August 12th, 2010
The Adventures of Reading Manga Online
I discovered the existence of manga around nine years ago. That's a long time to be addicted to manga. Still, I love it so much that own more manga books that I do of normal novels. Scary, right? And yet, I can't seem to get enough.
Reading manga that has already been translated and published in the U.S was not enough to sate my hunger for more stories. Once I found websites that put up scans of manga yet to be released and/or translated in the U.S (which certain groups of multi-linguals had so graciously translated into english), I became hooked. And I don't think I'll ever let go.
The website that I use most religiously is MangaFox. This particular website is more user-friendly than others and to my experience, contains more manga than any other website. Throughout the two years that I've been using it to discover new manga and read ones that I have been following, the website has undergone many changes.
At one certain point, the label of Yaoi was taken away (which upset many users). While I do not normally read yaoi, this change upset me because it affected the search engine of the website. Without the label of Yaoi on the website, I couldn't search as effectively (because the yaoi showed up since I couldn't cross it off during the search). Luckily, this was nullified after a month or two.
However, there have been other problems. For one, I really REALLY dislike it when certain mangas are 'dropped'. This can mean two things. One, the group of translators and cleaners have decided not to continue translating and cleaning the manga. Or two, the author of the manga has decided not to continue the manga.
This has happened to me multiple times when I began reading a manga that I enjoyed and suddenly, the story stopped somewhere in the middle because a scantalator group wasn't scanting, or the author dropped the story. It somehow always seemed to happen especially to the stories that I like. For example, The Prince of Tea or The Magic of Mistelteen. Neither one has been updated in two years. AGGRAVATION!
It's frustrating because there is nothing I can do about the problem. And I want to do something about it. But the only other language I know besides english is spanish, so I can't translate. I'm not exactly techno savy, so cleaning up a manga is out of my hands. And there's NO WAY I can somehow get the author to start writing/drawing again because I'm eons away and one little letter won't make a difference. GRAH!
I have tried to look for the manga elsewhere, but I have been unable to find it. And raws won't do it for me. Pictures are nice, but without the words, I'll just remain confused. Why can't anything be done about it?!?
Reading manga that has already been translated and published in the U.S was not enough to sate my hunger for more stories. Once I found websites that put up scans of manga yet to be released and/or translated in the U.S (which certain groups of multi-linguals had so graciously translated into english), I became hooked. And I don't think I'll ever let go.
The website that I use most religiously is MangaFox. This particular website is more user-friendly than others and to my experience, contains more manga than any other website. Throughout the two years that I've been using it to discover new manga and read ones that I have been following, the website has undergone many changes.
At one certain point, the label of Yaoi was taken away (which upset many users). While I do not normally read yaoi, this change upset me because it affected the search engine of the website. Without the label of Yaoi on the website, I couldn't search as effectively (because the yaoi showed up since I couldn't cross it off during the search). Luckily, this was nullified after a month or two.
However, there have been other problems. For one, I really REALLY dislike it when certain mangas are 'dropped'. This can mean two things. One, the group of translators and cleaners have decided not to continue translating and cleaning the manga. Or two, the author of the manga has decided not to continue the manga.
This has happened to me multiple times when I began reading a manga that I enjoyed and suddenly, the story stopped somewhere in the middle because a scantalator group wasn't scanting, or the author dropped the story. It somehow always seemed to happen especially to the stories that I like. For example, The Prince of Tea or The Magic of Mistelteen. Neither one has been updated in two years. AGGRAVATION!
It's frustrating because there is nothing I can do about the problem. And I want to do something about it. But the only other language I know besides english is spanish, so I can't translate. I'm not exactly techno savy, so cleaning up a manga is out of my hands. And there's NO WAY I can somehow get the author to start writing/drawing again because I'm eons away and one little letter won't make a difference. GRAH!
I have tried to look for the manga elsewhere, but I have been unable to find it. And raws won't do it for me. Pictures are nice, but without the words, I'll just remain confused. Why can't anything be done about it?!?
Posted by crimsondrop7 | Aug 12, 2010 11:21 PM | 0 comments