Thank you so much for answering my question openly!!
The first shoujo I ever read was scans of some really no one talks abt manga called ufo baby lol over years I spent most of my teens to early adulthood reading shoujo on manga rock. I understand piracy is not an issue in near future anywhere, still i think a poor kid also should be able to get hands on a shoujo manga 😅 but let alone poor most of us here see affording manga as a big privilege. And sometimes if manga is licensed you won't get scans, like i haven't seen any poe clan scans because it's licensed in English. And they cost my monthly electricity bill lmaoo. But there's an even bigger south east Asian market for manga
South Asian market is pretty decent for manga nowadays yet it's always jump titles, because exposure is through anime or Netflix, Netflix being so affordable in my country lesser than our cable tv connection since 2000s seemed pretty big deal for me, it's lowering the barrier for entry because there's also a good chunk of anime of all demos in it. Yeah entertainment is a privilege, it's not health care (not that Tht is free lol) but escapism from reality and time are also a privilege which everyone should afford. While I'm overjoyed shoujosei titles are getting licensing it's still mostly the American and some European market, i wish it's something accessible to global south through a digital platform like wsj which btw is really cheap. And not just few new titles, since they are well aware of classics and 90s shoujosei impact. But I'm not sure because all these are also spread across different magazines and not jump and subsidiaries so... not aware of the issue fully. Anyways thank you so much for answering me. I really love your twt it's very fun to see the titles and recs and ur reviews.