholden to tell you the specific reasons why you might not get that book you would really like, and part of the reason I enjoy participating in the discussion on this site around what might come over is because Jacob and the team are surprisingly open about the business, more so than I would expect for a publisher to be, especially of content of this nature.

Besides, at the end of the day "non-vanilla" content has the deck stacked against it. By the very definition, it's something that appeals to people who want something outside the relative norm of sexual fiction, and then there's the fact that some "non-vanilla" content runs into legal issues when trying to publish it outside of Japan (loli and shota feels like a gray area, whereas something like bestiality has a more strict legal restriction, for example). Just look at the never-ending saga that has been the physical release of Hanafuda for the kinds of issues Fakku can have with getting "non-vanilla" content published in book form.

I get it can be frustrating not seeing the kind of content you want released in the quantities you would like. I'm sure a good number of people on the site do have gripes here or there. But moving the goal posts when they reach out to you directly about this issue is not going to solve your problem. I don't have an easy solution other than attempting to get the community to invest in the content you want to see, because at the end of the day I would expect Fakku to mainly sell what people want to buy. And the fact that they are releasing more "non-vanilla" books (by their definition at least) means they are noticing a market that either did exist before or more likely wasn't buying as much as they are now, and it is paying off for them. I can only hope that Fakku's output of published "non-vanilla" content continues to increase or at the very least doesn't recede because I think variety is a net positive for the Fakku Books brand in the end.

Go look at the best sellers section clearly I'm not the only one who doesn't like certain books and its objective but you can see im wrong.

I would just want a simple "no" on some books because no one wants to spend 5 years saying over and over only for Fakku to no publish it because it's impossible. I would really like to see sales numbers to see the difference between a great selling book and a poor one.

Go and look at the genre poll Fakku set up, people want to buy something else.