What would you choose between bad translations and no update?

I wait for official translations, buy some of the chapters or most of the time just drop the series altogether. Sometimes the translations can be so bad that I understand nothing. English isn't my first language, so it's particularly hard to understand broken Google translations. It's supposed to be a translation so that people can understand what'......   2 reply

No update and hoping that someone who can actually scanlate pic it up I hate bad scanlations. At least they should typeset properly and not just use Ariel and have the sentences be in some random place in the speech bubble or even out of it completely   reply

to be fair im reading raws without understanding shit.. so i can get the idea even if it's bad translated if i really wanna see what happens. although for a complex story i would rather wait for the officials because it gets annoying (i dropped dear door for the exact same reason)   reply

Great question! judging by the other answers here this is a minority opinion, but I would choose no update. Here's why: I totally get the desire for quick and dirty over slow and excellent, but I think readers should consider the value of the original creators' words as much as their drawings. Imagine if it wasn't the words that were being retrans......   reply

I just wait for better or official translations. If i read bad translations I will end up losing interest in the story. It has ruined my enjoyment for a few stories that I was really into. So i ended up putting those stories on hold. Fortunately the official translation were uploaded so I started from the beginning of those stories that I had dropp......   reply

bad translations. i've been so invested in plot lines i've read shit translations in english, spanish, french and once in portuguese lmaooo   reply