Sentences with word «scanlation»

They will all be working in concert with US manga publishers Vertical Inc., Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press to bring legal action to a slew of scanlation sites.

Even under the current fan scanlation community, this is a pretty significant no - no.

Most of the debate over justification for scanlations didn't interest me, as I've seen them all before, but one comment did sort of bother me.

The big scanlation aggregator sites are blatant pirates (some also sell bootleg merchandise), but most small scanlators aren't actually trying to screw over their favorite artists, and manga publishers don't have to be stupid, like Paramount in the»90s trying to stamp out Star Trek fansites.

For years American readers and pundits have been pining for an English translation, with The Comics Journal «s Dirk Deppey openly endorsing reading scanlations in the absence of an official English - language release.

Read digital manga on the official sites, not on scanlation sites.

The site is all in Japanese but you can find the list of websites in English on pages 11 and 12 for manga scanlation sites, pages 13 - 15 for video hosting sites (Youtube, Dailymotion etc.) and pages 16 - 18 for torrenting sites.

Better quality and cheaper services like Shonen Jump (which frankly still boggles my mind with how great and affordable it is) I think are going to do a lot more to really change scanlation readers into actual supporters of the medium.

Still, maybe the future won't be so different after all; the dominance of scanlations does show that there's a huge audience for poorly scanned, low - res JPEGs of B&W art designed for print.

Even though a legal site will still not be able to match the amount on illegal scanlation sites who host manga from every publisher, a quality site is working well for Crunchyroll versus its pirate competitors.

What does this mean for readers, and can the industry fight off the colossal titan of free scanlations?

The Japanese Boys Love publisher Libre has confirmed reports that it has been sending cease - and - desist notices to scanlation groups working in English.

This e-reader has a camera that they are billing as a tool to make scanlation copies of books and read it on your device.

They also have the ULTRA coming out soon, which has a camera built into it, and was designed with scanlation in mind.

There simply aren't enough of us manga fans to support it on our own, especially with so many opting to just read scanlations over buying the books.

Another site that hosted scanlations has bowed to legal pressures and taken down all of the manga from members in the coalition.

Online manga should be aiming to offer readers what scanlations are always touted as providing in their purest intentions — manga the reader can't get in their language or in print at all.

I think the real problem lies in alienating the original fan scanlation community.

Justin Stroman interviewed Lillian Diaz - Przybyl, former Tokyopop editor (and co-founder of Chromatic Press), who comments on her history with Tokyopop, why manga isn't often available legitimately digitally, how online surveys don't match sales figures, and what publishers can do about scanlation sites.

Summed up to start, I believe JManga could never have held on long term (though credit where credit's due for the time they did last) for a number of reasons, but ultimately JManga was, simply put, offering scanlations to readers with the expectation of being paid for it.

It's certainly an interesting topic, growing up all through out high school, I certainly didn't have much of an income so streaming from websites or reading online scanlations was the only way for me to keep up to date with a lot of anime and manga, not to mention at the time, the Western audience was definitely suffering from lack of material.

I have to confess, that is the one answer I loathe seeing in scanlation debates, and it appears every time.

Well said by anon, although I doubt it did much to disrupt scanlations.

I am actually quite excited with this news, that way scanlations can finally see the light of day..

I was really upset to learn Jmanga was closing down, not at them it's not their fault most people don't want to spend money on digital manga when they can download scanlations for free.

It may seem like you are doing completely harmless by reading that latest released scanlation or downloading the newest episode of your favorite show, but please think of the developers, support the artist and it's industry!

Keep in mind that like pirated downloads of movies and music, scanlations give nothing back to the original creators.

After two years of double digit declines in sales of manga, American manga publishers have formed a coalition with their Japanese counterparts to battle the illegal Internet distribution of unlicensed manga via scanlation sites where translated versions of manga often appear just days after publication in Japan.

All they did was disrupt normal scanlation for a while.

Eventually this developed into a whole scanlation scene, with fans communicating and sharing downloads of their favorite series via IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

I do not provide scanlations or translations on this site, nor do I provide links to sites where you can read manga online.

Companies have been fighting to take down certain scanlation mega-sites where manga readers can find an enormous amount of titles to read, but more always pop up.

The distance between the US and Japan may make scanlation seem less piracy - like than uploading a comic drawn by someone who speaks the same language and lives in the same country.

I kind of take offence that you think our (reffering to fan groups and scanlation teams) standard of quality does not meet the rest of the industry.

BL fans tend to be consistent manga buyers, always looking for the latest in their genre, while also maintaining a dedicated scanlation community that focuses largely on unlicensed material.

If I held my manga morals for certain things that high, I wouldn \» t be able to buy a lot of books because of their publication resulting almost entirely from scanlation popularity (as an example).

On another note... at least to me, the viewer controls are much more clunky than the standard viewer scanlation sites use.

These are folks who check out English scanlations just as much as English - speaking folks do, so if they are denied a legal means of reading the manga in English, they'll continue to turn to the scanlators, many of whom originate outside the U.S..

I see digital manga continuing to flourish but in the footsteps of those who are really making the necessary steps to not just face scanlations head - on, but to soar right over their heads.

Which is the main reason I do not support scanlations, besides the legality.

«Scanlations hurt the US manga industry.»

Checking to see if scanlations linked to by bootleg manga apps were included in the search results (they aren't), I searched for «Fairy Tail,» the name of a Kodansha manga, knowing that it is not available digitally.