gah

[insaneneko]

I'm a bit peeved at yet another case of scanlation groups thinking they own the titles they are working on. Vices and Devices had scanlated the first chapter of Yoneda Kou's Ore ni koishite dousunda, a manga I want to read more of but can only find Chinese scans for. No tankobon yet, either. They then didn't update for nine months. Three more chapters came out in Japan during the time. Fairly recently someone started scanlating the series at Manga Fox (unfortunately the English is a bit painful, but better than staring at gibberish....). She'd almost finished doing all the chapters when she got contacted by the scanlation group about their "claims" to the title (as she put it in her post here). God, I hate this stupid sense of ownership that scanlation groups have. I want to read the rest of the damned series, I don't give a crap who does it! Especially when the original group even does an update post with a title that claims they are posting the new chapter but say "just joking!" in the post itself. Thanks for fucking with the people who want the next chapter released already.

In conclusion, Vices and Devices sucks. Not as badly as some other groups, but they still suck.

Comments

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Now that I'm more awake...

but better than staring at gibberish....

Uhm. Are you talking about Chinese here? Granted, I can't understand it either, nor Japanese, but I wouldn't call them gibberish because of that. (Or maybe there is a meaning I don't know of for that word, "gibberish" I mean.)

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

You probably have the meaning right. I meant that the Chinese may as well be gibberish to me since I can't read it.