Coming Soon From LiA: Custom Content – Lost in Anime

As I promised within the LiA fundraising thread, I’m on the point of launch a serious new part for the positioning and for myself – commissions. And to assist me nail down what that is going to appear to be, I would like your enter on just a few questions.  I’d be very grateful if you happen to share your ideas within the feedback under.

Within the first place, I’ve a few bigger initiatives in thoughts that I’m going to finance by the standard “all or nothing” crowdfunding technique (search for the launch of the primary one very quickly).  However there’s extra wiggle room will smaller ones – anime and manga sequence opinions, editorials, and many others.  With that in thoughts, I’d like to know your ideas on the next:

• Do you favor an all or nothing (pledges solely undergo when the funding aim has been reached) mannequin, or a pay as you go mannequin – for instance, if I used to be making an attempt to lift XXX {dollars} to fund a sequence overview of, say, Contact (simply for example)?
• Would you favor an open-ended system the place people can pledge in direction of any mission they’re concerned with, or a system the place I select particular titles/themes (sequence, manga, movies, and many others.) and begin a marketing campaign round these?
• What are your ideas on the thought of a “slot” system, the place each season I select one in every of every kind of mission and let supporters select to pledge in direction of it for that season?

Simply typically talking, I’d love any enter on the way to construction this as a result of it’s new territory for LiA.  Additionally, please be happy to recommend some particular campaigns you’d wish to see – anime, movies, essays, no matter you bought.  If I get the suggestions that there are particular subjects lots of people need, that makes it straightforward to begin a mission based mostly on these.

Along with the above, I’ll additionally offer individually-funded custom-tailored content material.  If somebody needs to fee me to put in writing one thing, lengthy or brief, that can all the time be an choice.  That half appears fairly easy to me – I set some primary charges, and also you contact me to rearrange no matter work you need to subsidize.  And for sure, any bespoke initiatives – be they individually or group-funded – will all the time carry advantages for the patrons concerned (exclusivity, acknowledgement, and many others.).

So to sum up, I see this as being broadly break up into two umbrella classes.  First might be crowdfunded initiatives, and second might be particular person patron commissions.  Determining how the specifics play out (particularly with the primary class) is the difficult half.

Thanks prematurely to your suggestions!