Just kinda go by where I think I'll look for a series first. A standalone by the first letter I think of when I see the title. All Gundam shows I own would be under G, to keep a franchise together on the shelf.

PlayOnline is the nightmare of gaming seasons past. And anytime I get the hankering to dabble in ffxi again, it becomes an all new exercise in excruciating pain to navigate anew.

It has some banger music though.

Is there a tally on the total number of penalties this race? I couldn't keep track with how fast they started coming.

Or more of the manga translated. We got one chunk licensed and released digitally years ago and then no more.

I sincerely hope so, and that it is successful. "More manga on the service" is a nice idea for you, but if it's all paywalled at exorbitant rates (I know you don't set these chapter costs), it doesn't mean anything to your longterm subscribers.

Every new update feels like it has less to do with supporting the subscription model the website started with. First it was giving part of a series as the sub and charging for additional volumes. Now it's 2.99 for a single chapter of manga?

Well, Azuki just bent the knee within 24 hour of this article and is selling MangaUp individual chapters for prices up to 2.99 each that I can see. Maybe worth adding a note to the article. I'm pretty disappointed.

It's obviously 8 large pizzas minimum.

I believe it's probably obvious to all people running these websites that there is a lack of sustainable solutions to this right now.

Possibly? It problem depends on the people involved. But that also becomes a complicated thing about how the money is distributed, something that's not going to be appealing to every website. But it's a conversation that's going to have to happen.

Each website asking people to donate should keep in mind that they aren't the only website people consume. So, what's the solution? I'm not sure there is a simple answer. Could these various sites federate in a loose way and share a single pot of donations people could contribute too?

Makes sense to some degree, but that meaning that there won't be shelf stock is disappointing. I get we live in a world now that on the corporate level hates physical media cuz they can't repeatedly charge us for it, you'd hope to see something made like this available for at least a year or two.

Welp, that's disappointing. Guess I'll never own it then. Barring paying something ridiculous on ebay. Though, I guess with Crunchyroll owning things now, not terribly surprising as they hate releasing physicals of anything they have rights to.