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246 pgs. Another edit finished, another magazine tossed into the recycling bin. And yet the pile of mags waiting to be scanned never gets any smaller. Indeed, just when you think you're making progress clearing out the mags cluttering your home by the box-load, you "accidentally" buy some more. In your head, you know what you're doing is abhorrently wrong, but just like this duck, your body has a mind of its own and your finger clicks the "buy it now" button before your brain has a chance to stop it. You hang your head in shame. This is the scanner's own private hell. -
Retromags Presents! Famitsu Issue 1369 (March 12, 2015) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: kitsunebi Edited By: kitsunebi Uploaded By: kitsunebi Follow us on...
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Retromags Presents! Comptiq No.235 (December 2001) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: kitsunebi Edited By: kitsunebi Uploaded By: kitsunebi Follow us on...
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The article points out the reasons. Paper is heavy and can't be shipped on the refrigerated trucks that most of their stuff arrives on. This shouldn't be news to anyone living in America, which abandoned print media ages ago for the same reason (high distribution costs). Japan's more compact geography allowed it to survive a bit longer, but this is the inevitable outcome. I pity the smaller municipalities that don't have access to a bookstore, though, as despite the non-affordability of distributing paper media, it's still hugely popular in Japan. I've said it before, but the bookstore in my town is probably the most popular and heavily trafficked business we have, to the extent that they have to hire parking attendants to direct the heavy traffic in their parking lot. Without convenience stores to get their books, mags, and comics, I'm not sure what kind of change will occur in the more rural areas without access to a bookstore.
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Convenience stores here have a magazine aisle, more or less. It's about half the length as a normal aisle, since it also accommodates the ATM and copy/fax machine. But it has lots of mags and comics.
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Retromags Presents! Famitsu Issue 1367 (February 26, 2015) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: kitsunebi Edited By: kitsunebi Uploaded By: kitsunebi Follow us on...
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So it seems the editors of Famitsu thought that people would like to see Persona 5 on the cover. I mean, sure - on a NORMAL day, that might be the case. But how they decided to go with Persona 5 when they had this in the same issue, will forever be a mystery: This is Tsuri Bit. Which means "fishing bit." Note the fishing rods? Wikipedia tells me that this jpop idol group formed out of a desire to sing, dance...and fish. Their concept: You can't even make this stuff up. Based on views, this seems to be their biggest hit, from around the time this magazine came out (the song's title is "I'm going to dance, fish" presumably meaning "I'm going to dance and fish," or maybe "I'm going to dance, then fish" and not someone addressing a fish and telling it that they're going to dance. Though I suppose it could be that...) -
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https://soranews24.com/2025/02/12/thousands-of-convenience-stores-in-japan-to-end-sale-of-print-magazines-this-spring/ Japan is going to stop selling magazines at over 10,000 convenience stores this spring. As the article points out, many places are without a dedicated bookstore, and convenience stores their only source for print media. It's hard to stress to someone living outside of Japan just how important a part of the distribution chain convenience stores are. They're a part of people's everyday lives. It's not just the fresh food and snacks (I'd be willing to bet that more people "eating out" get their lunch at a convenience store than all other restaurants combined.) You can also buy music, movies, and video games. You can buy tickets to concerts and sporting events. You can pay for your utility bills there. You can pay for your amazon or yahoo auction orders there. And you can buy your comics and magazines there, some of which are released weekly. Or at least, you can do so for a bit longer, before they end distribution of mags at 40% of all locations of the two biggest chains of convenience stores. This is going to be a huge financial blow to publishers, and I have to wonder if it will mean the end of all but the most popular titles. Japan is, demographically, one of the oldest (the oldest?) countries on Earth, so I'm, not sure I see everyone's mom and dad (and grandparents) switching to online apps for their magazine reading.
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This belongs in the buying/selling/trading forum. A thread title that gives at least SOME indication about what is being discussed wouldn't hurt, either.
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Scanned by J of Oz For once I can't show you a before and after comparison of the raw vs edited pages, since I already deleted the raw files - oops. Suffice it to say, what you'll find here once again is an edit of the mag that looks light years better than the hot-off-the-scanner pages did, and probably looks better than it did when they were hot off the press. Can I get a George Takei "Oh my!"??? -
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I had a certain song playing through my head while flipping through this mag, looking for my random "about this file" comment. The version on Youtube is from an older version of the 5th grade elementary school English textbooks, and has been updated for the newer ones with new music and lyrics (same refrain and melody, though), but the newer version isn't on Youtube, so far as I know. But it's ironic? fitting? that the song (Yokoso! Welcome to Japan) was stuck in my head when I came across a page featuring this toy: A twin-barrel battleship gun emplacement...that couldn't be more Japanese if it tried. I think foreigners who have never been to Japan watch some anime or some wacky Japanese commercials or whatever and think that Japan must be some zany place fully of quirky people doing quirky things like they saw once on a game show or in a video of an idol concert in Akihabara or something. But it's actually a really quiet, ordinary place. Except for the cuteness. Everywhere you look, CUTE CUTE CUTE. The kawaii aesthetic is everywhere. Please observe exhibit A, a collection of roadside construction barriers. So why not make cute anthropomorphic guns? If you absolutely positively HAD to be shot out of the sky, wouldn't you prefer it be by something adorable? -
Retromags Presents! Famitsu 1365 (February 12, 2015) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: kitsunebi Edited By: kitsunebi Uploaded By: kitsunebi Follow us on...
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VGHF Digital Library doesn't credit scanners
kitsunebi replied to kitsunebi's topic in Magazine Talk
It's funny how the Internet Archive catches all the blame for reuploading our scans without acknowledging where they came from, but that's actually not true a lot of the time. Many people who upload our scans to IA upload the files "as is," meaning that the Retromags page at the end of the file is still present. That's actually the entire reason that page is there in the first place - it isn't so people downloading a mag at Retromags know they downloaded a mag at Retromags It's so Retromags gets some free advertising every time someone uploads one of our mags elsewhere. That's one reason I created a custom version of the Retromags end credit page that also identifies the scanner and editor of the mag - something I wish everyone else here would do as well, since without those credits, even if the RM end page is intact, no one downloading our mags anywhere but at Retromags will be able to know who actually created the scan. (I also removed the "made with love by Retromags" line, since...well, we've been over this - RM had nothing to do with making it - though I've kept the rest of the RM advertisement in place.) Of course, even IF we can get everyone around here using a modified RM credit page that also credits the scanner/editor, the VGHF removes the Retromags credit page from the scans they use, something not even the Internet Archive's Official Retromags Scrape-Bot™, Doomguy2000 does. -
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This is the final issue of Games for Windows. It could also be considered the final issue of Computer Gaming World, since that's what it was before they (unwisely) changed the name. And I'd like to say it's the final issue needed to complete our collection of this title, but unfortunately we're still missing issue 5. Phillyman owns it. It's in a box he has in storage. Pester him if you want to see it scanned. Don't worry, there's nothing he likes more than a good pestering. I for one am glad to be done editing issues of this title. I scanned 15 issues out of GfW's 17 issue run, and every single one of them had an obscene amount of elements spread across both pages, forcing me to edit them together as a single image to ensure perfect joins in two-page view before splitting them back apart for the CBR. This issue had 64 pages that had to be joined. And it's only a 100 page mag! I shake my fist at you, GfW art director, whoever you were...- 2 comments
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Retromags Presents! Games for Windows Issue 17 (April 2008) Database Record Download Directly! Scanned By: kitsunebi Edited By: kitsunebi Uploaded By: kitsunebi Follow us on...