Murabito Desu ga Nani ka? - Ch. 56

[Phyto]

They hold translations hostage in exchange for a "single" donation but dont make it public when they receive that donation, thus many donations come in. Also their poor quality scanlations can be done much faster than groups. Thankfully LH never dropped this but they have in the past sniped hundreds of series which are now dead cause once comicdom had the money they wanted they ghosted and left those series to rot. I would rather have a consistent loyal group over this scamming trash any day.

You're just making bad of comicdom without addressing the problem here. The problem is,
1. LH doesn't release the translation 4+ months and and not mentioning to drop this series. This is fine, but if they're bitchy when they got sniped, now that's just plain funny. If you want the series that badly, just translate regularly, or do the same thing as comicdom. It seems there is a business in there
2. Comicdom doesn't get transparent with the donation. You can definitely working this out like, demanding comicdom to get transparent? Or organizing something so there is no double donation? Putting aside translation quality, this problem here is much more manageable than asking LH to work faster. They don't care about you. But with comicdom, you "buy" his service. If he doesn't deliver, that scam. But calling him scam without basis is worst.
3. Series are dead after it got released by comicdom? So be it. It's not different than any other scanlator anyways. They do that ALL THE TIME. With comicdom atleast, you can get translation done when you donate. Don't like this kind of method? It's up to you. Not your money anyways.

 

[Gudachiz]

Yeah well LH isn't updating either really, I was talking about when the last chapter before this was posted, that is 12 months ago, LH posted the same 4 months ago, so that means the series is kinda dead no?

no, they're just building it up, its a monthly series anyway, it can understand groups that work on multiple titles and mass release the way LH does

 

[Gudachiz]

No, it's not. Snipe only happens when a series that REGULARLY updated by a group gets snipped in under than 1 month since the raw released(some even considering 1 week after the raw release is not a snipe).

LH update schedule is very inconsistent because they hold more title than their staffs can handle, 4 months is a fair game to everyone(and we aren't even talking the actual release date of the raw).

except that it does get updated and LH does mass release when they do just paced properly
and yes this is sniping. they've done it to other titles too then abandon the said titles, change the name, then the original group scanlating said titles pick it up again because they also want to read it translated.

like what the others said this isn't their first rodeo

 

[captain_crunch]

I tried reading chap 54 on an aggregator site, and wasn't sure if I was having a stroke. Guess I'll wait for LHT. Prob not missing out on much, don't know where the plot is going after MC enrolled in the school and some kind of reincarnator illuminati showed up out of nowhere

 

[HayashidaYuki]

You are right in this case.
But this guy here (also known as Comicdom) sniped a lot of Managa in the past where the Groups were doing Weekly releases and causing them to drop them, always in bad Quality. I would rather wait for LH to unregularely update it instead of a crappy machine translation. Also it's funny how he tries it with another name now, after he said he doesn't want to do anything with translation in the future. This guy is just out for the money and not more.

I get what comicdoms doing, but I was just addressing the snipping stuff, because they can be bitchy even when it was not done by the Comicdoms. Even if their practice is scummy, they still didn't snipe.

except that it does get updated and LH does mass release when they do just paced properly

And what do you mean paced properly? If you mean by releasing every 1/2/3/4 months/whenever they feel like it is paced properly, then you have a very weird dictionary.

Just look at the manga page, when was this mass release by LH happened? Even when the series didn't get "snipped"(which didn't happen btw), their recent translation for this was never up to the raw release. I still remember when they still release a new chapter with their "proper" pace, looking for the raw and found there were 5 untranslated chapters already despite their effort to the "mass release"(which was numbered around 1 chapter).

 

[Gudachiz]

I get what comicdoms doing, but I was just addressing the snipping stuff, because they can be bitchy even when it was not done by the Comicdoms. Even if their practice is scummy, they still didn't snipe.


And what do you mean paced properly? If you mean by releasing every 1/2/3/4 months/whenever they feel like it is paced properly, then you have a very weird dictionary.

Just look at the manga page, when was this mass release by LH happened? Even when the series didn't get "snipped"(which didn't happen btw), their recent translation for this was never up to the raw release. I still remember when they still release a new chapter with their "proper" pace, looking for the raw and found there were 5 untranslated chapters already despite their effort to the "mass release"(which was numbered around 1 chapter).

this isnt their main job, majority of the time even with the patreons its mostly just to pay their translators and other staff or for the site they use to host incase dex goes down so i can see why titles like this will take time, and its still sniping, as there have been no mentions of this being dropped, comicdoom doesnt contact said scan group, they've done it to others too which had the intent to release more frequently but couldnt all at once regardless if the thing was actively translated or not

Check their website and see for yourself.

If you dont agree after that i'll leave it at that


They can easily catch up to the raws right now, I've seen the latest chapters, even with the delays its not too much that they couldnt catch up, from what i know of how they upload they dont normally catch up to a title's raws anyway but still manage to, now do they have titles they actually abandoned? Yeah, is this one of them? I kinda doubt it


Edit: and yes some titles are prioritized

 

[HayashidaYuki]

this isnt their main job, majority of the time even with the patreons its mostly just to pay their translators and other staff or for the site they use to host incase dex goes down so i can see why titles like this will take time, and its still sniping, as there have been no mentions of this being dropped, comicdoom doesnt contact said scan group, they've done it to others too which had the intent to release more frequently but couldnt all at once regardless if the thing was actively translated or not

Check their website and see for yourself.

If you dont agree after that i'll leave it at that


They can easily catch up to the raws right now, I've seen the latest chapters, even with the delays its not too much that they couldnt catch up, from what i know of how they upload they dont normally catch up to a title's raws anyway but still manage to, now do they have titles they actually abandoned? Yeah, is this one of them? I kinda doubt it


Edit: and yes some titles are prioritized

I don't care any of that. Is comicdoms bad? Sure, I agree. This isn't their main job? Not surpising. They can easily catch up? Never doubted it. But they all are a strawman.

The main problem is this was never snipe.

If your standar is as vague as "they never announced a drop", you'd be surprised by how common is snipping practice on mangadex. But well, since you are probably a part of LH at this point, there is no point arguing with someone who wanted to keep a title for themselves despite showing no intention to actually working on it.

 

[Gudachiz]

I don't care any of that. Is comicdoms bad? Sure, I agree. This isn't their main job? Not surpising. They can easily catch up? Never doubted it. But they all are a strawman.

The main problem is this was never snipe.

If your standar is as vague as "they never announced a drop", you'd be surprised by how common is snipping practice on mangadex. But well, since you are probably a part of LH at this point, there is no point arguing with someone who wanted to keep a title for themselves despite showing no intention to actually working on it.

You're free to think this isn't a snipe if that's what makes you feel better
I just stated my opinion, its not objective truth. I can argue about it and discuss but we've reach an impasse where I know I won't agree with you lol


i'm not a part of LH I just read at their site and here to support them and no I don't know if they even wanted to keep the title for themselves but I really wouldn't be surprised if they're still working on it and actually release it(besides their work is objectively better and it would be really nice if they still worked on this despite the snipe)

I'm also well aware of the sniping culture here in mangadex, some of them are justified since the others are really just badly cleaned and can't be understood, others are of similar good qualities that sometimes its a waste when the lines are almost exactly the same, just different groups working on the same thing, but knowing that doesn't mean I have to like it or agree with it, there's tons of good manga out there that never see the light of a translation or a continuation.
Would've been better if it was spent on those clear cut cases of being abandoned or never got a translation but here we are.

 

[wilddeath]

You're just making bad of comicdom without addressing the problem here. The problem is,
1. LH doesn't release the translation 4+ months and and not mentioning to drop this series. This is fine, but if they're bitchy when they got sniped, now that's just plain funny. If you want the series that badly, just translate regularly, or do the same thing as comicdom. It seems there is a business in there
2. Comicdom doesn't get transparent with the donation. You can definitely working this out like, demanding comicdom to get transparent? Or organizing something so there is no double donation? Putting aside translation quality, this problem here is much more manageable than asking LH to work faster. They don't care about you. But with comicdom, you "buy" his service. If he doesn't deliver, that scam. But calling him scam without basis is worst.
3. Series are dead after it got released by comicdom? So be it. It's not different than any other scanlator anyways. They do that ALL THE TIME. With comicdom atleast, you can get translation done when you donate. Don't like this kind of method? It's up to you. Not your money anyways.

1. They mass release which is arguably better as the mass releases tend to result in less shitty cliffhangers.
2. They lie through their teeth and conned dozens of translators into mass translating at high speeds over 800+ chapters of manga over the course of like 4 months. Many of those manga were being worked on by smaller groups who did quality work but obviously couldn't keep up with a larger group made up of dozens of translators. Here is where the scam comes in, Comicdom didn't pay the translators what they were owed and ended up running of with thousands of dollars in donations because they work without transparency and would laugh at people that requested it.
3. Because of the situation in 2., many groups who thought this massive group was taking over their series abandoned their series and some even disbanded cause they didn't think they could compete. Those series are now dead and rotting after comicdom ran off with the money. It was a huge scandal in the community that honestly hurt the reputations of scanlation groups who are way more transparent and honest about things like donations. Comicdom even nuked the discord and website they used to erase any evidence of their "crime".

So if you really wanna call them a strawman feel free, but no one had ever done a scam like this to my knowledge. If things like this happened "all the time" like you said then no one would trust scanlators, which is the entire problem with what comicdom did, cause it hurt the faith we as readers have in the very groups we donate to and support.

 

[ruthile13]

also an addition to what wilddeath explained
once you donated to comicdom, you will be spammed email by comicdom,floriejane, or whatever name they use all
when you stopped donating. what an honest not scammer translator right?

there's also an announcement of basic scammer thing in SEA here, where they beg for money claiming their family or someone they know is hospitalized.
yes, comicdom did that not only once when their discord still alive
how many family he got there if every few months they got hospitalized

 

[jeezits]

This is chaste-scams:

https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/chaste-scans.1118913/

Don't support a scamming sniper folks, have some common sense.

 

[Gudachiz]

I tried reading chap 54 on an aggregator site, and wasn't sure if I was having a stroke. Guess I'll wait for LHT. Prob not missing out on much, don't know where the plot is going after MC enrolled in the school and some kind of reincarnator illuminati showed up out of nowhere

you're not, i've read a bit of the raws the story is really slow paced tbh, not really much of a loss for a few delays

 

[zarian2]

oh hey, comicdom using new name again after weeks of no upload on filtev account
reminder do not pay this scammer no matter how much you want the translation
it will result in trash mtl and he will disappear until he need money again

They hold translations hostage in exchange for a "single" donation but dont make it public when they receive that donation, thus many donations come in. Also their poor quality scanlations can be done much faster than groups. Thankfully LH never dropped this but they have in the past sniped hundreds of series which are now dead cause once comicdom had the money they wanted they ghosted and left those series to rot. I would rather have a consistent loyal group over this scamming trash any day.

I can confirm that. FlorieJane, Comicdom, Chastescans, Shadowed8888, doramaaaa and others, all the same dude from the Philippines. He got me with that same ad forever ago, I paid $200 to help mass-release a manga(think it was that home center manga, don't remember though) then he never even released it.

Then "retired" as comicdom, then a few months later decided to come back and started emailing me asking for money to "get started again." All this while never releasing the thing I paid for originally. Not asking for my money back, just helping everyone else be aware.

 

[kaezeribato]

the series was never dead. it was being translated by the original group LH Translations at their normal pace. ComicDom here just returned to pick up their scam where they left off.

LH Translation are scamer all the same as the people doing this low quality MTL.

 

[wilddeath]

LH Translation are scamer all the same as the people doing this low quality MTL.

Not sure i follow... LH translation is transparent not only with their projects and their schedule, but they also pay their translators what they are owed, and release the projects they promise to as their schedule allows. Do please elaborate on how they are a scammer if you could.