Acquisitions Speculation - General
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@_08 Well, that kind of sucks. I honestly think though it will be on this website, but it's kind of weird if Sam wouldn't separate it. Also, how will the membership for Manga works. Will Light Novel Premium Members have access to Manga? Can we use our tokens on Manga instead? I am really curious to get more details on this.
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@fezu Even though they say manga, won't it be only light novel adaptations in the end?
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@non8 That could be twist on it, yeah. We'll see.
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I'm never gonna get the series I want. Might as well quit this hobby.
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Yes!! Im at work but checked out forums to see what was licensed and I am so happy. We can get LNS we dreamed of now!
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Oh man, so much to read and no time at all... I was right to not start For My Daughter Vol.6 yet lol
Of the new 8 LNs announced today I am interested in 5-6 of them at least.
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Access to Hayakawa Publishing means Crest of the Stars is possible...
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Are we not supposed to talk about Manga Club like we don't talk about Fight Club?
I did see it was in the announcements page when I checked (so two of the slots were specialty announcements it seems).
@village-idiot said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
Access to Hayakawa Publishing means Crest of the Stars is possible...
Ooh, make a thread about it. I'll upvote almost anything labeled space opera.
I think I'll throw my money at Hayakawa, Kadokawa, and Earthstar series since I want more from those pubs.
Having Kadokawa in the fold makes me want to make a thread for the Gargantia sequel too. Maybe I'll do that.
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@terrence Want Gargantia sequel so bad!
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@terrence said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
So, A license "rescue", huh? I wonder which one...
Rescue in quotation marks... Curious.
Edit: I think this may not be a license rescue on Sam's part, but on a Japanese publisher's part. Someone hinted at one of the licenses being
This was indeed the case, right? Orphen was the license "rescue", "saved" by switching publishers in Japan?
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The order of announcements directly lines up with the hints. Seigensou license was "rescued" from coughcough certain parties, the print copies were highly requested, etc.
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@terrence If you look at the "rescue" being in quotation marks, Seigensou starts the story with the main character rescuing a girl... so it can be taken in the non-literal sense.
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@cherrychez I meant it as a double meaning with that girl rescue and "rescuing" it from the clutches of the WN fan "translator".
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@sam-pinansky very clever :)
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@sam-pinansky Any chance for a better AX panel recording uploaded somewhere or we're stuck with periscope?
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@_08 The periscope recording is perfectly fine for me I think.
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@sam-pinansky I think it's more or less bottle-necked at whatever the phone was sending to servers (and maybe with no re-encoding on servers, hence bad quality for bit-rate). It's definitely better than nothing and it's not exactly unwatchable/unreadable, but I wouldn't call it "perfectly fine" in 2018, especially if you rate it by non-live recording standards.
If you don't have a separate recording that's fine.
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Honestly, while it's not "perfectly fine" in 2018, it was better than the VIZ panel's livestream at least. And we don't even know if any other publishers are going to be live streaming. I wish AX would set up live-streaming rooms for all the panel rooms like some other conventions. -
There are two problems with that:
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It's crazy expensive. You have no idea how ridiculous the costs for fixed broadband are in venues. They price bandwidth like it's 20 years ago, and charge a few hundred dollars just for the right to plug in the Ethernet cable (not including any bandwidth with that). Our convention uses LTE wherever possible because it's actually cheaper to pay a mobile provider per gigabyte than it is to pay the venue for Internet service. The venue themselves don't really care because they (like most venues) outsourced that sort of IT service. This doesn't even take into account all the gear they'd need for reliable and professional live streaming. An event like AX doesn't own any of their own hardware, so they'd either need to get the gear from their AV supplier (meaning professional gear) or they'd need to hire a company that specializes in streaming that might have access to more consumer-focused gear (to avoid the need for all the equipment required to get an HD-SDI camera onto YouTube). Also, there would be labour charges for the setup/teardown. Even conventions that have their own tech staff don't usually handle the physical setup/teardown of rented gear.
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Unless you're at an attendance cap, free live streams of panels or other events reduces the incentive for people to actually attend your convention, which is bad. Even if you charge for access to livestreams, you'd have to charge less money than the cost of a badge, and you lose out on all the benefits of having an attendee physically on-site (improving sales of dealers, for example).
AX has an attendance cap and is big enough that they're going to more or less hit that cap no matter what, so they can get away with some live streaming. At the same time, because they don't charge for their live streams, they can't really justify the expense of doing it in all their rooms.
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