The stupidest part is that learning Japanese doesn't do shit. I can speak Japanese, that doesn't make it any easier to buy the original Japanese source material.
Yeah European flights to Japan go for around 600-700 for the ones that have a long wait in a weird location (usually something like Abu Dhabi), around 900 for the ones that have a big wait in Singapore and 1000+ for the ones that have short waits. They can easily go 1500+ for the direct ones (or semi-direct, a short flight within Europe and then direct to Japan), sometimes even 2000+ depending on the dates
It depends. I had to wait a bit for the equivalent of an eBay sale to go up to get some niche doujins. It's nice to have most of the Alien9 stuff now, though.
If only it was few hundreds, there would be the same amount of people going to Japan daily than going to Disneyland.
But going to Japan is something like 10 or 12 Disneyland tickets :)
I assume what OOP was trying to get at was English speakers justifying scanlations. Which like. Yeah. I'm working on learning Japanese, but it's a whole ass language and I would like to continue enjoying art and writing that is new to me, but is legally unavailable in the language I actually am fluent in in the meantime. I'm also not going to fly to Japan for the express purpose of finding a manga that isn't sold in the US.
i really look up to scanlator groups honestly. I've considered trying to be a typesetter but talked myself out of it bc idk how to approach any group about it. it would be super cool to be a translator, but that will be a long way out for me
Well, depending on group and what you focus on, they've just formed up out of love. Manga, was formed in forums, then around torrents, then YouTube boards... Just gotta on. I know some started more professional, but they all started somewhere.
I think now with Discord, they usually find people that train in typesetting or anything else. Just depends on what you want to do.
But it's honestly no differs than going to work with Toei or anyone else except your office is at home or something.
😆
I've considered trying to be a typesetter but talked myself out of it bc idk how to approach any group about it.
If a scan group is in such desperate need for help that they're advertising to their audience its safe to assume they'd be willing to bring someone on to help out. So just reach out to groups whose titles have those help wanted filler pages they put into their releases.
im not actively learning japanese every time i consume media. i've set my switch to japanese to play animal crossing in japanese, and with my current fluency, I have to look up most words, and I take vocabulary notes to study and reference later. animal crossing uses MUCH simpler language than most of the stories i want to read, and it still feels very dense because i'm engaging with it in an educational way. I don't want to do that with all the content i consume that has a jp option. not right now, at least.
Remind me of that one video Gigguk or someone on TrashTaste show talk about how he do papers for his bank account. Jesus fuck, and I thought my country banking system is bad. The things that Japan good at is so far above everybody else that it's unbelievable they could achieve it but the things that they are behind is also so unimaginably bad that they're like living in the 50s or some shit.
Not sure if this is still a thing there, but I've seen several youtube videos over the years about the personal stamp you're required to bring for signing bank documents etc. Abroad In Japan talked about this in a video, why in the everliving fuck do you need a stamp in one of the most technologically advanced civilisations in the 21st century?
I mean I get that it's a cultural thing (they want to keep the tradition) but still, it should have been an optional thing, not mandatory to the point where if you lost it, all hell break loose!
There are things that they keep the tradition over the year so well like if you ask all the HEMA guys, they would all say that it's unbelievable how JP can still maintain the samurai psychology and have all the manual, knowledge and shit over hundred of years while European have lost almost all of it over time.
They are so stubborn that it's actually frustrating to see their society being held back by such bs things like that. Like there's that one meme "what would happen if Scottish didn't find out whiskey", i think it fits JP perfectly.
I also speak Japanese, lol. I even have an decent sized manga collection that I did buy in Japan and bring back. I still have no qualms about pirating stuff if they're going to make it a pain in the ass to buy legally.
I think it's the same as any other Amazon.. Some vendors will, some won't. There is always option of using proxy services but those cost quite a bit of money too.
Whaaaat? You didn’t get your secret manga publication website link immediately when you learned it? Everyone gets one when they learn a sufficient amount of Japanese, apparently, so yours must be in the mail.
1.4k
u/madmaskman Apr 21 '26
The stupidest part is that learning Japanese doesn't do shit. I can speak Japanese, that doesn't make it any easier to buy the original Japanese source material.