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14379730 No.14379730 [Reply] [Original]

Is it easier just to learn japanese and try to publish in japan?

>> No.14379754

>>14379730
Not if you're non-Japanese. Special privileges for one's own ethnicity is normal in most East Asian countries. You don't have a chance unless you change your name and get plastic surgery.
In the West, it's all about sucking up to the Jews, diversity agenda, or LGBTQ+ themes. If you want quick money, pretend to be a trans black man who loves the Jewish people and feels bad for "their suffering".

>> No.14379755

Yes. Get ready for your publisher to slim your novel down, put an anime girl on the cover, demand you write not-quite smut in every other chapter, and force you to publish a book every 6 months, though.

>> No.14379766

>>14379754
there's several gaijins in the anime industry bro.

The real issue is the language.

>>14379755
sounds based.

>> No.14379771

>>14379766
oh absolutely, cranking out two light novels a year is still better than most jobs

>> No.14379774

>>14379730
sure, you can publish your novel for free on a site like narou and hope that it's good enough to get popular so that it eventually gets an LN or manga adaptation

>> No.14379788

>>14379766
>there's several gaijins in the anime industry bro.
You won't get a position as a part of the main creative head. Yes, you can get a position as an animator or any other lower-end job, but you will never get promotions. Moreover, publishing novels or manga is much more difficult for gaijin.
You will never be accepted into East Asian cultures. Big deal. Live with it.

>> No.14379800

>>14379771
Does the japanese are talentless or is because of poor translations?

because all the light novels I've read are literal dogshit.

>>14379788
ironically enough all the japs I've met online are less racists than weebs.

I think the main reason why japanese don't like gaijins is because of shit like language barrier than hating foreigners.

>> No.14379810

>>14379788
The author of ngnl is a haafu born in brazil

>> No.14379824

>>14379800
they're cheap entertainment you pick up for nearly nothing, read in an afternoon, and never touch again. they're cranked out without a care in the word. Nisioisin once published one book a month for an entire year. You shouldn't expect anything more than good ideas, and that's only in the really good ones

>> No.14379844

>>14379824
seems like the standarts are really low, so it should be easier than publishing in the west.

>> No.14379846

>>14379800
It is not real "racism" but more like an unconscious form of tribalism, which even Cioran remarked on once. I don't really hate them for it, honestly. In fact, it makes a lot of evolutionary sense. Anyways, they do overwork gaijin and make it very difficult to ever receive promotions.
>>14379810
>brazil
Japan-Brazil relationship is strange, considering there is a Japanese minority there. A lot of sex tourism from Japanese females goes to Brazil also.

>> No.14379855

>>14379846
>unconscious form of tribalism
unconscious form of ethnocentrism*

>> No.14379859

>>14379844
I don't even fault the writers. You can't write a good book in three months, not knowing whether the next issue will be the last or not.

>> No.14379866

>>14379846
Sure, but again, japan makes constest for overseas mangas.

Also japan read a lot of gaijin literature.

I don't see why a publisher would pass on a good author for no real reason because muh gaijin.
Publishers want money.