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ceruseeMichael Gombos, the Director of Licensing at Dark Horse, commenting at NY Anime Festival '08 on scanlations:
"Most scanlators do it becase of love -- they love the series. But there's a point where there are legal measure that you have to abide by."
"It's kind of disappointing when you watch a fansub and it's better than the official version. You can see how their heart is in their work. We want to put as much love into what we do as fans do with their scanlations."
How cool is that? The man makes his living selling comics and manga; he's got a right to be uncomfortable with things that potentially undermine that. But instead of succumbing to the sort of hysterical evangelism that alienates the buying audience, he puts it like this: we get why this happens, we respect the effort you muster for it, and your level of effort represents the bar we have to match to create a product worth buying.
There's a middle ground between tra-la-la-ing about free love and free comics, there are no clouds in the sky, or going to cons and telling fans that if you watch a fansub, it's like coming into a voice actor's home, reaching down the gullet of his infant child, and stealing half-digested food from her stomach, then smashing her piggy bank and kicking the actor in the face besides, you fucking commies, you.
But let's face it, Dark Horse has always kind of been kind of cool.
"Most scanlators do it becase of love -- they love the series. But there's a point where there are legal measure that you have to abide by."
"It's kind of disappointing when you watch a fansub and it's better than the official version. You can see how their heart is in their work. We want to put as much love into what we do as fans do with their scanlations."
How cool is that? The man makes his living selling comics and manga; he's got a right to be uncomfortable with things that potentially undermine that. But instead of succumbing to the sort of hysterical evangelism that alienates the buying audience, he puts it like this: we get why this happens, we respect the effort you muster for it, and your level of effort represents the bar we have to match to create a product worth buying.
There's a middle ground between tra-la-la-ing about free love and free comics, there are no clouds in the sky, or going to cons and telling fans that if you watch a fansub, it's like coming into a voice actor's home, reaching down the gullet of his infant child, and stealing half-digested food from her stomach, then smashing her piggy bank and kicking the actor in the face besides, you fucking commies, you.
But let's face it, Dark Horse has always kind of been kind of cool.
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on 2008-10-01 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-10-01 04:29 am (UTC)Carl Horn is the man responsible for the seventeen zillion pages of notes in the back of the volumes of Dark Horse's translation of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.
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on 2008-10-01 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-10-01 04:30 am (UTC)