Licensing headaches enumerated

Add to all that the fact that just about everything from the Big Three manga publishers (Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kodansha) are tied up exclusively by Viz and Del Rey, and that leaves mighty slim pickings for everyone else. (I assume Viz also controls everything from Hakusensha, another sister company to Shogakukan and Shueisha.) And then there are the unpredictable whims of the artists themselves, who have much more say than do artists in the U.S. (Something like the ugly Alan Moore/V for Vendetta divorce could never happen in Japan, because the artist would usually have veto power throughout the process.)