The internet just got a good deal less jolly, it's like there's only one colour of m&m's left in the bag.
This week Yukito Kishiro announced on
his blog that he had a dispute with his editors/publisher, that started with having to redraw a few pages for strong language, and escalated in the direction of getting orders to use a mac instead of a pc, and having to explain a lot of things about the manga (really stupid ones, ie: "Why does Ping look younger then M'badi?"), and then apparently having to redraw a lot of pages ... All of these under the flag of "protecting their business".
The result is that Yukito went on a strike.
That's right. Yukito stopped drawing, possibly permanent. A very sad day for manga-fans indeed.
On another side of the internet, sites that keep scanslations up have received take-down notices, and onemanga.com -where I read the latest scanslated manga fresh from Japan- announced it will stop hosting manga. It's not that they don't have the right to do that, it's that there's no alternative. Publishing firms around the world all follow their own policies, and good series stop being published, change format, or are simply impossible to get by (not to mention the slow release speed).
Until now I also bought all the series I read. Let's just say a lot of the motivation has gone.
