If you see some posts below, you will be surprise knowing that, actually, there isn't some kind of enormous "cliffhanger"(post "News" by bakaotaku34). :)
Actually she added a couple pages to chapter 65 on the volume release (as well as on two other chapters). So there's not much of a cliffhanger anymore, they've reached it, and indeed those who buy the books and won't read the scanlation won't be left on a huge cliffhanger either :) (they do have to wait 2 years and a half each time xD).
Like they said above there isn't really a cliffhanger anymore but I do agree with what you're saying. Sensei's chapters do tend to end on a cliffhanger like almost every time anyway. I do hope she shows the fans some mercy sometimes... We're constantly worried about something or other after every chapter. One of the worst cliffhangers was when Akihito got shot by Yuri at the end of naked truth... That was so bad.
Oh marvelous! Wonderful! I like to buy vols. in order and have not been able to get even vol. 1 as of yet (keeps beeing sold out), so the reality is not only am I now going to be missing a chunk of storyline when the next vol. starts, since it will be ages before they manage to publish in EU (even if I choose to buy it out of sequence) before I can find out how this all got resolved.
No, at the moment I'm not a happy camper, and could happily throttle whoever came up with this brilliant idea. The only thing I can hope is she includes the end of vol. 8 in the start of vol. 9 as a recap.
Yeah, truth is she's obviously not bothering with people reading her mangas illegally. And those interested in the series in Japan can happily just buy it now for 800 yens. Many here bought it in Japanese too just to have the redrawings and extentions early. I bought it because I can mangage to read Japanese xD. But she may recap it anyway in the magazine, like if she plans that at the volume 9 release she cuts that part from the next chapter. But I don't know, I guess that sort of stuff makes her sell more volumes? Aha.
In the meantime people posted pictures of each the additional pages on Facebook. You'd just have to ask people to translate it to you in comments and such.
"Not bothering" - do you maybe mean that you think sensei doesn't care about piracy of her work? I'm pretty sure it would bother her because it's taking money out of her pocket when she only gets a small cut from publishers etc. Plus Japan is bothered enough that they have been trying to crack down on piracy.
I meant she doesn't bother to please pirates.
While I can understand and sympathize from from both the mangaka's and the Japanese POV on scanlations, I'm not sure if they're not taking a short term view from personal experience.
Most of the mangas I have become acquainted with I did through scanlations, and most aren't available for sale anyway. Many of those I really would like to buy, I just can't get, and so can only enjoy scanlations at the moment but would certainly buy if they become available (at a reasonable price) in my region. Due to customs, importing from outside EU is cost prohibitive most of the time. So until they invest more time and energy into the international market, I think scanlations acts as free advertising for the mangakas that they could use, if they wanted to, to get a feel for what kind of interest and how marketable a manga might be. Sometimes the international response can differ quite a lot to the Japanese, and it might pay to keep a manga or anime going abroad.
Even those cases where the manga is available, the fact that I was able to read a scanlation first let me know if this was a manga I would like enough to buy or not. I would never have bought mangas or even started reading them if I hadn't been able to read them for free online. So you can say that I now buy mangas is in fact due to scanlations.
That's one opinion, personally since it did make me buy less in the long run (I bought so many in my early teenage year before I even knew scanlations existed) and have a bunch of friends who totally could buy them in town but still prefer to just binge read online, while my peeps who are not able to read English buy every single of them, I have another opinion for that. I still haven't figured out why people think it's publicity to scanlate a whole manga. Why not just like, the first few volumes? THEN I think everyone could profit from that.
Like, you've got enough chapters to know if you're going to enjoy the series or not, and at the same time the loads of people who just binge read won't be able to finish series they enjoy without dropping a single cent.
Really do enjoy the extras. They're great fun. I just really wish the vol. hadn't ended with such a gigantic cliffhanger, or that the cliffhanger had been resolved sooner. I can understand sensei wanting to catch her breath between vols., but please next time show readers some mercy and don't leave them on tenderhooks for so long or just on smaller ones.