September 3rd, 2014
Introduction to Manga: 1A Scanlation in the Modern Era
You've heard of Ancient Astronaut Theorists but now you have barged upon the worst school humanity has to offer! That is, A Modern Mangos Theorist.
First, I'll present a semi-chronological account so you're familiar with the subject. Please be gentle with me.
WARNING: The proceeding article contains foul language and generally deteriorates from fact to opinion immediately. Read with a grain of salt (and lots of alcohol.)
this entire thing is a joke, there's no need to read anything
STONE AGE -
manga scans are barely cleaned and never redrawn; sailor moon is read from left-to-right and the official translation industry is as you would imagine.
fansubbing is limited to VHS and Laserdisk or in most cases the fansub is actually fandub. Offical shit was actually good at this time for voice acting.
IRON AGE -
Groups of rag-tag scanlators join the scene as soon as dialup is replaced with DSL and proceeds to mock the official manga industry with free scans coupled with (perhaps) better translation. FMA manga scans set a scanlation standard that was already set by doujin scan groups years before (but no one cares.) official distributors are butt-hurt but can't do anything but learn.
fansubbing moves onto buying VHS tapes on ebay. Groups are Taiwanese or Chinese video is japanese.
DBZ is somehow amazingly popular and funimation decides to use the same voice actors for decades to come.
English dubs set a new low, becomes industry standard.
BRONZE AGE -
Jews realize there is money to be earned hosting scans that were made elsewhere by scanlators, but in one place. Online readers pop up everywhere Mangafox launches.
Streaming sites start hosting fansubs and claiming it as their own work.
July 2005 - The IDOLM@STER launches cartoonists everywhere call hiatus to manga.
Sep. 10, 2005 - Naruto airs in english and fuels neurotic children everywhere with delusions of their very own ninja way.
June 2006 Shinji founds Crunchyroll. Intended to make users PAY to stream fansubs and (officially published) bootleg anime. For more information please see nearest dictionary listings for "greedy", and "idiot".
GOLDEN AGE -
2006 - mid 2012 All is fun and games there is friendly competition between scan groups and the frequently share both members and banter. 2007 proves to be the best year ever in this era.
June 2007 - Guts gets on a boat, as mangaka buys IDOLM@STER. Miura Kentaro and Chi-chan silently married.
Nov. 17, 2008 - Crunchyroll becomes a legit company and denies shady past overnight. Immediately stomps DMCA takedowns and streaming websites everywhere and anywhere. Jewish capital restructures Crunchyroll into the biggest official Asian media outlet.
April, June 2010 - Japanese revisions to the loli ban, Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths (TMORHDY), are passing without due process. Cartoonists draw in protest.
June 8, 2010 newly formed League of Super Anti- piracy, The Japanese Digital Comic Association forms and is hailed as final nail in the coffin for scanlation and fansubbing, was generally deemed successful by all parties.
Dec. 2010 - The updated loli ban, TMORHDY, comes into effect, incites shitstorm but generally did absolutely nothing. Turns out bill does nothing but buy ecchi-manga for gov officials to let them be "appalled".
Jan 2011 - Batoto launches swearing to combat img compression, spyware and ads plaguing online readers (albeit with their own form of online horseshit) but gives a share of ad revenue to scanlators.
April 11, 2011 - Earthquakes and tsunami kill thousands and push Madoka Magical episodes Ten and rewrite the Eleventh and Twelfth until many Tuesdays later.
June 2011 - A bakaupdates user [cmertb] investigated mangafox and friends to find out that they are the same people and make 3k USD a day, per website. Does not stop them from DDOSing Batoto all day er'day.
June 9, 2011 - Malaysia accuses Megaupload a communist breeding grounds that rapes white women, then a day later declares war on technology and magic; everyone (except the US government) laughs. Concurrently whistleblower threads show up on /a/ stating that scanlators are greedy.
July 1, 2011 - TMORHDY yet again proves super effective by studying one manga series at a time. Cartoonists Miura Kentaro and Go Nagai protest and appeal in courts; lose.
May 14, 2012 - Government is appalled at incest in entertainment after a study session of Yosuga no Sora, decides to let it slide for now.
Oct. 2012 - Anti piracy law passed and is hailed as final nail in the coffin for fansubs and scanlation
GOLDEN AGE, DECLINE OF-
Current era. Scanlators are overworked and unappreciated as the masses assume that mangafox IS a scanlator. Meanwhile the Japanese Ministry on Economics, Trade and Industry propose stupid laws.
Jan 19, 2012 - Megaupload accused of funding terrorism, lolis and other bullshit and is raided by FBI. Investigator accidentally reveals that megaupload was NOT a communist meeting grounds and made online monies legally via ads. Meanwhile scanlators complain that depositfiles, filegator, rapidshit, and mediafire pay too little and demand more donations to buy comics; this sparks a "MUH free mangos!" debate on almost every scanlation/doujin group homepage and /a/. Fansubber websites laugh at the turmoil but horriblesubs/commie secretly groan about money in IRC.
June 21, 2012 - supplying, downloading and ripping BDs and related material is outlawed in japan. Law is to be enforced October 1st. Death of fansubs again.
Oct. 30, 2013 - Crunchyroll launches Crunchyroll Manga. Releases are uploaded to mangatraders, manga fox and monitored on Baka-updates.
Dec. 3, 2013 - Baka-updates receives DMCA takedown notices. Hides direct website links to scanlation groups.
June 1-9, 2014 - Mangatraders receives takedown notices, PayPal pulls site donations. MT bursts into treats shortly after it's reviled that it was hosting unsalted md5 encrypted usernames/passes and emails for both users and admins.
June 18, 2014 - Japan finally bans CP.
July 28 2014 - METI finally remembers commitment to anti-piracy and supposedly buys server farms
Aug. 30 2014 - massive DDOS attacks on nyaa and other sites. Japanese government and cruchyroll are totally not funding them. Attacks are allegedly the final nail in the coffin for fansubs everywhere
All the booze I drank is getting to me I'll stop this nonsense right now... Honestly, I just need to laugh when I read this in the morning. Feel free to ridicule me and my post if you read it
First, I'll present a semi-chronological account so you're familiar with the subject. Please be gentle with me.
WARNING: The proceeding article contains foul language and generally deteriorates from fact to opinion immediately. Read with a grain of salt (and lots of alcohol.)
this entire thing is a joke, there's no need to read anything
STONE AGE -
manga scans are barely cleaned and never redrawn; sailor moon is read from left-to-right and the official translation industry is as you would imagine.
fansubbing is limited to VHS and Laserdisk or in most cases the fansub is actually fandub. Offical shit was actually good at this time for voice acting.
IRON AGE -
Groups of rag-tag scanlators join the scene as soon as dialup is replaced with DSL and proceeds to mock the official manga industry with free scans coupled with (perhaps) better translation. FMA manga scans set a scanlation standard that was already set by doujin scan groups years before (but no one cares.) official distributors are butt-hurt but can't do anything but learn.
fansubbing moves onto buying VHS tapes on ebay. Groups are Taiwanese or Chinese video is japanese.
DBZ is somehow amazingly popular and funimation decides to use the same voice actors for decades to come.
English dubs set a new low, becomes industry standard.
BRONZE AGE -
Jews realize there is money to be earned hosting scans that were made elsewhere by scanlators, but in one place. Online readers pop up everywhere Mangafox launches.
Streaming sites start hosting fansubs and claiming it as their own work.
July 2005 - The IDOLM@STER launches cartoonists everywhere call hiatus to manga.
Sep. 10, 2005 - Naruto airs in english and fuels neurotic children everywhere with delusions of their very own ninja way.
June 2006 Shinji founds Crunchyroll. Intended to make users PAY to stream fansubs and (officially published) bootleg anime. For more information please see nearest dictionary listings for "greedy", and "idiot".
GOLDEN AGE -
2006 - mid 2012 All is fun and games there is friendly competition between scan groups and the frequently share both members and banter. 2007 proves to be the best year ever in this era.
June 2007 - Guts gets on a boat, as mangaka buys IDOLM@STER. Miura Kentaro and Chi-chan silently married.
Nov. 17, 2008 - Crunchyroll becomes a legit company and denies shady past overnight. Immediately stomps DMCA takedowns and streaming websites everywhere and anywhere. Jewish capital restructures Crunchyroll into the biggest official Asian media outlet.
April, June 2010 - Japanese revisions to the loli ban, Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths (TMORHDY), are passing without due process. Cartoonists draw in protest.
June 8, 2010 newly formed League of Super Anti- piracy, The Japanese Digital Comic Association forms and is hailed as final nail in the coffin for scanlation and fansubbing, was generally deemed successful by all parties.
Dec. 2010 - The updated loli ban, TMORHDY, comes into effect, incites shitstorm but generally did absolutely nothing. Turns out bill does nothing but buy ecchi-manga for gov officials to let them be "appalled".
Jan 2011 - Batoto launches swearing to combat img compression, spyware and ads plaguing online readers (albeit with their own form of online horseshit) but gives a share of ad revenue to scanlators.
April 11, 2011 - Earthquakes and tsunami kill thousands and push Madoka Magical episodes Ten and rewrite the Eleventh and Twelfth until many Tuesdays later.
June 2011 - A bakaupdates user [cmertb] investigated mangafox and friends to find out that they are the same people and make 3k USD a day, per website. Does not stop them from DDOSing Batoto all day er'day.
June 9, 2011 - Malaysia accuses Megaupload a communist breeding grounds that rapes white women, then a day later declares war on technology and magic; everyone (except the US government) laughs. Concurrently whistleblower threads show up on /a/ stating that scanlators are greedy.
July 1, 2011 - TMORHDY yet again proves super effective by studying one manga series at a time. Cartoonists Miura Kentaro and Go Nagai protest and appeal in courts; lose.
May 14, 2012 - Government is appalled at incest in entertainment after a study session of Yosuga no Sora, decides to let it slide for now.
Oct. 2012 - Anti piracy law passed and is hailed as final nail in the coffin for fansubs and scanlation
GOLDEN AGE, DECLINE OF-
Current era. Scanlators are overworked and unappreciated as the masses assume that mangafox IS a scanlator. Meanwhile the Japanese Ministry on Economics, Trade and Industry propose stupid laws.
Jan 19, 2012 - Megaupload accused of funding terrorism, lolis and other bullshit and is raided by FBI. Investigator accidentally reveals that megaupload was NOT a communist meeting grounds and made online monies legally via ads. Meanwhile scanlators complain that depositfiles, filegator, rapidshit, and mediafire pay too little and demand more donations to buy comics; this sparks a "MUH free mangos!" debate on almost every scanlation/doujin group homepage and /a/. Fansubber websites laugh at the turmoil but horriblesubs/commie secretly groan about money in IRC.
June 21, 2012 - supplying, downloading and ripping BDs and related material is outlawed in japan. Law is to be enforced October 1st. Death of fansubs again.
Oct. 30, 2013 - Crunchyroll launches Crunchyroll Manga. Releases are uploaded to mangatraders, manga fox and monitored on Baka-updates.
Dec. 3, 2013 - Baka-updates receives DMCA takedown notices. Hides direct website links to scanlation groups.
June 1-9, 2014 - Mangatraders receives takedown notices, PayPal pulls site donations. MT bursts into treats shortly after it's reviled that it was hosting unsalted md5 encrypted usernames/passes and emails for both users and admins.
June 18, 2014 - Japan finally bans CP.
July 28 2014 - METI finally remembers commitment to anti-piracy and supposedly buys server farms
Aug. 30 2014 - massive DDOS attacks on nyaa and other sites. Japanese government and cruchyroll are totally not funding them. Attacks are allegedly the final nail in the coffin for fansubs everywhere
All the booze I drank is getting to me I'll stop this nonsense right now... Honestly, I just need to laugh when I read this in the morning. Feel free to ridicule me and my post if you read it
Posted by wratsenth | Sep 3, 2014 12:36 AM | 0 comments