>Do monthly look at non-porn Touhou releases
>see this
Does Spanish just naturally translate easier from Japanese compared to English?
There's two whole pages of Spanish stuff meanwhile there's been a grand total of four English translations in the past month. The fact that there's stuff like any of Zounose's works not being translated is a travesty.
I don't think it's Toehoe that's reclining, it's the english community.
Are you talking about new stuff?
Spanish translations are usually done by mexicans from english to spanish and they aren't good in neither of them.
>>14326535
Tohoe esta reclinando
Zounose hate thread？
>>14326535
Are you sure those Spanish translations don't already have English translations that they're using? Of course when I see only a Spanish translation for something I feel bad.
>>14326535
this >>14326710
Those Spanish translations are most likely translated from English.
>>14326535
>English translations
Who cares about translations.
Just learn Japanese.
The bigger problem is that there are no more scans anymore.
For the past 2 months there have been almost no Touhou scans whatsoever.
And it's not like there isn't anything to scan; we had Shuuki Reitaisai 2 and Kouroumu recently, where literally hundreds of Touhou doujinshi were released, both H and Non-H.
How many have been scanned? Zero.
People don't scan Touhou anymore, and that worries me greatly.
Translations aren't an issue, you can make them anytime; doujinshi books however disappear quickly, and if there isn't anything to translate from, then that's a problem.
I'd be scanning stuff day and night, if only I was living in Nipponland and had the possibility.
Unfortunately the shipping costs kill any chance of me doing so.
Meanwhile there are so many lazy fucks who just sit of their asses and wait for others to scan, while they have an easy access themselves.
I mean, just look at the traffic on sad panda for example, more than half of IP's are jap.
Why are they there? To read and fap to stuff obviously. But do they scan anything, even though it's available right there in the nearest store for them? Well, considering there have been almost no Touhou scans as of months; I'd say no, they don't.
It's almost depressing sometimes, when I browse sites like surugaya and see a single copy of a book I've been waiting for years now, available. It's right there, often times at the price of a single donut. So close and yet so far away.
>>14328227
There is a lot of stuff to translate. we won't run of touhou material any time soon. Specially all that touhoutoddlerconI'm in Japan right now, I could get some stuff and them scan them when I come back to my country in around one year but only if I get good translations for the stuff I want. Want to trade?
>>14328227
why not just use a proxy service then to get it?
>>14328510
>There is a lot of stuff to translate. we won't run of touhou material any time soon.
That's what I'm talking about. Once the raw is out translations are not a problem, you can get any stuff translated anytime you want; there is no time limit, even stuff that's several years old.
The books themselves however are very time limited.
Once they're gone, it's almost impossible to find them.
>I'm in Japan right now, I could get some stuff and them scan them when I come back to my country in around one year but only if I get good translations for the stuff I want. Want to trade?
Uh huh, you're in Japan for a year and you can't even read very basic Japanese? You know the kind that's mostly used in doujinshi? How will you survive there for a year?
Joking aside, if I had a single yen everytime someone tells me they have the book I want, and they'll get it scanned next day/week/month and then years later it's still not scanned; I could buy quite a few doujinshi books.
>>14328559
>Unfortunately the shipping costs kill any chance of me doing so.
>>14328227
>being this self entitled
If you didn't pay for it, you don't deserve it. Everything else, be thankful that people take the time and risk prosecution to upload things for you. Many of these artists are poor as fuck and work their arses off to be able to build up a fanbase of loyal patrons, and here you are, a disgusting fucking leech.
>>14328583
>Uh huh, you're in Japan for a year and you can't even read very basic Japanese?
Yes. Hopefully I will get better over the year but reading Japanese is pretty hard. I know hiragana and katakana, a few kanjis but far from being able to read manga but more than enough for going to the supermarket, arcades, second hand stores, etc.
>You know the kind that's mostly used in doujinshi?
Some of them use simple japanese like the one from children books, others are heavy in kanji and not only that but also sometimes the handwritting makes it hart for someone not very familiar to understand.
>How will you survive there for a year?
I have lived and worked in Japan for a short period of time in the past. Most of the time I was just working so I had very little time to practice but I could do all every day things as most of them don't require talking or reading much.
>Joking aside, if I had a single yen everytime someone tells me they have the book I want, and they'll get it scanned next day/week/month and then years later it's still not scanned; I could buy quite a few doujinshi books
I could take photos as proof but I'm not gonna take them to a public place and scan them no matter what. Also I don't plan to spend money on a scanner while I'm here unless I find a very good deal on a second hand store what is unlikely. People don't seem to have multifunctional printers at home and even if they have I don't think I have seen one on a second hand store.
>>14328227
>lazy fucks
>meanwhile I don't want to do the work of making enough money to do it myself
Thanks vn generals for bringing these retards to this board.
>no scans for months
>"panda"
And even then, there were 111 in the last 30 days.
Go fuck yourself.
>2015
>thinks things get uploaded in one day
You're obviously new here. See point 1.
>>14328672
>If you didn't pay for it, you don't deserve it
I want to pay for it, but I'm not going to pay $30 for something that others who have easy access to can get for $2-3.
>Many of these artists are poor as fuck
We're talking about books that have been sold out for a long time here.
They're simply not being sold anymore and they never will be, so getting them scanned won't take away money from the artist.
>and here you are, a disgusting fucking leech
Maybe you should stop projecting?
As of now, I got almost a hundred books scanned by either commissioning others, offering translations and bounties, or buying digital copies.
But there's only so much I can do, and not everything is available digitally. If it was this whole thing wouldn't even be an issue.
>>14328716
>meanwhile I don't want to do the work of making enough money to do it myself
I'm doing as much as I can.
And how much have you done exactly?
>And even then, there were 111 in the last 30 days.
Maybe if you count all the different language translations, which usually make up like 70-90% of these uploads.
>thinks things get uploaded in one day
What the hell are you on about?
Nevermind the two recent Touhou events, it's not difficult to look through the online stores and pixiv previews to see just how many content eventually never sees the light of the day.
I don't expect every book to get scanned immediately as soon as it gets released, but it usually never is, even after a long time. And the sad part is some of those books are even still available for cheap if you live in Japan, but no one bothers to scan them.
>>14328812
Well, I'm in Japan, I'm not asking for money (I don't even want any kind of money as I don't want any chance of being caught). All you need is to get some stuff I want translated and patience. I can send low quality photos but you will have to wait one year for proper scans. Maybe just leave this for the last month I'm in Japan so I can see what I can find for cheap in my region or allow a greater amount of time so I have more time to hunt down good bargains in multiple locations. I just really don't want to get in any kind of trouble as I don't want to hurt my chances of coming back to Japan.
>>14328887
>All you need is to get some stuff I want translated and patience.
That's fine, I can wait.
I'm not much of a professional translator or editor, but I did get a few things translated before.
Depends on what and how much you want me to translate.
The thing is, there are a bunch of older books I'm really interested in seeing scanned, they're really cheap, but in most cases, there's only a single second-hand copy available.
And the're only available through an online store.
So I'm not sure how possible it would be for you to get them.
They'll definitely be gone if we wait a year for the last month you're there though.
Other than that, any other doujinshi book you get as long as it's Touhou and hasn't been scanned before, is good.
I'm not sure what trouble you're worried about.
I don't think buying doujinshi will get you in any trouble, and I really don't think there's any way anyone can find out you've been scanning them or even care for that matter.
Not to mention you said you'd only scan them after coming back.
Also, if you don't mind me asking, this has nothing to do with anything, just out of pure curiosity, what kind of job in Japan are you doing?
>>14329000
I don't think I will get in trouble for buying doujinshis but I might get in uploading them. I also don't have a scanner. The chances are small but I don't want to risk. Also I would like to avoid ordering online as I don't want anything too weird on my mailbox. Non-H should be OK.
Also I'm not exactly working. I'm being paid to do what I'm doing but unlike the last time I was here I don't think this qualifies as a job. It os an occupation I think. That leaves few options but I would rather avoid getting too many details since 4chan observation power can be scary and if our deal get set I will be posting photos from time to time so the least info they have about me the better. I'm hopping people will just assume the most crazy possibilities and ignore the obvious one.
That said my money is limited and I have other interests so I won't be fully dedicated and bring thousands of doujinshis with me on my suitcase. I plan to bring them concealed so make a list of what you want and I will hunt them in my free time. I might do the same. Maybe start with a very short doujinshi. How about a six page story to begin with? I could hunt down the doujinshis you are looking for and if I find one I take a picture and send you, them once you deliver the translation I will buy it. Or you deliver a translation and I will buy it on the spot when I find it.
I've wanted to buy all of Ginji's works but they're nowhere online.
So far I only managed to snag three off suruga-ya.
>>14329128
>Using Exhentai for non-h touhou doujinshi
what do you use?
>>14329076
Here, I lost track of time and it is over 3:30 so I need to get shit done, and a little of sleep. See you latter.
>>14329076
>Also I would like to avoid ordering online as I don't want anything too weird on my mailbox.
This is exactly why I mentioned it, since I don't know what your situation looks like.
Additionally, the site's only in Japanese and you mentioned you can mostly read very basic stuff, so getting through all the forms might be an issue.
I myself have never bought anything from them - they won't even let you if you're not living in Japan - so I can't really help you with that either, as I don't know how the whole process works there.
>Non-H should be OK.
They're all H, I'm afraid. That's the kind I'm mostly interested in.
But don't worry about it too much. I've been talking with some other people on maybe, possibly getting some of them scanned, so if you can't order online, you can focus on getting the ones you can find at regular stores.
>I would rather avoid getting too many details since 4chan observation power can be scary
>if our deal get set I will be posting photos from time to time
I was just curious if maybe there was some way to get work in Japan that doesn't involve teaching English somewhere in a bigger city that would let you have access to all the good stuff, but I understand if you don't want to reveal anything.
Oh well, maybe one day I'll find a way. Probably not though.
And it's fine, you don't have to post any photos.
>make a list of what you want and I will hunt them in my free time.
I'll be fine with most of the stuff that fits the criteria, really.
Since I'm not sure how many specific titles you'll be able to find if you just search at stores locally.
Basically, I'm only interested in doujinshi that are,
- Touhou
- H
- not scanned yet
as for the content as long as it's not futa, scat, yaoi genderbend or furry, it should be fine, but I do have a preference for loli.
>Or you deliver a translation and I will buy it on the spot when I find it.
Fine, I'll see what I can do.
I'll try doing the translation for you and if it you're satisfied with it, then we'll see what you can find.
>>14329547
>>as for the content as long as it's not futa, scat, yaoi genderbend or furry, it should be fine,
So you're crying out for dull vanilla or yuri shit, of which there are literally thousands of scanned 2hu doujins already, that you could never get through?
You're the worst kind of person. If I had access to someone in Japan to buy shit for me, I'd at least be aiming for the niche shit that gets scanned maybe once a year, not the mountains of identical garbage put out with a total lack of creativity.
Thank god for the popularity of places like DLsite and DMM.
>>14329547
You could try this:
http://exhentai.org/g/714587/b5fcf414b0/
I think it is a bit too extreme to have a good chance of being translated and for some reason translators seems to ignore Ikuta Takanon, even the more vanilla works. There is a Toranoana and a Mandarake stores in the city, I will check them when I get free time and it is not raining.
>>14332260
Oh, there is a melonbooks and an animate store as well. I think I can find some stuff on those.
>>14332278
>>14332260
Seems like weather will be better on thursday. If everything go alright I will tell what I found. I will try to take pictures but usually photos are not allowed on those places.
>>14332260
disgusting
>>14328227
>I mean, just look at the traffic on sad panda for example, more than half of IP's are jap.
I know this is an old post, but I want to point out those are probably actual Japanese people who aren't going to care about scanning for foreigners.
>>14332260
Oh, I forgot to specify that i'm asking only the Ikuta Takanon one for start. It is the 7 pages one.
>>14326535
Sorry for the late response.
>>14332260
>>14337849
This particular book will actually be getting translated by someone already.
Though I can't exactly tell you when it'll be done - it might even take a while - but I don't want to race with him to get the translation out sooner, since we sorta work together to get stuff done, so it wouldn't look good for me.
>>14336892
>more than half of IP's are actual Japanese people
>aren't going to care about scanning for foreigners
If most of the traffic are actual Japanese people, then it isn't exactly "for foreigners", now is it?
They go there to read the scans, but where are they scans gonna come from, if no one makes them?
>>14339554
Unless you just want raw text, without any editing, typesetting or uploading to sadpanda.
>>14328689
wha... how can survive without multifunctionals, impossible.
>>14339554
The Japanese using exhentai are not the type of people who buy the books. If they bought the books, they wouldn't be using exhentai, they'd just get everything they want at conventions and stores.
>>14339554
The Japanese who use exhentai and nyaa and all the other western things are just piracy leeches, barely any contribute to it at all. It's one of the reasons why Japanese companies have started sending the DMCAs.
>>14339554
Really, them I will choose something else from Hinaprin. I choose that particular story because it was just 7 pages so it would be easier for you.
>>14339554
Sorry but I won't go to the store tomorrow. Something good came up and I won't be able to go there. But neither you nor me are in a hurry anyway so I think it is okay right?
>>14341274
>But neither you nor me are in a hurry anyway so I think it is okay right?
Indeed, there's no rush, so take your time.
I brought a few C88 doujins from Nipponland back home, but only scanned one. It's really a bother, takes a lot of time, especially if you also edit the lot. Basically scanning and editing and uploading one doujin takes an entire evening after work, or longer, so it's not really worth my time.
>>14345142
Then don't edit.
The translators can edit if they care enough.
Just scan that stuff as fast and shitty as possible, no one will care and it'll still be better than no scans at all.
Or at the very least share which books you have, so we can pick like 2 or 3 most desirable, and you can take as much time as you want to scan them eventually.
>>14345142
>Basically scanning and editing and uploading one doujin takes an entire evening after work, or longer, so it's not really worth my time
No one is saying you have to scan the whole thing in one go.
You can scan even as little as a single page per week or something, still better than nothing.
And don't bother with editing.
Protip: you can filter languages in the settings
>>14328812
>>14328672
Throw me some links to those books.
I'll get them and scan them.
>>14345142
Unless you post the links on where to buy every single one of those doujins, it is literally worth the time of thousands of people.
I could purchase some and scan them if you post the links.
For some reason, no one ever takes me up on this. I am beginning to think that /jp/ is only mostly aware of what has already been scanned.
>>14346049
I appreciate the thought Anon, but this is about more than just a few old books.
It's about the fact that people just don't scan Touhou doujinshi anymore in general.
Every few months there's a huge event where hundreds of new books get released, yet barely a few end up getting scanned.
There's only so much me and you can do when no one else seems to care and just waits for others to scan.
The real issue here is to get more people to scan and share stuff.
But if you still want to scan something, just get whichever book you like, I'm not very picky and there is so much material left unscanned that as long as it's Touhou I'll be happy to see it.
I'm trying my best to get some stuff out myself and convince others to get involved, but against the torrent of new releases it just feels like fighting a forest fire with a glass of water.
>>14338083
jeje
>>14346049
>>14346312
Take a look at a few that are on my list if you like.
Maybe you'll find something that strikes your fancy.
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI38920
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI32799
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI64521
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI63131
http://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1022488193
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI32642
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI29601
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/30/22/040030302239.html
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/32/56/040030325611.html
https://www.melonbooks.co.jp/detail/detail.php?adult_view=1&product_id=141480
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI66450
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/ZHOI54838
Although honestly, I would be shocked if even one of these ever got scanned.
>>14326535
To be totally honest, linguistically speaking Spanish has way more in common to Japanese than English. Biggest and first thing you notice is that Spanish already has near-identical sounds for most of the Japanese morae (slight exceptions with things like tsu/zu). The fact that you can continue sentences (sometimes) omitting subjects because of context. A few levels of respect. Spanish is quite more complex when it comes to regular speech with shit like noun gender and like 8 combinations of tenses/forms, so when going from Spanish to Japanese it might seem like you're learning caveman.
Does this mean that more Spanish speakers learn Japanese? Hell no. Fuck, they struggle with English and they don't need to learn extra letters for that, now let alone learning kana and kanji. Most of these are probably double translations in that they get diluted into English and then re-diluted into Spanish.
>>14346439
I really hate to back off on my offer partially, but I forgot to mention, for the sake of Customs, no lolicon. I mean, I love lolicon, but sending it into the US seems like a genuinely bad idea. Also I am retarded and assumed there would be a few NSFW and a majority SFW.
However, I have ordered:
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/32/56/040030325611.html
http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0030/30/22/040030302239.html
Sorry for the let-down.
>>14346477
Letdown? Dude, if you can get those two scanned I would be majorly impressed.
>>14346477
>I mean, I love lolicon, but sending it into the US seems like a genuinely bad idea.
I import it all the time. It comes in listed as "Used Books". My import service is chill as fuck.
>>14346477
Lolicon is not illegal in the US.
>>14346504
ENJOY MIX, when?
How long has it been? Two years now?
>>14326710
I'm surprised when the first translations to pop up aren't chinese or english.
>>14328227
I don't know much about importing, so please excuse the silly question, but how exactly do proxy services charge for deliveries?
Does the service charge work as a certain percentage of your total purchase (e.g. 10% charge on 200 USD of purchases = 20 USD service charge), or is there a fixed service price, regardless of how much you buy?
>>14346609
Depends entirely on the proxy itself.
Goody japan, for instance, charges 700 JPY plus 10% of anything over 5,000 .
Except for Toranoana orders which are a flat commission of 500.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NS3rPdgjAY
>>14346752
Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.
Does anyone think it would be a good idea to translate directly from the spanish versions? I can translate them to english pretty easily, but I don't know if translation from japanese/korean/chinese to spanish and then to english would be losing too many things in translation. For example, a cultural translation would just make the end message even more diluted. Seems like one could use the japanese version to fill in the context through machine translation or manual lookup, but then what would even be the point of using the spanish version?
>>14346477
>>14346504
What proxy service do you guys use?
>>14347797
Check out /a/'s buyfrag thread guide for proxy companies.
Why is your post green?
>>14339554
>This particular book will actually be getting translated by someone already.
Who by the way?
Anyway I'm gonna post this here so for latter
(C81) [Hinaprin (Ikuta Takanon)] Kodomo ni Chikan (Touhou Project)
(C83) [Hinaprin (Ikuta Takanon)] Yuugata, Aitsu to, Himitsu Kichi de. (Touhou Project)
two things I would like to see translated. Specially the first.
>>14326611
Being Spanish, I can confirm that. I usually stick with English translations because I love my language too much to endure watching it butchered by people that are worse at English-to-Spanish than using fucking Google Translate. Via English-Turkish-Swahili-Spanish.
I live in Japan, know Japanese well enough (6 years of study, 1 year living here so far) and am interested in varous doujinshi.
Too bad I have no scanner. And yeah, going to conbini to scan doujinshi doesn't sound like a good idea.
>>14354380
>1 year living here so far
How?
>>14354772
Long term study exchange.
>>14348455
>(C83) [Hinaprin (Ikuta Takanon)] Yuugata, Aitsu to, Himitsu Kichi de. (Touhou Project)
heres text, it might be fucked though. is this a sequel to something? i didn't understand the setup
http://pastebin.com/vmtrixSv
I have 2 doujinshi scanned currently but the upcoming work of editing 120 pages is a bit discouraging. I'll slowly get through I guess.
I got like 3-4 non H books recently that are from like 2008 or 2009. So they will be next.
>>14357969
>http://pastebin.com/vmtrixSv
I visited some stores today. 2 sexshops, melon books, animate and tora no ana. I wanted to go to Mandarake but it was late and it was closed when I got there. Do you want the pics to see if something fancy you?
>>14358381
>editing 120 pages is a bit discouraging
Then don't.
>>14360036
And putting it out there uncropped and all. That would be cruel and my genes don't allow that.
>>14358657
Not the guy, but yes please.
>>14349562
This, i'm Mexican, but prefer reading in English simply because Spanish translations are retarded as fuck.
>>14360112
The thing is that I can't post them in this Christian imageboard. There is lewder stuff than the deleted image from the onahole general.
>>14348455
Sorry for the late reply.
I was without internet, and chances are I won't be able to reply again for the next couple of days.
>Who by the way?
http://g.e-hentai.org/bounty.php?bid=13314
Though as it turns out he's only going to be translating parts of the book. not the whole thing.
The part you're interested in won't be included, so I'll be taking a look at it myself.
Just not anytime soon, as I don't currently have access to my PC.
>(C81) [Hinaprin (Ikuta Takanon)] Kodomo ni Chikan (Touhou Project)
This one's actually pretty damn good.
>>14354380
>Too bad I have no scanner.
They're not too expensive to get.
A decent one shouldn't be more than a hundred bucks.
But if you can't afford it you could always start a crowdfunding project, those seem to be pretty popular these days.
>>14358657
This >>14357969 was a different Anon, not me.
I guess he wanted to try himself.
>Do you want the pics to see if something fancy you?
You can post them if you like.
But like I said, I'm mostly only interested in Touhou h-doujinshi that haven't been scanned yet, loli preferably, but others are fine too.
>>14360941
http://imgur.com/
>>14332260
shit son that's a lot of tags
From a portion of my collectionof duplicates.
and some thoughts:
Non-Flan section:
For the most part, everything that is good has been scanned. Of the books that haven't gotten scanned yet, the few that I would consider worth the time of scanning are relatively new, and I doubt that they won't get scanned within the next 6 months.
Flan section:
Of the books with no scans: around (at least) 5 of these are "bad," and are from low popularity circles (they probably won't ever get scanned, and I probably wouldn't have bought them myself if the books weren't about Flan). Half of these (11 books) are from only 3 circles: 酢醤油&Co., 天使の羽, and いちお屋. Unfortunately, only the books from 天使の羽 usually get uploaded (due to ease of access to DL versions, I suppose), no one seems to care about the other two circles. As for the remaining non-scanned books, there's maybe only 2 that are actually worth scanning?
>>14328812
>I want to pay for it, but I'm not going to pay $30 for something that others who have easy access to can get for $2-3.
You over estimate how much it costs to import, and under estimate how much it costs for a local to buy.
>As of now, I got almost a hundred books scanned by either commissioning others, offering translations and bounties, or buying digital copies.
Uhh, I'm curious: how much does it cost you to commission a scan? What do you mean by "offer translations," trading..? for..? Then of course, the fucking horrid E*H bounty system...
Let's just leave that at
>Who cares about translations. Just learn Japanese.
>But there's only so much I can do, and not everything is available digitally. If it was this whole thing wouldn't even be an issue.
You know, you can actually contact the artist(s) and ask them to make a DL version of whatever it is you want, right?
I've gotten a few artists to do that myself.
>>14345142
This guy gets it.
>>14347148
Translating into a language from any language that isn't the original is a really, really bad idea.
>>14361316
>A decent one shouldn't be more than a hundred bucks.
lol
>>14362104
>lol
http://www.amazon.com/Epson-Perfection-Negative-Document-B11B207221/dp/B008ZDCZ8Y
>>14362104
I'd say scan whichever you think are most wanted and least likely to get scanned. Or focus on the flan ones that feature remilia.
I'm curious about your collection of non dublicates. But I guess you almost certainly want to debind those and feel uncertain about scanning without. Personally I never debind and just scan them as they are, which works pretty well for and I barely have ones with art extending all the way to the middle.
>>14362104
>From a portion of my collection of duplicates.
You can sit on those books for all eternity if you like, but if you have no intention of sharing, you may as well not have them at all, makes absolutely no difference to me or anyone else.
I'm only intersted in people who are willing to share with others and you're just a waste of time for me to even reply to.
But, oh well.
>I doubt that they won't get scanned within the next 6 months.
lol
>You over estimate how much it costs to import
Please share your secrets, senpai.
>how much does it cost you to commission a scan?
Sometimes just the cost of the book, sometimes I use
>the fucking horrid E*H bounty system...
and sometimes all it takes is a request.
>I've gotten a few artists to do that myself.
That actually works?
I never even thought about doing that.
Then why wouldn't they just put those on the DL store to begin with? I don't think that costs anything.
>This guy gets it.
No, he doesn't "get it". And neither do you apparently.
If everyone thought like that there would be no scans at all.
Sure, you may own quite a few books, but that's still a small percentage of all the stuff that's out there, you can't get all of it even if you have the money, a lot of it is simply not sold anymore.
Maybe there's a Flandre book you're interested in, that's not available anywhere? and there's a guy like you who has it, but he has no interest in scanning it, afterall he already has it, so he'll just wait for others to scan the ones he doesn't have.
Unfortunately that's how the majority thinks, so where are the scans gonna come from?
If you tell me you never used sadpanda or other such file sharing service, you never looked at scans made by others, you only ever read the books you yourself have bought, I'll admit you're right; otherwise you're just a hypocrite and a waste of time.
>It's really a bother, takes a lot of time, especially if you also edit the lot.
No one is telling you to edit. Scanning a 16 page doujinshi takes no more than 10 minutes.
>>14362329
No, I'm aware that there are good scanners that sell for ~100. I can't really recall, but I believe my own scanner was around 70 USD.
I just find it funny that the guy that (as far as I can tell) hasn't actually attempted to import anything, is suggesting that somebody else start a fundraiser for scanning doujinshi.
>>14362337
>But I guess you almost certainly want to debind those and feel uncertain about scanning without.
Ehhh... pardon?
>Personally I never debind and just scan them as they are, which works pretty well for and I barely have ones with art extending all the way to the middle.
The days of me debinding books is long, long past. Truly, the way to scan is as you say. RIP gutter shadows though. I've heard there are some special "edge" scanners that you can get that help, like http://plustek.com/usa/products/opticbook-series/ , but they're pretty expensive.
>>14362431
>You can sit on those books for all eternity if you like, but if you have no intention of sharing, you may as well not have them at all, makes absolutely no difference to me or anyone else.
>I'm only intersted in people who are willing to share with others and you're just a waste of time for me to even reply to.
Oh, your words are too kind Anon. Just the kind of person that I like giving free stuff to with no compensation for myself, what-so-ever.
I'm actually sitting on about 8 or 9 scanned doujinshi at the moment. I don't share because people tell/ask me to. I share if and when because I want to.
I have before, I will again. Probably. I mean, I did just last month.
>lol
What, you don't think they will?
Or are you laughing at the time-frame I gave you? Since there IS a delay between stuff getting released and stuff getting scanned, you know?
>Please share your secrets, senpai.
I actually just got a package delivered.
Can't remember specifics about what I ordered, but I'm sure there's some stuff from the recent events.
I'll get to this in detail after I've gone through the package.
>Sometimes just the cost of the book
The actual cost of the book, or the "cost" of the book?
Some people do this stuff for free, so it wouldn't surprise me if somebody would be more willing to scan something that they wanted to scan, especially if somebody is willing to pay for the base-cost of the item.
Just saying, they're actually pretty cheap to import.
>That actually works?
>Then why wouldn't they just put those on the DL store to begin with?
Yes! It actually works.
Now, in all the cases where I've asked/had artists upload a DL version: it was shortly after the event where the books that I wanted were released, and they didn't have physical stock in any store.
If you attempt to ask for an older title... theeeey might not have it anymore. Older data gets lost from time to time, as has happened to Itou Life and his Wriggle compilation book that he released (his oldest Wriggle books weren't included because the original data had been lost).
As for why they don't put a DL version up in the first place... I... actually have no clue. From the sound of the responses from the artists that I asked, it kinda seemed like they hadn't thought of it. Not sure though.
Continued...
>>14362431
>No, he doesn't "get it". And neither do you apparently.
>If everyone thought like that there would be no scans at all.
>Maybe there's a Flandre book you're interested in, that's not available anywhere? and there's a guy like you who has it, but he has no interest in scanning it, afterall he already has it, so he'll just wait for others to scan the ones he doesn't have.
As I said earlier in this response, I share if/when I want to. I should add to this "WHAT I want to".
I haven't shared a Japanese RAW in 3 years, because that's not what I want to share.
I have, however, uploaded at least 7 English translations that don't have Japanese RAWs (I've been rather busy the past 2 years...).
By my own will, with no compensation, no donation, nothing by me, motivating myself.
Because I felt like it.
So no, there would be at least some scans of some sort out there.
I should add that, the more interested I am in a book, the more likely I am to work on it and release an English translation (w/ no JP RAW).
So if there were "a guy like me," that had a book that I was *that* interested in. He would be uploading an ENG TL.
>If you tell me you never used sadpanda or other such file sharing service, you never looked at scans made by others, you only ever read the books you yourself have bought, I'll admit you're right; otherwise you're just a hypocrite and a waste of time.
Before I was an adult, since I was 8? Yes.
Within a month of turning 18 years old, I had begun to import my wonderful loli smut from across the the globe.
Since that time, no, I haven't really used sadpanda (or other service).
It's still useful from time to time for it's tagging system, but even that's worthless when it sometimes doesn't work. For example, this French letter doujinshi that still isn't (at the time of posting this) labeled as LOLI: http://exhentai.org/g/629856/a4e25550b9/
I bet the people looking for "touhou loli" are gonna be happy when one day, that doujinshi somehow finally shows up on their search.
>No one is telling you to edit. Scanning a 16 page doujinshi takes no more than 10 minutes.
First of all, I can tell you have great experience with scanning doujinshi, buuuuut, you're estimation of how long it takes is off by quite a bit.
Maybe if you have a boss-ass scanner, but not with a ~100 dollar one, no.
Second, this is the issue with people like you, and the E*H bounty system in general.
You people don't give a shit about quality.
It's all about quantity for you.
Because half-assed is "good enough."
I'll be back with a report of the package "soon."
>>14363136
>>I haven't shared a Japanese RAW in 3 years, because that's not what I want to share.
>I have, however, uploaded at least 7 English translations that don't have Japanese RAWs
You're a shitbag. I personally wouldn't give any of that dull Flan crap the time of day, but how much of a sperg do you have to be to insist that your own crappy translation is the only way anyone can read them?
You're the one who doesn't care about quality. No cleaning at all is better than forcing people to read your dumb interpretation.
>>14363222
>shitbag, dull Flan crap, sperg, crappy translation, dumb interpretation
Wow, you sure seem intelligent... for a parasitic leech.
>>14363136
>nothing by me
nothing but me*
Whoops.
>>14363222
>how much of a sperg do you have to be to insist that your own crappy translation is the only way anyone can read them?
If you've ascended to the celestial rank you can buy and read it yourself.
You guys sure turn full autism mode over the strangest things.
>>14363308
Let's start another discussion on how leveled blacks and whites should be in a scan.
>>14363296
Fuck the shipping costs for basic stuff like that. I only support artists on DLsite because it's a great service with reasonable pricing. Doujinshi are far too expensive a hobby if you don't live in Japan.
>>14363256
>a parasitic leech
Let me guess, you got into 2hu by buying the fucking games at comiket for years? You found your favorite authors by looking at covers and buying everything until you got lucky?
Piracy is how anyone finds anything they like. I'd never buy something from someone who hadn't already released something I liked, it's why they have fucking sample copies at comiket.
>>14363256
Just jumping in here, but...no, shut up, he's absolutely fucking right.
You always upload the raws. Always, always, always, always, without any exceptions ever. If you don't you're telling anyone who doesn't like your translation, or anyone who wants to translate it into another language besides yours, or anyone who wants to read it in its original language to eat shit. And there is absolutely no reason for it.
Upload the god damn raws.
>>14363349
>Fuck the shipping costs for basic stuff like that.
lol, I keep saying, it doesn't cost that much.
The package I just got had a shipping cost of ~16,000 yen.
The loot? Around 90 or so items with a price of ~44,000 yen.
The additional fees I had to pay? I paid maybe 4,000 yen.
A total of 90 items @ 64,000 yen. Roughly 540 USD.
If you can't figure out what that means:the average cost of each item was 6 USD. HOLY SHIT EXPENSIVE OMG!!!
>you got into 2hu by...
I can't remember when I first heard about Touhou, nor does it really have any relevancy to my current modus operandi.
I only had a general idea that "Reimu" and "Marisa" were Touhou Project characters, for the longest time. But I do remember I decided to get into it immediately after I saw an OP image of Flan while scrolling around 4chan shortly after MoF was released (specifically MoF, since that was the first of the games that I played — because it was the newest one).
>You found your favorite authors by looking at covers
> from someone who hadn't already released something I liked, it's why they have fucking sample copies at comiket
Uhh... not "everything," but what I liked from the cover and sample pages (those are a thing too), I bought. If I ended up buying stuff from the same artist over and over, I would recognize them as an artist that I like.
>Piracy is how anyone finds anything they like.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... um... you might not realize this but... the Internet wasn't always like it is now? Like, it didn't exist years ago. Video games were still a thing though, and I found which ones I'd want to play through gaming magazines and shit like that, you know because YouTube didn't exist for playthroughs and game reviews and stuff. Guess what searching through Toranoana/Melonbooks is like?
>>14363431
There was no "reason" for me to upload the translation in the first place, other than that I simply wanted to. If people don't like it, then they don't have to look at it, it's not my problem.
Also, clicking 4 more things (to upload the RAW) than I originally intended... why would I do that? Because somebody might want me to? Oh well, my me, oh my.
>>14363548
It's common courtesy. If you don't, you're a dick. But you seem fine with that, so that's okay.
>>14363548
I don't generally buy 90 fucking things at a time.
I don't know how fucking young you're claiming to be or whatever, but magazines in the 5th gen started coming with these amazing things called demo discs. And before that, there was this crazy thing called "renting". You paid a few bucks to play something that cost 60 bucks for a couple of days. Wild, right?
Sample images are dogshit. I've lost count of the number of doujins that had 2 or 3 solid samples, and those were the only 3 good pages in the entire thing. I'm sure it's a lot easier to be pleased when you get off to the most generic loli shit imaginable, though.
Why upload your shitty translation if you won't upload the raw? Oh right, because you want the EOPs to suck your dick.
>>14363129
>Oh, your words are too kind Anon. Just the kind of person that I like giving free stuff to with no compensation for myself, what-so-ever.
From your post you sounded like someone who has never scanned a book has has absolutely no intention of doing so.
So I saw no reason to kiss your ass.
>What, you don't think they will?
>Or are you laughing at the time-frame I gave you?
You can wait 6 months, or 6 years if you want.
Either way, they're not getting scanned.
>I actually just got a package delivered.
>Can't remember specifics about what I ordered, but I'm sure there's some stuff from the recent events.
I mean what proxy and shipping service do you use.
Since you claim that I over estimate the cost when I say $30, and I was being generous, it usually ends up more than that.
>The actual cost of the book, or the "cost" of the book?
The price in the store.
>As I said earlier in this response, I share if/when I want to. I should add to this "WHAT I want to".
You know, previously I had thought, you just weren't interested in scanning at all and were just showing off how much doujinshi you have that hasn't been scanned.
But this is even better. If you hadn't scanned them at all that would be a differet matter entirely, but you actually have scanned those books and are sitting on the scans, for... some reason?
I find that quite humorous.
>I haven't shared a Japanese RAW in 3 years, because that's not what I want to share.
O... kay? Is there a reason why you don't want to upload the raws?
>Since that time, no, I haven't really used sadpanda (or other service).
>It's still useful from time to time for it's tagging system
>but even that's worthless when it sometimes doesn't work
You sure like to complain a lot about a site you're not using, huh?
>You people don't give a shit about quality.
>It's all about quantity for you.
If by caring about quality you mean, "this takes too long, so I'm just not gonna do it at all", then yeah sure, I don't care about that kind of quality.
>Because half-assed is "good enough."
If I have a choice of getting a half-assed scan and nothing at all, I guess I'm gonna have to go with the half-ass, better than nothing.
And no it's not "good enough", but I'll take what I can get.
>>14362104
Who's the circle/artist of that Under Lover book?
>>14363349
>Doujinshi are far too expensive a hobby if you don't live in Japan.
It's literally not the "only way anyone can read them."
I'm not him (and I never scan shit anyway) but one of the reasons I would never want to upload raws is that Westerners will, generally, never ever buy whatever the fuck it was you scanned, so there's minimal lost income involved. Japanese people are more likely to buy the original and so releasing the raw is more likely to make a hit on their potential income stream.
>>14363594
If you're seriously worried about potential revenue loss, just wait a couple of months.
Which artist do you think sells more copies? The one with a large back catalogue of easily available material, or the one that hasn't had their work uploaded anywhere? People like to try before they buy, and in a market that's all about making an impression on the buyers due to the wide range of choice, piracy is free advertising.
Not releasing the raw, 9 times out of 10, means that you're not even slightly confident in your translation and you don't want people to laugh at you by comparing it to the original.
>>14363585
>Underlover book
It's uhh... One Week Holiday
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=47743748
I really need to head to sleep, been up for over 24hrs (just got a 2nd/3rd wind when I realized my package was going to come today).
I'll leave off (for now) explaining one of the reasons why I don't upload the RAW:
All the shit that you nerds are giving me over me not uploading the RAWs, lol.
I originally started doing it because of a reason much like >>14363594 but that quickly changed when people were raging so hard at me as if I somehow owed them, people I don't fucking know, something.
>>14363594
>one of the reasons I would never want to upload raws is that Westerners will, generally, never ever buy whatever the fuck it was you scanned, so there's minimal lost income involved. Japanese people are more likely to buy the original and so releasing the raw is more likely to make a hit on their potential income stream.
What about old books that aren't being sold anymore?
>>14363618
>I'll leave off (for now) explaining one of the reasons why I don't upload the RAW:
>All the shit that you nerds are giving me over me not uploading the RAWs, lol.
So, you don't want to upload the raws because people keep complaining you don't upload raws?
Seems like a vicious circle.
>>14363618
Oh fuck, I should also say why I uploaded that picture of books, lol.
>You know, previously I had thought, you just weren't interested in scanning at all and were just showing off how much doujinshi you have that hasn't been scanned.
I wasn't trying to show off, I was trying to show, from a random sample of a given collection (my collection, of pieces originating from the dates *RECENT DATES* listed), just how many books have and haven't been scanned.
As I said in that first post, most of the good stuff actually does get scanned... the bad stuff? Who knows. Unless you buy/follow EVERY BOOK of a character/series then you won't really notice that there isn't a lot of stuff being scanned. Because a lot is being scanned.
>>14363642
Indeed, lol.
>>14363594
I always upload raws because my Japanese is shit.
One thing I notice is that the Japanese do not even *comment* on RAW uploads on Sad Panda. Maybe a few "4-5 star" ratings, but that is it.
I mean, the Chinese comment, the Koreans comment, and the Thai comment. Its just the Japanese who say nothing.
I scanned >>14350777 , for reference.
>>14363616
Pretty much this.
I once scanned Yoshitoshi ABe's Kaira book.
I even had the spine chopped off for easier scanning and holy shit it was still a massive pain in the ass and took me serveral days.
Not something i would want to do again. Especially not for someone who is too cheap to import stuff himself.
>>14363618
Honestly, if you just upload the translation than that's fine with me.
I don't rage or demand the raws if you don't want to post them.
But this >>14363136 (pic) is what really puzzles me.
You say you're too busy to make translations and you're not going to post raws because you don't want to.
So why then would you bother scanning all that - which you claim takes such a long time to do - and then just simply sit on those scans with no intention of releasing them?
That I simply do not understand.
>>14363651
>just how many books have and haven't been scanned
and by looking at that picture you posted you can safely say,
>most of the good stuff actually does get scanned
?
Because what I see when I look at your picture is that more than half of the "good stuff" actually doesn't get scanned.
But that's of course just from your picture of randomly choosen books, and only the duplicates, you say.
One might wonder how many of those non-duplicates that are never gonna get scanned you have.
Of course the reality is much worse, probably not even 5% of the "good stuff" gets scanned.
And what is "good stuff" anyway? Something that you find bad, someone else might think as good, and vice versa.
>Unless you buy/follow EVERY BOOK of a character/series then you won't really notice that there isn't a lot of stuff being scanned.
That is what I do with Touhou. I follow every book and I notice that barely anything gets scanned these days.
>Because a lot is being scanned.
If only.
I'll scan one of my backlog!
Tomorrow!
>>14363805
You'll just say the same thing tommorow!
That you'll do it tommorow.
>>14363624
If it's been out of print for a few years I'd think about throwing it up, maybe, and particularly more so for a dead circle. As for the "free advertising" thing the creator always has that option.
>>14363616
>Not releasing the raw, 9 times out of 10, means that you're not even slightly confident in your translation and you don't want people to laugh at you by comparing it to the original.
Pure sadism more likely. Like an upload in 128kbps.
I just scan what I can because I profit so much from others doing so, so I just want to contribute aswell. Scanning doesn't take that long and even though making the raw viewable takes some time I wouldn't say it takes a whole evening. Maybe for the thicker 80 pages ones.
Well it depends a lot on your scanner and how much you want to clean up your scans.
Seeing people being happy about getting scans is enough for me, although I mostly can only motivate myself when someone requests one of mine. But eventually I want to scan everything I have.
>>14363924
what do you have
>>14363129
>>14363136
>I'm actually sitting on about 8 or 9 scanned doujinshi at the moment.
>I share if and when because I want to.
>I haven't shared a Japanese RAW in 3 years
Amazing, simply amazing.
>>14363818
>Pure sadism more likely
That is just incompetence.
This is pure sadism:
https://a.pomf.cat/dnbsfu.opus
This. This is hell.
http://exhentai.org/g/786225/460520d0fa/
>>14364002
oh my god i can't stop laughing
i think it's a C-CLAYS remix of emotional skyscraper which is pretty good for 10 kbps, i think this should be a new standard
>>14364032
Yeah, but whatta ya gonna do.
>>14363927
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/297023/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/471429/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/552300/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/701244/ This one is scanned and only need editing
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/705105/HEAVEN-and-HELL/ same here
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/390428/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/390429/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/390428/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/390429/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/100927/In-with-the-NEW-YEAR,-out-with-the-old-Vol.2/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/92391/HUNTER-SPIRITS/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/12483/Colors./
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/88275/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/564325/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/137362/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/440107/Koumakan-CONCIERGE/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/628839/
I have a few more unscanned ones I haven't yet checked out on doujinshi.org, but they are all non-h.
I'll join to say that guy is indeed a colossal faggot.
When I was still in university I was scanning shitton of books, 100-300 pages each. Sure, the only criteria for quality was that it should be readable, but I still know how much time and effort scanning a doujinshi would take.
My whole contribution to western 2hu community is 30$ I spent on commission to translate one non-h doujin two years ago. I'm EOP so I wanted to read it translated. But at the same time I just wanted to SHARE it with others.
PS:
I just remembered that there is another non-h doujin which I always wanted to be translated: http://exhentai.org/g/562214/c5b71a6d87/. Can anyone recommend me a person for commission who doesn't charge one gorillion dollars per character/page?
>>14364787
>Can anyone recommend me a person for commission who doesn't charge one gorillion dollars per character/page?
Desudesu is good, at $1-2 per page. /a/ made a guide for scanlators, and there are a few freelancers who frequent /a/.
Mind you most of them primarily do H.
>Non-H 2hu
whats the point?
>>14365347
People actually enjoy the characters outside of porn.
Hard to fathom, but its true.
>>14363817
I'll fuck you!
Tomorrow!
>>14365345
>/a/ made a guide for scanlators
Link?
>>14346522
It's illegal in some US states. I know of someone who got in trouble for those terrible simpsons/family guy porno comics.
>>14366231
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uJzgJBGuY5Jv0xcaPwGD8lAlYueu0Z6Q4HWdy1BDDDg/edit#gid=1597013751
>>14367456
Ignore GCRascal.
He is shit.
shit
>>14367129
>Normally I wouldn't even bother with this kind of stuff but for fucks sake! That was crudely drawn on mspaint! I can't just pretend I didn't see that!
>>14367129
Ugh. I can't believe people actually get off to those horrid drawings. Is this the sort of thing normal people jerk it off to?
>>14368113
No, which is why western drawn porn is so fetishised, because the people that are into it are big perverts.
In japan it's more normal so most is pretty harmless vanilla stuff.
>>14367462
I usually don't mind CGRascal's translations and edits. All I need to know is context, everything else (dialogues/plot) is extremely stupid anyway. And I really can't care less that text is not properly centered in the bubble or that it's full of incorrect hyphenation.
But I'm genuinely surprised someone actually pays him for that translations.
>>14368202
Not everyone wants to be the lowest common denominator.
Alright, I'm back to stir more shit.
>>14363557
>common courtesy
YAR! I'm a pirate!! xD
"Common courtesy" would dictate that I first of all heed the artist's own request regarding THEIR work and not upload anything.
There's a reason that "please don't upload this to the internet" is on the back cover/credit page of so many doujinshi.
They don't want their stuff on the internet.
>>14363581
>90 fucking things
Shipping costs get lower the less heavy your package gets. The price still hovers around 6-8 USD per book.
>Wild, right?
Right...? So, I don't understand what you're getting at.
I was arguing that piracy is not the only way people find things that they like — renting and demo disks are not pirating material, so... are you agreeing with me and telling me I'm correct, or what the hell are you doing?
>I've lost count of the number of doujins that had 2 or 3 solid samples, and those were the only 3 good pages in the entire thing.
It sounds like you have extremely poor judgement skills if you've "lost count" of the number of times you've been burned by sample pages. I can recall how many times it's happened to me, and it's occurred in only about 0.4% of all the doujinshi that I've imported.
It helps when you're not a leech and limit yourself to buying what looks like the very best/most interesting items.
>>14363585
>no reason to kiss your ass
There is no reason to kiss my ass, I would just hope that people would respond in a more normal manner, like normal humans, but "lel, internets."
>what proxy and shipping service do you use
I don't even need to tell you the one I'm using. Read the thread. Somebody mentioned the service they use (which sounds to be around as cheap as the one I use), somebody else mentioned there's an /a/ buyfag thread/guide.
>and are sitting on the scans, for... some reason?
How is this not obvious? I haven't finished translating them yet. They'll be done when they're done.
>a reason why you don't
I think I've already answered this by now, but I'll have answered it by the end of my post if I haven't already.
>complain a lot
I said one thing? lol
The *only* use that site has for me is it's tagging system. Now, the general users of the site however, those people I do have a bone to pick with.
>If by caring about quality you mean
>I'm gonna have to go with the half-ass, better than nothing
I'll get to this in the next post.
>>14363616
>9 times out of 10, means that you're not even slightly confident in your translation
I can talk to the original artists already if I want to, what do I care if some people don't think my translations are good? They're good enough to suit my purposes.
>>14363783
>But this is what really puzzles me
As I said earlier in this post, I'm working on them.
>when I look at your picture is that more than half of the "good stuff" actually doesn't get scanned.
27/56 (48%) for free is pretty good.
>what is "good stuff" anyway?
Of course art is subjective. You can however make an objective scale for general art: Are a lot/few pages rough sketches? Does the artist use (very, somewhat, no) proper perspective/anatomy in their drawings? etc.
>That is what I do with Touhou. I follow every book
This is your issue. You follow too much, even the garbage. I closely follow books for ~3 characters? Then generally follow for ~30 characters. If you closely follow books for every single character, of course you're gonna find what you already do to be the result.
>>14363924
>>14364361
stickytar shh, you're a good guy though.
>>14364787
>but I still know how much time and effort scanning a doujinshi would take
I'm pretty sure, every person in the thread that has expressed having experience with scanning doujinshi has said it takes a long time.
>>14345142
>>14363773
and myself say it takes a long time.
>>14358381
>>14360112
>>14363924
Doesn't mention time that it takes to scan, but mentions that editing takes forever (and he actually cares enough about quality that he won't upload incomplete raw scans).
>>14363652
and then this guy didn't specify anything.
>My whole contribution to western 2hu community is 30$ I spent on commission to translate one non-h doujin two years ago. I'm EOP so I wanted to read it translated. But at the same time I just wanted to SHARE it with others.
I've translated ~21 doujinshi (at a rate of $30 per book == ~$630),
of which I provided the scans for ~10 (which, people are insisting importing a doujinshi costs more than $30, not to mention the time that it cost me to actually scan/edit, but we'll just use $30 then == ~$300),
in addition to ~7 raws that have no ENG TL (@$30 == ~$210),
in addition to the scanner that I had to buy @~$70.
Which means I've thrown a total of ~$1210 at this. Please tell me more about how I haven't shared anything and am a "colossal faggot."
>>14374726
>I'll get to this in the next post.
On one hand you have
>>14364032
people complaining about getting free photos of a book.
On the other you have
>>14368202
people that don't mind shitty translations/edits.
Also,
>then don't edit it (unedited scans)
people that don't care about the basics of quality scanning.
You people (in general) don't give a fuck about quality.
>>14374726
>Doesn't mention time that it takes to scan
Correction: he does say that it doesn't take that long to scan. Regardless, you still underestimate the time and effort required to get this stuff done.
>>14374726
Good god you're obnoxious.
>>14374726
>and then this guy didn't specify anything
For me, my scanning process for BW usually takes 1-1.5 hours to scan a ~20 page work, and 2 hours to edit into a nice PNG, like >>14350819 .
>>14374726
I don't understand your money calculations at all. If you're translating something, how is that COSTING you 30 bucks per book?
>>14374925
He's probably paying someone $30 to translate them.
If so, goddamn. Does jaypee want me to translate shit for them for $30 too? I can probably do a better job than the CGRascals out there.
>>14374925
The guy I quoted said that he paid $30 for one non-H doujinshi TL.
>>14365345
Says that Desudesu charges $1-2 per page.
I've translated a total of ~310 pages, a large portion dealing with annoying full color redraws.
@ a rate of 1-2 per page, that's $310–$620
>>14374925
>>14374946
Because "he did it for free" instead of asking for 30 dollars which no one would ever pay him anyway.
He fails to understand why everyone is calling him a faggot. You either share or you shut the fucking up and never mention you have anything. He is like a kid who got a new toy: "Hey guys, look at my new cool toy! But I won't allow anyone to play with it, haha". It doesn't fucking matter how much he scanned and translated, in this situation he sounds like a dick.
>>14374993
Oh, so you're delusional and think you've added 600 bucks of "value" to the community by doing something for free because you'd rather have dumb EOPs suck you off. Ignoring that most translations aren't commission based.
>>14375008
He hasn't uploaded anything of value. Translations are intrinsically worthless. I'd wait until the heat death of the universe for someone to upload the raws, instead of fapping to a translation written by a moron.
>>14375008
No, I understand full-well why you people are acting like entitled shits (because you are).
I've already said the only reason I was linking the original pic showing books that have/haven't been scanned was so that you guys could get a general idea of "Yeah, about 50% of stuff gets scanned based on this sample size of doujinshi, so stop crying as if the "only 5% of stuff gets scanned" thing is true."
It is not my fault that that was immediately taken and turned into
>You can sit on those books for all eternity if you like, but if you have no intention of sharing, you may as well not have them at all, makes absolutely no difference to me or anyone else.
>>14375022
I added a few translations, yes. Translations that myself (if I somehow couldn't read the books I was buying for myself) or others (in other words, somebody somewhere) would have paid money for.
You guys can keep being upset at me for whatever stupid reasons you have, I don't really give a damn, lol.
Just stop pretending like nothing ever gets scanned ever, because that's definitely not true.
>>14375060
>I've already said the only reason I was linking the original pic showing books that have/haven't been scanned
And no one said a thing to that post. You may not have time to scan stuff. Or you just don't have a scanner just like >>14354380. Whatever. It's the next post, you said you had already scanned them, but didn't want to share them. This is there you became that "faggot kid with a new toy".
Also your logic and math are completely flawed. Did you buy every single Flan book which was made during that period? Your picture just shows that 50% of what YOU BOUGHT was scanned.
>>14375152
it's still a sample size
>>14375161
Sample should be unbiased.
Did you buy them at convention? Because some doujinshis go out of stock really fast or do not hit internet stores at all. If book is easy to buy, it has higher chance to be scanned.
And Flandre. Books with less popular 2hus have lesser chance to be scanned.
Also if you scroll up to the beginning of the thread you'll see that the original complaint was about the most recent stuff like Autumn Reitaisai 2. Currently there are only 12 scans from that event after the whole month. For example after c88 we got 60 touhou scans in the first month. Even though Comiket is a big event its Touhou part is not 5x bigger than Autumn Reitaisai 2.
>>14375152
>And no one said a thing to that post.
Wat, the thing I just quoted was one of the first responses my first post received. After that, I was trying to show "I have scanned stuff before, I have stuff that's scanned that I'm working on translating right now ."
>but didn't want to share them
Where are you getting this, for real?
I've said that I won't release the raws, but that I will eventually translate those books.
>Did you buy every single Flan book which was made during that period?
>>14375161
But to humor the question (and I don't know why it's phrased "every single one that was made" rather than "every single one that was made that you wanted"):
I bought probably... 90-95% of all the Flan books that were made that were sold on Toranoana/Melonbooks. Of event-only books, I probably bought 30% of the ones that I heard about.
Now to answer the version of the question that you should have asked (since it's more relevant to this discussion of "things I want should get scanned"):
Yes, I bought 100% of the books that I wanted that were sold on Toranoana/Melonbooks. I also succeeded in buying 100% of the books that I wanted to from the event.
Even if I failed to purchase something that I wanted at some point, I would have contacted the artist and asked them to make a digital version, which as I've already said: that actually works.
>>14375060
>Just stop pretending like nothing ever gets scanned ever, because that's definitely not true.
Well if it is, it's certaintly not thanks to you.
>>14374726
>I haven't finished translating them yet.
Do you need any help?
>>14375240
>Autumn Reitaisai 2
>12 scans
Out of most likely 500-800 decent ones
>c88
>60 touhou scans
Easily over a 1000
And best for the last,
>Kouroumu 11
>not a single fucking one
Again, probably 500-800.
But yeah "about 50%" gets scanned.
>>14375561
give it more than one month
>>14375568
You can give it one month, one year, or one century, won't make a difference.
>>14375561
I'm having a very hard time believing there were 1000 Touhou doujins at c88, or 500-800 at Reiteisei and Kouroumu.
>>14375646
There were over 2000 circles attending.
How many of them were there to release douijnshi?
You can take a wild guess.
But my assumption would be that the numbers are probably even higher than that.
>>14375667
>There were over 2000 circles attending.
Fucking how? Is there fuckoff enormous group of Touhou fans who make shit but don't have websites or use the internet at all? I poke around the internet and pixiv and shit and there's no sign of some 2000 circles. There's barely enough for a 10th of that.
>>14375561
Decent ones are probably much lower. I could scan a few pages of a 100 yen doujin I picked up at a Reitaisai.
>>14374766
I probably can scan one page per minute, if nor faster. My scanner is pretty quick in 300dpi and it's not good enough to warrant going for higher dpi.
Editing to make scans viewable takes a bit more. I'd say 2-3 minutes when I'm at a good pace and don't have to clean up gutter shadows. Straightening, cropping and levelling a scan isn't that hard, but it makes a huge difference. Some people put in more work and clean up even more, but those 3 things should be the absolute minimum. Pic attached is a completely unedited scan of mine.
>>14374726
Editing for translations looks like a lot of work, so I understand that it takes time. Redraws are scary. I hope you will one day get to those angelic feather doujins and scan/translate those.
>>14375240
>Books with less popular 2hus have lesser chance to be scanned.
That couldn't be because artists just aren't making books of those less popular characters now, could it...
>the original complaint was about the most recent stuff
2 events, within 2 weeks of one another. It's only been 2.5 weeks since the last one. >>14375568
Also, one other thing...
>>14375561
>>14375667
Artists need time to create this shit, you know? They don't just have some giant backlog of books to start printing for every event.
I've seen extremely popular doujin circles attend Comiket without a new release multiple times.
They won't have a new book for every event.
As for there being "likely 500-800 decent ones" from Fall Reitaisai/Kouroumu each: please, go to Toranoana/Melonbooks – search for R-18 books, allow the search to include sold-out books and tell me how many results you get from after Comiket 88.
I'll tell you how many you'll get:
Toranoana – 108 R-18 Touhou doujinshi since Comiket 88.
Melonbooks – ~115 R-18 Touhou doujinshi since Comiket 88 (unfortunately with the way that Melonbooks sorts their stock finding the exact number would take more time than I'm willing to invest).
Now, not to mention that there are dupes between the two sites... that's ALL the (R-18 2hu) work you could have possibly found on Tora/Melon since C88.
I challenge you to actually go through those book's samples and tell me that you'd actually pay for even half of them.
If you tell me that you would, you're either full of shit, have too much money, or just have shit taste.
>>14375544
I'm good, thanks though friend.
>>14375887
>translations
Yup. Scan, rotate, crop, clean, redraw, translate, typeset, QC, resize, and release. Good fun.
As for Angelic Feather doujins – the issue I have with that circle is that their stories are too short/aren't interesting enough, unfortunately.
There are a few good ones that I'll work on though.
>>14376638
>please, go to Toranoana/Melonbooks – search for R-18 books
Could it possibly be... because most of them don't sell online?
You might wanna look through pixiv and see just how many books are sold exclusively during those events, but never hit any online or digital stores.
>that's ALL the (R-18 2hu)
>ALL
That's not even 5% of it.
>I challenge you to actually go through those book's samples and tell me that you'd actually pay for even half of them.
I'd pay for all of them, if I could.
>If you tell me that you would, you're either full of shit,
I'm not.
>have too much money,
I wish.
>or just have shit taste.
I like Touhou, that's all there is to it.
>>14376898
>Could it possibly be... because most of them don't sell online?
So tell me, why do you suppose it is that those artists don't sell physical copies in Toranoana/Melonbooks?
I can give you 3 as to why they wouldn't:
1. They feel their artwork is too shitty and it won't sell.
2. They don't have the funds to produce enough copies to sell in the stores.
3. They don't have enough fans for them to feel like anyone would want to buy a copy of their book through Tora/Melon.
I imagine more often than not, the only reason an artist isn't selling online copies of their book is because they think it won't sell. Because if they're good enough, they would have the ambition to sell their stuff in an online store so that it could reach more people.
>That's not even 5% of it.
Read the whole sentence, dipshit.
>(that) you could have possibly found on Tora/Melon since C88.
>I like Touhou, that's all there is to it.
So you are full of shit. Good to know.
Apparently 95% of the people at Reitasai are just selling unmarketable garbage or something. What a disappointment.
>>14377006
All your reasons can be simplified to "financial risk".
There's zero financial risk in digital distribution. Try again.
>>14375022
>Translations are intrinsically worthless. I'd wait until the heat death of the universe for someone to upload the raws, instead of fapping to a translation written by a moron.
Were you born reading Japanese, or did you just memorize a dictionary until you learned the language so as to avoid having to read any intrinsically worthless garbage along the way?
>>14377096
>>14377093
You people with your 5%・95% statistic that you keep pulling out of your asses, lol.
You explain to me why it is that you believe only "5%" of ALL the stuff made is sold online.
Why are "95%" of the artists not selling their stuff in a manner that's easily accessible, huh?
>>14377178
Because they're hobbyists making books for their fellow hobbyists.
Because thy're secretive.
Because they don't want exposure.
Because they're ashamed of the subject matter.
Because they release it for free after a while.
Because they have an unreasonable fear of digital distribution.
Etc. etc. tl;dr: Because they don't fucking care if it's accessible to you, or even specifically don't want it to be accessible to you.
>>14377358
>Because they release it for free after a while.
Never happens.
Okay I checked the numbers on sadpanda for an event I attended, Reitaisai 11. We have 195 R-18 ones uploaded (I used the settings to only display original japanese ones) and 87 non-h.
Now I don't have the catalogue at hand currently so I go by memory. Around 200 uploaded seems to be pretty good, while non-h seems a bit low. Generally 2/3 to 3/4 of the doujinshi are non-h. Thinking back at the map plan, the non-h stuff was in one hall and all the other stuff (music, porn, games, merchandise) in the other. With something like a 40% to 60% or a 45% to 55% split. I think some music and games were as wallcircles on the non-h side aswell. But like 40 to 45% of all are non-h doujinshi.
I couldn't find circle numbers so judging by it that Reitaisai 8 had just a bit under 5000 we can as a thought experiment say it was 5000. So we can say 2000 non-h circles. If we say every circle released a book we come to that magical 5%, for non-h. But for R-18 we can look at between 700 and 1000 circles with those numbers. So we are at around 28 to 20% scan rate. Not so bad, this all rises when we consider not everyone selling a new book and that the attending circle number are probably lower, atleast it felt like it weren't 5000 circles.
Now if we add that a lot of the stuff is pretty bad, we get to pretty decent scan rates. A lot of circles sell very few, like they are happy when they sell 25 books. I think there was once a survey on a comiket about how much they earned, how much they sold and the gender. With some making a lot and some losing a lot.
>>14377373
I've read a few doujinshi on artists' pixiv accounts. Can't say how widespread it is, but it happens.
>>14377617
>I couldn't find circle numbers so judging by it that Reitaisai 8 had just a bit under 5000 we can as a thought experiment say it was 5000.
4310
>>14328510
What's your job? Can I work with you and live in japan? I'm a useless neet btw
>>14377358
I was more wanting your reasoning as to why supposedly NINETY-FIVE percent of ("everyone's art is amazing and worth scanning, even the many, many books with nothing but rough sketches") artists would think that way.
Again, you people are delusional about the numbers.
>>14377373
It's rare, but it does happen from time to time.
>>14377617
Yay, believable numbers, logic, and reasoning!
Thank you!
——————————
I think based on the last handful of posts, I've finally come to a conclusion to all of this, exactly what I was looking for out of this.
The reason parasitic leeches that don't ever attempt to import anything "because it's "too expensive"" insist that only a minor fraction of "good stuff" gets scanned because:
They have no concept of quality.
[No art is "bad," and everything is valuable and must be scanned.]
They're void of the concept that it takes time, money, and effort to produce work.
[Every circle attending any event will always have a new release, and copies for people to buy].
I really don't know how I wasn't able to make the connection between me saying "you people don't give a shit about quality," and you people saying "basically nothing gets scanned."
I'm satisfied now.
>>14326535
>saizouh88
I REALLY hate the argentine accent in most of the translations done by him, especially in the H stuff
>>14378266
You keep calling everyone parasitic leeches, but you yourself said you haven't uploaded anything in 3 years.
So I'm not sure where you're getting that delusion of moral superiority over others from.
All you've done in this thread was basically dick wave about how much stuff you have, I don't see how you're any better than the "parasitic leeches" you look down on.
>>14378340
>anything
I said I haven't uploaded "raws," retard. I also said I just translated something last month.
I'm not the only person that has been calling the few entitled people in this thread "parasites" either.
Finally, *other people* decided to make my posts about talking about how much stuff I have, you're no exception.
I posted an image showing some stats.
Somebody (a useless parasite) decided to tell me that I should be scanning everything I own "because I should be."
I replied with something that equated to "I'm working on it, here's proof."
Get over yourself.
>>14378394
>*other people* decided to make my posts about talking about how much stuff I have
>other people
>decided to make my posts about
>>14375252
>But to humor the question (and I don't know why it's phrased "every single one that was made" rather than "every single one that was made that you wanted"):
>I bought probably... 90-95% of all the Flan books that were made that were sold on Toranoana/Melonbooks. Of event-only books, I probably bought 30% of the ones that I heard about.
>Now to answer the version of the question that you should have asked (since it's more relevant to this discussion of "things I want should get scanned"):
>Yes, I bought 100% of the books that I wanted that were sold on Toranoana/Melonbooks. I also succeeded in buying 100% of the books that I wanted to from the event.
>Even if I failed to purchase something that I wanted at some point, I would have contacted the artist and asked them to make a digital version, which as I've already said: that actually works.
That's exactly what your posts are about.
>>14378340
I should also add that:
I never complain that not enough stuff is getting scanned.
I never complain about stuff not being translated.
I never complain that the Chinese (and other non-JP groups) don't release JP raws.
I never ask people for scans/photos of anything (unless they're explicitly looking for opinions of what to do — à la アンケート).
I've never asked for compensation for the things that I have done — and never will.
Most importantly:
I support the artists.
I buy their works.
I talk to them, let them know that they're important, that I love their work.
Remember, without them, none of us would have anything.
>>14378441
>guy asks me if I bought certain things
>I tell him I bought certain things
>nerd gets mad that I answered a question
ハナシニナラナイヨ。
The Spanish-speaking world didn't have much of a native animation industry so there was a lot of room for Japanese animation to take over the market, much more so than in the US and to some extent Europe which each had their own developed animation industries. This is why otaku culture is so much more popular among Spanish speakers.
>>14378455
You were just waiting for a question like that to be asked, so you could use is as an opportunity to dick wave about how much stuff you have.
I wouldn't be surprised if you asked it yourself.
>>14377358
I guess I forgot a rather important one:
Because shops forward their sales data to the tax agency.
>>14378266
>Again, you people are delusional about the numbers.
Or maybe I only buy digital and know pretty well how much I can and cannot get that way, unlike faggots spoiled by being able to physically attend events.
>>14378266
>Yay, believable numbers, logic, and reasoning!
But those number (for non-H stuff) prove you wrong. You should focus less on that one posters and his 5% and just remember that the original complain (>>14328227) was about non-H. And situation with non-H gradually worsen in few recent years.
Lets get back to Autumn Reitaisai 2 which was month ago. How many non-h doujinshi were scanned? One (and it's actually just an art-book)
Now scroll through this list:
http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?word=%E7%A7%8B%E5%AD%A3%E4%BE%8B%E5%A4%A7%E7%A5%AD&s_mode=s_tag_full&order=date_d
Fucking pixiv has extremely retarded search function
I just clicked through fw pages and got shitton of new nice looking non-h stuff. Just few examples (I just picked cute covers), but there are dozens of them:
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=53018133
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=53052466
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=53077111
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=53078530
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=53298344
And some of those books are not available in online stores at all. Also that's only stuff properly tagged and posted on pixiv. There are artist who abandoned pixiv and use their blog/twitter. For example here's new Carcharias book:
https://twitter.com/Maku_raco/status/654835249562546176
You said that we should give it more time, but sadpanda stats show that first month usually generates ~1/3 of all uploads. So are we gonna get another 2 non-h doujinshi by the end of 2016?
Why would you put non-h on ex-hentai?
Is this the autism thread?
>>14378829
Yes, welcome!
We've all been waiting for you!
>>14378815
ex-
a prefix meaning “out of,” “from,” and hence “utterly,” “thoroughly,” and sometimes meaning “not” or “without” or indicating a former title, status, etc.; freely used as an English formative: exstipulate; exterritorial; ex-president (former president); ex-member; ex-wife.
Ex-hentai => not henati, former hentai => should be only for non-h stuff.
So why would you put H on ex-hentai?
I'm trying to consolidate my collection into 2 storage bins, anyone want some that doesn't fit?
Why would you even argue about the amount of work at Comiket/Reitaisai without mentioning the catalog even once?
>>14377006
Unless you're some fucking big shot circle, you aren't going to make piss from Toranoana. Last I checked they took 500 yen off the top of the standard 700 yen work and once you roll in printing and shipping your margins are jack shit or negative. It's great as an overproduction outlet (the legendary circles will go out of their way to print lots because they know they can sell) but printing to sell is not a great money-making prospective, doubly more so because if you don't sell you're still sitting on all your unsold work and its printing costs.
If all they really, really wanted was for their work to be disseminated to the four corners of the earth, they'd just throw the whole thing online and call it a day.
>>14378866
Whatta ya got?
>>14378866
Sure. I will scan it if its not already.
[email protected]
>>14378852
In the word of the owner: "because X sounds cool".
>>14378920
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/139635/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/129618/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/595564/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/622769/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/703408/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/723173/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/759210/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/759862/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/754809/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/759862/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/767056/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/767963/
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/808647/
>>14378950
The thing is, It's mostly dupes and things that were already uploaded.
>>14379302
This one hasn't,
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/595564/
but almost all of the books that it consists of have been scanned individually, except for this one,
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/612677/
and there might be some extra pages there.
>>14379302
Just out of curiosity, do you have anything interesting, that's not a dupe and hasn't been scanned?
>>14379387
I still shave some unscanned things yeah, I upload stuff pretty sporadically though.
>>14379438
I'm just interested in what exactly you have.
Maybe some hidden gem I've been waiting for years now?
Older or more recent stuff mostly?
>>14379659
Recent stuff mostly, yeah. I only started importing doujinshi last year.
As for what, it's like 70% non-H and half of that was me buying older, previously scanned books from artists I like.
Not much loli, if you're curious.
I know I have
http://www.doujinshi.org/book/753262/
to scan/clean when I have the 10 hours to spare
>>14379829
>70% non-H
>previously scanned books
>Not much loli
You just lost all my interest, Anon.
>I know I have
>http://www.doujinshi.org/book/753262/
>to scan/clean when I have the 10 hours to spare
And now you gained it back.
>>14378950
>>14379302
I will happily take all the non-H
I don't really want H, in all honesty.
Again: [email protected]
Actually as a question for those people doing scans. How much do you clean up your scans? Since some people name pretty high numbers in how much time they need.
I'm >>14375887 and the pic is the recent scan I do. I usually just straighten, crop, remove gutter shadows, level the scan so the black parts are black and resize. I have a few issues with moire, but I feel like the lost sharpness isn't really worth getting rid of that.
Color scans are a bit more of an issue, I think I should probably scan them in at 600dpi and then blur a bit to take care of the moire.
>>14380237
>How much do you clean up your scans?
If the source material is monochromatic, forcing the image to be monochromatic usually cleans them quite a bit, since smudging and other obstructions do not pass through. After that, just picking out random fibers takes only a few minutes.
For color images, I can spend up to 30 minutes on a single image, playing with the color levels and running plugins on the raws.
>Color scans are a bit more of an issue, I think I should probably scan them in at 600dpi and then blur a bit to take care of the moire.
For photoshop, I would HIGHLY recommend pirating the Topaz Labs suite of plugins for this scenario.
Topaz Clean does as it says, and is very, very effective at removing particles with a minimal hit to quality. It usually lessens the moire in the process.
Topaz Denoise, with the strongest settings and debanding, specifically targets and minimizes moire, making a more uniformed representation of the color.
>>14380237
This? >>14375887 looks just fine.
Just crop that shit and you're done.
There's really no need for anything else.
Sorry for taking so long, I got busy, them got distracted, them got lazy.
Here are the pics. sorry about the shitty quality but I was trying to be discrete and not disturb the others.
http://imgur.com/a/y1fKm
>>14382232
Oh, and sorry about the flipped images. They look fine on my computer. Adopting a tripcode temporarily to avoid misunderstandings.
>>14380237
If you really wanna sperg about it, you can look over your scans in an image editor and edit out any dust/hair/etc. that you come across.
I wouldn't really worry too much about that though.
I haven't used Topaz plugins before, but I've heard them be recommended to people before.
Just something to be careful about any automated cleaning process is that the program might remove details you don't want it to.
For example, I recall I had a friend scan some French letter doujinshi, and with the way the noses are drawn... well, the program thought they were specks of dust that needed to be removed, lol.
Just be aware of issues like that.
>>14382232
Buy and scan all the Remilia doujins.
You can certainly but more when you buy at mandarake but you'll take some time looking through all they have. Melonbooks and co sells at like 600 or 700 yen and Mandarake some at 200 yen. So I'd recommend to stock up at Mandarake for mass and the other stores for specific ones you want.
There is a mandarake in shibuya (or was it shinjuku?), that one is also worth a visit, since it might more likely have rare things.
Like I saw a Inu Sakuya plush in osaka, and didn't buy it because I'm an idiot.
What is a good scanner under $200?
>>14384008
>What is a good scanner under $200?
Forgot image.
I need a new scanner, because mine is potato quality.
>>14382816
I'm far away from Tokyo but we do have a Mandarake in the city. I will check because at 700 yen the doujinshi I wouldn't be able to buy many. Do you have some list of priorities? anything that is rare in particular?
>>14382232
Any unscanned official mangas there?
>>14385202
I don't know. I don't know much about touhou lore.
>>14363548
>Around 90 or so items
wish I could but buying that amount here is like an instant jail sentence. Even trying to buy one or two to slip through is hard.
>>14384064
>>14384008
Answered my own question.
For the archive:
Try any of the Epson V500-V600 series.
kuso thread
>>14345142
>C88
Well, desu I'm not a nostalgiafag myself so I stick with the latest or the mos used.
Here for example
# include <stdio.h>
int main(void){
....for( int a ; a < 5; a++){
........printf("jajaja señor anon\n");
....}
....return 0;
}
and then
>user@user gcc -std=c99 code.c -o code
>user@user ./code
I don't think you can the ** for(int a; ** on c88
I remember in the old days, when most of the stuff was getting scanned.
Those were better times.
And now? All we get are Chinese and Korean translations of the already uploaded scans, and maybe an occasional digital upload if we're lucky.
One might think it would be the opposite. Afterall this stuff wasn't as easily accesible back then.
Now the technology has vastly improved, scanners are cheap and easy to get etc. meanwhile we get absolutely nothing.
It's sad really.
>>14397855
Keep being delusional. I can remember clearly that people used to whine all the time that their favorite doujinshi wasn't being uploaded every single year for as long as I care to think back.
And for stuff being accessible, for Japanese people, everything is still just as easily accessible as it used to be ten years ago. Artists seldom upload their stuff digitally, after all. The more I read your post, the more I think you're full of it.
>>14397881
>for Japanese people, everything is still just as easily accessible as it used to be ten years ago
>>14396907
Goddamnit anon
One day, /jp/.
One day...
Got a 72 page doujin done. Feels good. How is the rest of you guys doing?
>>14400976
I love you, stickytar.
>>14398103
hey gaijin, why are you getting so mad?
日本語が読めるようになれば問題解決だぞ
>>14401287
He was born mad.
Another day passed.
With no hope nor scans in sight.
The suffering continues.
-Anon
>>14405849
Be patient whiny anon. Just need to rescan the cover again, I'm unhappy with the quality.
>>14405926
I live, therefore I whine.
>>14405849
Were you trying to make a haiku?
>>14407121
Y-yes...
It's a different 5-7-7 type haiku.
There are versions like that,r-right?
>>14405849
Here you go:
http://exhentai.org/g/877366/1d20d7310b/
Enjoy
>>14410194
How'd take care of that original scan of the cover? It looked pretty bad, but the cleaned one is very nice.
>>14410202
I got a new scanner
>>14326535
i have a tip for you friend. go to settings on top and filter all those shitty languages. no more spanish and hue translations all over the place
>>14405849
Stop your whining faggot
http://exhentai.org/g/877488/4cd3d2c681/
>>14410194
>>14410824
2 down, 999,999,999,998 left to go.
We're getting there!
>>14410893
Why don't you make a list? Seriously, this whining is deplorable. You are just reducing the chances of someone scanning for you.
>>14411325
>scanning for you
This isn't just for me.
I feel like it is imperative for us to make sure we preserve these wonderful works for the betterment of the entire humankind and not let them fade into obscurity while rotting away in some basement forgotten forever.
>>14411400
Why is being forgotten online so much better than being forgotten in someone's basement?
>>14326535
>No aprendiendo japones
LOL
Que te jodan retrazado
>>14411400
The artist have the digital version he used to print the copies. No need to pirate it for the sake of future generations. You just want to fap and that's ok. Just don't act like if everybody is obliged to help you.
>>14411589
That kind of misuse of the quotation feature doesn't work that well in spanish.
>>14411496
Because it's not forgotten if it's online?
It gets preserved forever, and anyone can have access to it at any time.
It makes sure that the work will never be lost forever.
>>14411604
>The artist have the digital version he used to print the copies.
see pic >>14363129
And even if the artist still has the digital version, which is not likely for older titles, that still doesn't mean anything.
He can have it all he wants but unless he's planning on printing more copies or release it digitally, again lot likely with older titles, it doesn't really mean anything.
>You just want to fap and that's ok
The loss of data is my primary concern.
If all I cared about was fapping, there is already so much material available it could last me for years, in fact I barely even fapped to any new releases this year.
I just wish this would get translated already
http://exhentai.org/g/869206/72646574f2/
Stuff doesn't get scanned and that sucks. It's true. So quit your useless bitching and do something about it.
>>14411814
That's... not Touhou. How can people even fap to anything without 2hus in it?
>>14411888
N-not like I've saved a disproportionate amount of touhou doujins. This thread just reminded me of that specific one I linked.
>>14411886
I would if I was living in Japland.
Meanwhile all these other useless fucks do and they don't do shit.
>>14411901
Deputies, digital releases.
>>14411901
If japs started scanning everything they would create a secret "no-gaijin" club and wouldn't share their scans with any foreigners. They would hide everything behind passwords, they would share links only in special invite only communities. Every scan would include a well hidden watermark so they would be able to instantly find a person who leaked scan to gaijins. They would monitor our threads and instantly kill any links if they somehow would be leaked here. Japs are that racist.
I wish this would be scanned: https://www.melonbooks.co.jp/detail/detail.php?product_id=136600. Tojiko Will Not Talk, the final chapter. It's like the only good thing which came out of TD. But
>売り切れ
Fucking hell
>>14411917
I think you are kidding, but:
1. Westerners already do this in some form or another, especially with hoarding scans.
2. The Japanese block off foreigner primarily because they don't jive well with Japanese communities. The fact that Westerners think you should get something for nothing and that people should go against the wishes of Circles for the sake of the otaku underclass is pretty divergent as it is.
Another thing, is that stuff is not released online with the expectation that people go and interact at conventions. Like, its just selling a product if its online, but at a convention, its a really gathering, in person, of shared interests. Since Western Otaku are inherently divergent Japanese Otaku, and few of them can appreciate the scene, and even fewer speak Japanese, what is the point of scanning for Westerners if they are just going to download a copy, maybe post "arigatou gozaimasu," and keep it to themselves? Besides, many of /jp/ would vomit at the thought of a Western parity (which, well, there kind-of is already).
Its not racism as much as xenophobia, and its definitely a more positive xenophobia than the attitude of 4chan boards in general when some noobie makes a naive thread here.
>>14411917
Are you from the mmd thread?
how black should black be
>>14411657
Nobody is obliged to help you with your obsessions. You should be grateful and not go like a spoiler brat and "oh geee that's not even the tip of the iceberg sucker!" Like here >>14410893
>>14412299
> Another thing, is that... (etc.)
Circlejerk private club. Faggots don't want to lose their special status of owners of limited stuff, so they hoard it to themselves. Typical shit brains.
Btw, foreigners have nothing to do with this. In Japan there are millions of people who don't go to comike fucked by this just as foreigners.
>>14413357
>In Japan there are millions of people who don't go to comike fucked by this just as foreigners.
>millions
Well first off, Comiket is only the largest. With Touhou you have Reitaisai, and with other groups you have plenty of conventions outside of Tokyo.
There are definitely tens of thousands that can't go to any, either because they are stuck in bumfuck nowhere or the southern islands. However, they can still grab a copy on Tora or Melonbooks. The point is, they will just buy the book for a few bucks and keep it, and that is that. There is not nearly the need that you see in the Western communities, Mainland, and to a lesser extent Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, etc. In the case of the West, there might literally be one Westerner or less who even gets the copy, or even be aware of its existence.
Its just not comparable
I'll scan a shitty 100yen doujin for you guys, so you stop thinking that every doujin deserves to be scanned.
I don't see anyone of those whiners offer to help clean up scans or stuff like that. Yes you can help contribute without owning doujinshi. But that would be work.
You know, seeing some of these rare, older books in online stores or on auctions, often times litereally at the price of a single donut when there's only a single copy left and sometimes it's there even for moths on end.
I mean, something that for me is akin to a priceless artifact, like a scroll that contains some ancient lost forgotten knowledge, there it's treated like nothing more than cheap trash.
It just makes me think, this is what real human tragedy looks like, you know /jp/?
>>14416902
*months, not moths
Of course.
>>14416902
What are some places to check besides Yahoo and Surugaya?
What are some good keywords on Yahoo Auctions?
>>14416902
so buy it
>>14416935
Those two are the ones I was mostly refering to.
Any other place that I've seen just doesn't compare when it comes to the number of titles available and prices.
>>14416954
I'm a NEET.
If I was paying the same price as a Japanese, I'd buy it in an instant.
In fact I'd do nothing but buy doujinshi for cheap and keep scanning all day and night.
But as is, the price of shipping it half way through the globe is simply too much for me.
>>14360154
Its because the translators dont use neutral spanish. they're always extremely regionalistic.
http://exhentai.org/s/6edd988c44/780140-4
Just read this shit.
you never read stuff in English and it reads like ""oi cunt, imma bugger ya for being a poof."
""blimey, slam me shitebox ya chav bloke!"
>>14417069
>¿que, quieres realizar actos zarpados a mis orto...?
mis lados
>>14338083
>Wud fug tier
Nitori
>Wud need a shot or three first tier
Yukari, Yuka, Cirno
>Wud not fug tier
The rest
Deb8 me
