Nothing Ventured, Nothing Lost

[krpalmer]

Now, it turns out the Jmanga official online manga site is closing down, and those people who aren't lamenting how it was a chance to compensate creators for offbeat and niche-interest stuff (short of importing untranslated volumes, of course) are making knowing comments about the whole "you can only read your purchases while the site is still in operation" angle. I never quite got around to getting over that hurdle myself; I took note early on of how there were listings for Macross Frontier manga volumes on launch (and there still are as I write this), but the option to buy apparently never developed, and I also took note later on of promises that some of the titles cut short when Del Rey's manga arm was turned into Kodansha Comics would be made available, but again the titles I was particularly interested in didn't seem to be among them. That does sort of limit what I can say on the topic; I'm inclined to muse a bit on my "not quite getting into manga as much as some others have." Whether something giving more of a sense of possession can come along is a question, but there's also the troubling possibility of "taking their ball and going home."