Ugh. I was concerned last chapter that this was going to go the predictable, cliched route and here we are confirming it. Lame.
Mangaka "actually do something creative and new instead of just repeating the same old slop" challenge. Difficulty: beyond impossible.
Also, for the TL, I'm pretty sure you said you're doing AI upscaling and cleaning of the pages? It really shows in this chapter. A lot of the faces look kind of awkward like they've been tweaked or misshapen because of the upscaling process.
Unless it's just the artist slacking off and he quality dropping.
It is because of the original quality with which they upload it to the Raws page. Maybe it's the page itself (Manga-One) that is to blame. When extracting a page, as there is no good method, I do it by screenshot in the "inspect page" option.
This results in a 674x955 image.
Even if my quality boost program is good, if the original page is awful, it can't do much in that regard. And even more so with a page that barely reaches 500KB.
So, if anyone is to blame, it's Manga-One, which lowers too much quality in order to prevent others from taking away their images.
(I attach part of an original page. Check the quality and tell me how it looks, xd)
