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Hey, Answerman! All Scanlations, All The Time

Oh my GOD! It's so awesome to see another Mahoraba fan!

The anime is awesome, and the manga is even better! It had such a nice, warm feel to it. I first saw it in either late '06-early'07, and thought that someone would surely license it. In my mind, this would be a series that fans of something like Fruits Basket would enjoy.

....I'm still waiting for it.

Mahoraba~! I'm glad, too, to see another fan. I have faith that it will be release here eventually, but no telling when. Fingers crossed?

I can say without a doubt, that Mahoraba is the best manga series i've ever read. It really was everthing I could've asked for in a series.

Brian wrote:

<nonsense>

So, you are claiming that the audience for Maharaba and LotGH are narutards? Everyone I know that has even seen / read those doesn't give two sh*ts about Bleach, Naruto, or One Piece. I'm not sure if you are trying to insult the people who read good manga, or trying to insult the mangaka of good series themselves. Jesus, man; believe it or not, not everyone likes teen shounen.

He just said that the aggregator sites are getting all those millions upon millions of hits mainly for best selling manga, be it Naruto or something else. This argument is easily justified with the ranking system most of these aggregator sites have listed of the comics getting the most views. ...

Hmm... I always wanted to watch 009 but I never knew what it was called. I'm into the new Anime's (can Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece be counted along with other series? =D).

I wonder if I can get this series on DVD somewhere...

Long before Adult Swim switched from more serious Anime to american cartoons (a bad move in my opinion)

jsevakis wrote:

walw6pK4Alo wrote: Oh Bandai Visual/Honneamise, you and your expensive releases with subpar video quality for DVDs. I've seen R2 rips and the legit physical R1 DVDs of Gunbuster, and boy were they not good. !??! They looked like the exact same encode to me!

The R2 rips looked sharper, and the DVDs had bright white line going down the left side of the picture. And yes, they were the real DVDs, borrowed from a university library. As they often buy Criterion things as well, this is in the same vein for them. I'm sure their other releases are fine, but not Gunbuster's boxset.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

jsevakis wrote: walw6pK4Alo wrote: Oh Bandai Visual/Honneamise, you and your expensive releases with subpar video quality for DVDs. I've seen R2 rips and the legit physical R1 DVDs of Gunbuster, and boy were they not good. !??! They looked like the exact same encode to me! The R2 rips looked sharper, and the DVDs had bright white line going down the left side of the picture. And yes, they were the real DVDs, borrowed from a university library. As they often buy Criterion things as well, this is in the same vein for them. I'm sure their other releases are fine, but not Gunbuster's boxset.

This is why you don't use rips to discuss the quality of legitimate releases.

The R2 Gunbuster dvds contain the exact same white line down the left side of the picture.

You watched a rip that had been cropped and run through a sharpening filter.

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Long before Adult Swim switched from more serious Anime to american cartoons (a bad move in my opinion)

Just to nit-pick a little, Adult Swim has always played american animation (both original and not). A quick check on wiki shows that the first show shown was Home Movies. If the bumps are to be believed, it's those shows that carry Adult Swim's ratings. As long as those shows bring people in, then they'll be able to continue airing other, less (generally) popular shows. While it'd be nice to see an anime title take off on Adult Swim, there hasn't been anything recently unfortunately.

Is it wrong to be thoroughly enjoying the recent scanlation take-downs and the resulting outrage from some people?

Brian wrote:

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So, you are claiming that the audience for Maharaba and LotGH are narutards?

Sounds stupid enough to me. It's not about owing anybody, it's about profit. Why try to destroy a market that you could be converting into sales? It's a missed opportunity.

Sven Viking wrote:

Sounds stupid enough to me. It's not about owing anybody, it's about profit. Why try to destroy a market that you could be converting into sales? It's a missed opportunity.

Who makes a profit from free? I think you need a refresher on what the term "market" means. These aggregators only live because they are free to anyone. Making the tealeaves now pay for that is catamount to pulling a plastic bag over their heads and tying it at the neck. In short it's suicide.