Territory of a Shark Girl - Vol. 1 Ch. 8 - Shark 8

[genR]

Sad to see this one go.

And while it's true the basic premise wasn't really original (like hundred thousand of others) it was done and developed better than most.

 

[justforthelulz]

At least it didn't drag on, though [END] was rather abrupt.

 

[Chet31]

Man such a shame it ended like this.

 

[Valanway]

Big F. Japan's notoriously shit taste strikes again (and the notoriously shit "IF THE FIRST VOLUME OR TWO DON'T SELL GORILLIONS, THIS SHIT IS DONE!!" manga industry mentality.) I think I've read and enjoyed nearly more axed or rushed manga than manga that made it to its natural (usually elongated for maximum stonks) conclusion—and it's almost always romance, or romance-lite manga, with comedy, rarely action.

 

[Memnon]

@Facade Koisuru Yankee Girl?

 

[RisingSilverDragon]

Ax-Kun shows himself again.... shame a manga that was headed in such a good direction got canned so early on.

 

[Iwizesol]

😥

 

[tenrose]

Ending was a bit sudden, no?

 

[PrinceMao]

 

[Lamer5799]

This wasn't an ending, they just made the author stop at a random chapter. Axed ending at usually have a rushed time skip to show how the characters wound up.

 

[RedlineAlchemist]

Really disappointed this got axed. I was expecting at least another 30 chapters or so. 😭

 

[Oeconomist]

Japanese tastes are of course different from those of other cultures, so it's not a surprise that a series could have a lot of appeal to Western readers yet fail in the Japanese market.

What Westerners can do is [1] buy copies of licensed translations of those series that they do like and [2] agitate for Western publishers to license work earlier in its production.

If a Western publisher had already bought into this series, then not only would the Japanese publisher be more likely to keep it going but even if no Japanese publisher would it might still be continued exactly for a foreign audience.

But you have no positive effect if you're not a customer.

 

[RC1138Boss]

Nice chapter. Too bad it is ending...
Hope the author find some way to keep it alive on twiter...

 

[voidox]

axed, almost like this stuff isn't as popular as people on r/manga or on here make it out to be. And on places with more general western audiences, like MAL, mangaupdates and so on, you see how many of these types of romance manga ppl at r/manga and here fawn over, are low rated and not that liked.

though I do love the irony when people defend these manga or those twitter ones and act sad on axing and blame "damn those Japanese readers with shit tastes" yet aren't actually buying the volumes to support the author cause 99% read all this stuff for free xD

@shoker agreed, the axing of this one is very understandable, very generic manga premise of “generic mc boy talks to misunderstood delinquent” despite the good art

 

[Saybah]

The manga is alright. I don't think it deserves to get axed but oh well. Hopefully the author continue it through twitter or something.

 

[scyax]

https://twitter.com/raku_raku authors twitter in case anyone was looking for it. Anyway thanks for translating til the end, i thought it was cute sad it got axed so suddenly.

 

[Beregorn]

Congratulations on your volume release! By the way, we won't release any more chapters...

 

[Hachi015]

Ahh it got axed?

 

[ElSuperNova]

This shark just got culled, riperino.

 

[Facade]

@Memnon yes, Koisuru Yankee Girl was the one I was thinking of. No updates for 7 months, no wonder I'd forgotten the title.