Jessica comments

I'm betting the majority of piracy is fan translations because you can find it in your native tongue. This is the modern era they should all have patreon accounts where foreigners can also donate. The actual manga in the stores around here is very limited not to mention you might have to wait years for some company to pick it up and translate and sell it. I would love and support a way to donate money to the teams of people that create the manga that never do make it to the US. (besides they would get a bigger share of profit since it would cut out the middleman needed to bring it overseas).

also I find that when you're younger you actually have more money to spend on stuff like manga because you don't have to pay for bills. I remember I used to spend $75-100 a month at the bookstore because I didn't have to pay for anything to survive. xP