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mage_goo I did not mean to belittle the effort of each individual, my only point was that it's possible to release weekly without a dip in quality and the same page count, and it wouldn't have to be the "hard labor camp" that most seem to imagine when this is brought up.
The artist and author work together to port(for lack of a better word) the LN adaptation, the publisher will usually have the final word on the date and frequency of releases(monthly, bi-monthly, weekly, etc.), which magazines are available to release them in is also a concern.
A lot of people easily forget that the average page count of monthly series in this industry was much higher in the past, we used to get forty to sixty pages a chapter, and that didn't change because the authors got together for some "global mangaka summit" and created a union for better pay and shorter work hours, no, it changed because there was no reasonable alternative distribution method, we aren't angry with the artists or authors, we love those guys with all our hearts, we're angry at the publishers who restrain their creativity with shitty business practices.
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Tamed Yeah, Skip beat is an original, there are tons of original monthly series, there are magazines exclusively for monthlies, D. Gray-man, Berserk, and OPM, are bi-monthly I think? Can't remember.
It's a very gray topic, profit and creativity are on a spectrum with these things, adaptations just happen to swing more in the direction of money.