free hit counters
The Process Forum - View Single Post - Evil conversion(for the lack for better term)
View Single Post
Unread 10-24-2011   #5533
kyuven
Frequent Poster
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 350
Re: Evil conversion(for the lack for better term)

Quote:
Originally Posted by earthjade View Post
My experience has been that the Japanese are usually reluctant to directly talk about licensed properties. Which is kind of stupid considering the doujinshi cottage-industry makes its living from that.
Funny thing about that: if they reference the title of the source material on the cover, there are a lot of cases of the original works' name being blocked out.
And yeah Japan is pretty anal about that kind of stuff...where the U.S. sees "free advertising" the Japanese see "unwanted attention".
kyuven is offline   Reply With Quote