Sanju Mariko - Vol. 4 Ch. 23

[MangaDex]

 

[wiles]

Beautiful chapter.

Thank you for the translation!

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

>long scroll format

Probably full of white space and shitty colour gradient background too. Its over.

 

[Moodyz]

Ah, so she’s going the Bandcamp (novelist equivalent) route?

 

[Regular_user2]

Going the webnovel route is a good idea, but if she pairs up with an artist to become a webcomic(webmanga?) author it'd be wild. Probably would even get more new readers just because people would get curious about the manga of an author that debuted in the medium at her 80s.

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[keatsta]

Another great chapter, thank you! The chief editor definitely becomes a bit more antagonistic here, I definitely feel more aligned to her editor's perspective. I don't think the head editor is totally unreasonable either though. A magazine is a promise of quality to the works serialized in there. I often pick up manga off the strength of what magazine it appears in. It's a truly bidirectional thing, where the magazine's reputation is built off the quality of the works, but then the magazine pulls up new works by "cashing in" on that reputation. Really fascinating stuff.

As an amateur novelist myself, I always put a lot of emphasis on getting published somewhere "legitimate" because I knew my work would then gain some "legitimacy" through that association. But at the same time, I really enjoy music released off of labels, and indie games and stuff, so why do I still put so much weight on "real" publishers? Maybe Mariko will show me the way forward with webnovels...

 

[Mekiaa]

We place a lot of weight on "real" publishers because we think it is a guarantee of quality and that if it's published through X, it'll be of X's usual standard.

We automatically assume that indie publishing and self publishing means lower quality. As a whole, most people wait for other people to wade through the sea of Indies and try what has grabbed the attention of everyone else before them.

I am a fanfic writer and cosplayer that has to remind myself that numbers and popularity is not reflective of the quality of work produced.

 

[HighStream]

Ganbatte, Mariko-san!

 

[RedMarks]

Will she write on paper then someone type for her or typing it directly?

 

[Ajira]

Thanks for the translation and...

FIRE IS BACK!

 

[yozha92]

Because it's Japan they have prejudiced against indie author and only rely on big publisher, and now they all crumbling in front of online site and webtoon/novel. Many of their analog series got transformed into long format, many thrive in online site.

No artist has truly freedom if they work under publisher, then they got axed if they didn't sell well enough. So what's the point of loyalty if magazine can't offer anything when they all dwindling.

I hope sensei find her happiness in online form~