So much nastiness below.
To put matters straight. It was always supposed to b CATScans or LetItGo taking over the project from it’s the previous one. One Time scans. When one time scans was winding down, the translator for the project went to CATScans, I had already made a promise to Teras the owner of OTS to continue it.
I take my promises seriously, even in scanlation. If I can do something, I will. Not to mention if 75% or more of the work is already done, I’m gonna release it.
Every series has some issues, be it in Proofreading, redraws, Typesetting or translation.
Some people get bent out of shape when a series gets sniped. I don’t, not really, I’ll groan a bit about it... especially when no one contacts me about if WE could use some help moving it out faster. That said, there have been the occasional request in discord (when no one is around to answer).
I’m the type of person who could give a crap about what another group is doing. To me it’s “my turf” and as long as the translator is willing to give me a script, I’ll not waste their efforts.
There is a question about why we wouldn’t just jump forward to chapters not yet done. Well, a couple reasons for this. We still offer old school irc downloads. Yes, I know... outdated maybe... and I really would rather not host another group’s chapters if I can help it. I do it with some of/most of FTH’s, Japanzai’s... Norway’s for various reasons. Series completion for a dead/disbanded group being one... but I digress.
One of the things I hate most as a reader is quality jumping suddenly. Or wait, why can’t I find x groups cX of this or that? Oh, wait, another fn’ group stepped in and did a crap job. It never makes me want to read more of that groups releases.
Even if we did try to jump the queue to a chapter not yet released, I dunno, call it ocd for me... I’d have this feeling of not having completed the job properly if I skipped a chapter that was “under my watch”.
We also tried to skip ahead on at least one other series, had it nearly all typeset and waiting on redraws and another group/single guy dropped the release on us. Kinda demoralizing after rushing to “catch up”. So I’m more of a “do it at my regular pace and say “f-it, do the quality we’re known for”.
I appreciate the kind words from all of you and yes, I’ve got the next chapter in progress. I also have no plans to step down releases of this series or any other as long as I have a script for it. So send your complaints to awootism or whomever.
Damnit, I hate using mag RAWs... they always seem so much “less”.