The end of my interest in Mangastream, sadly

[sincere]

VIZ forced Mangastream to drop their JUMP content.

Nooooooo! Fuck you guys! Seriously? Ughhh. This is just the worst month. Mangastream doesn't even keep archives, they delete all their stuff after a month, what more do you want, shitheads? No one is going to wait to buy your crappy tankoubon eighteen months after a chapter comes out just because you have some delusions about shutting down all internet piracy forever, starting with the least offensive scanslator you could find.

Good luck with that.

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[slayerofgod]

So uh, where do I read Naruto, Claymore, and Bleach now?

[walking_forward]

There's mangarush.

http://www.mangarush.com/

Don't know how correct their trans are but it's there.

(Hopefully it won't go down next). X/

[sincere]

Mrr, sadly that website doesn't help me. They have Bleach, but their DGM is like 10 chapters behind, and those are literally all that I read.

[walking_forward]

How about mangareader then.

http://www.mangareader.net/dgray-man/212

They seem up to date on d gray man.

[sincere]

I hope that link helps you! It doesn't have DGM, and I neeeed DGM.

[walking_forward]

Why would they do that? Granted they might think people wouldn't bother buying their products if they can read it online but as you said Mangastream deletes chapters after a period. If anything, wouldn't you think sites operating like that would be beneficial for them. There have been a number of mangas I've bought because I became interested in them from being able to read them first online. I can't always just drop by the bookstore and go through them all, ecspecially if the manga volumes/series aren't in stock at the moment (plus I like saving gas money and time when I can).

Funimation has all the anime they license on youtube for people to watch after all and it doesn't look like they're in danger. =/

Oh well (finds other sources).

[sincere]

Funimation gained like a million points with me for doing that. I like it when companies show, you know. Some sort of loyalty to their userbase instead of just demanding vice versa while simultaneously trying to sabotage fandom.

[canavasary]

That's just... sigh. I don't even know what to say. I can understand if they had kept the chapters up indefinitely, but clearly they're not.

[sincere]

It's just stupid and mean and see if I give you any money, you dipshits. Especially when their translations can be pretty painful. (Every time Orihime talks about her bffs "Ichigo" and "Uryuu" I want to punch myself in the face.)

[canavasary]

Yes, it's the little stuff like Orihime saying calling Ichigo and Ishida by their given names that gets to me. I've become so darn picky about how things are translated, especially by companies.

BTW, mangafox.com & mangareader.net are where I find my fix at, if it's of any help.

[sincere]

Even among fan translations I go to multiple sources -- like, the last DGM chapter, I was like "I have a scanslation here, but it's not great, so I'll link another scanslation when that goes up to see if it clears up anything." It's infuriating to think that they're so entitled to my money that they have to take down one of my few good sources, which isn't even an archive, it is literally just a sampler.

I'll look into those, thanks. ♥

[slayerofgod]

That's your definition of "painful?" Honestly, I find a lot of these fan translations where they keep the Japanese sentence structure and grammar usage that English speakers would never use a lot more painful than a character using a first name. Sometimes I don't even know what the hell they're saying.

[sincere]

I'm not saying that every fan translation is amazing, I'm saying that when Orihime calls her friends "Ichigo" and "Uryuu", I find that painful. And I don't pay fan translators $15 to hurt me the way Viz believes they're entitled to my money.