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♥ Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 12:56 AM

`Toboso Yana Sensei's view on online, illegal streaming

I must admit, I was very surprised to see it on her blog. I always thought her blog was cheery (well, the contents are....I mean with Sebastian and Ciel, what isn't?!)

I agree on her point, it is a serious problem. Sure, there's the old age argument that if I watch it online, I make the series more popular by promoting it and joining the long stream of fans already head over heels in love with it.
The truth is, mangaka draw manga for passion and income too right?

Even if Sensei calls us thief, I guess we are. We are watching her anime online without paying her. It's just like a kid sneaking into a cinema without paying and watching a N15+ movie. Then telling the cinema operators :" Hey! I watched XXX film for free by sneaking in!"
It's illegal and wrong. Even if the kid was to say:" But I can't buy the tickets! They won't let me!"
It is still wrong.
If you are the operator, how would you feel? People sneaking into your cinema and watching for free? It's not about money now but more of the indignant feeling that you are being ripped off.

True, you may accuse me of saying all these because I live so close to Japan and sometimes even staying there for a while but that does not mean that I am any different from people in regions further away. There is something called internet shopping, which I do for some mangaka who's books might be sold out in my country due to it being less popular. Even though now, I am paying for shipping fee + tax + the original manga
Surely, buying 1 or 2 books off the internet to just support them isn't too hard? No excuse for not having access to the internet if you are reading this now.

In addition, the cost of living in Japan is really high and all the sales count would go to the royalties paid to Toboso Sensei. She has worked hard and she deserves it.

Starving is not exagerrating, isn't it just like when you said :" GOD! I failed that test I'm going to DIE~~" or "My mother's going to KILL ME!!!!"
She had used a really formal and polite tone and she probably just wants to highlight the severity of the situation. Decades, for decades illegal downloading is going on and isn't it time fans realise the impact of their actions?

Imagine if Volume 10 of the manga comes out and only one person buys and uploads it online which everyone reads from there and no other person buys, what do you think is going to happen? The effect is really spiralling.

Fans do scanlations and uploading to share it with other fans hoping that they will buy too and support the mangaka, thats why I can't stress enough on how I hope that fans can buy the real thing but read scanlations to understand the context if they don't know. Doesn't it make scanlations and subs video less "illegal??"

I am really disappointed in the people would are chiding Sensei for just wanting to protect her work.

Sensei, nevermind those mindless comments, you really aren't in the wrong unlike what they claimed, you have the right to be angry and as a fan of yours, I full-heartedly support you! Hang in there!

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I think the problem is that some fans want it now. They have instant gratification issues.

I also don't think they have an appreciation for someone's hard work.

I posted my thoughts about this. You can read it at:
http://www.mangatherapy.com/post/999357509/yana-toboso-society

By Manga Therapy, at Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 5:32:00 AM GMT+9

I've read your post (on top of wandering around your site =P ) and agree with you on this

Partly due to us fans wanting the manga scans instantly and also because some of us do not want to pay for it.

I understand if one does not buy all the volumes but at least contribute to her work. Technically it's her work, she worked hard at it. True, to be a great mangaka, one needs skills, talents and fanbase. However, it really is unpardonable to say that if not for the fans, she would not even be drawing manga now.

I don't deny the convenience of online scans/video, it does keeps fans updated to the current manga/anime. This is globalisation and we can't defy this. However, is reading scans yet not contributing to the mangaka's royalties really justified by saying you are supporting them "from the heart"?

A mangaka's job is to draw manga, it is an occupation which is to earn living fees.

By Liesel, at Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 2:31:00 PM GMT+9

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`Toboso Yana Sensei's view on online, illegal streaming

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THE HANGED MAN

< font size=20 >Basic Card Symbols
A man hanging by one foot from a Tau cross - sometimes from a bar or tree. His free leg is always bent to form a "4," his face is always peaceful, never suffering. Sometimes his hands are bound, sometimes they dangle. Sometimes coins fall out of his pockets or hands.

Basic Tarot Story The Fool settles beneath a tree, intent on finding his spiritual self. There he stays for nine days, without eating, barely moving. People pass by him, animals, clouds, the wind, the rain, the stars, sun and moon. On the ninth day, with no conscious thought of why, he climbs a branch and dangles upside down like a child, giving up for a moment, all that he is, wants, knows or cares about. Coins fall from his pockets and as he gazes down on them - seeing them not as money but only as round bits of metal - everything suddenly changes perspective. It is as if he's hanging between the mundane world and the spiritual world, able to see both. It is a dazzling moment, dreamlike yet crystal clear. Connections he never understood before are made, mysteries are revealed. But timeless as this moment of clarity seems, he realizes that it will not last. Very soon, he must right himself, and when he does, things will be different. He will have to act on what he's learned. For now, however, he just hangs, weightless as if underwater, observing, absorbing, seeing.

Basic Tarot Meaning With Neptune (or Water) as its planet, the Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes. The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. This is a time of trial or meditation, selflessness, sacrifice, prophecy. The Querent stops resisting; instead he makes himself vulnerable, sacrifices his position or opposition, and in doing so, gains illumination. Answers that eluded him become clear, solutions to problems are found. He sees the world differently, has almost mystical insights. This card can also imply a time when everything just stands still, a time of rest and reflection before moving on. Things will continue on in a moment, but for now, they float, timeless. Thirteen's Observations Neptune is spirituality, dreams, psychic abilities, and the Hanged Man is afloat in these. He is also 12, the opposite of the World card, 21. With the World card you go infinitely out. With the Hanged Man, you go infinitely in. This card signifies a time of insight so deep that, for a moment, nothing but that insight exists. All Tarot readers have such moments when we see, with absolute clarity, the whole picture, the entire message offered by a spread. The Hanged Man symbolizes such moments of suspension between physical and mystical worlds. Such moments don't last, and they usually require some kind of sacrifice. Sacrifice of a belief or perspective, a wish, dream, hope, money, time or even selfhood. In order to gain, you must give. Sometimes you need to sacrifice cherished positions, open yourself to other truths, other perspectives in order to find solutions, in order to bring about change. One thing is certain, whether the insight is great or small, spiritual or mundane, once you have been the Hanged Man you never see things quite the same.
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