Death_Usagi said:
Not too sure if that's a good thing when it comes to the artist's income though.
Is that con really that much of the artist's income though? I would think the vast majority of their income is mostly based on commissions and contracted work, with cons more just to interact with diehard fans willing to find them.
79248cm/s said:
Is that con really that much of the artist's income though? I would think the vast majority of their income is mostly based on commissions and contracted work, with cons more just to interact with diehard fans willing to find them.
Commissions still aren't really a big thing in Japan and there's only so much contracted work to go around, so a lot of the doujin artists do it on the side to their main job of something (possibly unrelated to art), deadlines and all. There are some few who actually do make a living off of doujin work (this may or may not include gifts).
Almost all the ones who actually make decent cash of doujins are either massive names, or do hentai.
Cosplayers actually rake in the biggest amount at Comiket, as they can get away with charging more money for the books than doujins ever can. (the price of a doujin is still expected to be 500 yen, even with changes in printing costs).
The real money for artists these days is on patreon and patreon-equivalent sites.
Oh, I might as well post this here since it's relevant, but we should be worried about convention organizers, book printers, and merch producers. Comiket is asking people to buy the catalogs to support future conventions, and they had already printed the catalogs at cost before the decision. Japanese participants aren't asking for refunds out of support.
DreamFromTheLayer said:
Oh, I might as well post this here since it's relevant, but we should be worried about convention organizers, book printers, and merch producers. Comiket is asking people to buy the catalogs to support future conventions, and they had already printed the catalogs at cost before the decision. Japanese participants aren't asking for refunds out of support.
Is there any reason Comiket couldn't make an online store? Frankly I never understood why artists would make a lot of their works convention only items, especially if they have surplus leftover after the con.
Doujin (off existing properties) are prima facie illegal, they're just under a category of law in Japan that only makes them actual crimes if the copyright holder brings a claim against them. As such, especially with hentai doujinshi, they don't want to go too far.
However, in recent years, there's less and less doujinshi that you can't just get from Melonbooks, Toranoana or even the various download sites. Most big circles already have stock at the consignment stores, even on the day of Comiket (or before!), and will have signs out after they sell out to tell you that which of the stores you can pick it up from later - some circles also have an agreement to pass off any unsold stock to a store for later sale. Really, from experience, a very large proportion of non-ero doujin are readily avaliable from the stores, and a good amount of the ero ones also. Once they're sold out on the stores though, the chance of a reprint depends entirely on the artist making more, a lot never get a second run - though sometimes they make collected books (and often these are A5 rather than B5 sized)
Comiket itself has no desire to make an actual store, as that goes against their guiding principle of making a space for artist and readers to meet.
Been a long time since we've had this sort of juicy Sayori artwork with her signature deep detailing. Not looking as young as they've been for the anime-related works, too.
Also, not how naked_apron works, but personally I've always preferred partially clothed to totally naked anyway. In short, me ded.
That feeling when a post apocalyptic world has a better health system response than your country. Mexico sucks, man.
I mean, it isn't post apocalyptic. IIRC, the world in Arknights has a different enough history that blackpowder was never invented, and originium related technologies developed instead.
at least its not as memetic as Death Stranding...
Garrus said:
I mean, it isn't post apocalyptic. IIRC, the world in Arknights has a different enough history that blackpowder was never invented, and originium related technologies developed instead.
Arknights is set in a post apocalyptic world. It's not clear exactly how recent, but originium, catastrophes, and oripathy are all relatively recent things, few hundred years at most. Catastrophes just started happening at random with no explanation, ravaging society, leaving behind originium, and forcing the populace to develop mobile cities to escape when catastrophes strike.
As one example, guns were discovered in Laterano, not invented, and Laterano is the only place capable of constructing "real" guns, suggesting that the knowledge was lost at one point. Laterano made guns are the only ones to use regular gunpowder based bullets, while all other gun replicas are made using originium based technology, making them expensive and delicate, prone to breakdown if mishandled due to the volatile nature of originium.
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blindVigil said:
Arknights is set in a post apocalyptic world. It's not clear exactly how recent, but originium, catastrophes, and oripathy are all relatively recent things, few hundred years at most. Catastrophes just started happening at random with no explanation, ravaging society, leaving behind originium, and forcing the populace to develop mobile cities to escape when catastrophes strike.
As one example, guns were discovered in Laterano, not invented, and Laterano is the only place capable of constructing "real" guns, suggesting that the knowledge was lost at one point. Laterano made guns are the only ones to use regular gunpowder based bullets, while all other gun replicas are made using originium based technology, making them expensive and delicate, prone to breakdown if mishandled due to the volatile nature of originium.
At this point, almost every single player alreadyr realized that Originium is basically alien virus/noncarbon based crystalline living organism that replicates from contaminating carbon-based lifeforms, and the humans in Arknights universe made it (unintentionally) spread faster by basically destabilizing the crystal lattice. This was hinted by how Catasthropes almost always occurs on heavily-populated area (cities) and how Originium Arts are developed from Originum, and amplified when you got oripathy; using Arts excites the virus and awakens them, but in weapon-based arts (rods) since they don't have media to grow on (carbon) they cannot infect anyone.
Makes you wonder if those Laterano guns that spews Originium when used also a factor that contributes to Oripathy spread, no?
