Thanks for the update! Sometimes we can trust yuri warriors, this is such a good manga so it would be a shame to have it end so soon

We're in the correct timeline... I'm so glad at least one got saved and I hope more in the future can get the support they deserve-

I don't know if there is any romance planned between the cupids but if there is I hope it's Koharu and Kanna

I preordered my copy and got it shipped on day one of release, I hope enough people have been following suit though it really, really shouldn't be up to overseas fans who can't even rely on an official translation.

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Glad that this is here at least, I've done my part on book walker but I hope that this has a Japanese fanvase as well so it manages to be sustained

Just seen a Twitter post by Inee, in English, thanking all overseas fans for their support.
Really hoping that the domestic fans get behind it too to keep the story going.

I hope this continues, ill definately keep buying new volumes for it

Just seen a Twitter post by Inee, in English, thanking all overseas fans for their support.
Really hoping that the domestic fans get behind it too to keep the story going.

This is the tweet:

There are no words to describe how moved I am by the movement of overseas LOVE BULLET fans to help increase volume sales. Since the book is in Japanese, I understand that this is a collective "vote of support" for my story, and for that I'm so grateful...!
I don't know what the future holds, but I'm going to continue working as hard as I can!!

It also has some artwork!

last edited at Sep 19, 2024 5:14AM

I genuinely wish I could be apart of the movement to buy the manga and show support... but due to third world country blues, I cant...

I really like this story and want to see it continue, If it ever comes out in english in the west however, Im 100% gonna buy it.

@Hypixion also that tweet was really moving, glad to be apart of this community...

Luckily, this series had a translation group from the beginning, so it had a second chance (delayed chapter 8, released a few short chapters on X to call for book purchases, otherwise, if other series were sold too low, they would definitely end at volume 2, with no chance to call for readers to buy the story anymore).

Many series only have a translation group after they are axed, so even if they buy to support, it will be difficult to revive.

It's also possible that the editor saw that this series has great potential, so they gave it another chance.

Many series are not suitable for Japanese tastes, but are quite suitable for foreign tastes. So if there is no group translating early, it will be easy for them to be axed before foreign people know and support them.

Hopefully the result will be good, so the manga can continue according to the author's plot.

Thank goodness Dynasty Scans exist T^T...
In before I couldn't help the authors, but now that I have a job and get paid, I'll be sure to buy some digital copies in the future.
To support the hardworking authors :)
And to read the mangas that I love too.

About the story for Love Bullet though, I hope that this series is about how cupids save romance using their bullets.
I would love to see how the cupids help people fall in love.
It would be so much fun to help tying knots to different people and become couples.
So I wouldn't mind if there isn't a love story plotline for the cupids, hahaha.
(Since they are supposed to be in a neutral character, nor that they should fall in love with anyone/cupid, is what I had on mind for the image of a cupid)

But we never know xD
Maybe there will be one?

Anyway, hopefully author could express whatever that has on mind and make this work serialized/continued :)

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bought a copy :)

I like it when the author draws the characters' eyes as little black dots, it kind of reminds me of Peanuts

Not me crying at work reading the latest chapter uu..

Any updates on how it's going? I can't access twitter ^_^'

Are you from Brazil?

Yeah I am and I'm guessing that you are too!
É triste não poder comprar esses mangás bons quando se é NEET e o real brasileiro vale nada

Looks to be going well

Yep, I am Brazilian...

Sério, cara... Aquele maldito Lex Luthor...

Inee's reaction to the sudden influx of western support is so wholesome.

Many series are not suitable for Japanese tastes, but are quite suitable for foreign tastes. So if there is no group translating early, it will be easy for them to be axed before foreign people know and support them.

Even when the story can appeal to a local audience, it's very easy for the serie to just not meet that audience, with how many mangas are published every month in Japan it's easy for one serie to get drowned in the mass. There might be people who would be interested in it, but just don't know it exist/don't read the specific magazine that publish it.
That goes doubly so for a Manga that doesn't rely on a stock plot like Isekai, since readers can't just say "it's [...] type of story with [...] gimmick, and easily spreads the word of mouth.
Dynasty-scans is a big site that focus on a specific type of content, meaning that basically every hardcore western yuri fan will eventually land there and knows about every new serie, when there are probably Japanese yuri fans who have no idea it does.

From Inee's tweets, the main issue seem to be lack of exposure, which thankfully the scanlators rectified.
Pretty shitty on the publisher's part to leave all the marketing to the mangaka, especially a newbie one.

From Inee's tweets, the main issue seem to be lack of exposure, which thankfully the scanlators rectified.
Pretty shitty on the publisher's part to leave all the marketing to the mangaka, especially a newbie one.

That's nearly always the main issue and part of why it's misleading to assume a story's axing is because of quality. In my experience, it's primarily about lack of marketing and finding an audience, first. It can become a game of luck. Similar issues on Webtoon, for example.

Authors have to do nearly all their own marketing and also hope their initial release isn't drowned out. It's probably exacerbated by having these manga judged by local physical sales.

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From Inee's tweets, the main issue seem to be lack of exposure, which thankfully the scanlators rectified.
Pretty shitty on the publisher's part to leave all the marketing to the mangaka, especially a newbie one.

Unfortunately a lot of signs point to this being the case. There weren't any ads given to Love Bullet anywhere vs. the subway flyers and even voice-acted PVs (!) that other Comic Flapper series got for their first volumes. We've seen the Comic Flapper account retweet some of inee's posts, but not to the extent that they religiously retweet some of the other authors' posts/doodles.

The manga is running in the same magazine as Hanamonogatari (the old lady yuri), which got axed a few months before Love Bullet started. The author of that manga revealed after she was axed that her editor from Flapper had basically told her the whole time the manga would fail, and she was never even followed by the official Comic Flapper account. And all that happened even after her first volume went viral and clearly managed to get good sales.

We don't think that the situation was as bad for inee, but her manga clearly wasn't on the list of manga Flapper wanted to push, leading to the current situation. Fortunately it seems like there might be a happy ending for this situation given how much the international fans have stepped up, but for a bunch of other yuri authors/author in general, the opportunity to save their series never came.

last edited at Sep 21, 2024 1:42AM

From Inee's tweets, the main issue seem to be lack of exposure, which thankfully the scanlators rectified.
Pretty shitty on the publisher's part to leave all the marketing to the mangaka, especially a newbie one.

Unfortunately a lot of signs point to this being the case. There weren't any ads given to Love Bullet anywhere vs. the subway flyers and even voice-acted PVs (!) that other Comic Flapper series got for their first volumes. We've seen the Comic Flapper account retweet some of inee's posts, but not to the extent that they religiously retweet some of the other authors' posts/doodles.

The manga is running in the same magazine as Hanamonogatari (the old lady yuri), which got axed a few months before Love Bullet started. The author of that manga revealed after she was axed that her editor from Flapper had basically told her the whole time the manga would fail, and she was never even followed by the official Comic Flapper account. And all that happened even after her first volume went viral and clearly managed to get good sales.

We don't think that the situation was as bad for inee, but her manga clearly wasn't on the list of manga Flapper wanted to push, leading to the current situation. Fortunately it seems like there might be a happy ending for this situation given how much the internaitonal fans have stepped up, but for a bunch of other yuri authors/author in general, the opportunity to save their series never came.

Wow that seems mean spirited from one or several workers at Flapper...

Wow that seems mean spirited from one or several workers at Flapper...

Their modus operandis is:
1- get an author with a fresh idea
2- don't promote the work whatsoever
3- complain about the lack of sales over the new series and kick the mangaka out the door
4- (???)
5- go back to 1

Wow that seems mean spirited from one or several workers at Flapper...

Their modus operandis is:
1- get an author with a fresh idea
2- don't promote the work whatsoever
3- complain about the lack of sales over the new series and kick the mangaka out the door
4- (???)
5- go back to 1

You're missing: then blame the failure on the fresh idea and make sure the next series we support is even more unoriginal. Plus some other steps.

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I noticed this popped up in my news feed (got myself a physical copy):
https://www.cbr.com/love-bullet-sell-out-release-worldwide-fan-support/

It was also reported on here: https://comicbook.com/anime/news/love-bullet-manga-cancellation-fan-campaign/

I hope we get to a second volume, but when that comes out we need to support immediately and not when it might get axed.