Gokusotsu Kraken - Vol. 5 Ch. 30 - Prelude to Chaos
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And with Chapter 30, that's the last of them.
I'll be looking into the possibility of doing the first 15 chapters as well, but that will require a whole new translation with all new cleaned and redrawn raws. I already saw the links to the raws on the Title's comments thread - the issue is having someone to do that part because I'm just a n00b MTLer. (Albeit one who actually knows how the English language works, and how MTL software works.) If you feel up to helping me, then by all means let me know.
EDIT: ....Okay, forget about those raws. They're all watermarked. Hell, some of them have multiple water marks from different raw sites. I'm not about to inflict that on anyone here because I have principles. I'll wait until I have some money to buy the volume releases on Amazon and then we'll go from there.
Chapter commentary:
Ooof. Some really troublesome ones have shown up.
Murjana... Complete freak show status. There is gonna be no reasoning with this one.
Ginna... I'm betting someone betrayed her.
Yumna... she gives me a vibe similar to Keket. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they know each other. Still, I'd be cautious with her.
Rasha... I'm gonna say that she got done dirty from the very start, pure and simple.
Deijura... Probably belongs there, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were extenuating circumstances in her case as well.
I feel bad for Ghassan being saddled with this bunch. This is a headache the guy does not deserve.
Ruwaida... She better be careful because that kind of backstabbing has a way of catching up with a person.
Okay, just gonna say it: I think Rosalind is cute. And the look on Keket's face when Rosalind calls her "Kekekasu" is great. (This is obviously some kind of play on words that didn't translate too well. If anyone knows for sure? Please let me know.)
Weisella... Love how Kuuma just completely shuts her down. Awww, she thought she could run once he decided playtime was over? Too~ooo baa~aaad. Our man, the MC, continues to deliver.
(Aside, this is an actual legal precedence IRL - If you start out saying "No", but later change your mind and start saying "Yes", then any judge hearing your case is gonna tell you to quit wasting their time and GTFO. The More You Know™)
And, yeah, that nameless biker chick... She's about to get a lot more than she bargained for.
I'll be looking into the possibility of doing the first 15 chapters as well, but that will require a whole new translation with all new cleaned and redrawn raws. I already saw the links to the raws on the Title's comments thread - the issue is having someone to do that part because I'm just a n00b MTLer. (Albeit one who actually knows how the English language works, and how MTL software works.) If you feel up to helping me, then by all means let me know.
EDIT: ....Okay, forget about those raws. They're all watermarked. Hell, some of them have multiple water marks from different raw sites. I'm not about to inflict that on anyone here because I have principles. I'll wait until I have some money to buy the volume releases on Amazon and then we'll go from there.
Chapter commentary:
Ooof. Some really troublesome ones have shown up.
Murjana... Complete freak show status. There is gonna be no reasoning with this one.
Ginna... I'm betting someone betrayed her.
Yumna... she gives me a vibe similar to Keket. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they know each other. Still, I'd be cautious with her.
Rasha... I'm gonna say that she got done dirty from the very start, pure and simple.
Deijura... Probably belongs there, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were extenuating circumstances in her case as well.
I feel bad for Ghassan being saddled with this bunch. This is a headache the guy does not deserve.
Ruwaida... She better be careful because that kind of backstabbing has a way of catching up with a person.
Okay, just gonna say it: I think Rosalind is cute. And the look on Keket's face when Rosalind calls her "Kekekasu" is great. (This is obviously some kind of play on words that didn't translate too well. If anyone knows for sure? Please let me know.)
Weisella... Love how Kuuma just completely shuts her down. Awww, she thought she could run once he decided playtime was over? Too~ooo baa~aaad. Our man, the MC, continues to deliver.
(Aside, this is an actual legal precedence IRL - If you start out saying "No", but later change your mind and start saying "Yes", then any judge hearing your case is gonna tell you to quit wasting their time and GTFO. The More You Know™)
And, yeah, that nameless biker chick... She's about to get a lot more than she bargained for.
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So purely out of curiosity to understand and not to discredit the effort and everything that goes into doing scans (been there myself) but why the reupload of older chaps? I (along with probably most others) remember reading these ages ago, also done by Raven Haired Rinko, and with the new person/group picking up the continuation...
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Raven-Haired Rinko disbanded and took their scans down. Now, if they had stayed in the game, they could just kept their group on MD on lock-down, provided they remain active in scanslation.
That said, MD sees that as little better than holding a title under ransom, and keeping people from enjoying it just because you said so. Which is why MD has this thing where groups can be locked or unlocked - locked meaning only designated users can upload said group's scans, and unlocked meaning anyone can upload that group's scans.
Now, if RRR came back and got active in scanslation again, then that'd be a different matter. And it's possible they could - this could have become a waste of time on my part. But that will require that they maintain an active status as a scanslation group.
Thing is, though, is that they got their feelings hurt when people started bitching about the lack of timely releases.
To which, I'll say, the fault lies on both sides. Readers don't have any real rights to set demands about release schedules. If the scans group is taking a break? Then you either shut your pie hole and let them take that break, or you get off your ass and you scanslate it yourself.
EDIT: I will say that where readers do have a right to complain is where a scans group keeps titles on their website and refuses to make timely releases even when they've already done all the scanslation. And we've recently seen that the staff is getting sick of hearing these complaints with the newly reworked rules that now state that so long as you're actively scanslating, then you have to make regular and timely releases.
On Rinko's part, they shouldn't have been letting a few obnoxious ass clowns get to them like that. They should have known from looking at the figures (number of reads, ratings, faves, and follows) that these shit heads were just a vocal minority and to disregard or even block them. And really, if these ass holes were being really toxic? They could have been reported for it.
It's not like you can't express an opinion, but there is a such thing as taking it too far, and that might have been actionable by the mods - but only if they got reported in the first place.
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Like Akame, this manga has great character designs.
And so many new ones in a single chapter.
I hope there's an anime adaptation eventually.
And so many new ones in a single chapter.
I hope there's an anime adaptation eventually.
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@BlackAeronaut thanks for your work.
Shame the other team let the scumbags get to their heads, there is always stupid people demanding things that are not their right.
I agree with pretty much everything you said, as I see it... this is sort of a "communitary" work, people that just want share a hobby with those that don't know the language but love it nonetheless, I mean... we that wait for translation are consuming it for free.
But I do think a certain quality should be upheld, but that is not the case here, this was about the idiots taking the shit a little too far, or at least that is what I got from your explanation.
One way or another, I am still very grateful for their work till now.
And just to make sure, because didn't completely understand... you will keep doing the translation of this series, or will you only put past chapters?
Shame the other team let the scumbags get to their heads, there is always stupid people demanding things that are not their right.
I agree with pretty much everything you said, as I see it... this is sort of a "communitary" work, people that just want share a hobby with those that don't know the language but love it nonetheless, I mean... we that wait for translation are consuming it for free.
But I do think a certain quality should be upheld, but that is not the case here, this was about the idiots taking the shit a little too far, or at least that is what I got from your explanation.
One way or another, I am still very grateful for their work till now.
And just to make sure, because didn't completely understand... you will keep doing the translation of this series, or will you only put past chapters?
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I would like to translate chapters 1 through 15, and maybe even redo the rest up to where Money Minting picked up. Having read through Rinko's translation, there's a lot of grammatical errors and inconsistencies. But that will largely depend on how things go for me over the next few months. And it'd also help a lot if I could get a cleaner and redrawer to help out.
