Jacob Posts

RIP.
Still interesting to see tho.

They ran a pretty successful campaign but the staff behind has been shitting itself (not new for kickstarter, just google Kickstarter disasters and you should see some big failures). Hell, the whole debacle about the copyright issues was fucking stupid and any competent management can spot that before it turns out to be a problem.

On the other hand, your campaign had a hard time and only when all books where made available on the first goal did you manage to make it a success, however, this came way too late for it and you missed the second tier by a pretty wide margin. the project had several issues from the start and I'm not the only one saying this, sadly. Promising locked items before they are even unlocked is a really bad mistake, sticking to the first goal is much safer until you can add more.
One issue I'll bring up is also the lack of kickstarter-only items. This is not an obligation but this works to incite people from backing the project instead of waiting for it to come out and buy it on release.
However, aside for not really communicating much on kickstarter, the handling of the project had no fault, it went so good in fact, that you managed to ship the books ahead of schedule, at least for those who don't get a signed copy of the book.

On another project, there's Maliki, a french comic artist, and surely a NoName for many here.
Well he did his own crowdfunding for a book. tiers where simple, three versions of the book, normal, collector, and super collector.
Unlocked items were little shit items: a badge, some post-cards, a furokishi, a cel, etc... And those were included within each tiers as they unlocked, no exception.
Main goal was not money but backer number (a thousand to be exact), so this one doesn't have money count, however i did some math, excluding late time backers who have been given a temporary occasion to get the collector version only.


For the numbers:
Fakku: 499 backers, 60021$
Project-H: 1211 backers, 105 734$
Maliki: 8527+ backers, 272900+€
Ok, hentai is a niche market, I get it, it's very harsh to compare to a french comic, but take into account english projects have much more of a public available, french isn't spoken in as many parts of the world.

In the end, Fakku and project-H are two side of a pretty imperfect coin. The latter had a successful campaign but fails to deliver on its promises, the former ran a rather unsuccessful campaign (not bad ending, but downer ending considering the goal of having Toshio Maeda redraw the manga to remove censor didn't happen) but actually delivered sooner that expected (now, considering Toshio Maeda didn't redraw the manga, one may never know how long it could have taken for the first volume to come, had the second tier been unlocked).

At least Fakku has still possibilities for more successful kickstarter projects, while Project-H, with their mistake and mismanagement, shot itself in the foot.

For next project, I assume that'll be La Blue Girl, you still got those skateboard decks available? That could be some nice stuff to propose for backers of that peculiar project. But let's wait for Urotsukidoji to finish it's run.