This entire message was copy/pasted into all 4 campaigns...which, was silly because this only applies to KOR.Dear all our Kickstarter backers,
First of all, please accept my sincere apology for causing such a considerable delay in fulfilling your books and rewards. Since you put a lot of trust in Digital Manga when you pledged for this campaign, my heart truly aches. Due to the fact that our Kickstarter-driven manga publishing was an unexplored project, that none of us had ever challenged before, we encountered multiple problems and difficulties that we could not fully foresee.
In regards to Kimagure Orange Road, we never would have expected for Matsumoto-sensei to be struck down by his life-threatening illness while the campaign was still ongoing and we ended up not being able to obtain his hand-drawn shikishi and other exclusive reward items as we had initially planned. Being, also, responsive to the needs and requests of all the backers, we have put a significant amount of our own resources into each campaign and that in turn has made our financial situation weakened.
Despite of all of the above, I am here to pledge that we will do our very best to fulfill our obligation and deliver your books and rewards as soon as we practically can.
You will be seeing all of your campaigned books / rewards coming to your door slowly but steadily in the near future.
Thank you very again for your continuing support.
Sincerely,
Hikaru Sasahara
President
Digital Manga, Inc.
I also do not approve of this line -
...we have put a significant amount of our own resources into each campaign and that in turn has made our financial situation weakened.
He's basically blaming Kickstarter supporters for the company being in financial ruin.