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Thank you! That issue has been incredibly annoying.

Everything that FAKKU sells (either directly or via other retailers) is licensed, so the artists definitely make money from it.

Once upon a time, FAKKU had scanlations on it, but ever since they went legit several years ago and added their subscription service, they have only had licensed content.



You can find it here: https://www.fakku.net/anime

I don't know why it's not listed on the bar at the top of the site. I suspect that it's an oversight.

I haven't had time to go through and verify that no orders are missing within the date range currently listed, but the furthest back that the orders show for me right now is September 2018, whereas I have orders going clear back to September 2014.

Also, while it's not the end of the world, if you go to the last page with the items list and then switch to the orders list, you stay with the same page number even though it's a much larger number than the number of pages for the orders (at least for anyone who's made a number of orders with multiple times). So, you end up with a page with no orders on it. So, the logic for how to handle which page you end up on when switching between the lists appears to need some tweaking.



It looks like it's ordered the items by date so long as they're in separate orders, but for orders with multiple items, there's no obvious order to them. Personally, I'd probably choose to have the items listed in alphabetical order rather than by date. I'm not sure that listing the items individually holds much value otherwise, since even if they were listed by date and then listed alphabetically within that date, it would be difficult to find anything.

The site does appear to have had an update to its look, but I don't know that that would have much to do with the store situation - especially if the issue is the payment processor. The change has made what happens when you try to buy a book somewhat cleaner though.

No. When you buy from FAKKU directly, you have the option to either buy the digital version or to buy both the digital and physical versions together. So, either way, you're explicitly buying the digital version, and there is no qualifying for anything. When you buy from anywhere else, you're simply buying a copy of the physical version, and the digital version is not involved at all. It's not like the physical version comes with a code to get the digital version (like happens with some books - particularly technical ones) or anything of the sort. You're simply buying the physical book.

So, while you could buy some of FAKKU's older books from stores like Right Stuf right now, you'll have to wait for FAKKU to sort out their store in order to buy any of their stuff digitally, and for FAKKU's most recent stuff, you'll have to wait regardless, because the digital versions come out months before the physical books.

I've reported it before, but I guess that it got lost in the shuffle, or you guys thought that it was fixed. However, every time it starts working again, it works for a while, and then it stops working again. Sometimes, it won't update for a few hours, and sometimes it can go over a week without working. It's like it gets blocked on something and stops updating until it gets unblocked.



Personally, I ignore it, because I don't usually care that much about which magazine a chapter comes from. I'm usually either looking to get a list of all of the releases in reverse chronological order so that I can easily see which ones are new for me, or I'm looking to search for a specific artist or chapter. I'll sometimes look at which magazine a chapter comes from, but I definitely don't have a reason to go looking for the chapters from a specific magazine under normal circumstances. If I really care about which magazine a chapter comes from, it's much more likely that it's because I'm looking to avoid it (e.g. Girl forM). There may be magazines that I wish that FAKKU translated (or am glad that FAKKU already translates), so I do care about magazines in that sense, but once the content is on the site, where it comes from originally is mostly irrelevant to me. It's just that having more good magazines means more good content, not that I'm trying to find content that comes from a specific magazine.

The link for volume 2 of Comic Happining points to the cover for volume 3.

Personally, I always find grid views to be messy, whereas list views are organized. Lists also work much better when you're trying to look at things in a particular order (be it alphabetical, chronological, or whatever). I always choose the list view with any website I deal with that gives me the option.

The main impediment to that would likely be the fact that the FAKKU folks seem to already be having a hard time keeping up with what they have. With their latest addition - Comic Koh - they're specifically translating it from the beginning at no particular pace so that they don't have to keep up with the current issues (which isn't all bad, since it means that we get the back issues and not just the current ones), and it's not uncommon for them to be a release or two behind on releasing some chapters from the other magazines. I would think that they're taking steps to fix that, but they can only translate so much so fast. Much as I would love to see them add more magazines, I suspect it will be a while before they do. But I would think that the better sales are for stuff like Pandra, the easier a time they'll have getting the help they need to keep on top of things and be able to increase the number of magazines they're translating.

Parasite Doctor Suzune is up to 9 (and I'd love to have that rescued from Project-H), but yeah, very few hentai series go beyond even a single tankoubon, let alone several.

You mean the 13 from here? Everything from that list except for "Gimme that Semen!" has been released digitally (and it comes out digitally next week). I think that they're a bit behind on the physical releases, but I would think that issues related to them being slow getting the physical books out would be separate from getting more titles out digitally. They just need to make sure that they get on top of the physical releases so that they don't get pushed out too far. They've pretty much always had a definite delay between the digital and physical releases though. In this case, if they're on time, it looks like they're planning on about a 4 month gap between the digital and physical releases. If they don't do something about catching up, they probably won't hit the August date, but who knows, maybe we'll get several physical releases in a relatively short period of time once they sort out whatever the hold-up is. And if they're slow about it, that sucks, but I can live with it.

Either way, I'm sure not going to complain about them getting more out digitally, even if the physical editions are slow in coming. There are so many hentai tankoubon that we never get in English that I'm all for FAKKU speeding up their releases.

I don't know what you're looking for, but we have quite a bit of variety on FAKKU already, and there's quite a bit of content on the site that does not have the Vanilla tag. I expect that more magazines will be added in the future which focus on content that isn't Vanilla, but since the last one they added was pretty much the opposite of Vanilla, I don't think that it's at all surprising if this one focuses on Vanilla - especially since Vanilla is one of the most popular tags on the site. There are a number of folks here who primarily want content that isn't Vanilla and a number of folks who don't want anything to do with anything that isn't Vanilla. So, FAKKU has to balance what they're doing. As such, I'd honestly have been surprised if this choice had not had Vanilla content when the previous magazine was "Girls forM" - especially when you consider that the "Girls forM" chapters seem to generally be favorited less often than chapters from some of the other magazines, implying that it was a less popular addition.

Also, completely aside from what kind of content FAKKU would like to add to the site next, they have to actually be able to make a reasonable deal with the company making the magazine in order to license it, and it's quite possible that FAKKU simply hasn't been able to make a deal right now with a lot of the other magazines that you or anyone else would be interested in.

If you have a specific magazine that you want FAKKU to license, then feel free to request it. Maybe they'll license it next. But I think that it's safe to say that a lot of the subscribers are very happy to see this magazine licensed instead of another magazine with content like "Girls forM."

The magazine that they added last time was "Girls forM," which isn't even vaguely vanilla.

Well, technically, at this point, no one else is legally releasing translations of hentai magazines in English (or at least, I haven't heard of anyone else doing it). Other publishers have mostly stuck with tankoubon and doujinshi - especially in recent years. So, arguably, FAKKU does have a monopoly on hentai magazines in English even if it doesn't have a monopoly on hentai manga in English - though given how little life Project-H has these days and the lack of other competitors, FAKKU isn't far off from having a monopoly in hentai manga in English. Given how well FAKKU is doing though, I'm not sure why Project-H has faltered so thoroughly. There's clearly demand. FAKKU does do nicer releases than Project-H has ever done, but they're also more expensive as a result. Surely, Project-H should be able to put out some tankoubon and do well enough to continue to do so. They're not acting that way though.

Maybe the fact that FAKKU has the subscription service is what's made the difference (either that or just internal problems at DMP / Project-H). Not only does FAKKU bring in money via the subscription service, but it gives folks a reason to visit the site all the time, so folks see the announcements about new books and snatch them up, whereas there really isn't a big reason to visit Project-H's site on a regular basis, making it easy to miss the rare cases where they do release something new, which could easily lead to poor sales. Right now, it seems like all they release is the occasional doujinshi, which is sad - especially when you consider all of the stuff that they licensed but have yet to fully release - like Parasite Doctor Suzune. If FAKKU were to license-rescue anything from Project-H, that's the series that I'd like to see rescued. That's the series that makes me keep hoping that Project-H would revive itself, though with how inconsistent they've been, I doubt that we could ever trust them to keep on top of things the way that FAKKU has.

LOL. Yeah. There's so much good content there that it would be very hard to pick just one of those magazines. And unfortunately, while I definitely like the fact that FAKKU doesn't charge more when it adds more magazines, that does mean that they don't get more money from adding a magazine, which makes it harder for them to increase how much they can translate - though the more magazines they have, the greater value from the subscription, and hopefully that will increase how many folks are willing to pay for it. But the fact that they've been able to add more magazines over time indicates that they're doing fairly well even if it sounds like they're having some trouble keeping up with the load.

The dream of course is that all of the hentai content from Japan would be available in English, but that's probably a pipe dream. On the bright side though, FAKKU has managed to provide us with tons more hentai than we were ever able to obtain legally in English previously, and it's all uncensored no less. So, while it's a shame that we don't have all of those magazines yet, it's absolutely fantastic that we have the ones that we do have, and it's great that they've now added another.

Nanao's latest tankoubon, Master Piece, would be awesome to get in English. It's definitely god-tier art. I think that some of the chapters in Master Piece came from X-Eros, but they predate fakku's subscription service, so all of it would be fresh material. Getting doujinshi from Nanao would be pretty awesome too.

Well, in principle, I'd prefer that there be competition, and I'd like to see tankouban released at a higher rate than FAKKU does. Also, Project H used to do good stuff. So, it wouldn't be all good if they were absorbed by FAKKU, but they seem to be on life support at this point.

Originally, they were releasing all kinds of great stuff, but a few years ago, they hit a point where they killed off several impending physical releases, and ever since then, they only rarely do physical releases, and while they have been doing digital-only releases (including for at least some of the volumes that were going to have physical releases but were canceled), they don't release much consistently. And they have unfinished series that just languish (Parasite Doctor Suzune in particular comes to mind - they've only ever released two volumes even though they've since licensed more, and there are at least 8 volumes that have been released in Japan), which really ticks me off. Fortunately, they have increased how many doujinshi they've been releasing, but many of them come from an artist that I don't particularly like, and as nice as doujinshi can be, they really don't make up for the lack of tankouban releases - especially for the series that they've already started but just never gotten around to finishing.

So, I don't know. Ideally, both FAKKU and Project-H would be releasing tankouban and doujinshi on a regular basis, and they'd be competing, but for whatever reason, Project-H is withering on the vine, and if FAKKU buying them meant that I could finally get more Parasite Doctor Suzune, I'd be all for it. However, I question that them buying Project-H would really help us much aside from a series or two that we might then finally get more of, because FAKKU really doesn't release tankouban very quickly, and they seem to have a decent backlog of them to get through already. So, them buying Project-H would probably mainly result in the backlog getting bigger. FAKKU would first need to increase the rate at which they release tankouban for it to really help - though that's something that I'd really like to see regardless. In fact, as cool as it is that FAKKU is going to now be doing stuff with hentai anime, what I really want to see is FAKKU releasing more hentai tankouban at a faster pace.

Ah. I misread then. Thanks for correcting me. That would then mean that the main concern would then be how dealing with hentai anime affects FAKKU's bottom line. So long as they really could afford to buy Kitty Media from Media Blasters, and they manage this well, then it should be a good thing. I suppose that the main question then is how this will affect Blu-ray releases (Kitty Media did physical releases only and finally started doing Blu-ray releases recently). If we're going to get DRM-free full-res downloads out of the deal, then Blu-ray matters less, but there are some advantages to having stuff on Blu-ray, and some of the market is going to want Blu-rays and not digital downloads - though there are certain risks posed by physical releases with regards to stuff like producing enough beforehand (while not overproducing) that digital downloads don't have. I won't shed a single tear if there are no DVD releases though (even if a show isn't actually in HD) - especially if the digital downloads are properly progressive as opposed to interlaced.

I confess that I'm not quite sure what to think of this. In principle, getting hentai anime is of course great, and DRM-free digital downloads of hentai anime is definitely great, but from what I can tell, Media Blasters / Kitty Media has been barely alive for a while now to the point that any time they announce anything, you have to wonder whether it's actually going to ever arrive - and even when they do manage to release something, it's not uncommon for it to be delayed. I'd very much like to see Media Blasters / Kitty Media be healthier, since they have released plenty of great stuff over the years, and them buying FAKKU may very well help with that, but on the other hand, I certainly wouldn't want FAKKU to get dragged down by them if they finally go down the drain.

If this goes well, it could very well mean that we'll get more hentai anime released in the US, which would be fantastic (especially since no one has been releasing much hentai anime in the US in recent years), but it does make me nervous.