I ended up just buying a batch of stuff from RightStuff.
.... Why? Like... Supporting comics... Supporting LEGAL and actual comics, giving the creators their due... It's good! It's the ideal way alll of us should approach Jump, whether through Viz (or Dark Horse for a couple of SQ titles) or Shueisha themselves.
I don't think he meant that's bad to support author, it's just bad to support Viz because they're half-assed. Viz is in manga industry something like EA in game industry. They don't really bother with customers opinion that much unless it's not from Jump so SJ have it pretty good but they're so many other Shuiesha/Shogakukan mangas that are left and the bad thing is that there is a big bunch of mangas that would be pretty popular but they don't care about it. I shouldn't be the one who is bothered by it (cause I'm from other country) but they should publish more mangas not only from Jump.
Do you have any problem with VIZ itself or you don't want to support the industry?
You have to demand this not only of VIZ, but the other publishers as well. You have to separate what will be "popular" with you and what will be popular with the rest of the people. They are a publisher, which has profit as objective, they will bring what they think that will bring profit.
What are you talking about they do publish more from not jump like picking up deadman wonderland, evangelion, gangsta and just this week that master keaton manga with 18 colour pages per vol. They do more than jump stufg on a regular basis.
I know this so I'm not talking about series that are not known by manga community. Viz have a monopole for Shuiesha and Shogakukan series, so for example I would go with The World God Only Knows which is really popular abroad in USA too but with each volume more it's chances to getting an English release. Kenichi, Gin no Saji, Mix, I am Hero, Ao Haru Ride, Gokukoku no Brynhildr, Tokyo Ghoul (this three have a chance of release with anime coming, We'll see), Kingdom (if I'm correct it's not released) and a couple of manga that ended would be pretty popular for sure (not sure how). They just neglect a big bunch of good manga, it's not like they don't do anything Master Keaton will be released Ore Monogatari and Terra Formars too. I'm sure all of this manga would be published by this time but they can't take them because Viz have a copyrights to them.
That is not a really impressive numbers compared to only Shonen Jump. Like I said it's not like they don't do anything but they neglect non Shounen Jump titles.
With Jump being they're flagship it's reasonable for them to do mostly Jump series I didn't said that it's bad. It's business but I need to defend my Viz and EA comparison. The comparison is for the amount of how each of community treat EA and Viz, they just don't like both. Game industry is much bigger and income is also a lot bigger but every company that stands on the top will always treat their customers worse after they get there. They have their big products that there's no way would not sell less because of something (until a really BIG problem) so with being on top they don't care that much for public relations like small companies. And so Viz is doing it, I also never said that they aren't managed bad because it's opposite, they're politics in clean income meaning are good, but why a normal customer like me or you need to think about it? Every one of us have a better or worse experience with each company and I'm sure that we all have a better experience with small companies because they treat you "specially". Sometimes company need to do thing that will make them loss a bit money but they'll get a trust from customers.
Ill fully forgive them for not making DRUMP! into a full services if that becomes a full fledged series in WSJ later in 2014 or even 2015. It oozes the potential of being one of the best manga in the magazine in years.New preview page for upcoming Jump Next:
We know those series because MH gathers a somewhat hardcore fans of manga, but, I think, it is not the majority of VIZ's public. If I ask some friends of mine if they want those series here (Brazil and US), they will say "What is it?". Risk sometimes is healthy for a company, but they release everything we think is good is a little harsh. Manga market is growing (thanks god), but it is that big to risk that much. I don't like to put all the responsability upon VIZ. We know that VIZ has preference regarding Shueisha and Shogakugan titles, but there is chance for other publishers as well. The publishers, as a whole, is doing as good as possible job.
Anime for that isnt exactly lighting the hearts of american anime fans on fire and Id think viz would be going more for a series that could be the next FMA instead of a farming slice of life sim. Other better options in shonen sunday and even jump comics itself.
This.
World Trigger has some VERY light similarities to World Trigger. But there is no way in hell it will become the next FMA popularity wise.