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Repeating what I've said in the past: no publisher in Japan would agree to having such content released in the West. Even if they do, there are further hurdles over here to that makes it impossible. Until there a major cultural/legislative changes made on a global scale, this isn't happening.

The publisher no longer wants their content published uncensored, so this and other titles from them won't get a new print run until that changes. We did order a big batch ahead of this going into effect, but since that was years ago, those have long since sold out.

On top of the 50 brand new pages that were cut from and never included in the Japanese edition, the lettering has been updated like with all of our book releases, and the artist updated the artwork for some of the previously available content. The idea is for the box set to be representative of the initial doujinshi releases, whereas this is the most definitive collection of the series with all the bells and whistles and expected quality of a book.

Sounds like this book.

These safe cover designs will likely become the industry norm (in Japan) over the next few years, since they're experiencing the same pressures as we do. Until then, we'll continue to include the more risqué version as a bonus fold-out in our releases. That's all I can say on the topic.

Irodori is a different company from FAKKU, so any requests related to their products should be directed to them.

Since this was bumped: As is always the case with third-party content, the responsibility falls on the publisher in question.

In the rare cases where FAKKU had to delist one of our releases, we've typically added a disclaimer well ahead of time, but understandably you might not always get a definitive removal date months in advance. I won't speculate on why the content above was delisted, but if a vendor asks us to remove an item, we're not going to tell them "no." I imagine we'd be more then happy to add a note to the content or even retweet an announcement, but again, it's up to the third party to initiate this and inform the customer. My suggestion is to directly contact the publisher with your feedback.

As a final disclaimer, I do not handle third party communications at FAKKU. If the vendor is already doing this and we're not acting on it, the failure is on us, and I would happily investigate further internally if this is the case.

They're not in the plans currently.

With the release of volume 18 a month ago, we are now caught up with the most current part of the series. Right now we're waiting for FR19 to be announced/published.

Preorder is up. The rest of the year's release schedule is already filled, but beyond that, the plan is to get caught up with Ep.31 within the first half of 2024.

Edit: I've added an update to the original post with more info on what to expect next year.

You hit on pretty much all the points, but to sum it up: Comic X-Eros is going digital only—a common trend across the industry nowadays which doesn't impact us—and moving from a bi-monthly to monthly release schedule. It's too early to comment on how the size of the magazine will evolve as part of this change, but #105 has around 240 pages of content (excluding ads). For reference, only four issues have exceeded that page count (adjusted for them being bi-monthly) in the last three years, and the average volume size for this year has been just below 400 pages.

I do expect the number above to go down a bit, as event issues like this relaunch are often bigger to commemorate the occasion, but even then this will likely result in more X-Eros content, released more frequently going forward.

There's a paperback tag for physical manga releases. All FAKKU published books have a physical edition, and for doujinshi it's mostly box sets.

We're aware of the issue and will hopefully have it resolved early in the day NA west-coast time.

We're aware some users are experiencing issues reading certain chapters and are looking into it.

For now it will be digital at least until we're caught up (episode 31). At that point we'll decide what to do for future episodes, and possibly consider a physical edition in some form. Due to the logistics and costs involved in printing, digital is almost always going to be the best option initially. And of course, the better the (digital) product does, the easier it is to justify moving forward with a print run.

The first four episodes will be available for free, and the rest will be purchasable like our other doujin releases. As mentioned in the announcement, the first release will be a collection of episodes 5-11, followed by 12-16 most likely before the end of the year.

We're excited to announce that FAKKU will publish Futanari no Elf by Kawakami Masaki!

This is a long-running series consisting of shorter episodes, with the typical one featuring a title page and four additional pages of content. The story is set in a world where our reality suddenly linked up with a parallell world exclusively inhabited by futanari elves. It centers around the human girl Yuri, who visits this world as an exchange student, and meets up with a cast of elves of various shapes and sizes. While her interactions start out pure with her playfully squeezing squishy elf ears to get a rise out of them, over time other feelings and desires slowly awaken inside Yuri as well as the local elves...

Something that should be noted about this series is that it is a slow burn. The author themselves have described the first 16 episodes to be on the level of a shonen manga when it comes to lewdness, but the smut gradually increases from there on. For something more concrete, the girls are always covered up in some kind of fabric up until Ep 16, and any action beyond that is left implied. Once we get into the 20s and 30s, that's when things get raunchier and a lot more hands on. We think it's important to be upfront about this so you know what to expect from this exceptionally cute series.

That said, this level of build-up is extremely rare in the field of ero manga, but that only makes the eventual payoff that much sweeter! To give everyone a taste of what this series has to offer, we're making the first four episodes (20 pages) free to read for anyone logged in. Our current plan is to release this free preview at the beginning of October, with the first proper release (Episode 5-11) following shortly after at the end of the month.

For anyone who's a fan of futanari and elves—and let's be real, who isn't?—we hope you look forward to this series as it starts dropping in about a month's time. And if you're on the fence, we highly recommend you at least check out the first four parts, as those will be available for anyone to read for free!

November Update: We've now released the first "set" of the series, Episodes 1 - 16. The second set, 17-31, will be released in 2024, with the first two parts having a tentative release schedule of February and April. As mentioned above, these upcoming chapters are more graphic both in the sense that you get to see more action between the characters, but they also starts incorporating color elements. I say elements as typically, the main character might be fully colored while the background is left black and white, or it might just be a single panel that's in color. We'll provide some examples of this as we get closer to release (the first part releasing in February will be all black and white), but for now the righ-most image below gives you an idea of what to expect.

The first releases are now available!

This topic is for suggesting titles for future licensing. If you want to go off on tangents, please take that discussion elsewhere.

Submit a support ticket. If you give me your ticket ID, I'll ask CS to prioritize it on Monday. I believe they can just check your account, but I'd also include the first order ID (the one you don't want refunded) to possibly make it easier on support.

We're aware, but unfortunately these issues first started on Friday after office hours. We'll look into it further on Monday and apologize for the inconvenience in the meantime.