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@VladDracul2 Are you referring to Negima? If so, that had more to do with a law being proposed at the time that would have made it so that the publishing company owned the author's IP, as well, meaning they would effectively gain almost total creative control. Legally, they would have been able to do whatever they wanted with it and the author would have no choice but to comply, as they would be under contract and breaking said contract would probably result in them getting blacklisted by their publisher (and, thus, the industry), more or less ending their entire career because they didn't want to be a disposable pen. It also would have had the unintended consequence of more or less killing the doujin industry, as it would have been up to the publisher, not the author, when and if to go after a doujin's author and since the publisher wouldn't be raking in all the cash from a doujin, you can be damn sure they would have been like rabid dogs chewing at the bit.
If you really don't see why Akamatsu did what he did, then I don't know what to tell you, because you obviously don't care about an author protecting their work as long as you get free manga. Which, might I add, would eventually have ended up just being Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece reskinned a different ways by a thousand different authors, milked without end until they stopped pulling in readers.
If you really don't see why Akamatsu did what he did, then I don't know what to tell you, because you obviously don't care about an author protecting their work as long as you get free manga. Which, might I add, would eventually have ended up just being Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece reskinned a different ways by a thousand different authors, milked without end until they stopped pulling in readers.
