No more SAO.. hiks
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I was at Yahoo Answer yesterday and someone asked why OneManga was so gloom, another guy answered they would closed soon. I didn't believe it.. But it's true ,folks. Viz (evil disguised as distributor) and Japan manga coalition has decided to screw us over for more $$$... Okay maybe I'm being unfair here, they need to make money somehow right? So looking back Scanlation sites are technically illegal, but do they really sure that those same sites didn't advertise their manga.
Okay brief history lesson. In 2006 (maybe) came Manga fox and OneManga (maybe) the first big scanlation site. Their mission objective is to spread the word of manga to uneducated world for FREE!. At this time Viz was around, or at least that much. Many great manga at that time didn't have the advertisement and exposure so they became unknown. I bet 5 years ago, there are tons of people who didn't know Bleach or Naruto.
Enjoy your last Naruto
As time passed, these manga became popular and many publisher or distributor invest in them. The unknown artist that make these manga gradually has more audience and more profit (FILTHY STINKING RICH!!) They were thankful for these site, but now their works can be view for free, which contradicted the stinking rich concept. Most of them lost their dedication and dragged their manga just to prolong these profit. They are milking ther fans.. "cough" NARUTO "cough" BITC.. BLEACH..
Although not every one is like that. Shin Angyo Onshi has great art. I know. I spent 5 hours drawing this one pic. It's only one panel in one page. The artist has to make 40 pages for dozens upon dozens chapters. FMA : Brotherhood doesn't stale and fast pace. Even Bleach or Naruto has redeeming features. The sale of manga dropped because of these sites (allegedly) , so in a way we hurt their money.
Let's face it. We are LEECHERS. Any one visit the forum or the scanlation group and thank them?. I didn't. They do it for free..
Say goodbye to Ichigo
I honestly thought these sites are too good to be true. But I didn't know they would be gone this soon.. In a way I rarely read manga anymore. Once a week or two for One Naru Bleach..or some other manga like Ippo or Chinmi when I'm bored. It's significantly lesser than years ago. But when human is comfortable at a condition and that condition is robbed from them, human will be disturbed, confused and angry. It's okay..
The only loss is for me is not only reading, but searching for drawing reference. I finally able to draw Shin Angyo Onshi. I was gonna horde it, but even mangashare was closed down this morning. I doubt any provider will be left standing soon. If only they tell me sooner.. Sigh.. So we consider the alternative., Do we buy it? rent it? I don't know about you but I've become comfortable with free manga, so the very notion of PAYING for one is staggering.
Ahh I think I'll miss this one.. piece.. hahaha.. hah.. huhuhu
Now I'm not cheap here. If it's worth it, I''ll buy it.. But there are so many things more important than manga. Good novel, games, books etc. Not to mention if you invest in them, you will only get 7-8 chapters for 15k. It's hardly worth it. Okay perhaps you can rent it. But there's one significant problem. IT'S SLOW. Seriously what chapters OnePiece or Naruto in Indo? How much longer do we have to wait? One year? Two? Bleh...
It's not really any different with anime. So with 5k (or free download) you can watch 2-3 episodes, in which means 6-8 chapters. Quiet a bargain, but they are also slow and there's filler too. It's still at least half years til Bleach catch up with manga. Well there are solutions. Piracy never stop so if you can track Binktopia or Sleppyfans, they might still around, they are group not site so they will last. There is always demands for One Naru Bleach so where there's demand, there's bound to be supply.
But are you willing to invest time and effort to track down 17 pages..? I think it will cooldown and we'll have sites like this again, but their income comes from ad which is quiet hard if they make it illegal. And I heard the sums that Viz + Japan demand is very high, no one would take such risk. I could be wrong, I have faith in piracy.
If there's no more site, I'll quit manga. Don't know what will happen to Aizen in Deicide 117 but if it take too long, well forget it. My interest is dwindling anyway.. Still hoping it will continue but good things come to an end..
PS: If there's typo, I'm too lazy to fix it..
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