Rental Trash Girlfriend - Ch. 8

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SO SORRY! I thought you dropped it since it's been a month--nothing personal. I started working on this since Saturday, it's only now did I upload it because of some irl stuff and design for the credits page.

You're still free to upload your version, or you can pick up the series from now on. Sorry again.
I’ll be honest. I was about to get pretty annoyed if you didn’t respond or came off as arrogant about it. But you didn’t, and I really respect that. Thanks for being upfront. Now that I know the full story, I can see it was just a misunderstanding on both sides. Sorry if I came off tense at all.

Just for the record, there’s a general (unofficial but widely accepted) rule in the scanlation community that if there’s no release for three months, the project is considered inactive and can be picked up. Of course, there are exceptions, like when there are no new raws, the series is on hiatus, or someone clearly says they're still working on it.

That said, no hard feelings at all. It’s totally fine if you want to continue working on the series. I wish you the best of luck with it!
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I’ll be honest. I was about to get pretty annoyed if you didn’t respond or came off as arrogant about it. But you didn’t, and I really respect that. Thanks for being upfront. Now that I know the full story, I can see it was just a misunderstanding on both sides. Sorry if I came off tense at all.

Just for the record, there’s a general (unofficial but widely accepted) rule in the scanlation community that if there’s no release for three months, the project is considered inactive and can be picked up. Of course, there are exceptions, like when there are no new raws, the series is on hiatus, or someone clearly says they're still working on it.

That said, no hard feelings at all. It’s totally fine if you want to continue working on the series. I wish you the best of luck with it!
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Hey dude i appreciate your calm response and i get that you mean no harm. But i do wonder what this whole "3 month rule" thing is. Because to be honest, the idea that a project is up for grabs just because there hasn't been a release in 3 months feels idk odd? And another thing why would you just assume that everyone in the scalation community is even aware of this "unofficial but widely accepted" rule? Im not trying to pick sides or anything i just think that people need to acknowledge that not everyone sees or agrees with this unwritten rule. Please dont bother making your "counter arguments" im not trying to teach you any new things but please be more considerate that not everyone knows this "rule"
Thats mostly all, cheers.
 
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Hey dude i appreciate your calm response and i get that you mean no harm. But i do wonder what this whole "3 month rule" thing is. Because to be honest, the idea that a project is up for grabs just because there hasn't been a release in 3 months feels idk odd? And another thing why would you just assume that everyone in the scalation community is even aware of this "unofficial but widely accepted" rule? Im not trying to pick sides or anything i just think that people need to acknowledge that not everyone sees or agrees with this unwritten rule. Please dont bother making your "counter arguments" im not trying to teach you any new things but please be more considerate that not everyone knows this "rule"
Thats mostly all, cheers.
What's with the new account? Talk to me on your real account. Don't bother by claiming this is your real account.
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I’ll be honest. I was about to get pretty annoyed if you didn’t respond or came off as arrogant about it. But you didn’t, and I really respect that. Thanks for being upfront. Now that I know the full story, I can see it was just a misunderstanding on both sides. Sorry if I came off tense at all.

Just for the record, there’s a general (unofficial but widely accepted) rule in the scanlation community that if there’s no release for three months, the project is considered inactive and can be picked up. Of course, there are exceptions, like when there are no new raws, the series is on hiatus, or someone clearly says they're still working on it.

That said, no hard feelings at all. It’s totally fine if you want to continue working on the series. I wish you the best of luck with it!
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There is no such thing as "widely accepted" rule, and those chapters are short enough with little text to not make a fuss about " I was working on it".

If someone made a good job of a translation, instead of doing barely readable MTL, they're fine to upload it. If there is one team that already translates series regularly, uploading it soon after original release, that's one thing, or if the new scanlator does a obviously worse job than the previous one did, but asking people to wait three months for an irregular manga like this is ridiculous.
 
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It seems people like the girl trash character better than the rest of trash. Frankly and objectively, I think his mom is still doing her job as a mother, that girl is indeed trash, not wanting her son to be with her is understandable. Though she might have assaulted his ex wife.
 
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I don't think there is a "3 month rule"? That's kind of a long time. I've heard 1 month since last release. Mostly, I think people should try communicating first, and only fall back on "x months" rationale if there's no productive dialogue.

Anyway, I look forward to finding out where this is going. More questions than answers in this chapter.
 
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so mother and son thinks I have a bad personality? ... WTF she's nuts and then gets mad that he sides with his mom?
does he know she acted like a b!tch with his coworker?? is the author trying to gaslight us??

still we have too little information to what is actually happening
 
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SO SORRY! I thought you dropped it since it's been a month--nothing personal. I started working on this since Saturday, it's only now did I upload it because of some irl stuff and design for the credits page.

You're still free to upload your version, or you can pick up the series from now on. Sorry again.
I’ll be honest. I was about to get pretty annoyed if you didn’t respond or came off as arrogant about it. But you didn’t, and I really respect that. Thanks for being upfront. Now that I know the full story, I can see it was just a misunderstanding on both sides. Sorry if I came off tense at all.

Just for the record, there’s a general (unofficial but widely accepted) rule in the scanlation community that if there’s no release for three months, the project is considered inactive and can be picked up. Of course, there are exceptions, like when there are no new raws, the series is on hiatus, or someone clearly says they're still working on it.

That said, no hard feelings at all. It’s totally fine if you want to continue working on the series. I wish you the best of luck with it!
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There is no such think as "widely accepted" rule, and those chapters are short enough with little text to not make a fuss about " I was working on it".

If someone made a good job of a translation, instead of doing barely readable MTL, they're fine to upload it. If there is one team that already translates series regularly, uploading it soon after original release, that's one thing, or if the new scanlator does a obviously worse job than the previous one did, but asking people to wait three months for an irregular manga like this is ridiculous.
Firstly,no one owns any of the comics scanlated on Mangadex except for the fellas who self upload.

Secondly,sure,three months seems reasonable,except that this is a completed series that ended in March of this year,unless you guys have found some sort of hidden place aside from Twitter and Pixiv where even more stuff has been made,this relatively short series should've been done and dusted in the five months since the end.

Hence,if another fella can complete the whole thing in one shot,then by all means,do so.

Thirdly,if someone does use a machine but is actually capable of proper English,allowing them to fix the sentences to be less awkward in the context of the comic as a whole,then that is an above decent result that gets things done.
 
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Take their money and leave these crazy people
She's kinda into him now though, seeing how she even went all prettied up for the meeting.
It seems people like the girl trash character better than the rest of trash. Frankly and objectively, I think his mom is still doing her job as a mother, that girl is indeed trash, not wanting her son to be with her is understandable. Though she might have assaulted his ex wife.
No, mother isn't doing her job, she's being pretty nuts. Pestering her clearly quite adult son about marriage is one thing that's unfortunately still common, but mother was also bombarding her with judging questions from the beginning, while mentioning how she and Junya were travelling and horse-riding, basically doing the whole "are you good enough to be part of my family?" thing. That's pretty fucked up, especially doing it on the first meeting with a girl, even more so if she's hoping her son will move on, why scare away potential partner then? And the way mother just assumed she can start smoking next to her, very selfish attitude.

Also, on what basis do you think mother would get to judge her as trash? Rental girl was behaving nice to her except for one mean text in response to smoking attempt, and mom immediately after went "dump him" on her, and what's worse "you're only doing it for the money" despite having absolutely no proof of that (which is actually wrong in her case, since she clearly only agreed to do this because she was jealous of the coworker, not for the money). And giving her money to dump him is just super offensive and fucked up. Normal mother, if she thinks her son's girlfriend is bad for him, would try to advice him against dating her, while understanding that it's still his own life and choice, good or bad.
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Thirdly,if someone does use a machine but is actually capable of proper English,allowing them to fix the sentences to be less awkward in the context of the comic as a whole,then that is an above decent result that gets things done.
I agree that corrected MTL can be fine, I saw good examples of such scanlations of abandoned series or those never picked up, but I saw sometimes people sniping regularly and quickly uploaded proper translations with quick and lazy MTL, in which case there is even no chance for the scanlators to compete with MTL, just on speed alone - basically bad money driving out good money. And some series need a lot more knowledge of Japanese than others, due to for example cultural references or word games, or specific speech styles of characters, in which case the threshold for "decent result" would be different IMHO.
 
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I agree that corrected MTL can be fine, I saw good examples of such scanlations of abandoned series or those never picked up, but I saw sometimes people sniping regularly and quickly uploaded proper translations with quick and lazy MTL, in which case there is even no chance for the scanlators to compete with MTL, just on speed alone - basically bad money driving out good money. And some series need a lot more knowledge of Japanese than others, due to for example cultural references or word games, or specific speech styles of characters, in which case the threshold for "decent result" would be different IMHO.
Yes,which is why knowing both English(so they aren't just raw translations and gender pronouns thrown left,right,n' centre)and the context of the comic(knowing who is talking about what to whom)is important,the machines' only job is to give you the bulk result for more refinement.

So long as that level is achieved and maintained,those folks would the be the ones to appreaciate,instead of the more heinous scanlators and their groups that I have seen on these high seas,the scurviest of dogs.
 
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Yea, she did call her that. Either that means he had another relationship between the death and now or the mother didn't want to acknowledge the marriage. Considering how controlling she seems to be, I'd guess the later.
Or maybe they weren't officially married, but he still acknowledged her as his wife.
 
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SO SORRY! I thought you dropped it since it's been a month--nothing personal. I started working on this since Saturday, it's only now did I upload it because of some irl stuff and design for the credits page.

You're still free to upload your version, or you can pick up the series from now on. Sorry again.
His edit suggests that he decided to actually drop it after a few internet users made some slightly pushy comments so you should consider picking this back up! :win:
 
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What is going on in the scanlation landscape? I thought we were having fun translating all these manga for everyone to read?
 

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