Yes, Apple's translation app indeed has nothing to do with LLMs. This year they just built a new interface for people to use it with headphones.

Realistically, piracy is also a big factor. People who have spent their whole life reading manga in English online are just not used to seeing manga in their mother tongue. They might even lack the vocabulary to talk about it, and probably see it as a silly curiosity.

They're cheaper than American imports in Finland too. The people who don't like them think that's a proof that they're cheaply-made trash.

They've decided to publish works for older audiences too – Inio Asano and so on. But I'm not sure if they understand the reality of how much the local audiences find Finnish a childish language.

Nowadays Ivrea, the Spanish publisher, is back in Finland, since Shueisha decided to pull all their titles from the established Finnish publisher when it changed ownership, and gave the titles to them.

Sweden has always had more action, and still has. But the common wisdom there is that you can only publish series that haven't already been published in English, since everyone would have already bought them.

(2013, I mean.)

It depends. Egmont was the only publisher in Norway, and after they pulled back from manga publishing globally in 2021, no manga has been published in Norwegian since. In Finland it only killed less than half of the market.

Manga in Finnish hasn't been translated via English for years, but unfortunately for streaming services it's the norm.

Every time I try to watch anime subtitles in Finnish, I have to stop because I keep noticing the tell-tale translation mistakes. Like "uchuu" -> "space" -> "room".

Seems healthy. Finland has historically been similar to Netherlands; the only things published in Finnish are for young readers, and titles for older readers have always struggled to sell. Everyone over 13 can read English, after all, and manga and anime in Finnish is generally associated with kids.

You sometimes even see kids online commenting that they'd like to see some manga to be published in Finland, "but in English".

That's the curse of smaller languages and people being content with English.

In Finland one kid burned a copy of Finnish-translated Naruto on a YouTube video back in 2008, because "manga in Finnish is cringe" and they had translated the names of special attacks.

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Ei listalla: So You're Raising a Warrior / Cengjing You Yongshi, korealaisen webtoonin kiinalainen animaatiosovitus.
Ei listalla: The Fated Magical Princess: Who Made Me a Princess, korealaisen webtoonin kiinalainen animaatiosovitus.
Ei listalla: Isekai Quartet S3, spinoff-lyhäri, Crunchyroll.

Ei listalla: I Saved Myself with a Potion!: Life in Another World, minimaalisesti animoitu lyhäri, ei lisensoitu.
Ei listalla: Noble Farmer S3, ei lisensoitu lyhäri.
Ei listalla: Forget That Night, Your Majesty, heikosti animoitu lyhäri, ei lisensoitu.
Ei listalla: Ganglion, ei lisensoitu lyhäri.

Sen sijaan Hands off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun on tarjolla sekä sensuroimattomana että sensuroituna versiona (sensuuritäpät nännien päällä).

Sarja on tarjolla myös Crunchyrollissa, mutta Oceanveilissä 12 minuutin jaksoihin on lisätty loppuun 12 minuutin Flash-animoitu huumori-spinoff.

Oceanveilin jännyyksistä Coolmicin mangaan perustuva Guilty Hole: Room of Guilty Pleasure on puhdas K18-sarja, josta ei edes ole olemassa sensuroimatonta versiota. Jännää että näitäkin simulcastataan nykyään.

Muistutuksena:

- Kesällä esitetty The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity on Netflixissä kokeellinen latecast, jonka viikoittainen julkaisu alkoi 7. syyskuuta.
- Minisarja Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man taas julkaistaan Amazonissa marraskuussa.