Mercenary Enrollment - Ch. 215

[MangaDex]

 

[Graywing]

Time for another rescue mission. Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[Ninoren]

Now Iron put themselves on Ijins Radar, while weirdly having avoided it throughout 100 chapters 😐

 

[grems]

can anyone reminds me who this Aiden again, I'm sure I heard it before but I can't remember 😅

 

[muttarpaneer]

If you think about this manhwa a little deeper, all ijin does is beat up bullies; some of them just happen to have guns

 

[nathan67003]

Mans just made the worst mistake of his life.

 

[starfish]

wow, bullying again, what were the odds??

 

[SpiffSpeaks]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[J1_Dev]

Absolute Cinema

 

[PreStoneX]

Me do not understand xD Don't get me wrong, but hear me out, 3 groups are translating this manhwa (albeit on a different website, but you are active there too so you know about it), so why did you decide to do it too? (I mean, I have an idea why, looking at the amount of donation links)

 

[Shivvu]

Me do not understand xD Don't get me wrong, but hear me out, 3 groups are translating this manhwa (albeit on a different website, but you are active there too so you know about it), so why did you decide to do it too? (I mean, I have an idea why, looking at the amount of donation links)

I personally prefer Kay's translations over the others. For all the different translations I've read, Kay is the best one. Besides, why shouldn't they receive donations for their work??

 

[PreStoneX]

I personally prefer Kay's translations over the others. For all the different translations I've read, Kay is the best one. Besides, why shouldn't they receive donations for their work??

It's just a moral thing.

Let's say you are a translator too and have been translating a manhwa for several months, making it popular with the constant releases (I know the manhwa isn't really made by translators, but people wouldn't know about these manhwas if not for translators).
So yeah, at that point, the manhwa is basically your child since you spent so much time on it... then here comes some new guy, randomly joins in from chapter.. let's say 200, and have been sharing around his donation links to basically feed off of the manhwa's popularity, which, once again, you made popular over several months or even years.

Now, you probably can't imagine this and I can't really come up with a better comparison, but don't you think it's quite rude as hell? In my eyes, it's basically just greediness and morally wrong.

As for your preference; Kay admitted already he is using AI and other machine translators to translate. I know MTL can be certainly good if you actually take your time proofreading and making sure the translation is good for each chapter, but at that point, the 3 other translations are good enough too, no? They are most likely using the same MTL too, just maybe not proofread well.

 

[PreStoneX]

I personally prefer Kay's translations over the others. For all the different translations I've read, Kay is the best one. Besides, why shouldn't they receive donations for their work??

I just checked and apparently he is also sharing early chapters on his ko-fi / patreon. He shared ch216 there for free as an apology because of some issues he's been having recently (even though other versions already uploaded 216), so I'm not sure if he puts other chapters there or not for paid supporters, but you get my idea.

Plus, he's been promoting in other chapters how he takes commissions to translate other stuff on his ko-fi. This basically means if someone pays him, he'd be willing to snipe even more series, which just rubs me the wrong way, because this isn't "translating what I love for my own enjoyment", this is just leeching off a popular manhwa for money (as for the self-pity how he does everything himself from cleaning, translating, typesetting... well, big deal, a lot of people do that, I alone carry over 10 different series alone lol)

In the end, it's his decision and I can't stop him, but I just had one question, why?

 

[Lev360]

This time Ijin will make sure one of his 2nd fam will survive