Now, I don't want to sound unappreciative or anything, on the contrary, but people need to stop looking at trees and not see the forest. Things are not just black and white.
On one hand etiquette says that if a group is alredy scanlating and translating a manga another one shoud not steal their work or at least contact the original group informing them that they want to start their own translation, maybe explaining the motives (maybe you think that the one already done is inaccurate? Maybe you want to do it as an exercise to learn the language? Both valid motives in my opinion). This way you acknowledge and respect the other's work. Just realeasing a chapter for the fun of it without at least greet those who were there first leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
But again, it's
etiquette, and I stress the word
should, which is not
have to.
Because on the other it's not a written rule that everyone must bow to. The first group doesn't have the exclusive right of translation or whatever. They didn't pay for it.
The author didn't give them permission to translate the manga neither. And by the way, competition is the foundation of commerce.
So while it's perfectly understandable that one is "human and able to feel emotions", a behavior that only hurts the readers, who are completely blameless in this, and not the other groups, who cannot care less if chapters from others are removed or not or if the project is dropped or not, is childish, self-entitled and wrong. I'm sorry to say, but basically it's just throwing a tantrum in front of completely uninvolved people .
The right thing to do, the
mature thing to do, is contacting that other group and work thing between each other
privately. Maybe you could also cooperate? This way everyone benefit.
Drama, on the other hand, only serve to ruin everything.
There's no defending one group or the other. If both behave poorly, both are in the wrong.
All this being said, I'm grateful to
@aerozext for his work this far and I wish he will continue translating the other mangas, in which he is doing a very good job.
