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- Posted 2 years ago
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pnyxtr
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Posted 2 years ago
#You know, for calling it "Inside Scanlation", you sure present an outside view of it.
I could give you countless examples, but suffice it to say that you present far far too much of what most of us oldtimers would call a "leecher" view. Which is fine in its way, if what you're trying to present is scanlation from a reader's point of view. But inside, it sure isn't.
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The inside part is meant for people who don't know what scanlation is or new scanlators who aren't aware of what happened many years ago, as in inside the world (backgrounds, what are some well-known groups, etc.) and history of scanlation. As for inside-inside...I hope the interviews reveal some "inside" info on each groups that were previously not well-known.
For the "oldtimers," I hope it'll bring back some nostalgia, but otherwise, most of the info found here shouldn't be new to them.
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Come on pny, give him a break ^^;; It's just a site name :p AnimeWaves doesn't do any better in that department :p
Personally though, as a "relatively" new scanlator (5 years is still young... right ^^?) who hasn't kept up with the recent trends or bothered to dig up ancient history, the site gives an amazing tale I've always wanted to find out myself ^^ Thus, I'd like to give many thanks for compiling this inside view of the scanlation world ;)
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pnyxtr
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Posted 2 years ago
#Well, the inside portion I feel that I am served by this consists of the interviews. (Which are quite interesting, though. Kudos!)
The whole history thing is mostly shallow outside views of how people concerned with the most popular shit perceived the whole thing at the time (*). Seriously, read the interviews and learn from them.
(*)Or more like, for the not hella popular groups, how people perceived that other people perceived that it was perceived at the time. Stop doing that, it's intellectually dishonest. Read the damned interviews and learn from them.
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You know though, I actually find this "leecher" perspective quite entertaining, especially seeing the whole Ichigo incident I started being described as a "classic example of inter-group competitions of the mid 2000s" ^^;;...
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pnyxtr
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Posted 2 years ago
#Hah. You (and this history) make too much of that whole thing. I purposely distanced myself from it because I thought it was lame drama. But apparently it will still come back to haunt people even in this day and age.
And it *really* wasn't that important. For instance in AW, most of the people who wanted to "fight" bailed out when time came to actually do anything. Like miner and Izzy and whatnot. But people who like drama will still bring it up. I mean, *that* fact is kind of interesting. The history of the whole deal is not, though.
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senile_seinen
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Posted 2 years ago
#Honestly, I've never concerned myself with the antics of scanlators of Naruto, Bleach, or One Piece. Don't read their products, either. And pny is right - a lot of it is lame drama.
I think you're missing a point here - those of us who scanlate things like Gunslinger Girl (which led directly to the Dollhouse TV show), or City of Afternoon Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (which was later licensed), haven't stopped doing what we were doing before the Naruto thing happened. Indeed, we haven't even slowed down. The same culture of people is still doing exactly the same stuff. There's just this new layer of shounen action fanboy spazz floating on top of it now.
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