What's the worst scanlation group/job you've ever seen?
Have you ever dropped a manga or anime because of how bad a job the group managing its release did or similar reasons?
One of the inhouse groups for some aggregation site. They were almost certainly machine translated (and completely incomprehensible), full of watermarks and nuked all detail.
>>135488973
Jaimimi's Box picking up a series is a valid reason to drop it as far as I'm concerned. Worst of all time would have to be KMS/Nekyou, they've mostly stopped releasing, thank God.
>>135488973
>What's the worst scanlation group/job you've ever seen?
bebe@xiu shoujo (pure scum), Kuu Scans (a tons of notes like: "lol, xD, so funny!") and saintseiya-zonev2 (a lot and I mean A LOT of watermarks).
>Have you ever dropped a manga or anime because of how bad a job the group managing its release did or similar reasons?
I dropped Berserk in spanish because it was a disaster. Restart the serie from Dark Horse scans.
I'm reading Detective Conan right now, and the scans from around volume 20 onward have been terrible.
I forget which scanlation group it was, but they were seriously pissed off at sites other than batoto stealing their scanlations so they put giant watermarks in the center-rightish of literally every single page.
It was only a few chapters, but it was seriously annoying.
>>135490230
I was reading... Btooom? a couple of months ago and two entirely chapters has this shit. Annoying as hell.
From the recent ones, Kami Translation. Avoid like plague.
>>135490230
>>135490398
Yeah I saw this on Btooom too, it was disgusting. Literally a CWC level of autism and made it near unreadable while they threw a fucking fit.
"PEOPLE ARE STEALING WHAT WE STOLE BOOHOOHOO"
I've heard some of the people involved call it "their manga" or "their series".
Someone post that physical translation with ketchup stains or whatever all over it.
>>135490230
There's at least one that puts them in the exact center, but I forget their name.
Duwang
Japanzai
>>135489370
this
>>135490230
>>135489426
>dramatic and emotional part
>see this
classic bebe@xiu
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>>135490740
I only wish I was as autistic as them about mangafox.
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>>135491297
>>135491152
motherfuckers
>>135490230
Found it.
It was actually in the bottom right most of the time, but the yellow tint made it seriously distracting.
>ITT: we complain about stuff we get for free illegally
>>135491516
This place is a shithole.
>>135491030
>>135491058
>>135491152
>>135491297
Holy Shit. This is a whole new dimension of getting assblasted.
>>135491516
Fuck off.
>>135491516
>>135491559
>>135491602
Nice try.
>>135491516
>steal things
>complain about other people also stealing thing
>complain about other people not giving you money for stealing thing of your own accord
>complain about other people stealing thing you stole
Are scanlators the niggers of anime?
>>135488973
How hard is scanlation compared to fansubbing? I fail to understand how scanlators still haven't raised any standards.
I'm glad we live in an era where manga isn't scanned like this anymore.
>>135492074
Too bad a lot of old series are still like this.
>>135491999
Fansubbing only consists of overlaying subtitles on top. Scanlators (who actually have to do a good job) have to remove the original text or redraw shit from garbage scans which isn't always trivial. Especially when you want to do a good job. Basically they're trying to reverse a part of an irreversible process.
>>135491783
this is funny
>>135491516
>thing is shit
>call it shit
>but this -thing-
>the thing is still shit
I'm not really sure what you're trying to prove
>>135491516
Garbage is free too.
>>135492414
>implying I don't fish through trash, then complain about not finding anything good.
>>135491999
Scanlation is harder, but there's also no reason for most of them to do any better than they feel like putting in the effort for, because there's no competition for 95% of series.
>>135492530
>fish through trash for food
>bag pops and human fecal matter sprays up your arm and up into your face
>dead baby falls out and gets abandoned baby guts and dead baby shit into your mouth
>it's free I can't complain
>>135492414
Fair enough
Some days I feel like writing something with Project Naptha to couple raws and translations without all the editing. It could work, well, probably. But all the existing overlay garbage is just way half-assed.
>>135492074
better scans of this
4shared. com/zip/Yk--xBV9/MQ_online.html
So what are the best scan groups. then?
>>135501003
Mine.
>>135501003
Norway
>>135501040
Okay.
white flower translations comes to mind
>>135492188
retard.
Some Detective Conan chapters I've read have the translation giving Chinese names since the people translating it were translating from a Chinese translation.
>>135492056
I still don't understand why people hated sparky for the translation so much, I thought it made the most sense.
>>135491516
>it was free so you can't criticize it
That asshole with the shitty Dragon Ball scans that at times just typed "Use your imagination" in the speech bubbles
>>135490740
Are they kill? I hope they are. Sekirei might get finished now.
>>135502352
>>135491999
Not even a dead baby would have a hard time understanding that scanlating is harder and more time consuming than fansubbing.
>>135502423
>>135502352
>>135502423
Oh god, you reminded me of this and I hate you.
What about LN/WN "translations" (actually google translated with less than elementary level English)
>>135501856
I tried redoing the chapters you are speaking of but it was a pain in the ass to retranslate, reclean, redraw and typeset it all by myself, and no one cares about conan anymore anyway.
>>135502958
A lot of people do, it's just hat it's not really in most peopel's mind since it's so old. I'd read it if I could find decent scans.
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>>135502423
>>135502540
>>135502566
>tfw owning these volumes
I don't feel so bad spending money now.
>tfw when we will never, ever get a good translation of GTO.
Time to hunt the manga down, it seems.
Pandascans and their shitfest scans of Nozaki-kun and Oresama Teacher
>>135503260
Most of them are scanned now.
>>135488973
I don't really pay attention to scanlation groups. I only really care if it's understandable.
>>135503260
>Tokyopop
You should feel bad. Very, very bad.
i've seen scans of obscure titles that have nearly everything translated into the opposite of what it actually means on top of having broken english. beageruta for example
>>135503897
Someone actually touched the series? Eh, to be honest I'd rather have the radio host series.
>>135503946
it was only the first two chapters
>>135489468
it gets worse
S Jump Forum, Wild Fang Project and SpinyBackWebDesign. Somebody please, help me put a stop to this.
>>135506587
>>135506846
How can anyone look at this and be proud of their work?
>>135506846
Christ, they didn't even try.
>>135507011
>>135507250
it burns
make it stop
>>135507480
>typesetters have the easiest job
>still half ass it
This is why we can't have nice things.
thank you for the laughs lads
>>135507480
Never fucking reply to me again unless you're contributing to the thread.
>>135502423
BOOM
(THUNDER SOUND)
Seven Deadly Sins
Only mangastream and chrunchyroll now. So basically only shit trans are available now, doesn't matter if you steal or pay for it, might as well stop
not a huge loss anyway, since nnt is kinda shitty anyway
>Japanese translated to English by someone who is fluent in neither language
Why do they do this?
>>135508258
Because if they didn't 95% of the scanlation groups would die.
>>135507820
Here's you're reply.
>>135507820
>>135508910
>>135508910
Do people actually ever give scanlators any attention at all?
Nearly all drama comes from DeviantArt-level attention whores but I never ever see anyone even remember the group's name unless they're particularly shitty. Who feeds the faggots enough attention for them to stick around?
>>135509125
Yes. Cocksucking used to be real. To massive degrees. Scanlators had worse e-peens than fansubbers by far. But scanlation is dead now.
>>135508910
He could have translated that shit, and people would keep the best translation
>>135509268
Oh yeah, I vaguely recall that. But why do people still come into it for attention? They very clearly do these days.
>>135509125
If it's someone releasing popular shit by the truckload for e-peen I generally don't give a shit, but I always appreciate when someone does doujins for a fanbase that they're a part of when it would otherwise never be uploaded anywhere.
>>135491516
it's not illegal since you are LITERALLY stealing nothing
>>135509500
It is illegal despite not stealing anything.
>>135509268
The doujinshi scanslating scene will always and forever be full of this sort of cancer.
>>135508910
>no one is allowed to translate my waifu's manga.
WHAT IF NAPATA IS A MAN, THAT MAKES FUKE GAY RIGHT?
The faggots doing EG Maker.
>>135508910
What a little bitch, scanlator drama alawys reminds me of Pirates of Silicon Valley
>Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late.
>>135509567
In europe it's legal to watch or read copyrighted material as long as it's not downloaded to your harddrive. Reading manga online is therefore legal, as you are only saving files temporarily to the cache.
>>135510192
stay mad bitch
>>135510517
>countries encouraging streaming
Why?
>>135510517
>they have to be able to prove you downloaded it to your hard drive
packing my bags
I hear France has quite an open trade market for extreme drugs this time of year
>>135510797
By "extreme drugs" they mean "muslims killing you"
Personally I just stop reading anything that gets a shit job done on it. I've been a cleaner for 7 fucking years now so my autism is peerless.
Anyone who denoises tank scans or watermarks should be executed.
>>135511087
>7 fucking years
Bless your autism.
>>135511087
I wish the average scanlator were like you.
>>135509268
Now I'm reminded of how SnoopyCool wouldn't release a single Midori no Hibi chapter for months on end, and then another group would pick it up and they'd dump 15 chapters overnight.
While it's certainly the fault of the scanlators to release shit, they're only catering to their shit eating audience.
>>135511578
I agree with this other than on the issue of translation. I couldn't give a shit about scan quality or any of that as long as it isn't obviously some spic speed translating from Chinese to Spanish to English.
Of course I'd always prefer a release that's good in all areas, but if there's only one option and the translation is fine I don't really see the problem.
>>135502352
>hyuu hyuu (?? sound)
Oh come on
>>135511922
If you just want to read something, why not read a novel?
>>135511025
No, no, I know a guy in France who buys/grows/sells pot in tens of kilos in order to afford better stuff, buys full sheets of acid, whatever the fuck DMT comes in, cocaine in the mgs etc; last I spoke to him, he was looking for someone to sell him hydromorphone.
Course it's also possible my friend is a small-time drug lord and never explicitly stated it.
>>135511578
Which is 2/3. That's not that bad.
ironically the thing that is gonna kill manga and anime getting reasonably good, non-dry translations is capitalism and easy access
crunchyroll and horriblesubs are basically gonna create this super awesome world of insanely dry, literal, sometimes flat out incorrect translations on everything and destroy the will of the glass-ego'd scanlators/fansubbers by releasing almost simultaneously with the original stuff
I forgot which manga I was reading, but the ground put at least 6 recruitment/ranting about scan sites/credits pages before the chapter.
>>135512008
I do, though not as often as I read manga or watch anime.
>>135512174
*group
>>135509125
I used to when I had a name so people could track me easily. But the attention was just distracting so I only put out nameless scans. Funny how people claim it's theirs.
I hate any and all scanlators that put like 3-4 pages of insanely shitty fanart and badly colored official art before chapters
meaning i hate mangastream a whole great big bunch
don't care about some retarded 16 year-olds first experiment with the paintbucket in his pirated copy of CS3
>>135511578
wanna work on Baki Dou
>>135512174
That could be literally an infinite amount of groups.
>>135512136
And that's fine. The average scanlation quality is so shit, CR is actually the better option.
>>135488973
Funimation
I'm still waiting for those commie/cthuko subs for Concrete Revolutio
>>135512286
>Funny how people claim it's theirs.
What the fuck
>>135512437
>actually the better option
Not true. SnK had this massive mistranslation a few chapters back, that even niggastream got it right. Now I don't trust them at all. They get some straight from Square Enix though, so they're not the ones doing all of them.
I just don't understand why a group or individual would plaster rubbish all over something that they did NOT create and "claim" it. How fucking brain dead do you have to be?
The dudes behind dragon rioting wanted $300 in donations PER MONTH to host their website because DMCA.
>>135512577
>SnK
Ha. Good to see that for once, CR actually got their priorities right. SnK doesn't deserve to get the decent TLs.
>>135512682
Very, which they are.
ANY MOMENT NOW
>>135512771
But it's pretty hard to tell which ones actually do have decent TL. The quality of CR is so all over the place. They can't even do basic QC with text not even in the bubbles a bunch of the time.
Chinese scans for the King of Diamonds arc were literally eyecancer
>>135512796
>that delusion
What makes Batoto not a parasite? No watermarks? But there are other reader sites where they don't do watermarks. God this is so dumb.
>>135490817
I came here to post this, but also that it's so bad it's good tier
Also GTO
>>135512885
There's seriously a mahjong arc? I should catch up with the raws at some point.
>>135512954
You can't even get it there now because it's licensed. Batoto also requires an account now to read anything and their mods will take down anything vaguely offensive to their sensibilities.
>>135512954
Groups upload to Batoto themselves, it lets them delete or V2 things later. Other sites rip from Batoto.
>>135513099
It's funny how there are people in these times that don't understand that once you put something on the Internet for public viewing, you effectively lose control over it. It's as if they don't understand that other people can do what they do: steal.
They're as dumb as the lawmakers who think digital piracy is preventable with policies.
>>135501070
Norway!
>>135513439
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who wants to read stuff I release on Manga[animal] is free to do so. Not my problem if that site doesn't rip the v2 I upload if I notice something wrong later.
>>135513439
Most lawmakers don't give a shit about any of the laws they make.
>>135513483
Yes way.
>>135498086
thanks man
>>135488973
The fucking people that did this.
Also Duwang.
Currently reading Bleach. Queue in 5 pages of shit art before any real content.
>>135511087
We salute your effort, Captain Autismo
>>135512042
>sells Marijuana and other drugs by the kilo
>somehow isn't a drug lord
>>135519669
hey man i dont ask questions about that shit
that's how you die or get Taken'd
>>135519669
>drug lord
Hardly, that's high street dealer level at best.
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>>135491152
This reminds me of the heart.
>that one quiet scanlation group that has zero drama and releases nice manga and overall contributes to the scene
>>135512466
That's what I get for being a faggot. It's strange that I'm not butthurt about it though.
Though, about scanlation.
Never trust the translations 100% (though this should be obvious). Chances that the translator actually doesn't know Japanese is higher than you think, and these translators are there for e-peen and just machine-translate and then "contextually re-interpret" the line. This happens all the fucking time, though the method guarantees 60-70% accuracy, if they're actually fluent in English as well.
There's a shit ton of reasons why people get assblasted over someone else "stealing" a series. First usually being the other group doing a shit job, or even the reverse, they're getting shown up that they actually don't know Japanese.
Second are people being afraid of e-peen being diverted elsewhere.
Third is just it's a waste of time and effort to have two people doing the same thing.
Out of these, I feel only the third is acceptable, but it's kind of annoying when a larger group (like niggerstream) ends up picking up a series and bleaching/destroying the pages for the sake of time.
My scanlation group (well, not a group since it's just me) is the worst. When I started I knew basically no Japanese, all my "scans" are made with a potato-quality camera and edited in GIMP. Good thing I only release stuff nobody cares about.
>>135521995
You've been posting on an anonymous board for who knows how long. People have claimed to be you for a while now.
not manga or anime, but the absolute worst i have ever seen is the official translation/localization for luxpain.
I read this thread, and I'm reminded of those one anons who are completely new to LNs and they bitch and moan how it's not a perfect TL and saying it's all bad and they won't continue reading. You fuckers don't know what bad is. I've read some shit. You don't know what bad is until you have to go through edited machine translations.
>>135522115
Spiny, I am going to pull your head off one day
>>135522110
That's not too surprising.
The thing that depresses me is that in high school I wasn't even really a weeaboo- I was someone whose primary exposure to anime was late night SciFi airings of Akira and shit.
I took 4 years of Japanese in high school (literally just because I thought German and Spanish were boring choices) and my teacher was a guy who was a Mormon missionary in Japan for over 15 years. He often lamented how insanely shitty subtitles were- even from the supposed legends of the business (see: that one Otaking 'documentary' about how bad fansubs are).
He had us watch a handful of anime, Kurosawa movies, etc. as we learned and he'd pause and break down inaccuracies in subs and so on. Like, fansubs literally would just make shit up. Meanwhile, official subs would completely miss cultural context and frequently were at best insanely dry and literal and at worst completely wrong. He watched just the worst shit however- like one of the anime we watched a lot of was Haunted Junction. Blarghh
I wish I wasn't such a lazy bitch then. I should've just stuck with it and learned Japanese. Instead I can just read hiragana/katakana and like at best 100 kanji. My vocabulary is subliterate retard level. I failed my teacher. He was a cool dude too despite being a weirdo mormon guy.
>>135489426
I have all of the Manga Line Volumes
>>135522828
>even from the supposed legends of the business (see: that one Otaking 'documentary' about how bad fansubs are)
What is the documentary *about*, and is he right or wrong? I don't want to listen to 30 minutes of audio analysis only to find out that he comes to the wrong conclusion 25 minutes in.
>>135522110
>>135522828
That's exactly it.
I'm a typesetter, and often I do a proofing run over the lines as I read them in. I'm illiterate in Japanese, but I stumble across a line that just doesn't fit, spin the RAW line through a dictionary, ask a couple buddies (that know moon, but can't be assed) and find it's entirely made up, or only a portion of the word is there, while the rest of the of the line just takes off into its own dimension.
>>135523237
Oh man, I remember having to deal with those made up bullshit. Worst thing I ever did was ask for clarification why they translated it like that.
>>135523163
Basically he jerks off the people who originally professionally subbed anime back in the 80's/90's, and while he correctly shits on fansubbers for doing shit like OVERWRITING THE ACTUAL FUCKING CASTS in openings and doing retarded shit with fonts and animations- he complains about not literally translating everything without any explanation or context
his excuse was a single nerd anime whose name escapes me (like Otaku club or something? I can't recall) that had a ton of references to other anime and was originally handled with a fucking paper printout of "this is what this cultural reference is" that you're supposed to read on the side
the guy was basically a defender of insanely dry/literal translations (which my teacher hated) while correctly hating the shit out of fansubs that use such obnoxious fonts and self-aggrandize. Equal measures of wrong and right really.
Like, say- Otaking would consider not literally translating Zoro's "108 Pound Cannon" as exactly that every single time as being a travesty...
...nevermind it makes no fuckign sense contextually to a non Japanese speaker if you translate it every single time or not. It's a weird reference to the 108 earthly desires and a pun that only really works in Japanese. It doesn't fucking matter.
Sorry to ask but do we have an aggregator to replace MT/Madokami yet?
>>135488973
Niggastream.
I still remember when they took Vinland Saga for the first time as Binkitopia. Fucking faggots decided to use Topaz on a series like Vinland Saga that heavily use textured grey tones. Topaz killed the entire art for several months, until Hoz picked up.
>>135522610
Literally everything is edited machine translations now though, people have discovered that you can make money off it.
You could probably count series with real translations on your hands.
>>135523590
Nope.
>>135523496
got it, will watch.
thank you for understanding what I meant and not assuming I was being a bitch
>>135523917
It's cool. It's worth watching because he correctly highlights the worst excesses of fansubbers and correctly explains why sometimes more literal translations are great but he really overemphasizes the literal-ness of translation which was a grave sin to my teacher
like part of understanding another language is understanding the culture and history.
Language is political and historical- it can't be translated without context. context is insanely important and it's important to convey the feelings and intent of the author in the use of language rather than just shit out the most dictionary translation as possible.
Like, I know it's gay as hell but understanding the whole "harmonious" nature of asian culture in general is an important aspect of understanding written word and fiction in any Asian language- regardless if it's something like Tale of the Genji or the absolute shittiest shounen battle anime
>I Am A Hero: We have v17 scanned and I have v18 at home, but our translator hasn’t answered the emails I sent for the last month or so. I sent another one tonight, but if I don’t hear back, I’m unfortunately going to have to find someone else.
>Alice in Hell: Don’t have translations for it, can’t go any further until we do.
For fucks sakes, I like what they do, but they need to get a handle on their stuff. Or someone needs to help them. They have far too many projects and no staff.
>>135505635
Does it ever get duwang level bad?
my favorite scanner drama is people flipping out because other groups scanlate the same thing
nigger, who cares
is your translation better?
like Fallen Angels and My Hero Academia
like Niggastream was insanely fucking bad- barely graduating to "readable" in their latest
you don't watermark and you explain your stupid translations Fallen Angels, you're gravy with me please never stop
I'll read niggastream when it drops first inevitably, and THEN yours since yours tends to be less fucked up
nothing wrong with that- you're fuckin fine and you don't splatter gay watermarks all over your shit. why do you care
>>135502423
Haa~ Haa~
I remember there was a group that had 40 chapters of a manga done but not released and then someone hacked their site and released it all.
>>135525681
hahaha oh wow
any clue who it was that got hacked?
>>135523815
Why are there still no backups or aggregators? Haven't they learned anything from those 2 occassions where the site goes under?
>>135526585
>/a/
>learning
Really, now.
>>135526585
There's now a MT torrent. Private backups of Mado as well. Which they actually had to use last month.
>>135526811
/a/ doesn't do anything silly.
>>135526836
>/a/ doesn't do anything
Yes, that is the joke. Thanks for explaining.
>>135526880
/a/ would need to be in charge of anything for them to need to learn anything.
Those who retranslate from another language.
One of the worst I've seen so far went Japanese - Chinese - Spanish - English, and I think some other groups (Italian, Vietnamese) used the English translation.
>>135488973
Theyre not bad in the sense you mean but Norway scans can get downright fucking obnoxious. I can stand an occasional 'Norway!' instead of 'No way!' or a "TL note: 100 yen is something norwegian krone", but when it's on every fucking page or you can't tell what the original message was (like, 'By Odin' or some shit) it's so obnoxious.
>>135502423
>>135502352
I think this is the same guy. I'm not sure if I should be glad he improved this much or disappointed that he's still this mediocre.
>>135527708
Yeah, Shimimaru's great.
>>135488973
Selene Scans is terrible.
I dropped it not long afterwards.
>>135527565
>2004/06/01 Released Kagome Kagome volume 3. That completes the Kagome Kagome series.
>>135527835
MU lists earlier stuff including GTO, if that's what you're getting at. He also takes credit for the program used on GTO.
>>135528031
jesus christ, he's that old?
>>135528066
Some say he has been around since before manga existed. Some say it's just a title that is passed down from master yo student. Te truth is we may never know.
>>135528123
we may never know, because he's not attention whoring with 30 credit/recruitment/rant pages per tankobon release.
>>135528066
Since it's hosted on Columbia's site and seems to have been made in 2000 or 2001, I'm guessing he's in his mid-thirties. So, old for /a/, but hardly ancient.
Nanka Kanojo ni Inumimi to Shippo ga Haetan Daga Ore wa Dousurebaii?
>>135528382
The "WHAT-" at the end made me spit out an apple I was eating
>>135528539
A whole apple?
>>135488973
those gate scans with the stupid sexy trap wearing pantyhose
they make me question my sexuality and I don't like that
>>135528740
Momo a cute
>>135491030
They haven't done that shit in a long time
>>135529625
Well yeah, they haven't released shit for a long time.
>still reading scanlations
>in 2016
I feel bad for you people.
>>135529963
>still reading
>2016
I remember when I had eyes.
>>135529963
>2016
>still on /a/
Like you're one to talk.
>>135529987
I only come here to laugh at people who can't read Japanese, these days.
The board has been overrun by Tumblr and Reddit anyway.
Norway Scans, releasing chapters in fucking thirds, putting memeshit everywhere into dialogue, absolutely heretical.
>>135530018
Sure, keep telling yourself that.
the scanlations for the first chapters of pandora hearts have been so far, well, shit
>>135507636
>typesetters have the easiest job
not when they're also the cleaners/redrawers.
That said, someone should clean/redraw their brains for having done that.
>>135530406
>not when they're also the cleaners/redrawers.
Naturally, that's arguably one of the hardest jobs. But chances are if you can clean and redraw a page, you can also properly place text inside of a speech or thought bubble. The only job that's anywhere near as easy as pure typesetting is actually scanning stuff.
>>135488973
Titania Scanlations. I almost dropped Akatsuki no Yona because of their "go to the forums, post until you reach quota posts, and maybe we'll let you download our release" thing. Luckily some other group picked it up.
>>135533162
It was even worse than that, they were translating, but leaving 3 pages a chapter raw, then putting the translations for those 3 pages on their locked forums.
How has this not been posted yet?
>>135533162
I remember them.
>>135521330
Ahahahahah holy shit
Old BL scanlations from 2002-2004 or so, they're all 700x500 tier images with cancerous quality scans and awful translation
>>135526836
where dat MT torrent at tho
>>135533423
>tho
If you promise to stop posting like this, then maybe I'll tell you.
>>135533609
I swear. It's a bad habit I picked up from a friend on irc. Please. I have one tenth of MT from participating in the mass-download to save it, but I need all of it. I could never get the other pieces from the team.
>>135533642
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=764691
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=764911
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=765143
The Big 3 scanlation groups back then were:
Red Hawk
Village Idiot
Japanzai
Now, its
Norway Scans
Easy Going Scans
I don't know the third.
>>135533715
Thank you.
Now when I build a new computer in april I'll have to build a bigass RAID array for this and madokami, so it can never be lost again.
>>135533761
/a/ conglomerates are much bigger now than any of those.
>>135533761
One Time Scans? Underdog? They're not really big though.
Scanlation just gets worse and worse every year. Now there's fuckers starting patreons and shit to rake in money for their shitscans and everything.
>>135533795
sure.
>>135491058
>>135491152
>>135491030
This is why we need horriblescans.
>inb4 cr adds watermarks
>>135535272
No, it's why you need to learn Japanese already.
The drama with Prozess a few years ago was the most autistic shit I've seen. Stealing content and deciding you have power over it? There will always be someone else to take your spot.
I guess people want to feel good about at least one thing in their lives but scanlations isn't one of them.
>>135535947
>>135535947
>>135535976
Wow I thought people wouldn't remember, since everyone is so new.
>>135535947
Prozess is still with Japanzai right
For their release of the final chapter of Unbalance x Unbalance, I remember A-Team had "FUCK YOU MANGAFOX" pasted all over every page. Haven't encountered anything this bad since, thankfully.
>>135517365
Duwang doesn't really count, considering it was a failed english project done by 2 chinks.
>>135538102
Do we actually have any proof of that?
>>135533341
I was going to mention null.
I don't actually think they're bad enough to translated Katakana into names like that and "Tandiahjo Lofulamingo". They must have been translating from Chinese raws.
But they still were crap tier. I'm trying to read their Saki translations and there's an incomprehensible mistake on every other page. In pic related, the line is supposed to mean "If she had discarded the 1m on the 8th turn, she would have had ippatsu tsumo".
But the worst part was their incredible elitism. They spent more time complaining about "leechers" than actually scanlating.
>>135539739
>They must have been translating from Chinese raws.
It's obvious just from the scan that was posted. Not a single kana in sight.
I freaking hate norway scans. They always replace "no way!" with "norway!" It's autistic as fuck. Same with "*around blank norweigian krone" translation notes. I need dollars, the heck I care about Norway crap. And they think that shit was hilarious.
>>135489468
Just get the viz releases from the library
>>135490740
>A Team
Not only do they have psychotic levels of aspergers, they were making a pretty penny off of suckers donations.
They weren't the worst group quality wise, but they were the worst group ethically. Trollscans, graft, huge fucking watermarks, threatening leechers, withholding releases be of shitty grudges, cyberstalking people who made competitive releases, cyberstalking people who accused them of impropriety, begging for $500+ per month in donations, and not releasing anything, the list is fucking endless.
>>135491516
>we complain about stuff we get for free illegally
For two good reasons:
1. If you offered somebody free cake and then fed them dogshit, they'd have a right to be mad even if the dogshit is free.
2. Most people don't like the raw hypocrisy of somebody stealing an artists work and then getting assblasted when aggregator sites do the same to them.
>>135533761
>I don't know the third.
Probably Jaimini's Box, sadly.
So why do even competent scans have frequent non-idiomatic English, broken English, and spelling/homonym/typographic errors out the ass? There are hundreds of millions of fluent English speakers who can proofread your shit in five minutes
>>135542309
Because there isn't such a thing as a competent scan?
Anyone who thinks they've read a manga because they read a translation is completely insane.
>>135542309
Same reason you haven't offered your services to the Hadena-tier scanlation groups of the world, I assume.
>>135542309
Shit groups don't want to be corrected on how shit they are. Just look at the guy who tried to be an editor for Hadena on their subs, they bitched when he fixed their shitty grammar.
>>135540005
they make clean jobs though
also it made hinamatsuri way more funny
>>135542309
People who speak fluent English don't need to learn another language, because it's a lingua franca. You can travel to any country, speak in English and people will understand you. Thus the translators (i.e. those who bothered to learn another language) are almost always non-native English speakers and mostly hang out with other non-native speakers.
>>135542309
Translators tend to be egotistical by nature and think that because they volunteer to contribute to a scanlation effort, they're entitled to be above criticism. Most simply can't stand the idea of someone 'correcting' or questioning the accuracy of their work, or otherwise simply take for granted their competence with english and assume that there's no errors to find and no reason to edit.
Bear in mind that the overwhelming majority of translators are 2nd gen japanese immigrants either looking to turn their home-spoken language to use or looking to reconnect with their parent's culture, or else they're chinese immigrants for whom japanese comes easy because it's relatively close to their own first language. In both cases, they tend to have an unwarranted sense of confidence in their english writing skills while generally having the english language competence of a detroit teenager.
I was trying to masturbate and wound up laughing too hard.
