American Kitsune manga problems (Patreon)

My artist and I are currently struggling to figure out our printing situation.

We didn't realize it at the time, but when she first started creating the manga, she did so using the Shonen Jump magazine size instead of the Shonen Jump tankobon size, so our manuscript is too large and cannot be printed.

I am currently having someone fix this problem, though it's costing me a pretty penny. In the meantime, my artist and I are struggling to figure out how to get the correct print size so that we can publish the manga without hiring a formatter going forward.

Here are two different print sizes. The first one is called Sueisha Manga B and the second is Kodansha Manga B. TBH I don't know what the difference is outside of maybe Kodansha having a larger bleed space. It's really hard to figure out.

But I'll do my best to have this ready for publication before the year is out.