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[Darker444]

Im re-reading from ch1, but when I read ch 10, I did not understand what they talking about. Sorry 🙏

 

[ultraleaf]

2 years damn

 

[NeonWinter]

I understood more when I read the raw, and my kanji knowledge is shit, so thats saying something...

 

[Kisato]

The font is super wonky, the grammar is all over the place, and the redrawing is practically non-existant.

 

[mmosimca]

@HungryIm Many times I have seen a 'newbie' translator pick up a series, it has galvanized a different, more experienced translator who is upset by the mistakes into picking up the series properly (sometimes this is the series' original translator who ends up returning). Basically, the discouragement you suggest is exactly the opposite of what usually seems to happen.

I've seen this scenario play itself out 3 times recently. The end result is usually that an abandoned series gets finally finished by an experienced translator.

The reality may be that while attempts as poor as this uploader's are somewhat annoying, there actually is often a benefit for fans in the long-term.

Also, most 'newbie' translators make wildly better attempts than this and produce results that are at least pretty decent and very readable. This is obviously an outlier in terms of quality.

Given that this series that has been abandoned for years has finally sparked a discussion with 24 comments, I can't see this development as anything other than positive, even if nothing more comes of it. In that same vein, I appreciate your comment contributing to increasing recognition for this series, even if I mostly disagree with it.

 

[treefroog]

Based translations.

 

[HungryIm]

@mmosimca I have no issue at all and welcome most new translators despite what you seem to suggest. Who I have issue with, as it is shown in this chapter, are those who think it's a decent translation job to just copy and paste from Google translator. Or those who barely can speak English and don't know Japanese at all, but do the three-way translation anyways from a Japanese raw to the scanlation in their native language to the English translation that ends up with super awkward and barely readable sentences. Why try to translate between Japanese and English when you don't know either or even both?

There are many who can reflect on themselves and step down from the series when they find out their translations are bad. But what I also unfortunately witnessed at least three times as well is those bad translators stubbornly continuing to translate the series while other groups don't want to cause any drama for stealing the one-man group's project and get driven away. Yes, as you said, many series do get eventually picked up by better groups, but only once those bad translators get bored from the lack of reactions and drop the project after translating bunch of chapters in gibberish for weeks to months.

You seem to be awfully optimistic when you only see the translations like these as a positive for at least bringing attention to the dead series. Especially when majority of the 24 comments you've mentioned are not about the series itself, but more about the complaints and confusions over trying to decipher this chapter's bad translation.

 

[caenlim]

Thank you but please reconsider translating any more. It's probably not worth your time, you could do... something else, maybe, idk.

 

[LauraMD211]

I'm in agreement with most commenters regarding the poor translation job on this chapter. All I ask is that if a more experienced group picks this up, please, please, PLEASE redo this chapter so it makes sense 😬

 

[Tradless]

Thank you for reviving the bus driver yuri manga but not like this bro

 

[Corb]

Just... yikes.

 

[B0undarybreaker]

If you want something done, do it quick and dirty then wait for everyone to correct you. Thanks for getting the ball rolling with this again!