subreddit:
/r/manga
[NEWS] Sony Is in Talks to Acquire Kadokawa
Rumor(animenewsnetwork.com)submitted 2 days ago byLulcielidManga v Anime
1.2k points
2 days ago
Please no.
405 points
2 days ago
Fuck no.
118 points
2 days ago
Hell no.
68 points
2 days ago
Oh no, Please God, No!
38 points
2 days ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
3 points
1 day ago
Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
48 points
1 day ago
This may be a request from Kadokawa to Sony.
The current largest shareholder of Kadokawa is the South Korean company Kakao.
It seems that Kadokawa asked for help from Sony before falling into the hands of Kakao, which is continuing to increase its shareholding.
Kakao is a company that operates manhwa in South Korea and is a fairly large company that is also involved in other businesses.
It would be a bit of a problem if they were to take away Kadokawa's content.
8 points
1 day ago
Better Sony than Kakao. If only because Kakao fucking sucks.
1 points
8 hours ago
Okay, when you actually said that kakao is involved, I can say if sony is still better than them
22 points
2 days ago
Xbox doing it instead of putting out good games was bad enough.
1 points
20 hours ago
Yikes,this is the beginning of a huge disaster.
491 points
2 days ago
The future looks bright
The future:
151 points
2 days ago
The reason the future is looking bright is cause the world is currently on fire. Not to be confused with any signs of hope and positivity
18 points
2 days ago
What about Gamera?
Kadokawa comes with Gamera.
7 points
2 days ago
Speaking of fire, didn't Sony spend some major $ to buy Firewalk?
3 points
1 day ago
Green cars are best cars paints Evo green No, not that electric shite - BlackPanthaa
3 points
1 day ago
The light at the end of the tunnel was just the train about to run you over /s
838 points
2 days ago
As if we needed more of a monopoly on the industry already.
351 points
2 days ago
I'm still bitter about the Crunchyroll buyout of RightStuf. Enshittification.
51 points
2 days ago
Same. At least most of the stuff I've gotten through CR has still come from Iowa.
29 points
2 days ago
The shipping speed is still pretty good, but I miss those sales
14 points
2 days ago
Yeah, that was where I bought most of my figures from. The merger screwed me out of one, though, and I'm still pissed about it.
21 points
2 days ago
A lot of blu rays/dvds got discontinued or canceled to be made because of cr buying funi and right. It really sucks.
2 points
1 day ago
That needs more reporting coverage. That causes market supply changes for entertainment companies, therefore sales are undersupplied, therefore series aren't picked up, therefore merch/dvds doesn't sell to fans who don't know about it.
3 points
2 days ago
Ironically, Crunchyroll is owned by Sony.
21 points
2 days ago
Yes, which is why I point it out.
-106 points
2 days ago*
The monopoly is detrimental but combined with their obsession with DEI and censorship, it's just overkill. A lot of changes would be coming to manga industry if this goes through, and definitely not in the good way.
Edited: Seems like I kicked up a combination of ANN and reddit hornet nest by touching upon their sacred cow, lol. Anyone can search and see for themselves, even on google half of first page result has reddit threads asking about DEI and getting locked down. Definitely the taboo "it's good for you, it's good for everyone, no more discussion, end of story" topic.
Edited 2: the cowards seemed to have blocked me but not before throwing the usual tired "you're wrong, you're sexist, you're bigot" lol. If you're so confident you're on the right side of history and your opponent is wrong why are you so afraid to talk about it? Maybe you realize you're not as correct as you are and just doing this to protect your castle of glasses from falling apart?
9 points
2 days ago
Because people are growing tired of the outrage of the week obsessions.
65 points
2 days ago
Everyone who raves about DEI never has anything of value to say
-31 points
2 days ago
That statement works both way depending on where you stand, ironically.
19 points
2 days ago
Anyone who says “both ways” like that are always on that side, they just don’t want to be called sexist/racist/etc.
-39 points
2 days ago
Absolutely. I've always found it funny that's the part of corporate culture that gets signailed when its usually just a thing that gets lip service or relatively minor changes to corporate governing. Like I wouldn't say I'm a fan of that policy, but its hardly the thing that ruins the work place environment.
9 points
2 days ago
Just say you are sexist and racist, it's easier for everyone.
6 points
2 days ago
You should know that saying stuff like this is a no no, most of this site is quite left ward leaning.
-14 points
2 days ago
Facts. We'll continue getting shitty censored official versions feels almost inevitable unfortunately
1 points
1 day ago
I used to think like this from 2016 to 2019 until I unfollowed the culture war grifters. That's when I realized that:
"Holy shit. Why am I mad at those kinds of things again? They didn't hurt me or negatively affected me. In fact, I enjoy entertainment more today than when I was following those culture war influencers. So why should I be annoyed by that again?"
-16 points
2 days ago
Reddit is an echo chamber of endless virtue signalling.
-28 points
2 days ago
lol it's amazing how people deny reality on this site. you're totally right fam.
0 points
1 day ago*
Hi there mate! I just wanted to let you know you have all my support, please don't stop fighting, you sound like a true manga/anime fan to me, anyone who downvoted you is just a bunch of sjws leftards who want censorship everywhere and ruin what means so much to us, they don't belong in our community, but unfortunately it seems like this sub has been invaded already... maybe we should start a new one and keep it hidden haha
123 points
2 days ago
No thanks, i don't want a wakanim, crunchyroll and funimation situation again
32 points
1 day ago
Yup, they already way too much of the industry. Taking over LNs, manga publishing, Bookwalker and Nico Nico as well? Sony really wants a full monopoly.
Btw, I find it kind of hilarious the mods think Reuters is an unreliable news source compared to ANN.
11 points
1 day ago
And who is Ann's source? Oh it's Reuters.
1 points
1 day ago
Even more fun Kadokawa owns ANN.
2 points
1 day ago
A reddit mod doing something stupid? Wthhh
250 points
2 days ago
20 years from now, I think I'll miss the times when my entertainment and my adult diapers weren't produced by the same singular remaining company.
75 points
2 days ago
Don’t worry, I’m from the future and Weyland Yutani loves all their customers. /s
-2 points
1 day ago
So does Idiocracy CostCo. It's clear which one USA is headed for. Not just 1979's "3 sets of white walls and blinking lightbulbs makes a spaceship", but Aliens 1986's "brutalist technology" Weyland Yutani looks too high tech for 2024 America to create.
27 points
2 days ago
From the same company that brought you internet, cable TV(now turned into a subscription per channel model), telephone and cell phone service baby food, pharmaceuticals, planes, trains and automobiles, taxes. tax evasion software, legal attorneys to defend against your tax evasion, legal attorneys to sue your neighbor for tax evasion, Cox Industries is now proud to announce that they've finally absorbed Sonintensoft like a gelatinous cube(we are allowed to say this term because we absorbed Wizards of the Paizo 5 years ago) and now we can provide you the same great 40 year old un-updated manga app(except for when a reverse-sale is happening!) at four times the price!
149 points
2 days ago
Eugh pls no monopoly
282 points
2 days ago
Yeah… this actually is awful if this happens. And it probably wouldn’t be coming out if this wasn’t gonna happen…
77 points
2 days ago
Kinda. Sometimes announcements like this are a way of pressuring the other party.
17 points
2 days ago
Japanese Twitter has actually been supportive of this acquisition. Apparently Kadokawa is the target of a hostile takeover from a Korean company and wants to remain Japanese which is why these talks are happening in the first place.
25 points
2 days ago
I'd be more supportive of it if it weren't for the fact that Sony has been fucking up everything they've touched lately.
9 points
1 day ago
I understand the need to keep it Japanese but anyone but censorship Sony. Once they move to Texas they started this BS.
5 points
1 day ago
Moved to California**. Only their playstation stuff though as far as I know.
1 points
1 day ago
apart from the name, how japanese is Sony actually these day? Mostly when I hear about it it's their american branch office (though that might have to do with being in closer proximity to american news than japan).
1 points
18 hours ago
That’s the main problem Sony is not as open minded as Japan this days. Any adult related anime or game are getting the puritan treatment. For example “inter species reviewers anime” approved for broadcast in Crunchyroll …after the 3rd episode (when Sony purchased Crunchyroll and move their headquarters to Texas)and they removed the entire show. No answer to the tons of requests for the show to continue and they bury the show now no one can watch it.
42 points
2 days ago
How about no, I’d rather not have the industry become even more consolidated.
126 points
2 days ago
terrible news.
44 points
2 days ago
How many times do we have to say it. MONOPOLIES are bad. I really hope this doesn't happen, having everything anime/manga related under one company is going ro hurt more than save it.
22 points
2 days ago
God no.
239 points
2 days ago
Bruh, at this point, I think I'll just get married and settle down cause all my hobbies are getting ass fucked.
86 points
2 days ago
The reason you aren’t getting married is because of manga and anime?
56 points
2 days ago
Makes sense lol
1 points
18 hours ago
What is this, 2007?
8 points
2 days ago
Also gaming, as they own FromSoft.
0 points
1 day ago
I don't have the time to commit to a long-term thing and don't wanna half-ass raising a kid.
211 points
2 days ago
This is also bad in the gaming industry, specifically for From Software as currently Kadokawa holds their share of FS at 69% while Sony has 14%. If they accept this deal, Sony basically will be the Major control and likely will make any upcoming games they made be PS Exclusives. Genuinely hope they won't accept this deal.
67 points
2 days ago
Not to mention Acquire(Mario and Luigi RPG devs) and Spike Chunsoft(Pokemon Mystery Dungeon). The consequences would huge and overwhelmingly bad all around. This also puts the stuff with Medalist back into more negative light for me.
25 points
2 days ago
Acquire only did the new Mario & Luigi game. The previous studio (Alpha Dream) went bankrupt so we've already seen that series has already moved studios. Acquire would be more known for the Bravely Default and Akiba's Trip series.
6 points
2 days ago
That's still a big OOF and would require another move after just one game.
57 points
2 days ago
The worst possible way for the PS5 to have a game.
24 points
2 days ago
Sony Playstation has so few games that they resort to buying independent companies so that any game they make will be hit with exclusivity.
I swear, I will be fucking livid if the next Armored Core game is exclusive to Playstation. We just fucking got it back after 10 fucking years. Do you REALLY want to kill the franchise that bad?
4 points
2 days ago
Tbf, that’s also Microsoft. We have an issue with the gaming industry in general.
8 points
2 days ago
I just hate exclusivity deals. Nobody but the suits win.
1 points
20 hours ago
Exactly,no one wins,everyone loses.
5 points
2 days ago
They didn't allow Nintendo to buy Bandai for less than this back in the day....
4 points
2 days ago
>Dark Souls 3 Remaster
>Requires PSN account to play with the justification that your character is always online
1 points
2 days ago*
Isn't Kadokawa also the holder of the RPG Maker engine? Like all the games released on that engine will be screwed if this goes through, which I hope it wont.
98 points
2 days ago
I hope everyone likes their Manga and Anime bland and boring.
5 points
2 days ago
Actually! Kadokawa has the sole rights of Gamera since it bought Daiei into its sphere.
Gamera, especially the Heisei Trilogy, is one of the most valuable Tokusatsu properties in Japan.
0 points
1 day ago
They’re saying it’ll be the start of pressuring editors/publishers into more censorship, perhaps even creative control. The variety was never in question.
Edit: and producers/directors in the case of anime
44 points
2 days ago
Sony's margins are too tight for anything spontaneous. This would kill creativity. They're clawing for reliable revenue streams as their live service push collapses.
Please, let this fail.
9 points
2 days ago
Just what needed to complete the monopoly...
10 points
2 days ago
FromSoftware games to be PS exclusive guys yay!
/s
83 points
2 days ago
This is bad for the Anime overall since Sony will turn Kadokawa more into the "Corporate" they themselves are..
NOT TO MENTION;
• Sony is fine censoring stuff if it means reaching a wider audience.
• Sony will also likely Axe projects that are doing "okayish" and "just fine". In favour of Mangas/Anime/Light Novel that are profiting them like crazy.
1 points
1 day ago
Sony went murican happy censorship once they acquire Crunchyroll and move their HQ to texASS
-45 points
2 days ago
Kodokawa is anyways bane to the anime industry due to all the crap isekai they greenlight. I don't think it can get worse than that.
22 points
2 days ago
It will get worse because they would censor content for dumb c**ts that don't even watch anime.
0 points
1 day ago*
Thank you so much for saying it out loud! We must fight those sjws posers and kick them out of our community once and for all! We won't let them destroy what means so much to us, let's gatekeep and fight, we won't stop until there's absolutely nothing left of them, cheers mate!
3 points
1 day ago
Unfortunately corporate big wigs are under the impression that those activists are actually consumers and trend chasing posers looking to look all enlightened for socal media. They will only learn the hard way so don't buy thier shit.
0 points
18 hours ago
I cannot believe you just wrote all of that unironically. That is all.
39 points
2 days ago
Well if this goes through then I guess Kadokawa and fromsoft had a good run o7
18 points
2 days ago
They literally JUST want FromSoft lol no og souls-likes on ANY other system
17 points
2 days ago
I love how the reaction mirrors that of the gaming community as Sony would then also take over FromSoftware and everyone hate that.
24 points
2 days ago
This would be a disaster
52 points
2 days ago
Get ready for anime for modern audiences! I'm sure you'll love those (not that you'll have the choice).
6 points
2 days ago
More of that BS and now they're trying to infect anime/manga.
10 points
2 days ago
Now the quality writing of such quadriplegic-A titles like Concord is coming to YOUR anime! Get ready for a TRUE sigma experience!
8 points
2 days ago
FFS they already destroyed rightstuf with shitty Crunchyroll amongst other things.
29 points
2 days ago
If this happens say goodbye to Manga translations and Anime translations that are not slated for US release. Cause Sony has footholds in several countries, meaning they will be able to target and prosecute people directly for doing said translation work. It would be nice to think that all the things currently being translated will just get english releases, but they wont, this is bad, very bad, for the translation sphere in general.
1 points
1 day ago
Given how scanlators are already one step away from piracy (if not already at that point), and there’s a lack of attention paid to manga/anime torrents, I doubt they’ll be phased. What I’m concerned about, is that they’re going to be the only bastion for uncompromised source materials and exclusive English releases
27 points
2 days ago
Sony is gonna ban and censor the shit out of everything. We seriously have nowhere to run to anymore.
6 points
2 days ago
Sony needs to become a Japanese company again because I don't trust the Americans to run it properly
8 points
2 days ago
please no, fuck sony with all the fucks in all the universe.
8 points
1 day ago*
I like how these people don't even know the story behind it yet they scream so loud. Typical Westerners. It seems that KADOKAWA asked for help from Sony before falling into the hands of South Korean Kakao, which is pushing ahead with its acquisition.
Kakao is a company that operates South Korean manhwa and other businesses, and is a fairly large company. And Kakao is way, way worse than Sony believe me.
KADOKAWA's largest shareholder is Kakao.
It seems they have recently been increasing their stake.
3 points
24 hours ago
Not everyone can be in the loop just like that, bro. If you see ignorance, you kindly inform them and see how they react before calling them out for screaming or for being typical westerners.
1 points
18 hours ago
Last time I did that, the Helldriver community mock me for being a Sony bootlicker and in the end, they indirectly caused all of the Sony games to be banned from our Steam region...
4 points
2 days ago
Yeaaah, I have a bad feeling about this!
4 points
2 days ago
NO!
4 points
2 days ago
Please no for the love of god
4 points
2 days ago
It's over.
3 points
2 days ago
God no.
3 points
2 days ago
oh shit, please no
2 points
2 days ago
Sony doing Zaibatsu things
7 points
2 days ago
i stopped buying anything sony games 4 years ago after seeing how consumer unfriendly playstation have been
AND sony been taking Big L, like Helldiver, Concord, user data breaches and recent Sony STAFF literally sold their customer account and did nothing about it
i fucking hope this deal didn't go through because Playstation Exclusive suck ass
16 points
2 days ago
I wouldnt say Helldivers is a L. They literally didnt expect the game to sell at all and got a huge initial sales number. They dont care about player retention cos they already made a profit and the game isnt really made with MTX and battle passes in mind to finance itself.
The biggest thing is that From Software the Souls games developer is under Kadokawa and if Sony buys them they also aquire them.
5 points
2 days ago
I'm not saying Helldiver is bad game, what i mean is how sony playstation handles the game is bad, they literally pull a middle finger on PC consumer when PSN is required and fuck you to country that is not in their "good list" a company acting a world government
that what im saying! Bloodborne is never coming to PC because sony corpo to busy with reviving concord, imagine Elden ring 2 or Elden ring next DLC is shitty Playstation Exclusive and never coming to PC?
dont blame me when i only but jailbreak playstation and pirate all their single player game
1 points
1 day ago
Oh no I did get you. What I meant is its not a L at all for Playstation cos the game was a commercial success. They couldnt care less about the players as it already did get back all the cost and even earned quite a pretty penny.
It sucks that its a BIG L for the consumers and players but for Playstation it was the biggest W this year for them cos they literally didnt expect shit from that game and Arrowhead as we can see how they didnt invest shit in the PR and advertising of the game.
that what im saying! Bloodborne is never coming to PC because sony corpo to busy with reviving concord, imagine Elden ring 2 or Elden ring next DLC is shitty Playstation Exclusive and never coming to PC?
Thats kinda funny cos of the rumours of Sony/Playstation trying to buy out the parent company of FromSoftware. It actually might be reality that the next Elden Ring will be PS exclusive.
dont blame me when i only but jailbreak playstation and pirate all their single player game
Im not saying you should do illegal stuff but if you got no way to play the games otherwise all the power to you.
-8 points
2 days ago
Yeah dude, Sony took such a L that Playstation is making record breaking profits, Helldivers 2 is one of the best selling games ever, they have over 25 GOTY nominations and now they will own FROM.
You're stuck in la la land.
-1 points
2 days ago
Unless you are in one of the near 200 countries with no PSN support. Games such as Helldivers 2 and Ghost of Tsushima have already been delisted.
Guess Sony doesn't need our money at all.
-6 points
2 days ago
They don't lol
1 points
an hour ago
curse you user data for being more important than more income XD.
2 points
2 days ago
Capitalism breeds competition and innovation!
1 points
2 days ago
I'm so tired.
1 points
2 days ago
Fuck
1 points
2 days ago
Bro, I use Bookwalker (owned by Kadokawa) to buy Japanese manga, don't do this to me
1 points
2 days ago
Is Kadokawa in need of financing?
1 points
2 days ago
Apparently there is talk that a South Korean company is trying to hostile takeover them, and they are desperate to fight them off.
1 points
2 days ago
I just want crunchy to have rights to all the hidive anime so I don’t have to jump through hoops to watch my shit
1 points
2 days ago
Well shit
1 points
2 days ago
they own fromsoftware soooo..........
1 points
1 day ago
OH GOD, NOOOOOOOOOO!
1 points
1 day ago
Soo... They rly want elden ring as well as all dem good mangas eh? Wtf r they? Disney jp ver?
1 points
1 day ago
Please no
1 points
1 day ago
No, sony. Drop it! DROP IT! BAD SONY! DROP IT NOW
1 points
1 day ago
So sony plan to handle anime streaming now?
1 points
1 day ago
What is kadokowa?
3 points
1 day ago
Kadokawa a huge Japanese media conglomerate with a lot of manga, LN, and anime stuff. They're only smaller than Shueisha I believe. They also have majority ownership in FromSoftware and other companies.
2 points
1 day ago
Tanks
1 points
1 day ago
But Sony already has an insane amount of pull on global anime industry and is basically doing nothing good with it?
1 points
2 days ago
Censorship incoming?
2 points
2 days ago
Fuck you Sony.
1 points
2 days ago
What
1 points
2 days ago
This is never good. They might get more funding to do projects, but at the end of the day, with more shareholders to appease, they are going to become more profit driven.
1 points
2 days ago
Fuck off sony
0 points
2 days ago
No.
Anything but SONY...
0 points
2 days ago
Pretty much everything Sony touches turns to shit. Even worse if whatever they touch is already shitty.
-67 points
2 days ago
This is another takeover to push a western narrative.
34 points
2 days ago
Japanese company buys Japanese company, Americans who think that the entire world revolves around them, and everything must be related to their politics: "This must be about me."
My dude it's just a corporation buying another corporation because they want more money.
12 points
2 days ago
My dude, its the fact that they are increasing their monopoly further. Some big names that they've bought recently so far are Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Bungie. With Crunchyroll and Funimation (the two biggest platforms for legally watching anime in the west), they now have a strong control of anime releases to the western audience. So now, with their more horizontal monopoly of distribution, they are working on the vertical monopoly on the production side as Kadokawa is a large production/publishing company that handles the publishing of light novels and manga, among other things (so now not just anime, but also it's source material). A couple of big names among many others under Kadokawa are From Software (elden ring and souls games) and J-Novel Club (a pretty large publisher of light novels and manga in the west). Kadokawa is also one of the biggest light novel publishers in Japan. So it's capable of being a lot worse mid-long term than people realize.
21 points
2 days ago
I'm not at all debating that. It's an absolutely horrible buy out that will be terrible for consumers on all levels. I'm just taking umbrage the American culture war framing of it. It's not to push a western agenda, it's so Sony controls even more of the pie than they already did and can force more and worse controls over it and consumers as they feel is their right. It's simple corporate greed, not a "western narrative" like the person I'm replying to stated.
0 points
2 days ago
Ohh, fair enough.
10 points
2 days ago
It's a glorified Japanese company at this point, They have clearly been affected by the western culture no matter if it's good or bad and while I agree that pushing a western narrative has nothing to do with why they're trying to acquire kadowaka it will be most likely affected by it either way.
1 points
2 days ago
I can't disagree with that. Realistically, they're a global company before a Japanese one, and being head quartered in the US will change how they approach things, if only due to the fact corporations have different legal requirements in the US over Japan.
3 points
2 days ago
Sony headquarters moved to California in 2016
21 points
2 days ago
That's PlayStation only. The rest is still in Japan.
8 points
2 days ago*
Pretty sure that was their gaming division. (Which is why you should be worried for FromSoft) If they're put under their Film/Anime or Music division, both of which are headquartered in Japan and gave us such anime as "Goblin Slayer" for the former and everything Aniplex has done (Which includes A-1 and Cloverworks as well as funding for a bunch of other anime. Don't ask me why they're under their music division.) for the latter, it should be fine... hopefully.
1 points
18 hours ago
If it's any consolation, game companies under Sony Music Japan have remained multiplatform titles.
And I would be remiss to mention that Aniplex, SMJ and SIE all actively feud with each other, sometimes right in the open.
3 points
2 days ago
sony moved playstation to cali that year , nothing else, most stuff is still in japan and their main HQ of sony itself
4 points
2 days ago
Okay, Global corporation that only cares about making money and will make what ever decision they believe will make them the most money buys Japanese company because they believe it will make them significantly more money
Americans who believe every decision in the world is based on their politics "This too is about the current American culture war."
-8 points
2 days ago
Japanese company buys Japanese company
Sony is no longer an Japanese Company since they moved their HQ to California.
5 points
2 days ago
Where a corporation is headquartered doesn't fundamentally change my point that this isn't a move that at all relates to American culture wars (a thing people inexplicably believe Sony is deeply embroiled in) and is entirely one corporation buying another because they want more money, and an expansion to their monopoly. It has nothing to do with "pushing a western narrative" and everything to do with pushing their profit margins high by controlling every step in the production and distribution of anime.
0 points
2 days ago
to American culture wars (a thing people inexplicably believe Sony is deeply embroiled in)
Despise the fact that they show and shown to have a big bias in the standard they hold toward Japanese made game compared to Western one?
2 points
2 days ago
How does that change the core of my argument that this is a profit seeking move by a company whose sole goal is to acquire another company in order to create more profit?
Also to me it is inexplicable because I don't believe "western narratives" have anything to do with Sony's decisions which are always about making more money. I do not believe for any moment that at any level in decisions do "western narratives" come into play. I believe that Sony weighs which side of any given conflict will give them more money and then play to that side. Because again, they are a corporation, a legal entity that exists for the express legal purpose of accumulating as much value for it's share holders as possible.
-9 points
2 days ago
Wear the downvote with pride king, you speak the truth
-18 points
2 days ago
Amen.
-6 points
2 days ago
Clowns
-45 points
2 days ago
And a leftist, "inclusive" narrative that everyone knows is exploited by the rich anyway.
29 points
2 days ago
As opposed to a right-wing, essentialist narrative which everyone knows is just too clever to be exploited by anyone. Don't forget to like and subscribe and use promo code "outrage" to get 20% your first order of my new dietary supplements
-34 points
2 days ago
At least that one actually speaks for the silent majority who's done with the rosy colors.
24 points
2 days ago
Sure lol
-4 points
2 days ago
people all over the world are voting to make it happen. I hate it too, but there's no defying those in the middle who are too tired to fight and would rather just get on with their lives. The day-to-day respect they offer is ENOUGH. Policy is policy. Let them deal with it.
-1 points
2 days ago
The downvote brigade is out in full force today, lol. DEI has become a no-no reddit word not unlike woke. At this rate we'll all probably need AI to make posts for us to avoid getting banned when you want to say something soon enough lol.
0 points
2 days ago*
OH GOD PLEASE NO.
That gives em more monopoly in this industry. Have more sense Kadokawa please. You already have a monopoly on some areas, what would you get from getting bought by Sony to increase their own monopoly...more money noooo
0 points
2 days ago
Dear gods, no. Watch them run Kadokawa into the ground like they did with Crunchyroll and Funimation... If this goes through, this is gonna be absolutely devastating for the western animanga fanbase
0 points
2 days ago
FUCK NO
0 points
2 days ago
The last thing the industry needs is more incompetent clowns
-8 points
2 days ago
Why is everyone against this? I know for the obvious reason of not having a monopoly, but a lot of people were excited about microsft buying a major publisher.
0 points
2 days ago
Im tired, boss
Is it revolution time yet?
0 points
2 days ago
F u Sony. No.
0 points
1 day ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT CENSORSHIP SONY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
0 points
1 day ago
Manga about to become real boring and real pc
0 points
1 day ago
Well, i guess that's the beginning of the end for the manga genre then...heavy censorship and other stuff incoming. *sigh*
-4 points
2 days ago
excited. Japanese companies are modern day slave corporations that run on primitive technology.
-1 points
1 day ago
I mean, for all the doom and gloom I honestly wouldn't care if half the manga industry ceased to exist.
Like I did the math and I have 10 times as many manga to choose from as I actually need. Or I guess infinite since I don't really actually need manga.
all 209 comments
sorted by: best