Isekai Walking - Vol. 8 Ch. 82 - Starting the Rescue Plan

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it's another group that picks up a bunch of manga and then goes out of business like 6 months later.
they smell profits that don't exist grab a bunch of cheaper (not necessarily bad) series and then fail to make a dent in the market.


Stopping translation just because they do business in the US is as usual a lame reason to stop I have a ton of manga on my shelves it's not about free it's about accessibility it always was and always has been.
Honestly this isn't really what's happening, KManga is owned by kodansha, the actual JP publisher that does these manga in JP too, so the odds this goes out of business are basically nil, the main issues with KManga imo are:

1. Region locking - KManga is only available for US IPs, yes you can use a VPN to circumvent that, which leads us to the next issues.

2. They split chapters in multiple parts, why? So they can charge more per chapter and so you can view less for free. The prices for their in-app currency is also extremely expensive compared to what you would expect of a digital publication. They charge so much per chapter that it's actually cheaper to buy the paper versions of those manga in some cases, which is plain incrompehensible, they don't have any of the printing costs usually involded in manga publishing, and it's manga that's already covered all it's costs during JP publishing, they only have to pay for the translation. Here's an example:
Chihayafuru has 328 ‘chapters’ in-app which is actually 164 with each split in 2, which costs $226 just to read the entire series.

3. The ways to access chapters for free are time-limited and also quantity limited

4. Chapters can and do have additional censorship compared to JP versions.

5. It's actually an existing JP app(Pocket Magazine) with it's UI translated, which means it also didn't really have much of anything on additional development costs to justify the prices practiced.
 
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KManga and MangaUp have a lot of the same issues of splitting chapters into parts to charge you for each part. It's a shame to see this translation stopping because of KManga, but thanks for your work up until now.
 
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yeah, thanks for the TL but this is BS, i don't give a shit about official translations and i'm not in the US.

Now we'll have to wait until some group or someone commissions this to continue or have to go to some other shitty site to read, also i'm not going to wait 10 years until the "official" catches up, that's dumb
 
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Keep checking bato.to, many KManga official translations get uploaded there. Someone has also uploaded the first three officially translated chapters there, so there's quite a chance.
you shittin me, right?, you dropped this at chapter 82 and the official one are up to chapter... THREE

yeah, no, i'm not going to wait for the "official" to catch up, no way in hell
 
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Thanks for all the hard work everyone of you at Haikai Scans has done on this series up until now.

Dose anyone at Haikai Scans know what series you might be picking up next?


Do you know if their TL work is any good?
It's an official TL and well, everything is at least readable, I can't really read japanese to tell you on their overall quality though. My main issue is with their monetization and region locking rather than the contents of the TL though
 
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It's an official TL and well, everything is at least readable, I can't really read japanese to tell you on their overall quality though. My main issue is with their monetization and region locking rather than the contents of the TL though
so true, bro!
I honestly prefer fan translations most of the time, because they often have more personality and depth as translators and actually care about the source material and what they produce. whilst I find that official translators are really just shells of the corporation and a lot of them are even using AI to translate now or so I’ve heard.

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Honestly I genuinely don't know why exactly I kept reading but, when I think about it... I come to 1 conclusion I like accessibility, Translators either do it as a hobby, or as a job in some form, While it's sad K-manga picked this up, it's also understandable as official is the best way to support products.(as long as everyone can access it...)
 
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K FUCKING MANGA

FUUUUUUUUUCK

IT'S A GREAT NEWS BUT

FUUUUUUUUUCK

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
 
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K manga, the great American conqueror of manga, has taken another one from us foreigners again. :meguuusad:

Que se jodan nosotros de sudamerica verdad?
 
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Sad to see but it was really cool at the start all of these different people working together in a way never seen that before for any other manga i have followed on this site
 
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Nooo!!! 😢😭😿
Thank you for translating for 82 Chapters, all your time, eyes, and dedication for this Manga that has to go. After reading through the end seeing the message, it just literally stab me in the heart 💔 and making cry while standing, laying, sitting, running, and walking
 
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Thanks Haikai Scans for the passion and love for this series.
Sad that I would no longer be able to follow this series now due to regional issues (and I might have to rely on the aggregators now) but still, thanks for sharing this fun story with us!
 
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thanks for everything!
While I respect your decision because who wold be angry because something free will not longer be available. There are a lot of people from outside of the US where fan translation are still the only way to read manga that is not a super popular shonen that just had an anime and only will be one print ever so if you miss a volume you are out of luck.

I thank you for your work over all this time, but I can't deny I'm disappointed, I'm not blaming you or your scan, but is still just not the best news to start my day
Batoto is usually good tho i'm sure some 'aggregators' will repost it

maybe we'll get an anime
 
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Thanks for the good run, team!

But kmanga... they are still not available on my region, sadly.
RIP this manga for me, then.
 
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Thank you for your service, but fuck K Manga dude, I can't even access it from where I'm from without a VPN
 

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