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Dovac retires from running Yande.re – taken over by Checkmate

Dovac retires from yande.re. Checkmate (anime-sharing) has to pay for all of it now. 太っ腹!

2013-08-24 12_24_09-_izumi tsubasu _ yande.re Dovac writes: “Before everyone freaks out, I’m not retiring yande.re. I’m retiring FROM running/paying for yande.re. [quoting from imouto.org/2013/08/23/yande-re-retirement/]

I’ve decided to hand off the site to Checkmate, a trusted member of the site. You might have known him from 3 years ago when he offered to help host a mirror for a long period when I was unemployed. Transfer of the server billing and domain name is in progress so I will not have any more input in the development of the site.

As some are aware, I’ve started my own startup (sekaiproject.com) and have been in Japan for 9 days working on getting content creators to use my startup’s platform. I’ve been successful in getting parties interested in using the platform, so I have decided to proceed with full force with my plans of crowdfunding Japanese culture and goods to the overseas market.

Without running yande.re/oreno.imouto.org/moe.imouto.org I would not have gotten the experience I needed to see that the industry in Japan really needs a new method of getting their works overseas at an affordable cost.

By allowing the fans to pay for localization, printing costs, licensing fees of various goods before a product would be released overseas, it would allow Japanese companies to enter the market with much less risk. With less risk it would mean they would be much more willing to release experimental and innovative goods.

Anyways, in the end thank you for reading this long post and I hope that when my startup is ready you would be willing to support it.” [imouto.org]

If you don’t know already, yande.re is one of those very expensive sites that host a HUGE amount of very high quality HD scans of anime/VN/manga/everything pics from all sources. Would be good to see how sekaiproject will spin out. Getting the western fans to pay the costs upfront (including paying for the licensing fees) will make a huge difference in negotiations. And doujins is the best place to do these kinds of things. So all the best with that!

Tay

I'm the Fuwanovel community admin and a big fan of Visual Novels. The easiest way to get a hold of me is via a PM on the Fuwanovel Forums, by twitter (@ArchmageTay), or by email.

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Cheng
10 years ago

“By allowing the fans to pay for localization, printing costs, licensing fees of various goods before a product would be released overseas, it would allow Japanese companies to enter the market with much less risk.”

Great suggestion.

Yue
Yue
10 years ago

Never knew about Yande.re , but I was visiting a website that’s similar http://konachan.com/post

ohyaa
10 years ago
sanahtlig
10 years ago

I noticed that Sekaiproject.net merged into Sekaiproject.com. Not sure how I feel about that. Seems like they’re trying to use the popularity of the School Days fan translation to kickstart an unrelated business that may not even involve the old translation team.

Xrave
Reply to  sanahtlig
10 years ago

tell me about it. that leaves me confused as well. What happened to the old School Days translation project Sekai Project?

Xrave
10 years ago

hm. i just realized. won’t Sekaiproject, when complete, try to murder Fuwanovel?

Aaeru
Reply to  Xrave
10 years ago

well dovac is a hypocrite, but he wont do that unless i upload their stuff (if they do VNs) which i dont anyway.

The Friend
10 years ago

Aaeru

Homura or Meguka?