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Mioro
16 03,2026
I just wish I had the balls to charged for a half done job like they do, you dont even get a translation for the sfx lol   1 reply
16 03,2026
Eva
16 03,2026
I wholeheartedly agree. It's the same (if not worse) for novels: there are more and more "translation" groups on Novel Updates that CLEARLY use an AI tool (I'm not a native English speaker but I'm a MTL veteran so I can recognize edited MTL from some of the slips) but charge a kidney to read chapters ahead. I see a lot of readers actually paying be......   1 reply
16 03,2026
Rahat 16 03,2026
It's so ironic because they don't even fully translate coherently?? And then there's solo translators like Mintsprout, blSesam, yoshikisleftnut, AkumaKira, Charibl, lightsaberkun, etc, who do it for us to actually UNDERSTAND what we're reading without trying to charge us for it. Even officials don't do it as well as some fan translators who do it f......   reply
16 03,2026
sottovoce
16 03,2026
I'm surprised those teams are operating under that model because I thought that charging for translation was the one big no-no for fan-translations. for years, I'd see all those disclaimers on the credit pages of manga or tucked in somewhere in anime saying "if you paid for this, you've been ripped off". aside from how a person feels as a potential......   reply
16 03,2026
BeeHive
16 03,2026
I would understand if its "pay to read faster" but "pay to unlock" is the difference type of audacity. The whole point of piracy is to go against capitalism not to create a more evil and illegal version of capitalism   reply
16 03,2026
Mama_Agnus
16 03,2026
The spirit of Ronald Reagan’s howls are getting louder everyday.   reply
16 03,2026
i thought kaizen scans and mythtoons used ai for tl since they mention staff as staff instead of nicknames scan team members usually have (and bc some of their tl has mismatched pronouns like mtl) i don't think scan teams ask for money... i've only seen them ask for volunteers to help with tl or raw providers bc what they're doing is illegal and i......   1 reply
16 03,2026
Tanisious
16 03,2026
AHHHH I FEEL SEENNNN OMFG THANKS Y'ALL, like scanlation teams were PEOPLE, THE FAN TL WERE DOING IT FOR THE LOVE OF IT, WE WERE ALL BONDING OMFG, THERE WERE ALL THESE UNSAID RULES THAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING AHHHHHHHHH,I'm still VERY MUCH GRATEFUL FOR THE UPLOADERS WHO TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM AND DO IT FOR THE PEOPLE, LOVE Y'ALL SO MUCH, people v......   reply
16 03,2026
moa
16 03,2026
the nerve of them to even do it by machine and giving shitty translations with pronouns all over the place too.   reply
16 03,2026
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