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BlackGoku03
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That's... crazy. I used to help TW with Naruto and then then joined them with their other projects like Death Note, Kekkaishi, and Mx0 but never came across this.
Or Viz could stop being so terrible and bring Shonen Jump Alpha to Europe. Or at least the UK, Kurita, Akito, Lain etc can dry their tears with translated volumes of Magi and TWGOK.
The translated scans are available before the public raws are released!
Though the public raws have been getting pretty great lately, in quality and speed, or maybe I'm just looking at the right places now.
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
The companies crack down once in a while and some shops get raided by the police, but people always end up finding alternatives.
Because of my particular role I know for a fact that people were trying to find out who I was in real life. I was very careful though, so no one ever did.
TW?
brotkasten
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Is it okay to mention groups? Because I'd like to know the truly bad ones.
The hell.
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
If you compete on the Big 3 then yeah, you need to get it out within about four hours of receiving the early raws. English audiences read it five days before Japan.
If we're talking about the Big 3 then Mangastream is the best way to go. They had to deliberately slow themselves down because they were getting too much heat from Viz, but they're fans and they actually lose money on their server costs.
Silver Spoon's french press kit is the shit.
I want this.
curlyfriski
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Infinite Justice
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Toriyama's World IIRC (they were the defacto group for Naruto/Bleach anime in the day)
and that sounds like some fucking mafia shit :O
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
Oh, they haven't been active since 2006. That was way before my time.
It definitely got crazy around the time that MangaReader went all hostile takeover on Mangastream. I could tell you some fucking stories about the shit that was going on around that time. It was cyber warfare and calling the cops down on your enemy's suppliers and all that shit.
A Huge Battleship
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Mysterious Girlfriend X 73
Santa outfits can't save this series
Bokura no Henbyoushi 1-7 (END)
Collection of short stories by Toume Kei (Yesterday o Utatte etc), virtually all of which had unsatisfying endings. Despite that, I enjoyed them, not least because they were generally a bit different.
Atashi no Banbi 1-4 (END)
Thought I'd break with tradition and try a (short) bog-standard shoujo featuring a smart girl and a smart-ass guy. Not sure whether I lucked out because this wasn't actually too bad, largely because of the characters.
Santa outfits can't save this series
and they're awful anyway.
Bokura no Henbyoushi 1-7 (END)
Collection of short stories by Toume Kei (Yesterday o Utatte etc), virtually all of which had unsatisfying endings. Despite that, I enjoyed them, not least because they were generally a bit different.
Atashi no Banbi 1-4 (END)
Thought I'd break with tradition and try a (short) bog-standard shoujo featuring a smart girl and a smart-ass guy. Not sure whether I lucked out because this wasn't actually too bad, largely because of the characters.
I wouldn't say both got completely screwed in the West, since certain parts of the West received both series to completion.
He means "In English speaking countries". Get your Continental Europe privilege out of here.
BassForever
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Jebus!
My apologies, I should have said "North America". I know Fist of the North Star was huge in France.
Ignis Fatuus
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To be perfectly honest I retired because of the stress. I still can't talk about the craziest things I've seen and done in scanlation.
BlackGoku03
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Yup. Toriyama's World. OG site. You might still find our stuff. I have a backup of the FTP server somewhere.
I'm really interested in hearing more scanlater mafia stories.
I tried to learn French in school, it was completely impenetrable. I'd probably have an easier time going all in and learning Japanese.
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
I once wanted to write a book about all of this but it would have been a massive undertaking and I'd probably have to burn a lot of bridges to do it.
By now I think I probably lost most of the important chat logs and the details aren't fresh anymore.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Generally it isn't. That particular group is defunct, however.
ColossalLazy
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Make a manga about it, Scanlator Man.
The french dub of the anime was so bad.
The voice actors did not care about it (they thought it was a shitty show) and they changed the dialogues because they thought it was too violent...
Stupid puns everywhere, Raoh is now Raoul... My god...
Sounds right up my alley. Even if the girl doesn't look like a girl half the time.
There's no such thing about statute of limitation for murder. You're stuck with that one forever!
I would read the fuck out of this
Would read.
Woah, I knew the situation with those aggregate sites was bad, but I never thought it's organised like this.
I am convinced any sane person turns insane if exposed to that long enough. I always thought the stress that made you quit was 'just' the self-/group-imposed desire to maintain high quality while being fast as well.
So when do we get the scanlation manga, Molester Man/Bakuman style?
Hey consider some of us continental Europeans who aren't blessed like Italy and France are, too :-( I'd love to have German Magi and Shingeki no Kyojin. There is TWGOK, Vinland Saga and some of the more popular stuff like the Big Three, FMA and Yotsuba but that's not enough. I'd even settle for english SJ Alpha releases for now.
quatrekids
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Scanlator shit in general is always shady, which is why I never pay attention to that stuff.
Ignis Fatuus
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I actually considered that too but I don't have an ounce of drawing skill and most of the same problems apply.
I will say this though, a lot of blood sweat and tears have gone into protecting Red Hawk series from profiteers. I wish every reader knew just how much work it takes to keep a group competitive like that.
All of my old colleagues at the administrator level are still there. The big boss is an Indonesian guy with an inhuman tolerance for this sort of bullshit.
Then again it was specifically my portfolio to handle the scanlator wars and the aggregate sites and the informant network.
I think I once described it as "descending into a pit full of monsters, wrestling with them in the darkness, and trying to emerge unchanged."
BlackGoku03
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Not when I was doing it. We didn't make money lol.
ABAJ is an injoke amongst me and my mates. Love that word.
I see.
I'm kinda sad about that, especially for FotNS. I grew up on it and I thought it was big everywhere.
Black Republican
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is btooom worth the 50 chapters? or stick to the anime?
Dedication Through Light
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The anime has an inconclusive end so youd have have to go to the manga anyway.
Memento_Mori15
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You guys were right. I read the first 60 chapters last night and went to sleep pretty depressed. Gonna read more tonight though. I should have bought that anti-depressant...
I far as I can figure, he's catching a ball gently by imagining it as a girl's behind.
They aren't dead, they are just using the Manga Panda banner more often now.
Scanlation Groups = Ok
Links/Domain Names/Urls/Names for download sites/or just mentioning to someone on how to download scanlations for free = No
ColossalLazy
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Soul Eater 106
lol Maka was bailed out by dad. And here comes Kishin.
lol Maka was bailed out by dad. And here comes Kishin.
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