Since every chapter I skipped is out there for free on other sites, I will just leave it to other people to find the chapters rather than duplicating what already exists. Or maybe someone else will put in the leg work to re-upload the missing chapters.
Okay, a bit late here, but I have to weigh in on this. And I’m gonna be straight up with you.
ManhwaFreak/UTOON has garnered nothing but hate here on MD - they had virtually no one in their corner but themselves. And most of that hate was
not just for paywalling shit.
First and foremost? Their “what the fuck is this shit I can’t even” censorship.
And I’m not talking about titles that are porn, erotica, or even just “suggestive”.
They did it on perfectly normal shit by turning women’s breasts into goddamned uniboobs. They’d literally erase any and all cleavage.
On the off-hand chance you know nothing about this, first, have a look at this page from Chapter 19 of Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei…
https://mangadex.org/chapter/c5b84a2c-e7bc-48a0-80ef-a15866640222
And compare that to what ManhwaFreak did to the same page here:
https://mangadex.org/chapter/33ce18c0-e036-41a7-85c8-c8d78348b40f/2
And even worse was that they even did some troll edits that were
not April’s Fools Day jokes. Like this travesty they pulled on Chapter 34 of Isekai Craft Gurashi. The chapter got nuked, so the next best thing I can do is provide a link to my query to the mods in the MD Discord server to verify if it counted as a troll edit - I posted the relevant pages of the UTOON version compared to the DazaiScans version.
https://discord.com/channels/403905762268545024/404025002568974347/1354225795488284774
Secondly, their translations were god-awful. Not quite “Godzilla had an aneurism and died trying to read this” levels, but they had a lot of issues with maintaining context. Go and read the last chapter they did of this title here on MD and you tell me how hard it is to follow.
And then, of course, there was the paywalling. Which, really, pales in comparison to the rest of their bullshit. They did eventually upload their work here. But therein lies the rub: these people were entirely profit-driven to the point where they didn’t really care much about quality. Instead, they focused on pumping out as much scanslation as possible so they could profit off of their website’s ads and paywalls.
Even worse, still, was that they sniped other scanslators and chased them away so that they could be the only scanslator working on that title. We lost a
lot of titles getting active scanslations done because as soon as they as they saw it wasn’t making them as much money as they liked, they’d just as quickly drop that title without finding someone else to take over on it. Again, Isekai Craft Gurashi would have been another victim there if I hadn’t gotten on UTOON’s ass by reporting them for that fucked-up trolling.
So yeah. Sorry, but fuck that shit, man. When ManwhaFreak/UTOON got the boot, everyone here was glad to hear it. They were a cancer on this website, and just about everyone you ask will agree that they were profiteering MTL trash pushing snipers with a weird fetish for censorship, and a tendency to troll the readers. They are absolutely cringe, and I
feel it every time I try to slog through something they “translated”.
In fact, if you were to go back and retranslate the chapters they previously did, you’d be earning a lot of love from folks here. Just sayin’.
