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» Darkefire on January 27th, 2011, 9:35pm
» shonryukku on January 27th, 2011, 10:45pm
» thevampirate on January 28th, 2011, 1:00am
» alexdhamp on January 28th, 2011, 2:26am
» VawX on January 28th, 2011, 3:30am
» kawaiiusagichan on February 3rd, 2011, 4:35am
» donbu9 on January 28th, 2011, 4:49am
they were the first for a short while but even then I preferred hbk translated scan to their own (sakura?)
» autumnsgrace on January 28th, 2011, 2:23am
Of course it would have been nice if they could have aimed their talent towards a series that wasn't being scanlated.
» Diokhan on January 28th, 2011, 4:43am
welp, i'm used to shoddy translations (Masuru D. Choceh and Duwang, anyone?), so MS, watermarks aside, is all i need.... till someone offers something better.
» That2ndGuy on January 28th, 2011, 7:34am
Still, it does suck to see a scanlator close down. I'm sure they'll be missed, but just not by me.
» jijiey on January 28th, 2011, 8:18am
» pumpupthevolume on January 28th, 2011, 4:26pm
» Tenji on January 28th, 2011, 5:04pm
» Sadja Yuu on January 28th, 2011, 4:34pm
you are not supposed to judge a group by their speed or quality, but what they brought
to this community.
They trully made us enjoy our share of manga at their time. Thank you for that.
» loosecannon504 on January 28th, 2011, 8:48pm
Anyway, I'm not really sad to see them go, because their translations weren't really that good and were sometimes misleading, like alexdhamp up there mentioned with Sasuke.
» thefolenangel on January 29th, 2011, 4:39am
Nobody can judge, there is only one judge...
SF may have released with bad quality and not perfect TL, but the effort they put into their scans and the heart of the readers they made enjoy speaks for itself. So RIP SF, RIP FH....
You will see one day what will happen when MS monopolizes the scanlation world.
Speaking of MS, let's not talk about their God complex.
» Diokhan on January 29th, 2011, 6:44am
scanlation is a service that is up for offer. anything that is offered will always be judged, even something as pure as charity. a dollar makes you a scrooge and 100 makes you a savior. sure, you'll get kind souls who're happy with a dollar. unfortunately, not everyone are that easily satisfied.
it's been chanted for years now: speed and quality are what people look for in scanlators, like it or not. and it takes "effort" and "heart" to deliver those, something SF actually lacked. why else would they quit? if it was because of IRL issues or lack of staff, or a disagreement among them, sure, can't blame them. sh** like that happens. but because of speed?
take the "group who's website does not exist" for example; they lack speed, but their quality definitely shows heart and effort, and even more so with their refusal to quit, for nearly 7 goddamn years! and SF? what? can't catch up? they still have the choice to make it up with quality, something MS is weak with especially in the translation dept. and yet, they chose not to. what? SJ titles are not worth it and it's too competitive? there are a 1001 other unscanlated series out there i'm sure myself and others would like to discover and read. just ignore that need to get thousands of fans. a lot of fine groups are still doing ok with a few dozen to a few hundred fans.
tl;dr - as i see it in terms of scanlation; giving up, and refusal to sacrifice speed and work hard for quality instead is no proof of heart and effort.
» T1 on January 29th, 2011, 6:59am
Anyway MS ruling the scanlation world, I lulz at the great joke you made there XD
I may annoy 75% of the speedscanners...but naruto, bleach and bakuman isn't the whole manga world (it's so far from it)...I refuse to call anyone who do those as the rulers of scanlations world, lol.
Please that's like telling me that watermarks are great -_-;;;; za reason why I normally jump over MS stuff is the watermarks and no dls.
PS: No one got a bigger god complex than me, hence my first line
» Uhnnown on January 30th, 2011, 5:21pm
MS delivers quality (in terms of redrawing and editing, perhaps not always in TL) and speed. It's not like you have to pay for their services. They too are a bunch of people who do things for free. There are hardly any downsides by reading their work. I don't quite get what your beef is with MS.
» TheLittleE on January 29th, 2011, 12:14pm
¯\( ̄~ ̄;) /¯
» JustPassingBy on January 30th, 2011, 1:06am
there is nothing like that on mine.
» OneTreeHoney on January 30th, 2011, 2:03pm
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