Ty just signed up for Renta
Scanlating in general is stealing though? This whole website is illegal as it is distributing manga that has not been authorised by the Mangaka and their respective publishers...
Scanlating groups don't receive explicit permission to translate the manga they work on. Most of the time, scanlating groups complain that they don't want their fan-translated work(s) spread around as they view it as 'their property' because they put so much time and effort into translating/cleaning etc... - In reality they are just illegally taking someone else work and doing as they please with it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm on this website fully aware that i'm basically viewing pirated content. But, you can't complain that this has been stolen from Renta when literally everything on this website has been stolen.
You reading the manga on this website is equivalent to you endorsing the work of scanlators which official publishing companies detest.
If you don't like that it has been stolen, why are you on this website? I'm not ranting, just genuinely can't see the sense in your actions.
It's true that scanlation teams are doing something illegal. But an English speaker is more likely to buy a manga written in english rather than buying a Japanese one when they can't even read it. True, some of us might want to support the mangaka and buy one anyways but that doesn't apply to the whole community.
What this person did is steal an already official English translated version of this manga. And that's really causing loss to the mangaka and the publishing team.
I think scanlation teams actually promote non licensed manga. The ones I know don't give raws for free. They translate the manga and help it reach a bigger fanbase. Thanks to them, I've come to know some amazing mangaka that I never knew of. And some of us, whether due to guilt or respect, still buy the raws just to support the mangaka. Of course everyone doesn't do that, but if we didn't have the scans, I doubt non japanese speakers would get to know how good a manga is and buy something in a language they can't even understand.
I agree because of this site I've learned about mangakas and new sites to purchase and have purchased many chapters i.e. Lehzin... I just signed up for Renta today ty to other fujoshi(I'm a fujoshi) and even fudanshi. Clear is right too a lot of us English speakers purchase mangas and webtoons online.
Yes, yes, yes
Absolutely Clear. If it weren't for scanlation groups I wouldn't know about a lot of yaoi mangas since they never get licensed or get license way later. I didn't know there were sites that let you purchase and read licensed ones online. When I have enough money, I usually buy my super favorites physically (I like having tangible works of the mangaka. I also like the smell of the paper, and the feel). I'll have to try em out for any series that never got updated on here
Sorry! It wasn't my intention to make scanlation groups look bad or anything! I appreciate the work they put in and obviously without their works we wouldn't even know some of the great manga's and mangaka's we have today. However, it doesn't change the fact that what they are doing is illegal - it's not something that should be passed over with something like promoting the book. Illegal is Illegal.
And whilst I agree that people would buy the english copy when given the chance, it is probably a very small percentage to those who would say 'well why the hell should I buy it if I can read it for free here?' Even manga like Sekaiichi Hatsukoi and Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai which have been licensed in english are still being distributed by scanlation teams because fans can't wait a few months for the release date of the next volume.
^All of that is not my point though and everybody's opinions are different I guess. I don't wanna go into depth about what good or bad scanlation groups are doing because it's their own business at the end of the day and i'm still here reading stolen manga. Kinda like saying 'I don't have room to talk' (laughs).
Overall, it just seemed contradictory that the original post was complaining that it had been stolen from another website when this whole website has stolen manga.
Don't say "Oh, it finally updated." ...It's more like. "Oh, someone decided to play "the hero" and steal manga from legal manga sites, when the whole manga costs only 2$." This decrees the profit the site and authors get --> less trust from the Japanese companies to work with English companies, less licensed works..... Let's praise "the hero" for being a shithead and doing this.