Fujojocast #7 – Give what’s due to Saezuru

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Fujojocast

Khursten Santos

17 episodes

8 months ago

Fujoshi. Fujojo. Call her whatever you want but Khursten is a happy otaku culture fan who happens to view the world with corrupted lenses -- fujoshi lenses to be precise. Fujoshi lenses give its user a special perspective that views the world through ships, armada, couplings, and everything related to yaoi and boys' love. This podcast serves as a supplement to Khursten's blog, Otaku Champloo, where she talks with friends about various topics ranging from BL to even just regular anime and manga.

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Fujojocast #7 – Give what’s due to Saezuru

Fujojocast

1 hour 25 minutes 50 seconds

11 years ago

Fujojocast #7 – Give what’s due to Saezuru

This is a podcast about the fans who love an author's work and a publisher who has been a bit of a hit and miss when it comes to maintaining the quality of their titles.

Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai (Twittering Birds Never Fly) is a work written by Yoneda Kou that features the relationship of high masochist yakuza boss and his loyal bodyguard. It is possibly the most popular title of Yoneda Kou to date, one that is loved dearly by many BL fans in Japan and abroad. It also has one of the most visually stunning cover designs in BL to date and these designs have been lauded by many fans.

In this show, I have Himi, owner of Com801 and organiser for the Licensing of Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai, an online fan campaign that seeks the support for a better quality release for this title. The title has been released by Digital Manga Publishing as part of their June titles. The online edition is available in Amazon US and e-manga and the print edition will be made available in September.

Throughout the show, Himi and I talk about the issues they raised in the campaign, particularly in the quality of translations and editing that DMG have done to some of their works. Itâ€s an interesting talk that really gets into the expectations of fans as consumers of a niche genre and perhaps some insights about translation, post-production work, and the manga industry.

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In the end, as fans who know that DMG publishes the largest amount of BL for us, we want to put our money on something worth it. No shoddy translations, lazy editing and cut up printing. We want DMG to set the same standards they have in their Tezuka titles for their BL titles as well.