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Wow. I'm sure that that chapter appealed to some people, but after seeing that image, I'm doubly glad that I skipped out on it...

I'm sure that some folks will be able to come up with some pretty wacky captions for it though.

The copy that I downloaded doesn't seem to have this problem. I didn't notice anything like that when reading it, and checking those specific pages now, they look correct - though I believe that I downloaded it fairly quickly after it went up, and maybe there's a been a problem with it on the server since then.

Or it could be a problem with a specific format. I got the x3200 .zip version. Perhaps it's fine and whichever one the OP downloaded isn't.

Wow. I'm surprised at how many people are balking at the price. I don't think that the price is all that different from what the folks in Japan pay for a magazine, and here, you're getting two magazines, not one, and it's uncensored to boot (though granted, it's only in digital form, not physical form like the Japanese subscribers get). With this, we're getting lots of content at a good pace, and some of it is from mangaka whose work never seems to get translated by the folks doing scanlations. And these aren't scanlations. They're the real deal at high quality, with the mangaka providing uncensored images rather than us only getting decensored versions that some fans photoshopped. This is awesome. And it's well worth the price. My only gripes with it at this point are:

1. I want to download the content to view locally with my software of choice (like with the FAKKU tankouban). I don't want to have to read it online.

2. The previously translated, scanlated content is disappearing from FAKKU (and in some cases, other sites), because of this in order to make the publishers happy, and that content isn't then necessarily being made available legally.

But in spite of those problems, this is a huge step forward.

And that is absolutely fantastic! I own several of LINDA's works, but I don't think that I've ever seen a translation of any of them. I would love to pay for those chapters and download them. I'm just not enthused about having to use a browser to read them rather than my local software or about having to rely on my net connection functioning properly or on FAKKU's continued existence in order to read those chapters (much as I hope that FAKKU continues to function and publish new content for years to come). I want to download them like I can download the tankoubon that FAKKU has published (actually having them in print would be great too, but clearly, that's asking for a lot more). I've bought every FAKKU tankouban thus far (both in print and digital), and I would leap at the chance to do the same with these magazines.

Maybe my desire to read LINDA's work or the work of some of the other artists on the list will eventually make it so that I get a FAKKU subscription in spite of hating to deal with the browser to view the chapters. But for now at least, I think that I'm going to wait and see if we can get the ability to download them rather than only getting them in the browser. But the fact that they're getting translated at all is fantastic, and I thank you.

Well, I'm all for buying individual magazines for download be it as a subscription where you pay monthly or where you buy each magazine individually. So, if that happens, I'll be very excited. But paying to only view the content in my browser really does not interest me. It's exciting that all of this content will be translated, and it looks like it includes some mangaka that I'm very interested in who never seem to get translated (e.g. LINDA), but I'm definitely going to wait for an option where I can pay to download rather than pay to just view the content in my browser. Still, the fact that we're getting that much is a start, and it could lead to actually being able to download the content. So, the fact that this is happening is very positive even if it's really not what I want at the moment.

Is the current plan to have the subscription chapters downloadable? Or are they just going to be viewable in your browser? I would hope that the chapters would be downloadable (especially since you're paying for them), but the recent "gift" chapters haven't been downloadable even though they're specifically for the folks who bought a FAKKU release. On the other hand, the tankouban that FAKKU has released have been downloadable, which has been great. I hate reading manga in my browser and much prefer to be able to download a zip file with the images and view them locally in my application of choice. And if the content is only viewable in the browser rather than downloadable, then you won't be able to view it later if something happens and FAKKU isn't around anymore (though hopefully that won't happen anytime soon). So, I really hope that the subscription content is going to be downloadable like the tankouban are rather than restricted to the browser like the gift chapters have been.

This definitely sounds cool. My immediate concern though is whether the content will be downloadable. The tankoubon that FAKKU has published in print and in digital format have been downloadable, whereas the "gift" chapters that were made available for folks who had bought one of the FAKKU tankoubon are only viewable in the browser. I have _zero_ interest in reading manga in my browser. If it's going to be digital, I want to be able to download the zip file with the individual images in my picture-viewing app of choice and not have to worry whether I currently have a good connection to FAKKU (or whether FAKKU even exists anymore, though hopefully that won't be a problem anytime soon). So, if these magazines are only made available as viewable in the browser and not downloadable, then I'm a _lot_ less likely to be interested, whereas if they're downloadable, I'm definitely going to be buying them.

Another question would be whether these magazines will be available in physical form. I'm assuming not, but it would be nice if they were.