Urotsukidouji Kickstarter launched

[john 'mr. customer' smith]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/largehotcoffee/fakku-x-toshio-maeda-legend-of-the-overfiend

It's official, ladies and gentlemen, Kickstarter now accepts tentacle porn.

Seriously though, I'm pretty interested in this one.

Thoughts?

[Asonn]

My thoughts: No

[john 'mr. customer' smith]

@Asonn How rude 

Because It's Kickstarter?

[Nosebleed]

This is basically the same as the Vanilla Essence Kickstarter.

If it's a book, even if it's an illustrated one, companies always get away with "it has a story so it's not just porn".

I will admit though, Maeda Toshio really has a lot more story in his hentai manga than the average, so it's not really that misleading of a campaign. But I have absolutely no interest in this manga series so...

But to think FAKKU would start a Kickstarter... I thought their business was doing well enough to license a book like this.

[john 'mr. customer' smith]

1 minute ago, Nosebleed said:

This is basically the same as the Vanilla Essence Kickstarter.

If it's a book, even if it's an illustrated one, companies always get away with "it has a story so it's not just porn".

I will admit though, Maeda Toshio really has a lot more story in his hentai manga than the average, so it's not really that misleading of a campaign. But I have absolutely no interest in this manga series so...

But to think FAKKU would start a Kickstarter... I thought their business was doing well enough to license a book like this.

From what I hear, there's a lot of remastering to be done.

[Nosebleed]

19 minutes ago, john 'mr. customer' smith said:

From what I hear, there's a lot of remastering to be done.

From their Kickstarter, they don't really explain what this "remastering" entails, so that's already a pretty big red flag.

From what I gathered on their campaign page, all they're doing is using the source material that was written by the hands of the author and then digitizing it. Which is perfectly fine by itself, but it shouldn't really be called "remastering", it's just being what book editors call "reedited". Remastering implies they're going to do stuff from scratch, but that does not appear to be the case at all. In fact, the term "remaster" isn't really a book-related term, it's used mostly in the audio medium when you make a new "master recording".

TL;DR They're scanning the original source material drawn by the hands of the author in order to make the highest quality possible new prints, but that's not what we call "remaster".

[Asonn]

1 hour ago, john 'mr. customer' smith said:

@Asonn How rude 

Because It's Kickstarter?

yes, kickstarter can go die, and the theme doesn't fit me all to well either. 

[john 'mr. customer' smith]

17 minutes ago, Nosebleed said:

From their Kickstarter, they don't really explain what this "remastering" entails, so that's already a pretty big red flag.

From what I gathered on their campaign page, all they're doing is using the source material that was written by the hands of the author and then digitizing it. Which is perfectly fine by itself, but it shouldn't really be called "remastering", it's just being what book editors call "reedited". Remastering implies they're going to do stuff from scratch, but that does not appear to be the case at all. In fact, the term "remaster" isn't really a book-related term, it's used mostly in the audio medium when you make a new "master recording".

TL;DR They're scanning the original source material drawn by the hands of the author in order to make the highest quality possible new prints, but that's not what we call "remaster".

Good points, but I'm not worried. they're still bringing out books their usual way as fast as they did at the start, if not faster.

This is just my impression, but this is just a very different kind of project for them. It's a multi-volume story, it's very old and they get to work much more closely with the artist, so there's a lot more opportunity for physical extras. and so, they just decided to use kickstarter. as for the campaign itself and their explanation for using kickstarter;

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FAKKU is a small publisher who has been releasing books for a little over two years. We chose Kickstarter so that these new projects don't impact our existing lineup of titles. We'll be starting with Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfiend and after we plan to work on La Blue Girl, Demon Beast Invasion, and Adventure Kid.

By using Kickstarter, we will be able to fund a new team to work exclusively on Toshio Maeda's manga. Under normal circumstances, these manga would be competing with our other priorities and would take additional resources to finance appropriately. If successful, this Kickstarter will alleviate that burden allowing us to get these books out as fast as possible.

Well, I'm not exactly a veteran like you, but it looks fine to me.

[Nosebleed]

I guess because these books are so unlike what they normally publish, they decided it'd be a safer bet to kickstart it and let people who are interested fund it instead of risking losing money by funding everything themselves, which I guess makes sense. I personally enjoy most of Fakku's lineup, but this is completely out of my league, for example.

[john 'mr. customer' smith]

4 minutes ago, Nosebleed said:

I personally enjoy most of Fakku's lineup, but this is completely out of my league, for example.

My point exactly

[XReaper]

pretty darn great that fakku decided on bringing all of maedas works over, incl. new material & everything uncensored. from what´s been mentioned in their forums alone urotsukidouji gains about xtra 40pages (if i recall correctly, no guaranties there).
& the campaign is neccessary for them to gather the funds needed to hire an entire team to start working on everything for years. personally i fukking love maedas works to death & already gave it my everything to help them making it a reality. also that poster is freaking god-tier, just saying