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Comment on Square Enix partners with AI manga translation company to automate typesetting process which takes “3,000 of hours of manual work a year” by Jd

Jd — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:24:20 +0000

Not paying humans to do the work. Don’t receive my human wage for your product

Comment on Dandadan’s “copyright infringement” controversy should be a wake-up call for the Japanese manga industry, says famous lawyer. “Manga should be made under global standards” by StrayStar

StrayStar — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:38:18 +0000

Idiots, video games, anime, manga, novel series, etc ARE popular in the rest of the world! And has been for over 20 years!! Japan STILL pretends we don’t exist! We don’t want or need whatever trash “gL0BaL sTaNdArDs” will be! Acknowledge us, pull your heads out of the ground and stop hoarding every damn thing! The only thing they need to do to “Cater” to the rest of the world is make their entertainment and merchandise available! As in send it to other countries! There’s soo many things that I’d love to buy but are or were Japanese Exclusive Only. Meaning if you don’t live in Japan you can’t buy it. Example: The physical pre order $100 edition of Monster Hunter Wilds came with an adorable baby seikret plush. The Poké Center…They know how popular they are world wide. But they constantly release plushies that are Japan only. The eevee backpack from the game Scarlet & Violet. There’s no way they genuinely believe no one outside of Japan DOESN’T WANT THAT. I could on for literal years. Meanwhile in the US we, for the most part get bland, generic, merchandise. Most times we get the leftovers that didn’t sell well in Japan! And they’re like Ah, well..maybe forginers will like it? And we buy it, cause if we don’t; there won’t be anything else!
They know English as a second language start with that! I would love in house translation! Remove the region locks I know you have on any streaming sites and let us pay for subscriptions too!

Comment on “Making it technically work and making it actually enjoyable as a game are different things.” Japanese devs weigh in on why retrofitting live-service games with offline support is harder than gamers think by SlyAceZeta

SlyAceZeta — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:35:31 +0000

“it’s often not a viable choice for developers in terms of the additional work and cost involved”

So don’t make the online-only game in the first place. Simple as that. Every game like this should have to account for the eventual server shutdown as part of its planning, development, and budgeting. Sure, sure, easy for me to say, but all of these games completely disappearing and all of our save data being taken away or deleted is a huge problem that multiple groups are aiming to tackle now. Stop Killing Games didn’t spring up from a fringe belief.

Comment on Japan’s foreign affairs minister criticizes White House over unauthorized use of Nintendo gameplay footage in Iran war campaign video on X by Imad

Imad — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:33:45 +0000

good, fuck Trump and fuck the Epstein-Netanyahu War

Comment on “Making it technically work and making it actually enjoyable as a game are different things.” Japanese devs weigh in on why retrofitting live-service games with offline support is harder than gamers think by Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:03:37 +0000

I do not think it matters either way so as long as it’s optional if people are allowed to host the server of a live service itself and it becomes a thing to allow that to happen when the service is shut down.

Also saying things are difficult without having such options built from the start is basically making excuses. It’s the whole reason why Stop Killing Games is helping enacting laws in the first place in the EU and US.

Comment on A prefecture in Japan will offer single people money to use matchmaking apps by Tethys84

Tethys84 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:47:10 +0000

Well. That’s kind of them to go that route. Where I live when the birth rate falls enough they will try to fix the problem by taxing child-free people to death unless they give in and have children, or even take voting rights away from child-free people, as prominent figures on the far-right have proposed

Comment on Square Enix partners with AI manga translation company to automate typesetting process which takes “3,000 of hours of manual work a year” by Locke

Locke — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:00:06 +0000

They make it sound like a lot but that’s less than 2 full-time jobs per year…

Comment on Japanese man gets prison sentence and million-yen fine for writing monetized “spoiler-heavy” summaries of movies and anime by Corey

Corey — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:59:11 +0000

You cant argue that a summary is copyright. That is just ridiculously greedy of Kadokawa and Toho. It is unheard of anywhere but japan having a winning case against a fan making harmless reviews or summaries. These greedy corporations should get a grip with reality. Imagine actually going after some poor guy for telling you the plot of Spongebob episodes online. The antics they get up to is more realistic than crying about people reading a spoiler or summary account, that is breaking the good faith laws. Oh no! Come get this man he’s making money talking about the Wiggles kids show! You get my point. Fill in whatever show you want. This garbage still smells.

Comment on Toho announces shift to “anime mass production phase” amidst increasing demand. Aiming to reach quota of 30 seasons per year by 2032 by Mercury™

Mercury™ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:53:37 +0000

It should always be quality over quantity. They can do the route of different quality teams, but they still have to compete for people’s time. Gotta be worth it.

Comment on Toho announces shift to “anime mass production phase” amidst increasing demand. Aiming to reach quota of 30 seasons per year by 2032 by Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:09:05 +0000

Quality > Quantity but sadly the Anime Industry has to keep learning it the hardway. Jevons Paradox strikes again.

Comment on Disgaea series creator and former NIS CEO lets game companies hire him as a “shared producer” for the cost of a new graduate’s salary by Michael

Michael — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:53:46 +0000

Now if only Square hired this man. A FF crossover could get pretty crazy. specifically dissidia, bro cannot miss. if they did 1v1 content again with the help of team ninja, we could have a DOA,Disgaea and FF crossover batttler. hype right?

Comment on Level-5 CEO says the Inazuma Eleven JRPG series is successful because it never tried to look “cool” to adults by Rose

Rose — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:43:02 +0000

Inazuma eleven is the only football game series I love and it infinitely cool to me and has always though I admit I started playing when I was sixteen

Comment on Metal Slug devs’ modern revival of forgotten monster-taming RPG Navinosuke will add togglable quest and objective markers to the game. “If we don’t add them, people will get angry” by Suppabraw

Suppabraw — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:19:52 +0000

At least it’s toggable

Comment on Toho announces shift to “anime mass production phase” amidst increasing demand. Aiming to reach quota of 30 seasons per year by 2032 by Cali

Cali — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:30:16 +0000

In reply to Ko. Fr fr 10O percent agree with you. I don't care for this anime either. There are better ones IMO.

Comment on Level-5 CEO says the Inazuma Eleven JRPG series is successful because it never tried to look “cool” to adults by Stephen Peter

Stephen Peter — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:05:30 +0000

This attitude has been the downfall of many who have found some measure of success in the creative industry. While it certainly is true that chasing trends and appealing to the masses may only give you short term success and setting yourself apart is important, looking down on other peoples style and thinking YOU have it figured out is a good way to close your mind off to innovation and end up on the same rut you see others in. There’s nothing wrong with making games that are visually more appealing to adults, though I also think most healthy adults just like what they like and don’t care if something looks edgy, cute, realistic, etc because what other people think doesn’t matter. Especially when enjoying entertainment in the comfort of your own home. I don’t think that’s something nessisarly unique to children. As a matter of fact I think that enjoying that kind of unrealistic, silly, or nerdy entertainment is way more accepted now than when I was a kid. Again I don’t think you need to pick a “team” just make what feels good to you and your passion will show through.

Comment on Animation studio behind Umamusume: Pretty Derby and Sentenced to Be a Hero anime announces insolvency amidst $3.54 million deficit by Roggilo

Roggilo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:45:48 +0000

In reply to Lorenzo. And Jojo fans are throwing a hissy fit at Netflix for it. Don't get me wrong, Netflix is still a bad company but Good God! This is a whole nother level of batshittery from Jojo fans, they're literally tried to curse the CEO/company with graphic images of Johnny Jostar! Some even targeting David Productions. It's like they cant comprehend that animation takes a long time and that there's a current crisis in the industry rn. It's so embarrassing!

Comment on Toho announces shift to “anime mass production phase” amidst increasing demand. Aiming to reach quota of 30 seasons per year by 2032 by Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:12:40 +0000

In reply to Ko. Yeah. But I have seen a lot of good anime series too. I would love to own Zenshu (it's a guilty pleasure) it's a good show but it suffers from not having enough time for world building, growth in romantic relationships it suffers from like the 12 episode thing. There's only 12 or 13 episodes so there's many problems due to it being that short. They need to make the anime in a longer series 25 to 100 episodes maybe more.

Comment on Japanese crowdfunding platform that allegedly ran off with more than half of Jiro Ishii’s $340k game budget suddenly becomes inaccessible (Updated) by Repent

Repent — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:59:51 +0000

Should have just used kickstarter or any of the mainstream ones instead of getting the ick for anything that wasn’t explcitly made for the Japanese.

Comment on Japanese indie adult game developer says local bank blocked their overseas revenue transfers despite legal compliance, citing undisclosed “risks” by Valaska

Valaska — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:04:53 +0000

Well this is just heartbreaking, an artist making legal content, not even contentious content… bringing joy to so many while fighting cancer at the same time? Resona should be getting more public backlash for this to be frank. They should be getting a campaign of phone calls and mailed complaints, if there was any justice in this world, until they apologise and return to working with Ren_Circle.

Comment on Level-5 CEO says the Inazuma Eleven JRPG series is successful because it never tried to look “cool” to adults by KRKRYKM

KRKRYKM — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:58:35 +0000

And weirdly enough, that’s exactly why it appeals to so many people

Comment on Misleading “Hytale: Sandbox RPG” copycat game launches on Nintendo store, original developers taking legal measures by Stelio

Stelio — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:57:44 +0000

In reply to Kgb. Hytale looks more like Minecraft than hytale sandbox rpg looks like hytale

Comment on Toho announces shift to “anime mass production phase” amidst increasing demand. Aiming to reach quota of 30 seasons per year by 2032 by dum dum

dum dum — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:12:03 +0000

In reply to Ko.

Everything ends up inevitably as slop eventually nowadays, I guess…

On one hand I hope them expanding to “anime mass scale production” whatev means they will open more jobs for aspiring junior animators and such, but otoh… we know how capitalism actually works and they def wouldn’t give jackshit about workers and such, and this mass scale production only means animators worked beyond death for more ¥¥¥ for the filthy greedy anime production committees, which is Toho is one of those demona

Comment on Level-5 CEO says the Inazuma Eleven JRPG series is successful because it never tried to look “cool” to adults by Goat

Goat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:03:46 +0000

Wow! Maybe more jrpgs should try to appeal toward a younger crowd by having more school-age children in them! I almost never see them in jrpgs anymore!

Comment on Misleading “Hytale: Sandbox RPG” copycat game launches on Nintendo store, original developers taking legal measures by HypnoticLya

HypnoticLya — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:51:31 +0000

It’s ironic that Nintendo sat there and went through the approval process for this knock-off, and still “didn’t” see the copyright issues? I usually hate on copyright law, but this is absurd when it’s coming from the childish, insecure, and downright lazy group that sues everyone under the Sun when someone’s ripping them off.

Nintendo should never be allowed to sue for copyright, a decade minimum.

Comment on Misleading “Hytale: Sandbox RPG” copycat game launches on Nintendo store, original developers taking legal measures by NoopyNolife

NoopyNolife — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:17:56 +0000

In reply to Kgb. What? Hytale has absolutely nothing to do with Hyrule? Its a game by the team behind the Hypixel minecraft server.

Comment on Toho announces shift to “anime mass production phase” amidst increasing demand. Aiming to reach quota of 30 seasons per year by 2032 by Ko

Ko — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:11:50 +0000

I… dont like this tbh. I already feel like modern anime is way less creative and much more mass manufactured and this is just the nail in the coffin, gonna coin the term animeslop now lol

Comment on Misleading “Hytale: Sandbox RPG” copycat game launches on Nintendo store, original developers taking legal measures by Conner

Conner — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:13:20 +0000

In reply to Kgb. Not the same thing.

Comment on Animation studio behind Umamusume: Pretty Derby and Sentenced to Be a Hero anime announces insolvency amidst $3.54 million deficit by TIV 2

TIV 2 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:50:00 +0000

Damn it

Comment on Animation studio behind Umamusume: Pretty Derby and Sentenced to Be a Hero anime announces insolvency amidst $3.54 million deficit by Aung Kyaw Zin

Aung Kyaw Zin — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:12:14 +0000

It’s hard to say what cause the insolvency, a year in net loss should not happen. They must have cash flow problem and difficult to pay back the liabilities. Since Sentenced to be a hero new season was already announced I think restructuring is in effect.

Comment on Animation studio behind Umamusume: Pretty Derby and Sentenced to Be a Hero anime announces insolvency amidst $3.54 million deficit by bruv

bruv — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:04:27 +0000

In reply to Bakybakebake. Hence why they said we need a way to directly support creators rather than putting it through Crunchyroll's enshittification.