ANN Source
JManga's official site
This looks to be the first legal scanlation site for manga and from that ANN lineup, it looks promising. Hell, even One Piece and Toriko are listed for it!
Coming this spring!
ANN Source
JManga's official site
This looks to be the first legal scanlation site for manga and from that ANN lineup, it looks promising. Hell, even One Piece and Toriko are listed for it!
Coming this spring!
Wow. If this is speedy, accurate, and up to date, I'd defintely read from there, even if a cost was involved
It's awesome that Shuueisha's top tier titles are on that list. I'd love to see if this takes off well. Although, I have to wonder if the site will be using the R1 translations or have the translations be done by an independent group.
FINALLY, Shueisha has decided to stop dragging its feet about the issue.
I'm hoping that in the future, other publications will also come on board for this like Weekly Shonen Sunday and Shonen Magazine. JUMP series are great to have on board for this site but let's have some variety too.
I guess since Crunchyroll helped them set up, that it will be a similar service, just for manga instead of anime. I can't imagine they would charge more for manga than anime. I wouldn't mind paying $7.00 a month to read all my favorites legally.
Shueisha you will be my nigga if you get Steel Ball Run up there.
Let's also hope that these titles that are offered can be downloadable to your portable media device as well.
If its going to be like crunchyroll, but for manga. I won't mind being a week behind on chapters.
Same. If we can have a professional quality translation without any corporate BS (I'm looking at you, Viz!), I wouldn't mind waiting the extra week.
The site is in beta right now so you will most likely need to leave your e-mail address in order to get linking instructions but I'll need to make sure.
UPDATE: It looks like beta access is company restricted at the moment.
Hm, I don't really see how this is going to work without conflicting with series that Viz is already publishing in Shonen Jump. I certainly wouldn't mind the end of that magazine, though.
Hm, I don't really see how this is going to work without conflicting with series that Viz is already publishing in Shonen Jump. I certainly wouldn't mind the end of that magazine, though.
You mean American Shonen Jump? :wassat: Because if so, I agree.
Exactly .
This is wonderful news, a legal online manga distributor. I hope they don't f*ck it up.
American Jump was a cool idea, but it went to major shit when they started randomly skipping 20 or 30 volumes of various series, starting on the 300th chapter of a series, running only previews of thigns for a month, and including like 8 chapters of Naruto every month.
Plus the monthly schedule does it no favors.
It was cool when I thought I'd be able to get all those stories in large size from start to end, regardless of the time it takes.
If Jmanga walks the walk like it talks the talk, I'll put my money where my mouth is and start going to that for my weekly fix, at a reasonable cost.
I mean hell, Viz never got around to fixing "The Second Person" chapter title, which bugs me more than all the Zolo's in the series.
To me this is really an experiment on Shueisha's part rather than confidence in the market. Overseas manga piracy is a lot more devastating to Shueisha than anime piracy is to small-time anime studios, and I'm not exactly sure that this will really have a lot of impact, if any at all.
I think, the people who want to support it will, but the majority won't. Most of the people who got into manga through those immense portals were casuals and bandwagoners anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if they fled at the first sign of →→PAY HERE←←.
Never thought I'd see the day…Can't wait for the site to actually open!
We still don't know if the site is going to be a free site with payable premiums or a pay-to-view site entirely. All we can do now is stay tuned.
@RobbyBevard:
American Jump was a cool idea, but it went to major shit when they started randomly skipping 20 or 30 volumes of various series, starting on the 300th chapter of a series, running only previews of thigns for a month, and including like 8 chapters of Naruto every month.
Plus the monthly schedule does it no favors.
It was cool when I thought I'd be able to get all those stories in large size from start to end, regardless of the time it takes.
If Jmanga walks the walk like it talks the talk, I'll put my money where my mouth is and start going to that for my weekly fix, at a reasonable cost.
I mean hell, Viz never got around to fixing "The Second Person" chapter title, which bugs me more than all the Zolo's in the series.
Agreed. Each series in the manga should've been given equal billing and not had ones series dominate over the other just because it's anime counterpart was doing great on either Cartoon Network or 4KidsTV. Otherwise, One Piece could've fared better.
holy fuck, thank you
though, of course, I'm assuming these will be translated - I don't see anything about that in the article though
even then, it'd be great for practice, and I'd shell out cash for that
@Kaba:
We still don't know if the site is going to be a free site with payable premiums or a pay-to-view site entirely. All we can do now is stay tuned.
Agreed. Each series in the manga should've been given equal billing and not had ones series dominate over the other just because it's anime counterpart was doing great on either Cartoon Network or 4KidsTV. Otherwise, One Piece could've fared better.
I believe a big part of why people hate Naruto (not the only reason, but a major reason) is how much American Jump and CN focused on the series as opposed to other series (quite a few of which are better than Naruto, especially current Naruto). Personally I think it's wrong to hate a manga because of how popular it is. I get being oversaturated or finding something not worthy of the hype, but you should judge a manga (or really anything for that matter) based on what it actually is, and popularity shouldn't affect judgement.
But anyway, this is good news although I need more information. I've been having trouble finding a really good manga site. A lot of manga sites I've tried since OneManga was taken down haven't been efficient or reliable for my computer. So if this site works well and has a good selection, then I will be very happy.
@dirt:
though, of course, I'm assuming these will be translated - I don't see anything about that in the article though
That would be a rather amusing troll.
Or the second part of Naruto is fucking awful.
@Crossdresser: It's still nice that I could read it myself even if not translated, but it'd still get a big boo from me. There's thousands that won't go my route.
@dirt:
Or the second part of Naruto is fucking awful.
@Crossdresser: It's still nice that I could read it myself even if not translated, but it'd still get a big boo from me. There's thousands that won't go my route.
That's certainly a contributing factor as well.:happy:
@dirt:
holy fuck, thank you
though, of course, I'm assuming these will be translated - I don't see anything about that in the article though
even then, it'd be great for practice, and I'd shell out cash for that
The original announcement from back in November said that the portal was for North America and the JManga beta main page is in English, so I think it will have translated manga.
Alright, you've got my attention. The manga community will no doubt give this their full support as long as it's done right. None of this wait a week after the chapter was released in Japan crap.
I've got a optimisic wait and see attitude on this.
Thumbs up from me then.
Now to just see if these are downloadable or always viewable as long as you're a member. No Mangastream thing where they take it down after 4 chapters. I understand the load though.
Even if its a week after the chapter comes out in Japan I'd probably accept it. I just don't want to have to wait months to read a chapter that just came out in Japan. Since spoilers always come out earlier than the chapters are available in japan, we would already have to wait longer than we do now anyways
Even if its a week after the chapter comes out in Japan I'd probably accept it. I just don't want to have to wait months to read a chapter that just came out in Japan. Since spoilers always come out earlier than the chapters are available in japan, we would already have to wait longer than we do now anyways
This.
But we'd really only wait a few days compared to the people who would bitch and moan about translations or paying for something they get free now.
Hm, I don't really see how this is going to work without conflicting with series that Viz is already publishing in Shonen Jump. I certainly wouldn't mind the end of that magazine, though.
Because they aren't aiming for your punny american market, they are going GLOBAL! (I hope)
I'm curious so I have to ask, do manga authors get paid in salaries or royalties? I ask this because, provided JManga has fees for viewing (which I assume it would) how then would they go about distributing the profit amongst the authors? And moreover, do they even get anything out of this at all or does it just go straight to Jump, salaries unchanging? I'm very interested in the flow of money here.
@dirt:
holy fuck, thank you
though, of course, I'm assuming these will be translated - I don't see anything about that in the article though
even then, it'd be great for practice, and I'd shell out cash for that
I don't see why the manga wouldn't be translated. To not offer translated manga would be business suicide for this site.
If I'm paying, I would expect to gain full access to high quality, translated scans of every chapter of every manga available on their roster. Let's hope they provide that.
That roster looks pretty generic
They definitely need to mix it up some and get some better magazines under the umbrella.
pfft legal site who needs that ^_^.
Great news for all online-only readers
I assume you have to pay for this site, so I will stay with mangastream. I always buy the One Piece Volumes, it just doesn't make sense to pay twice for me xD
If what I read in the other thread is right, I'm not paying $10 for one chapter. I can buy a full volume for about the same price.
I totally didn't notice this thread.
I probably should have searched before I made the other one.
Oh well. Live and learn.
@HiroVoid:
If what I read in the other thread is right, I'm not paying $10 for one chapter. I can buy a full volume for about the same price.
Yeah, that can't POSSIBLY be right.
No one is going to pay that much for a single chapter.
Let alone a chapter without any physical copy.
Even ONE dollar per chapter would be overpriced considering the number of titles that appear in a given magazine. They have to sell an entire mag at a time, or a subscription fee, or… something.
I'm hoping it's monthly billing for unlimited viewing. 5-10 bucks a month?
Beelzebub better show up in the end.
If it is pay per chapter, I won't be taking part in this, but if it is a monthly unlimited service, I will be all over it and I will still buy One Piece and Yotsuba&! volumes.
Keep in mind that this is all being set up in an incredible rush and many aspects of it are still being negotiated. When you consider that these negotiations are happening between the company that is organizing the project and 30+ Japanese publishers, you can imagine there will be plenty of chaos.
All of the major companies (Shueisha, Shogakukan, Kodansha, etc.) will be using their licensed English editions organized through Viz, Tokyopop, Del Rey, Dark Horse, and so on. The smaller companies will likely have a choice of options for translations, including some truly cut-rate sources on the cheap end, so I'm afraid there will be the possibility of some really piss-poor work out there. I realize that bone-chillingly terrible translations never stopped people from reading scanlations before, but when you're talking about charging money for it…let's just say the future of this endeavor is tenuous at best.
At any rate, it's an interesting gamble, and whether it succeeds or not, it's a monumental step toward a future equilibrium when it comes to the comics market.
I think I'll stick to Mangastream to read the newest chapter for free because I buy the volumes when they come out in my country. I know this sounds kinda dickish, but if I pay money for manga, I want the physical copy on my shelf, not some scanlation on the internet. And I don't want to pay twice.
It's not like I don't support the manga industry, I really buy the volumes when they come out in my country.
This probably won't work for countries outside of the States anyway.
This could work if they went the way that Marvel has: one low fee, a ton of content. But if they make you pay per chapter, it could end up a disaster waiting to happen. but it could be a nice option if…well, it works.
Personally I sort of hope they got a lot of older series out in this way (sort of like the stuff I TL) but as I said: we'll see.
I don't know whether a pay service will work in this case considering that people can just read online scanlations at other sites for free. If they charged for downloading content to your Smartphone or iPad, that would be more understandable.
So you think this site will offer us the newest chapters?
Here's hoping. I've been waiting for this for a while! :D (even if I have to pay a little)
They should offer the latest chapters in addition to previous volumes so both newcomers and oldcomers will have something to satisfy themselves with.
@Kaba:
They should offer the latest chapters in addition to previous volumes so both newcomers and oldcomers will have something to satisfy themselves with.
So we're just hoping that's what it is, but we really have no indication whatsoever that it actually will be?
I'm afraid all it will be is old manga chapters, but it's a step forward either way.
Hopefully jManga doesn't die out before it's commercial release like another planned manga portal I know… >.>
Anyways, I'd gladly pay a monthly premium for FULL access--note FULL– in the same way Crunchyroll does anime.
I say what they should do is make finished series free and on going series free up to the current 10 chapters and after a week, let one of those chapters become free that way there will always be 10 chapters ahead.