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| Announcing History! Inside Scanlation! |
It is my pleasure to announce the grand opening of website Inside Scanlation!
As you all know, one of MangaUpdates' focuses is on scanlations. Inside Scanlation details the history of the scanlation process. There are articles about different sectors of the scene, from speed scanlations to Lurk to our own site here. There are also interviews with various sites, groups, and organizations, including an IRC interview with me and Manick, njt from MangaHelpers, and even something from TokyoPop. Even if you have only a cursory interest, I highly recommend you check out the site.
Two cool things I want to point out.
1) Timeline
2) Banner Collage
Inside Scanlation is the work of Gum, who compiled all this data into the baby you see now. It has been a work in progress for the last 3 years, and now it has seen the light of day. May we see more updates in the future! |
| Posted by lambchopsil on October 10th 7:01pm |
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| Re: No Subject by mono-sama on October 12th, 2009, 1:13am |
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great site. awesome work. very interesting reading
i have added a link on the [url=manga underground]www.mydailymanga.com[/url] blog too |
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| No Subject by fallen202 on October 10th, 2009, 7:27pm |
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The banner collage is really nifty... I'll go through more when I have time  |
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| ... by lame2846 on October 10th, 2009, 7:54pm |
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| why is there banner in the release section? |
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| Re: ... by Manick on October 10th, 2009, 8:33pm |
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| why not? trying to give a fellow scanlation site a nice shout out. our releases page is the most visited page. |
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| Re: ... by lame2846 on October 10th, 2009, 9:54pm |
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it already on the front page news...
all i'm saying it unnecessary to put it there but it not my website and it not really a bad thing so whatever... |
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| Re: ... by Hinokai on October 11th, 2009, 7:18am |
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Not necessary, maybe, but its the best way for people to see it, a lot of people may only go straight to the new releases (I know I do sometimes).
Not like it hampers your browsing in anyway. Great site too. |
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| Re: ... by Moirae on October 11th, 2009, 11:30pm |
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| I personally visited the site from the banner the other day and only just now saw the news for it. The banner I suppose is for people who might overlook the less obvious news/article link. |
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| Whoa by CatzCradle on October 10th, 2009, 7:55pm |
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| It looks AMAZING!!! |
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| Re: Whoa by Moirae on October 11th, 2009, 11:34pm |
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| LOL... Ditto, it made me feel old as I've been following since 2002 as well. Not quite usenet old, but I am only 22. |
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| Re: Whoa by Moirae on October 11th, 2009, 11:36pm |
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| oops meant to reply to the message under this one |
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| No Subject by Name-Undecided on October 10th, 2009, 8:11pm |
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| Now that I'm reading the interviews I feel like such a geezer! I recognize almost ALL those names! Oh yeah I remember that guy, oh yeah I use to follow that group...was 2002 really 7 years ago? And where's my walking stick? |
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| No Subject by riney25 on October 10th, 2009, 8:14pm |
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| Such a cool site! |
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| No Subject by chryseis on October 10th, 2009, 8:23pm |
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| this is an INCREDIBLE site! kudos to Gum and everyone who contributed! |
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| nice. by Ascension on October 10th, 2009, 8:30pm |
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| truly an awesome site :x felt kinda sad when i read the timeline... all those old groups ceasing to scanlate. |
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| No Subject by oriana3k on October 10th, 2009, 8:51pm |
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| Whoa...I meant to just take a quick look around at the site, but I got completely engrossed in reading the history and some of the spotlights. Fascinating stuff, amazing job on the site. |
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| Thanks! by .Kaii on October 10th, 2009, 8:53pm |
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I'm actually pretty new to the scanlating scene, and so I've been really curious about it. Like the site says, "none could come up with a satisfactory answer". I've spent at least three hours reading stuff on there now. xD
The timeline is /incredible/. It's got so many things that I've heard older members referring to, for one, and it's just nice to look through. It makes me remember that scanlating isn't just about translating and editing manga.
The site itself is great. It's wonderfully laid out, and all the little features (the 'background' tab that pops out, for one) are a delight. All in all, thank you for what must have taken an incredible amount of effort. |
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| Fun Read by Hostile on October 10th, 2009, 8:59pm |
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| It's crazy how many old faces you see being interviewed. |
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| No Subject by mako1138 on October 10th, 2009, 9:21pm |
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| This is pretty awesome work. |
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| No Subject by juvenile_anime on October 10th, 2009, 9:25pm |
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| OMG! This brings back a lot of memories! Whoa! |
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| It's great! by tsuto on October 10th, 2009, 9:31pm |
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| Ya, I can't count the ammount of tears that fell when I was looking around the site. It's simply great. |
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| No Subject by otakubaybay on October 10th, 2009, 9:56pm |
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What an awesome site! *o* I had no idea that the serialization of Rurouni Kenshin began just as the serialization of Naruto began, among other things, haha.
(Just thought I'd mention - The first thing I read was yours' and Manick's interview, and it just makes me want to 'aww' XD;; You guys have come a long way, and we, the visitors and members of MU, all love you for it
I'm not really active in the forums anymore, but I'm so glad to have stumbled upon this site a couple years ago. I still check it every day, several times a day, and will continue for as long as it's around ^___^ Long live, MU!) |
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| No Subject by waftingwish on October 10th, 2009, 10:18pm |
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| Such an amazing site! I've always been curious about the history of scanlations so it's great to have a place with everything I wanted to know and more. |
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| Very informative by Reppu on October 10th, 2009, 10:25pm |
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| As a historian at heart, I'm always happy to see histories of seemingly obscure things in fandom. The site is well organized, the writing is light and easy to follow, and the research was done in depth. Of course, it has its faults, but overall, I was impressed at all the time and effort that went into this project. |
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| Re: Very informative by Jennifer31 on October 10th, 2009, 10:49pm |
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| Very interesting didn"t know any of this mainly because i only started reading scanlations in late 2007 didn't know anything about scanlations before then barely read manga before then either but now i read all the time mainly because of the scanlations so its good to know how it started out |
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| Awesome! by shoujo_forever on October 10th, 2009, 11:11pm |
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Wow! So many things to read..where to start?where to start?  It's so helpful and interesting! Really, I didn't even know there's an application to read manga xD;; I myself are new to the scanlation world and it's very interesting to know the history, the famous groups etc..I didn't even know that I'll be interested to read the interviews.
So COOL(^___^)b |
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| Woah by vietangelix on October 10th, 2009, 11:15pm |
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| That's awesome, I love learning about this type of things~ |
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| No Subject by 00bun00 on October 11th, 2009, 12:13am |
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what i don't like is some groups you didn't mention. Forgot? And seem you tend to prefer groups. Which is not fair in record the timeline.
In general, everything's ok. |
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| No Subject by robbit on October 11th, 2009, 12:27am |
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your interview made me so happy!
this made my day
shit, i love you two so much |
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| No Subject by Shiina on October 11th, 2009, 1:25am |
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| The site looks great. And it's really helpful for those with poor memory (like me) who recently started to wonder when did all of that happen... |
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| No Subject by magnet_dance on October 11th, 2009, 1:55am |
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| The site is wonderful! It's made me feel all nostalgic for 1998~ ^^ |
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| Informative by ReaderM on October 11th, 2009, 2:42am |
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| Man , I easily just killed 30 mins reading some of the articles on the site and getting back history on things I only knew about at a glance, it was def worth a read, great site |
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| No Subject by Gum on October 11th, 2009, 4:59am |
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| Glad you all like it Technically speaking, this project really got started at the beginning of June this year ;-) |
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| Awesome~ by Dr. Love on October 11th, 2009, 5:00am |
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The mods got a preview, so we already knew it was to be launched. But it's still awesome to look upon it. It's so good! ;__; Especially the timeline is useful
Definitely a great contribution in the scanlating community! |
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| ... by RilleL on October 11th, 2009, 7:41am |
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I just read through the history of scanlation and it's one of the most impressive things I've read lately.
Such a deep insight in the esoteric community is both rare and interesting. |
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| So nostalgic! by mangum44 on October 11th, 2009, 8:00am |
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| Daaaamn! I worked for mangascans (Love Hina)... wow, almost 10 years ago?? This is a truly fantastic project! |
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| awesome site by artikk on October 11th, 2009, 9:24am |
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| The site is very informative for those interested in the scanlation scene. I found it very interesting and engrossing. One can spend 1/4 a day on that site just reading everything. Thanks to all people that made it possible. |
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| Feels like I'm reading a prohibition documentary. by drunkguy on October 11th, 2009, 10:40am |
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My paranoid self thought MU got hacked for a second when I saw the banner.  |
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| No Subject by Name-Undecided on October 11th, 2009, 10:44am |
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| Reading the interview with njt and the so-called letter from Kodansha I thought, "That's the fakest-looking C&D letter I ever saw in my life!" I wouldn't be surprised if some fan wrote it. |
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| The interviews are the most enlightening. by drunkguy on October 11th, 2009, 11:21am |
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The best interview on the site has to be Simon Jones' from Icarus Publishing. He was pretty much the only one who sounded like a modern manga fan turned professional.
Jason Thompson's interview was interesting but it seems his reply to the question of ever reading scanlations was the same as Marco Pavia's reply (Tokyopop) to the question of scanlation's role. Was this an editing mistake? |
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| Re: The interviews are the most enlightening. by Gum on October 11th, 2009, 11:56am |
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| Wow ooooooops! Not sure how that escaped the editing machine, but that was definitely a mistake... it should be fixed now |
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| Re: The interviews are the most enlightening. by drunkguy on October 11th, 2009, 1:55pm |
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| Ah. Thanks for the quick update. Those interviews are real gems. |
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| Re: The interviews are the most enlightening. by solovolk on October 11th, 2009, 2:12pm |
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| this is pretty awesome never thought anyone'd make something like this, completely recognized! |
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| No Subject by jojo_da_crow on October 12th, 2009, 8:43am |
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I take offense to being called a retarded monkey!
But to be fair... I think Gum was just trying to get me to finish the interview since everything from mine was actually taken from IRC logs. Ahaha.
Great job Gum! You really did a fantastic job hunting everyone down. Thank you for really doing this hobby a great justice by chronicling our history. It really does seem amazing when you see it in writing. |
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| No Subject by Cave on October 12th, 2009, 4:29pm |
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I just spent a good three hours reading over this site. It's just got everything! I loved the interviews. What I'm wondering though is how the interviewer was able to talk to Snoopy when his own staff hasn't been able to! XD heh...
The timeline is awesome, but I think some of it is random. Like "Samurai Deeper Kyo ends". Maybe I missed something this is relevant to on the website... |
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| Re: No Subject by Gum on October 13th, 2009, 9:52pm |
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Was trying to make this comprehensive timeline of industry events and series starting/ending...gave up after the first 3 hours...if someone else wanna do it, go right ahead  |
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| Re: No Subject by miyagiCE on October 14th, 2009, 11:05am |
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| Yeah I agree with Cave, the timeline is stuffed with a lot of pointless/unrelated information. Otherwise, great effort on the site! |
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| No Subject by Kurapica on October 13th, 2009, 1:00am |
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| That sounds interesting. Will check it out. |
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| Thank you! by Lowlife on October 13th, 2009, 1:20pm |
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| I just wanted to say that I enjoyed the history lesson tremendously. Awesome, everyone involved. |
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| No Subject by Lanz16 on October 15th, 2009, 12:10pm |
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This article about History of Scanlation is so informative.
I love how they explain the time-line and the progress of the industry of scanlation. |
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| Kudos to Gum by bakarui on October 15th, 2009, 11:18pm |
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Wow, this certainly brings back memories. I started following scanlations about nine years ago, so it's strange seeing this site when I pretty much saw history play out. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that I'm still reading manga at age 20, but I'm glad this community exists and is growing strong.
On a different note, some my all-time favorite manga were scanlated by these old-timer groups--HunterxHunter from Toriyama's World, Yakitate Japan from SnoopyCool, and Tokyo Crazy Paradise from Manga-Sketchbook. And I'm pleasantly surprised that someone saved all those 88x31 icons. They're ancient! It was a great idea to make a collage out of them. |
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| No Subject by honeyyclover on October 24th, 2009, 12:50am |
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| great site! it's very useful and packed with information. I learned so much stuff from this one website. keep it up! |
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