BasouKazuma

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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   You got it right! Since each user is paying less per chapter read, you need more subscribers on the service to surpass the revenue that would have been received with a-la-carte only. And there is a huge opportunity to get more subscribers p
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   We've kept age filtering in mind even before we launched but haven't been able to prioritize it yet even though we agree and want to support it. But we hadn't thought of allowing a guardian to select the things a kid can read
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   Thanks for the report! We'll get that fixed up.
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   For all the titles we have right now, they are available worldwide except within Japan itself so you don't need to worry about restrictions. We plan to keep it that way but are uncertain if Japanese publishers will start restricting th
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   Some of it is fear of cannibalizing the traditional print and ebook business, uncertainty of newer strategies, and desire to retain control of their properties.
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   Which platform are you using? It should already be preloading a few images in advance but maybe we can do a better job on this on a particular platform.
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   We choose new titles by talking with our publishers to figure out what they have English streaming rights to and what we think fits well in our catalog. Premium users can send us a message on social media or via our support portal to reques
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   Yep, we've got deals with six English-language publishers. The conversations have generally been pretty smooth. Most of the publishers we work with are excited to get their series in front of a larger audience through a streaming servi
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   by BasouKazuma 4y ago

   Thanks for the constant feedback, Daiz, brutally honest as it always is ;) We're tracking all of the reader issues and feature requests like the ones you mentioned, but of course with a small team handling everything from development t
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    This is a really cool idea, thanks for suggesting it! We’ll look into what it takes to build a Tachiyomi plugin and if it can support the terms of our publisher contracts.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    It's on the feature roadmap!
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Both Crunchyroll and Azuki have Attack on Titan from Kodansha, but Orange is part of a different deal CR has. Sorry about the missing chapters on Grand Blue and some other series! That’s a licensing restriction on Kodansha’s end that we’re
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    No restrictions on account sharing, and adding profiles a la Netflix is something we can consider down the line. We’re happy to have more people using Azuki and talking about it with their friends :)
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Thanks! We’re also really proud of our partnership with smaller publishers like Kaiten Books, Star Fruit Books, and Glacier Bay Books. It’s been great sharing their titles with more fans. The simulpub model is definitely expensive to run at
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    All titles on our service are available worldwide outside of Japan and we support payments worldwide by Credit Card on the website and Apple/Google on our mobile apps.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    You may like "Blame!" (pronounced BLAM). It's not a similar story at all as it's more hard sci-fi action but may be up your alley. Let me know if you end up liking it. https://www.azuki.co/series/bla
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    That's exactly why I started Azuki! I just want to read as easily as I can watch anime without blind buying a bunch of stuff.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Thank you!
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Unfortunately publishers are not providing the the rights for content to be released in Japan through foreign services like Azuki. If we can make it work, we will.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    I'm openingly against Crunchyroll's low pay for translators and have posted publicly to that extent so I completely understand that.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! We'll take a look into the scroll issue and see if we can add an option to reverse the reading mode to left-to-right.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll look into them and maybe we can figure something out.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    We had some cleanup to do with our custom reader to support this but we cleared that hurdle and have full screen support on our roadmap!
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Whoa this is a great idea! One of our founders, Evan, is studying with WaniKani right now and he would love that. Thanks!
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    A lot of what chocolatkey said is accurate. Also hi chocolatkey! I really hope manga survives too and I’m happy to see folks like Comikey out there alongside us trying to push the industry forward. 1. Publishers are definitely interested in
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    This is a complex issue. Even with Crunchyroll, we were unable to stop all piracy or even get all anime translated since we can't force people to release their work overseas or on a subscription service. Scanlation and piracy will cont
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    RIP Comixology. I hope we can at least start alleviating your manga needs.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Currently we are a middleman service for other publishers but we are looking into in-house translation.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    Thanks for the feedback on the homepage and reader overlay UI. I can see what we can do about those. We are planning to add multi-select for the Genre filtering. Our backend supports it but haven't implemented the frontend portion yet.
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    by BasouKazuma 4y ago

    I'm a Berserk fan myself and got the brand tattooed on my neck so getting that would be awesome!