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AllstarSniper32 posted...

I don't have numbers, but I bet more people wouldn't read the manga simply because they don't need to since there's an anime of it and they can just watch it anyways. That would happen even more if an anime actually followed a manga faithfully and didn't deviate from the story that the manga tells, which is something anime does far too often.

I find that kinda unlikely, but who knows.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

I'm sure there's more than enough people that watch anime not from sites that the mangaka gets money from.

But do you think that the piracy rate is higher among anime or manga?

AllstarSniper32 posted...

Dunno, but I feel that if the process was fair in that department then anime would be more likely to get the rights to make anime from manga. I mean, for all I know, they give the mangaka like a couple thousand bucks (however much yen that is) then get all the profits from whatever the anime makes.

I kinda wonder how profitable a lot of anime is at all considering the expense and that a lot of the series don't really get that huge. Regardless, though, the mangaka likely picks up royalties on merch so any added exposure opens up that revenue stream as well.

Plus, keep in mind that getting an anime helps a mangaka's overall exposure (potentially attracting readers to their other works) and lends them additional credibility when trying to do other things. Unless the anime is completely awful, it seems like there are countless advantages to having one otherwise mangaka likely wouldn't agree to it in the first place. And, if the anime comes after the manga concludes, the largest sales period has kinda concluded.

And don't you also have the issue of magazines? If a mangaka's work is appearing in a magazine first, wouldn't that do more to discourage people from buying manga volumes than an anime? After all, readers already have the manga in one form. Plus magazines likely pay less than individual volumes. (Although, again, it also helps the mangaka build an audience and increases their exposure.)
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