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shoujo otakukei’ tag.  I recently had a conversation online
about the industry-backed digital manga site JManga that went
something like this:  Guy: Man, Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru has
nine volumes out in Japan, but only three are scanlated! Me: You
know, most of those volumes are available on JManga. Guy: What.
And then he went and bought all 8 volumes.  Sometimes you’ll
hear people pushing for the manga industry who also like to draw
lines in the sand between “REAL FANS” who do everything by the
book and “filthy pirates who call themselves fans,” as if to say
that this explains the industry’s woes. Here, on the other hand,
is an example of someone who you can’t categorize as a leech,
someone who is willing to pay money for the manga he likes, but
simply had no idea that JManga (and its offshoot JManga 7) are
actually quite up to date with the titles they carry, or that
they even carried them at all. This is also a concern
because Soredemo Machi w