/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Because the chinese have no morals when it comes to intellectual property and these are probably reprints being resold.

>>11567568
who would buy the books in english?

>>11567571
That was my first thought too, but it's from Taiwan and it has ISBN and everything. No way it's illegal.

>>11567575
whats the number. lets check

>>11567586
They're in Chinese wikipedia. WaHH 1 is 9789863176268, apparently.

there are no kanji in english

It isn't profitable.
You can't expect to make money selling Touhou manga in any of the Western countries. The people who would want to buy Touhou books probably already know Japanese and would rather buy Japanese volumes.

>>11567568
>I thought ZUN is reluctant to let other people's touch his writing
Yeah, as I recall ZUN said that he doesn't translate things because he just doesn't know the language and wants things to be in his own words. Mystery about the Chinese then.

>So what's stopping anyone from doing the same for English?
He did say on his twitter that he wanted to learn English and thinks it's time to go international. So there's some hope for us.

>>11567642
Does profit really factor that much into things? Because ZUN could be making a whole lot more money than he is now, but doesn't.

>>11567644
I can't wait for ZUN's glorious engrish

>>11567649
>"Faily Wars" Quoting ZUN from TH 12.8
it will be glorious

>>11567649

I, too, cannot wait.

He's saving Mima for TH17: Grand Western Appearance

>>11567666
I feel it

>>11567668

And with her new power:

The ability to control bones

>>11567645
>Does profit really factor that much into things?
Yes, it's a business.

>>11567691

It's more of ZUN's hobby - he owns a brewery now if I'm not mistaken.

It's not even Touhou themed as far as I know - ZUN does the least amount of profit milking to his series I've ever seen for any series.

>>11567757
You got that backwards. He doesn't "own a brewery", he just brews beer as a hobby. Touhou is the main source of his income.

>>11567762

He gets most of his money from touhou, but he could make 30x more money off it quite easily - he knows about steam and thinks it's a good platform, and he'd get greenlighted faster than instantly, but doesn't put the games on there.

>>11567767


what a baka, someone should beat some sense into him.

>>11567770

For anyone who thinks you need the game to be in english to put it on steam -

eXceed: Gun Bullet Children is untranslated and is a danmaku game, and is on steam.

>>11567668
I remember that Mima from Anime Boston 2012.

>>11567954
Besides there's not too much to translate, literally doable in a few hours.

>>11567767
He's not completely blind to the money. He's licensed out Touhou characters before, for games and other big name merchandise. He just doesn't want to completely sell out his doujin cred by selling to the filthy gaijins.

And you guys think the Chinese buy manga any more than we do?>

>>11568377I
I'm Chinese and yes they do. Otaku culture is more popular there

>>11568377
you stupid white pig. By numbers alone they out number you eight to one.
They pay the same retarded prices as well.

>>11568377
I remember seeing lots of pictures of a pretty big Touhou convention or something in China.