I made an account just to add in my two cents!
OLO had a right to be angry that someone uploaded, let’s face it, poor quality chapters. However, their mistake comes from the fact that their response was not perfect (hence all the ragging on them.)
But, the reason why their response and the group has been now on the losing side of the argument for some people is simple.
The quality improved.
And it improved by massive amounts, we have to admit this.
Here, we have a newbie translator (allegedly, but honestly they probably are new. If not, they fooled me XD) that pushed out not so good work and posted on a manga that already had a group.
After taking suggestions from other people and getting good raws, their fast output and nice quality quickly earned them the favor of others.
And, why shouldn’t they be praised? Why shouldn’t people want to read their translations?
On the other side of the spectrum, we have OLO with, yes, lots of high quality good work…but their update pace is slow. And it FEELS even slower with these quick updates (that aren’t MTL levels of garbage), hence the turning of the tables.
Like, honestly, I see no problem in OLO and the newbie(s) co-existing. Like uhhh Mangadex has a system for that already in place where multiple uploads of the same chapter are easily seen and differentiated?
Like sorry not sorry, I’ll be reading these fast updates of an already completed story instead of waiting MONTHS.
Don’t get me wrong, in a couple of years when I re-read this, I’ll definitely read the higher-quality translation over the newbie translators. But, like, the people vouching for OLO have the patience of saints or something (or maybe they feel righteous over the sniping!)
By the way, it feels really disingenuous when you compare OLO’s translations to the very first bad raws chapters. Like, at least show their improvement from the first chapter they posted to their latest chapter LOL.
Anyway, I am pleased with the speed. I enjoy the work. I am eagerly awaiting more!
And to bring things back on track.
Director Shen and Director Jiang are literally so adorable that I want to throw my pillow off the Eiffel Tower levels of cute. Seriously!
The pacing didn’t seem too bad to me, maybe a little funky but I’m chill with it.