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Eager as I am for new releases of some manga I would much rather that that mangaka takes the time they need to make sure their work is up to the standard they would like. I write a lot and some weeks I can write loads and sometimes life gets in the way. It's unreasonable to demand a new chapter every week when they are doing us the favour of writing/drawing the manga in the first place. I think you could extend this to scanlating groups as well, who have lives to lead outside of scanlating new chapters. I know some groups do a lot of chapters a week very well but I'd rather get good scans which make sense in English than rushed low quality jobs. My policy is if you can't do better yourself you have no right to complain.

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Eager as I am for new releases of some manga I would much rather that that mangaka takes the time they need to make sure their work is up to the standard they would like. I write a lot and some weeks I can write loads and sometimes life gets in the way. It's unreasonable to demand a new chapter every week when they are doing us the favour of writing/drawing the manga in the first place. I think you could extend this to scanlating groups as well, who have lives to lead outside of scanlating new chapters. I know some groups do a lot of chapters a week very well but I'd rather get good scans which make sense in English than rushed low quality jobs. My policy is if you can't do better yourself you have no right to complain.

Scanlating groups yes- it's a volunteer service and they have no obligations to do so in the first place. Impatient fans are just being rude, most of the time.

I think that it's reasonable to expect a paid professional to turn out work on a regular basis though- remember, they're in the business because they want to be, not because they have to. If they sign a contract for a weekly magazine, they should be prepared to turn out quality work on a weekly basis. If they're incapable of producing work up to their standards in that amount of time, they shouldn't be attempting such a thing in the first place, which is why it's nice that the field is competitive enough for there to be a bit of an extra vetting process.

I'm speaking purely in terms of ideals though, of course. In reality it's probably going to be easier for an author to turn out a superior piece of work once a month or so than it is for them to turn it out once a week, and I know that, but I don't think that a weekly deadline is too restricting if you have someone (or rather a team) that's capable enough. If you can't meet the standard, then don't bother in the first place- I don't want to read something half-assed by an author that simply isn't talented enough for their position. Perhaps I'm being harsh, but that's just how I see things.

As long as a delay has a valid reason, I think it's a good thing, and there are certainly quite a few mangaka that I wish would bother to take more of them. I just don't think that once a week is particularly excessive under the correct circumstances.

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Most of the manga I care to follow come out every month, or every other week. Very few are on a weekly schedule. (I can't think of even one right now, actually, but there must be some.) So I guess I'll say anything but weekly, then. Well, or daily, but you can't have meant that seriously.

Not that the correlation is all that strong between schedule and how good something is. There is plenty of complete shite that's only published once a month, as well.

I don't really care, because I read manga in big chunks all at once (like, say, a few dozen chapters in one sitting), then wait a while (a few months, usually) for a lot more to be done, then read that, etc., until the series is done. That's for really long ongoing series, and that applies for both publishing releases and scanlating releases. For series that are complete and just need to be scanlated, I usually wait till it's all done, so that I can read it all at once (or in several sittings, depending on the length).
This is assuming that, for the choices, weekly means putting out ~1 chapter a week, monthly means putting out ~4-5 chapters a month all at once, yearly means putting out ~52 chapters a year all at once.

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