The following is taken from a blog post by Pure Scans
Pure Scans is closed due to conflicts of opinion. All series are dropped. If my word means anything at all, please obey the following:
opposed will do Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
Shinnen & Be With You Scans will continue Peony Pavilion
Be With You Scans will continue Otome Youkai Zakuro and No One Knows
kono-basho should take over Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge
Maigo Scans will likely take over Wa! (KOJIMA Akira)
Itadakimasu~ will continue Zombie Romanticism
This poll was submitted by our member unusuallove. If you don't know, AMV stands for Anime Music Video.
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Glass of water is...
Choices:
Half empty - votes: 5647 (45.7%)
Half full - votes: 6712 (54.3%)
There were 12359 total votes.
The poll ended: September 25th 2010
In the usual interpretation of this question, it means that there's more optimistic people than pessimistic. Still a lot of the pessimists though...
firestalker writes: *OneManga has a section of their forum for self-made manga. You can look for a writer or an artist and/or post your own manga you've been working on. It seems to be doing well so far. Quite a few stories of high quality have popped up that would probably not have known about otherwise.
http://forum.onemanga.com/forumdisplay.php?f=143*
lambchopsil: I should note that self-made manga is [color=red]NOT[/color] allowed to be added as a series on MangaUpdates. The only exception is if it is being published by a reputable publisher.
This poll was inspired by MewMan. I was pondering over whether to include choices like "totally full" and "totally empty" but decided not to. Simple is good. But why would it be halfway? What happened to just a quarter? Or perhaps all gone? Why would it be all gone... you were greedy and drank it all? Or you were giving and you let someone who was thirsty have it all? Or it's all full because you like hoarding...
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Question: Will there be a time where human's aren't at the top of the food chain?
Choices:
It already happened! Remember Aliens, Predators, StarCraft, and Starship Troopers? - votes: 2309 (18.5%)
2012 is drawing near... - votes: 1636 (13.1%)
No! We will always be at the top! - votes: 1897 (15.2%)
Were we ever at the top? - votes: 6666 (53.3%)
There were 12508 total votes.
The poll ended: September 18th 2010
Now why were we never at the top? Perhaps with the human wars and such, we never could be at the top. Always destroying ourselves... Do we deserve the top at all? Or perhaps the majority believes in some kind of higher existence.
Edit: Didn't notice this until someone pointed it out in the comments, but 6666 people think that humans were never at the top. Pure coincidence
This fun poll was suggested by MewMan and inspired by Gantz. Apocalyptic in nature... By the way, I haven't watched it yet, but I heard that the movie 2012 was horrible.
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: What do you think of manga translations (in general)?
Choices:
They're good - votes: 7986 (55.9%)
Minor errors, but who cares? The pictures count - votes: 5415 (37.9%)
They're horrible - votes: 223 (1.6%)
I only read raws - votes: 114 (0.8%)
Don't know - votes: 550 (3.8%)
There were 14288 total votes.
The poll ended: September 11th 2010
So few honest people (or unknowledgeable people)
Edit: Fine, I'll just add that us readers have our manga at the mercy at the translators, so if they screw things up, who of us lowly people would know? What if a translator abuses that trust we put on him/her?
Edit: Mmm, don't you just love controversial comments to see if people read the front page?
Last Edit:
To explain the first comment, that was more offhand than anything else. I should've worded it better to fit my intent, but it's too late, and I'll leave it up there to show my mistake to the world (even though I can easily erase all my words and delete every single comment). The intent of the original poll was to judge the public opinion on translations (whether it be translated into English or another language and whether it meant scanlations or official publisher releases was left to the reader's interpretation). It is not possible to control how a person will read a poll, as most of the 12,000+ (conservatively) entities that vote do not read the front page. So with the data given, there are several interpretations to make. If the voter was being subjective (which I believe most would be), then a vote for the top choice of "They're good" means that they genuinely and honestly believe that most translations are good (whatever "good" means to that person is up for debate though). However, if you look at it objectively, the really low count of votes for "Don't know" is absurd because most people using this site do not have the competent level of the original language of the raw to comprehend an entire chapter of a series. Now, this generalization is backed up by several facts. Foremost of these is that the main release page has the most page views (more than 2x more than the next page) for this site. You can delve deeper into it, but the simple interpretation is that most people want to read English scanlations (whatever the reason, ranging from they have no knowledge of the raw language to that they know tons of languages but just prefer English for everyday use). Thus, the comment I made reflected my latter stated observation, which is to be interpreted that most people read the poll as subjective instead of objective. I should mention that there was no original intent of subjective vs. objective when the original poll was made. I have stated this before in the past, but these polls are meant to be as questions of interest, not scientific data.
My first edit was on the side topic about translators specifically. First, I am not demeaning the art of translating. It is a tough and unpaid job in the scanlation world. It is also vital. They are the lifeblood of operations. "Lowly people" is used to refer to non-translators, which would be most of the population (including me). You may take offense to the word choice, but it is just a word chosen to describe the opposite of someone of higher status (a translator). The comment itself has 2 sentences. The first deals with all cases of translator mistakes (whether they be intentional or unintentional). The first sentence is just stating that if there is a translation mistake, most of us would not know of its existence. Very few people do a side-by-side comparison with a raw or another group's translation. (Now that previous sentence was made without any statistical backup, but I warrant that it wouldn't be wrong to say it). The 2nd sentence deals with only the case of intentional harm, of which I have heard of some (not many though) confirmed cases. It is not a statement that all or even most translators will abuse their powers and intentionally mislead others. In fact, I hope and believe that most mistakes are by accident (or at least with the intention of humor). By abuse, I mean to betray the trust between a reader and a translator that the translated script is as accurate as possible in view of the translator's skill and experience.
As for the 2nd edit, that was written more out of pride than anything else, and so I apologize for that. But I always do wonder how many people truly read what I write...
Many groups seldom have as many translators as they would wish. There is not always enough time/resources to get a 2nd translator of a script to double-check the first guy. I also do realize that mistakes can enter because of an editor or proofreader. It could be an English mistake.
Now flame away at me (and only me, mind you. Don't go flaming the ones in the comments of this news post). (And you're not gonna get THAT much writing from me in a long time.)
icassop writes: Libre Shuppan has started to send out Cease & Desist letters to individual scanlation groups which include Liquid Passion/Biblo Eros, Bliss, and Attractive Fascinante.
This poll was suggested by MewMan. So in general, what's your opinion on the quality of manga translations? This applies to both scanlations and stuff released by publishers. Honestly though, how many of you can actually read the original language and would actually know how good a translation is? We're so critical on things we're not even experts on...
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Favorite Hayao Miyazaki film?
Choices:
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro - votes: 390 (2.4%)
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind - votes: 862 (5.3%)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky - votes: 555 (3.4%)
My Neighbor Totoro - votes: 911 (5.6%)
Kiki's Delivery Service - votes: 616 (3.8%)
Porco Rosso - votes: 229 (1.4%)
Princess Mononoke - votes: 3215 (19.8%)
Spirited Away - votes: 3785 (23.4%)
Howl's Moving Castle - votes: 3362 (20.7%)
Ponyo - votes: 220 (1.4%)
Never watched any of them - votes: 2058 (12.7%)
There were 16203 total votes.
The poll ended: September 4th 2010
My first memorable exposure was to Spirited Away. It's quite sad that 12.7% never watched any of them...
This cute poll was suggested by our member sheniccar. No explanation necessary for this one. Ironically, I watched Nausicaa yesterday night...
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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Have you played a visual novel before?
Choices:
Yes, and I love them! - votes: 2942 (22.1%)
Yes, just to try them out - votes: 2197 (16.5%)
No - votes: 3416 (25.7%)
What's a visual novel? - votes: 4760 (35.7%)
There were 13315 total votes.
The poll ended: August 28th 2010
Well, it's pretty understanding that a lot of people don't even know what a visual novel is...but hopefully they do know now? And apparently lots of people have at least tried them out before! (And more people like it than not)
ichigo_daisuki writes: Ouran High School Host Club by HATORI Bisco will end on September 24 according to Anime News Network:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-23/ouran-high-school-host-club-manga-to-end-in-september
Anonymous writes: *The series Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar is ending in Weekly Shonen Jump vol 38 (this week's issue.)
Source: http://www.shonenjump.com/e/news/index.html
In other Jump news, One Piece will also be talking a month break starting WSJ vol 39 and returning vol 44 (first issue in October)*
