/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Gonna open a manga cafe in the UK

is this awesome? Y/N

[Anonymous No.]

I'm all for Makitsu's

[Anonymous No.]

enjoy ur chavs

[Anonymous No.]

Enjoy your manga getting dirty, ripped up, and shoplifted.

[Anonymous No.]

what. where?

[Anonymous No.]

Yeah. I'll walk in, camp there while reading all your manga, and leave without paying you a cent.

[Anonymous No.]

Everyone on /jp/ is opening a manga cafe.

In your area.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544254
First you'll need to buy a membership and then get a card. Then you'll pay again for "hours" inside, which will include a free drink.

There'll also be computers

>>1544248
Manchester

[Anonymous No.]

Just make an internet/gaming cafe but more weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.]

Manchester huh? That's pretty close

[Anonymous No.]

itll probably be shitty and smell of semen

[Anonymous No.]

good luck OP. If I was a masochist with excess funds I would do the same thing.

[Anonymous No.]

I'd rather start a gaijin kisaten in Tokyo.

[Anonymous No.]

does UK have yaoi cows?

[Anonymous No.]

I WILL TAKE THE HOUR TRAIN TO MANCHESTER AND SHIT ON YOUR DOORSTEP

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544349

They're less cow like.

[Anonymous No.]

Ganbate, OP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544244
Will it be a 24 hour manga cafe? And will you be charging extortionate prices?

[Anonymous No.]

I'd really think manga cafes are a horrible business idea, moreso outside of Japan.

How many people in Manchester like that kinda stuff?
How many people are you aware of that would actually be interested in coming in to read manga?
Now how many of those people would prefer it over buying the books themselves or reading them through other means(online, in libraries)?

And you've got this annoying ass barrier that will turn people off. Forced memberships and payments?

You can't even expect children who LOVE MANGA to be your customers if they have to register, since they'd likely require parental permission.

You won't last 3 days before you realize what a shitty move you did.

[Anonymous No.]

What's the appeal? Reading is a solitary activity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544299
>smell of semen
Mhhh the scent of semen..

[Anonymous No.]

Really fucking bad idea when the economy is shitting itself and half the banks are going bust.

[Anonymous No.]

Actually it's full of common variety weeaboos here. For maximum profit be sure to make it look ULTRA KAWAII and stock plenty of BLEACH

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544379
Not at first no.

>>1544402
Who said it's gonna be social? It's just like a library, except instead of having no manga and shitty computers, it will have tons of manga and good computers

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544424
You (?) are calling this a cafe. Cafes are social places.
Libraries are free.

[Anonymous No.]

I think your manga would get very dirty and icky in no time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544441
>>1544244
Get out of JP.

[Anonymous No.]

I think it's cool, I just wouldn't expect a rapid growth in business terms, but it would make a rather awesome cafe.
Hell, if the coffee and atmosphere is really good, you might even get more customers than your run off the mill weaboo.

[Anonymous No.]

Only a good idea if Green tea is available and the only books are in Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

I hope you're trolling because I honestly see this idea failing miserably.

Enjoy your bankruptcy and eventual suicide.

[Anonymous No.]

it's a decent idea i suppose, but it could go either way in terms of being successful

[Anonymous No.]

On the one hand, it's an untapped market. On the other, you may have a hard time getting enough customers anyway.

I think it would be cool if you got it working and opened up the idea for people in the West, so good luck with it.

[Anonymous No.]

Suggestion - Stock Western comics as well as manga - anything to widen your target audience should help you turn a profit.

[Anonymous No.]

You'll be sitting there a few weeks straight putting plastic film on all your manga, which is absolutely necessary if you dont want all your manga to be ruined within days.

[Shu No.]

http://www.cafemanga.co.uk/

40 mins away from me, never been there as you can smell teh weabos a mile away.

Maybe go there for research?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1544244
Do you have a target demographic? Most of the people who like manga are shut-ins, basement dwellers or NEETs, who would never visit a manga cafe. Underaged cancer can't be bothered to read, require parental permission or don't have money. Everyone else wouldn't be caught dead in a manga cafe because of the stigma it has.

My suggestion? Open a maid cafe (dunno how well this would work but maids are one of the fetishes that are "mainstream" and shared by both east and west) and slowly work the manga in with other reading materials if you're really set on the idea.

[Anonymous No.]

Call it a comic cafe. Alliteration is good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1545306
>>1545419
These are great advice.

[Anonymous No.]

Malaysianfag here, the 'mangacafe' over here is pretty popular among the teenage and young adults chinks, since most of them are readily translated to Chinese. They come in, pay 50 cents (0.14 US/ 0.08 UK cents) per manga/novel they read there. They also have a library or membership card system that allow people to rent out books and charge them for it. But I can see how this can be a problem when you're planning to make one in US or Europe since you have a smaller customer base. My suggestions:

-build one near schools/colleges where most of your customers will come from
-arrange you shelves in such a way that your clerk/manager can keep an eye on them
-don't limit yourself to manga; comics, novels, vidya, drinks, figurines, game top-up cards, etc should also be considered as an alternative source of income
-air freshener. Plenty of it.