Starting Wednesday, major publishing firm Kodansha Ltd. will make new manga installments digitally available in English worldwide on the same day they¡¯re released in Japan.
Kodansha hopes the business decision will help curb the increasing threat to its overseas sales posed by bilingual anime fans known as ¡°scanlators¡± who translate content and make it widely available.
In collaboration with Crunchyroll, a popular U.S.-based website that streams Japanese anime, the simultaneous release project will use the site¡¯s platform to release new installments for 12 popular Kodansha series, including the smash-hit ¡°Shingeki no Kyojin¡± (¡°Attack on Titan¡°), ¡°Fairy Tail¡± and ¡°Uchu Kyodai¡± (¡°Space Brothers¡°).
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