i support ip theft of manga translations (the scripts), sorry to say, reason being i support better translations.
while i buy the original japanese versions of manga for the sake of nerdlingly collecting my favourite series, i'd rather 'steal' a good translation than pay for a crappy filtered one.
overall, scanlation groups' translation are much better, beating the pants off of licensed translations (the company tokyo pop in particular is a real POS).
by 'better' i mean a technically acurate translation, and less censoring (in fact NO censoring), for an apparently prudish US market.
scanlaters often translate cultural innuendos MUCH more communicably. you think engrish is bad? you haven't seen how some licensed mangas trip over the cultural divide.
copy-pasting excerpts to compare here doesnt definitively prove anything, but if you can read some japanese it's blaringly obvious who does a better job.
oh, quick link for the interested:
a much larger website that tracks releases is at http://www.dailymanga.org
(they also list french translation groups if anyone cares)
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i support ip theft of manga translations (the scripts), sorry to say, reason being i support better translations.
while i buy the original japanese versions of manga for the sake of nerdlingly collecting my favourite series, i'd rather 'steal' a good translation than pay for a crappy filtered one.
overall, scanlation groups' translation are much better, beating the pants off of licensed translations (the company tokyo pop in particular is a real POS).
by 'better' i mean a technically acurate translation, and less censoring (in fact NO censoring), for an apparently prudish US market.
scanlaters often translate cultural innuendos MUCH more communicably. you think engrish is bad? you haven't seen how some licensed mangas trip over the cultural divide.
copy-pasting excerpts to compare here doesnt definitively prove anything, but if you can read some japanese it's blaringly obvious who does a better job.
oh, quick link for the interested: a much larger website that tracks releases is at http://www.dailymanga.org
(they also list french translation groups if anyone cares)