Suggestion Bulbagarden: Project Manga and Music

[Ethan]

Ok maybe this will sound stupid and this thread will have many replies like this : :bash: but since in evkl's thread he said stupid ideas welcome then so it may be:


I recently started going through Onemanga, reading Naruto and Pokémon and I saw that in Pokémon the last chapter is vs Bellsprout and when I tried searching it at other places it turned out to be incomplete as well. And the result was: I have still not read it.

Suggestion: I realise that this will need a lot of time and effort but what about making another subsite like we have Bulbapedia and Bulbanews solely for putting up all the Pokémon mangas existing(I mean scans of course). Now, I am not sure about anysort of permission we may need to start a site or even if we CAN have such a site but anyways.
This is what I mean the site should be like.
1Main page-

2Manga Scan-
3-Pokémon Special-
-Ruby arc -Scans
-Gold arc -Scans
-Red arc -Scans
-Yellow arc -Scans

3-Others


2-Manga Info
-Timeline
-Basic info about various mangas
-Location info
-Character info
-Pokémon info

(phew. Took something to type this)

Next is Music. I realise it is basically impossible at the moment for any fan to find all Pokémon songs/music at the same place. I came to know this after a long(read three months) search for these and currently am having three gigs on a ftp. So basically I am currently dreaming of a place where we can find all the music from the world of Pokémon.
(Again I am not sure if this is possible.)

1Main page

2 -Japanese
2-English
3-Movie
3-Openings


2-Album info
3-Songs
3-Info
3-Lyrics
3-Singer info


So the main quetion:
Archaic, is this possible? And will you do this?
I have some other plans but I guess this is all I will be able to post at the moment.

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I have used a number system to arrange the pages since the bloody space doesn't work.

 

[$aturn¥oshi]

I'm fairly certain this can't really be legally done.

 

[Ethan]

Not sure. How do other Manga sites do it?

 

[Netto Azure]

You do know that it can be easily accessed in a site that I cannot talk about? >.>

 

[Ethan]

No I don't. And really I can manage just fine. But this suggestion was for Bulbagarden not for our own selves.

 

[evkl]

Yeah, we can have descriptive pages about all of this but actually having this hosted on our site would be an enormous liability--it'd be very illegal.

 

[Ethan]

Well then that clears it up.

 

[Archaic]

Not sure. How do other Manga sites do it?

Basically....they're doing so illegally, and most of them are only "getting away with it" because they've jumped through hoops to make it difficult for them to be sued, like making sure everything is hosted in some country which doesn't have the best relations with US or Japanese law enforcement.

Bulbagarden is however fully above board. IIRC, our servers are currently located in Texas. While we'd love to work together with the content owners to host this kind of material (it's my hope to one day offer a Crunchyroll style service for the Pokémon anime, fully legal), we're aware just how difficult if not impossible it would be to get such a deal arranged.