@sjmcc13: I didn't have any problems with the release schedules of private people, doing scanlations in their free time and if they take longer or do it quicker. I just pointed out, that many scanlators prove, that it is absolutely possible to release professional looking translations a much shorter, than professional publishers do it. Fanicorn Scamlations has been picking up at an impressing pace. So, why should I have cared, that the manga translation is behind in first place? it's beside the my point, which is: A professional publisher is picking up the manga and delays its releases, seemingly to that publisher's own disadvantage. And yepp, I didn't look too deep into the background of that matter, as the fault I see is seemingly to glaringly obvious. Why buy the rights to a currently popular series, if you let that advantage of the series die down? Now, as for Ichigo69's offered explanation, that 7 Seas is a small publisher...
@Ichigo69: If there really isn't a way for them to do it faster (mainly because of money), their is, well, no way helping it. I don't know about their inner structure. (I'm not buying any "It's the translation that takes most time"-argument in mangas, though.) Even though I do get the argument about them being at their max working capacity (money and printing wise), I still don't get, why they don't give newly acquired titles a bit priority. So, yeah, they bought the rights to the series, they are interested in, even though they don't have the capacities. I guess that's so, no one else snatches it away and to stop free fan-releases. Okay, fair enough. Yet they'll lose out on many of the current reader. (Those willing to buy a printed version anyways.) To cover this they could consider setting aside a bit of workforce and resources to release the latest volume (the one, that contains chapters 17-20.2) in a smaller print additionally beside Vol 1.
I personally don't care that much to read the next chapter soon or ever, but it seems to be a bad approach to let things cool down for so long. They have to rebuild a circle of readers on their own instead of tabbing into an existing pool. They have to translate the later volumes later anyways and can reprint them, when the old chapters manage to catch up. (Always assuming the newest releases would sell well enough, which I do believe they might. You'd also give those readers a good reason to to buy the older chapters, too: If they bought a volume, they might want to complete their collection starting with vol 1 as their second bought vol.) In short, they should earn more money, by rethinking their release schedule. If they don't want to or simply can't, they'll squander a bit of possible profit IMHO.
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@Koin: I guess, that's what they wanted to announce. If nobody else risks an C'n'D, that's that. Nevertheless I also believe, it wouldn't be uploaded on mangadex anyway for the same reason.