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Originally Posted by OpsNight

MMM do you not see that we are going through a recession? the reason for the low sells of the mangas at the markets isn't because of scanlators its because of the economic downturn.

I will be making a youtube video stating our economic problem & how it has effected the markets hopefully i can post it here.

I never stated scanlations are the reason manga sales have slumped. They are a part of the problem, though, along with tough economic times and oversaturating the market with sometimes less than stellar titles.

However, just because people don't have money doesn't mean they have the right to steal to satisfy their desires.

Originally Posted by SSJup81

Wow, funny. I came across tangible manga in the comic book store in my area back in the 90s before I ever knew or even come across scanlations. Also didn't hit me that what I was seeing would've been considered "manga". I didn't consciously start looking up manga until the early 2000s and started looking for Sailor Moon manga.

I figured manga had been around a good while just like anime had, just that the titles were far and in between at the time.

Exactly right. The first manga I remember was Godzilla, and it came out in 1988. For a long time the books were flipped to Western style, which often meant the pages were backwards, making every samurai left handed.