mangachainweb site https://www.mangachain.jp/twitter JP https://twitter.com/mangachaintwitter EN https://twitter.com/Mangachain_engdiscord https://discord.gg/PSVev9Awhite paper JP https://www.mangachain.jp/mangachain_whitepaper_ver1.0.0.pdfwhite paper EN https://www.mangachain.jp/mangachain_whitepaper_en_ver1.0.0.pdfVision“Manga” is one of the strong contents as entertainment representing Japan. However, there are a lot of issues on the industry like pirates website, unclearness and low profit for manga creator. If all the matters won’t be solved, this will induce lack of manga creator which causes less opportunity of contents supply.
As mangachain, we will solve those issues by blockchain technology. We believe blockchain technology and tokenization is a high potential to change manga publishing industry. Therefore, we promote the project, mangachaian to provide more opportunity to manga creator and to be Japan as a strong manga culture that will creates new manga economy
What is mangachain?mangachain is an online comic platform to connect amateur manga creator and the enthusiastic comic reader without taking commission from middleman such as a publisher.
mangachain is powered by Ethereum blockchain to issue original token called MangaChain Token(MCT) that help monetize amateuar manga by reading their manga.
AnalysisManga is one of the leading content that Japan is proud of worldwide.
However, the manga publishing industry now has many challenges.
A remarkable example was the abuse of content by the "pirate site", there were many pirate sites illegally using Japanese manga contents all over the world than before, but since around 2018, the service "Manga-mura" Existence was reported in the news etc. largely, and as a result it became a factor to increase the number of users of manga village.
It is said that the monthly PV number of Manga Village has been browsed by a maximum of hundreds of millions of users, and the total damaged damage is said to be 320 billion yen.
By increasing the number of readers who use pirate sites, opportunities to buy manga have been reduced, and as a result the publishing market is gradually reducing.
Solution①How it works? (Incentive structure)Recent manga platform is a not fair enough for amateur manga creator. In point of reader’s view, it seems natural that they want to read a comic from the famous creator.
However, this also means an amateur manga creator does not have enough opportunity to be spotlighted.
Therefore, we solve this problem with mangachian.
Phase1 on mangachain, we will deliver core incentive structure to both comic creator and reader.
・Readermangachain user can read manga for free and get MCT by the action through read and find manga. "Find" means to find a high-potential manga earlier than any other users so if you find high potential manga, it deserves to get more MCT. This incentive structure makes a cycle that induces a user to be competitive to find and to read a new manga.
・manga creatorEnable to monetize manga by posting on the platform. Also, once a manga is posted and it's read by more people makes more MCT is given to manga creator.
②Transparency of Reward SystemExisting manga platform has uncertainty of the reward system for manga creator. Let's think about the publisher. How the profit is used besides manuscript fee and royalties. Also, think about a web manga platform. How is the subscription fee is returned to manga creator.
On mangachain, the profit from a reader is directly returned to manga creator. Although mangachain adopts a commission model as monetization, it is lower than any other existing platform and all commission fee and any return for both manga creator and reader is stored in blockchain so anyone can check.
③Feedback functionWe think the simplest way to get more manga fun is to read a manga by as many people as possible with their feedback.
This feedback has a positive effect to understand how reader feels and think about the contents which make improve the quality of manga itself. Therefore, mangachain is designed feedback function on manga contents and It will be able to function PDCA cycle for manga creator to make them popular.
④Purchase and RewardsPhase 2 on mangachain, manga creator will be able to post a paid contents. However, it is no difference compared to existing manga platform. Therefore, on mangachain, a user who purchases paid contents will be able to earn dividends from a part of the profit of paid contents. The dividends are distributed to a user depending on the number of paid contents are purchased and amount of MCT is hold on the wallet.
*Logic of increase MCT by the number of holding is explained at a different section.
From the above, to earn MCT as dividends is to be an incentive for the reader to support manga creator by the purchase of favorite contents and to build a relationship between manga creator and reader.
⑤Prevention of Unauthorized Contents UseConsidering circumstance of violation of contents use, it is difficult to completely protect manga contents on mangachian from the pirate website. However, it takes the advantage of reading contents through our platform due to mangachian incentive structure to earn MCT by reading. This is what we think the solution of protection of contents from any improper use.
Specificationmangachain is an ERC223 token standard.
Name: Mangachain Token
Symbol: MCT
Total Supply: 50billion
Type of Token: ERC223
Contract Address: 0x94b322df3a8206cef343bfd573378c353f2fa4ec
Unique features:
Roadmap2018 Q3 Registration & Airdrop
Incorporation
Scheduled to list on overseas exchanges Pre-sale
*Pre-sale or listing on Exchange will be considered under the Japanese regulation.
2018 Q4 Launch β version
2019 Launch official version
Start certification of professional manga creator in mangachain
Release “mangachain store” to enable selling products and eBooks
2020 To publish pepperbook on mangachain
Lease “mangachain scout” to seek editor and assistant
