/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6610055
Nothing crazy yet, just some stuff going up on mangaplus proper right now (pic isn't the only example). Beyond that, it's hard to say, since the platform is still young (it launched in... august? october? of 2022, so it's barely half-a-year old) and even if they're contacting creators none of that is going to be public until something actually comes of it. I (or rather, my boss) was contacted and we (my boss and I) even had a google meet with a couple of representatives but it was pretty much just for feedback on the platform itself. Time will tell, and I suspect it really depends on the caliber of comic that gets uploaded there. It's not a case of "we'll just pick the best of what gets uploaded", because if even the best still isn't good enough then that's no good. They're presumably hoping to find creators who they can just straight up publish in a magazine and actually fit rather than people who are just "getting there".
However, the standards are pretty high and such people are going to be a diamond in the rough, since the lack of any real infrastructure for reaching that level outside of east asia means that there's no way to get there without dedicating decades of your life to it for free... a very difficult ask for an industry without the fame, glory and wealth guaranteed for those who do succeed, like in east asia.