Scanlation News

Viz to "Collaborate" with Scanlation Group? According to this post, Viz has replied to a letter sent by Freelance-Manga regarding improvements on Viz's Inuyasha graphic novel. According to the response, one of Viz's supervising editor will be examining Freelance-Manga's IY scanlations to see if there is learn anything that will help improve Viz's handling of the manga.

NCIS/Lurk Conflict? (Updated): The blog Tiamat's Anime and Manga Reviews has written an article on groups that place restrictions on their releases, and mentions a recent conflict between Lurk and NCIS. However, according to NCIS, there was no conflict whatsoever between NCIS and Lurk (as opposed to what we previously reported)

Japan News

Serialization Updates:

Evening No.20 (9/25)
Starting:
- "ADAMAS" by Ryouji Minagawa

Morning No.41 (9/13)
Starting:
- "Inanna" by Reiko Okano

Young Animal No.11 (10/5)
Starting:
- "Assistant Romance Keika" by Rosuke Nishikawa

New Japanese Copyright Portal Site Debuting in 2008: 17 of Japan's copyright holder groups have announced plans to create "a free Internet portal with a searchable database system of product details and copyright information for music, movies, television, music, literature, comics, anime, art/photo, and games next January."

Goodbye Toen Shobo: Toen Shobo, an adult manga publisher, recently closed business due to financial troubles.

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Inside Scanlation - TYPE-MOON

someone check the facts of that article please then go on #lurk check the bots and you'll see our manga there so ask mr. tiamat what the hell conflict is he talking about >_>''

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My info came from the chat logs posted BY NCIS (though highly edited i might add) and from others on the scene. Lurk decided to wait 1 day, but even that dosent seem to have appeased NCIS, though its a bit pointless. Since even with that it only takes a few hours for their releases to be posted elsewhere, so they haven't really achieved anything.

My post used NCIS as an example of groups getting to demanding of thier fans, but was also aimed at ALL groups like that. NCIS was just the most recent, and as far as i know, the only one to make demands of lurk

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Tiamats Anime and Manga Reviews

um like i said as of this morning there was no problem.. now i'm not so sure... you've sparked a fire in me and some other of our staff members since you were so outspoken in your lies >_>'' and i know very well that you have a personal agenda/vendetta so whatever ...

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Well, i just posted the chat logs (again highly edited) that NCIS posted. And when i get back home i'll edit it again to add the other info i got, both from the NCIS website, chat room and Lurk chat room.

Blogs are always about personal views, mines no different. I hate groups that try and place restrictions on their releases and i have no quams about voicing my views. I also don't edit or delete posts that conflict with mine (unlike the staff over at NCIS i might add who deleted both of my posts a few days ago just before i made the inital post)

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Tiamats Anime and Manga Reviews

hmm i haven't deleted any posts since last week :/ wasn't me but oh well if you were spouting this garbage i can see why they would ^^;; personal views are one thing blatant lies are another. Neways dude it's clear you have a grudge and are the one with your head up your "arse" <-- to quote you.. and well enjoy your little spotlight i'm gonna go edit now since you've wasted so much of my time

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That Viz is listening is quite awesome. I suppose I fear it could be improbable that they'll be able to make the responsible people do their job better, but I do really hope for a brighter future for manga. Yeah, if companies like Viz got "smarter" with honorifics and such, that'll mean general fans get smarter too...

I'm also so happy about this. How many times I've read an "official" translation and thought that if they'd just done a little bit of research beforehand (such as going through some scanlations or whatever), they wouldn't come up with such stupid errors. We do deserve better, considering we're expected to pay money for these.

The one mentioned in the credit pages on the Nodame manga scanlation?

Chapter 66 comes to mind, 00_L01.png, L02.png and so on, to lazy to look for all of them right now...

Holy shit, Inuyasha is still ongoing? What the heck happend in those 400 million volumes?