Most mangas dont make it out of japan, but in current day, we can read a good chunk of them anyways, why?, because of these scanlation groups, scanlations refers to the practice of scanning a manga and then translating it for a general audience, and these froups often can have more story behind them than the mangas themselves
Have you ever read a manga online and saw a panel like this at the end?
these are little panels that these group makes to indicate that they scanlated that manga, they often have links to their own pages, thing is, scanlation has been around for a long time, and due to the nature of the practice, these groups dont last for very long, so,you end up finding tons of old defunct websites and forums, let's see what happens if we try to google some of the links from that image using wayback machine
well, this certainly is a pretty plain site, let's see if we can go a little bit further in the future to see if there is some more interesting stuff more than the funny, now outdated IRC guide
now this is something more appealing to look at, there is a list of all the staff, an irc, and more, from this picture we can gather that this group was dedicated to minami-ke, chapters release were going smoothly, let's go more in the future to see what happened to this group and why they went defunct
this is the newest picture in the wayback machine, it seems they expanded to a lot of other mangas, some of them they had to drop, from now we can probably make the guess they expanded too much and couldn't support it, forums too seemed inactive, probably could not gather new people to replace someone who quitted, but we're going to search a little bit deeper
Making a few google searchs I found up they had to move site, and look at that, we can start seeing the groups downfall, their translator quit and everyone else is busy, let's see what groups scanlated minami-ke in that age
(Page, baka-updates manga)
you can see here that their slow scanlation led to other groups to try to sneak in to scanlate what they didn't
it looks like they didn't manage to get a translator back, and that's the end of the group
looking at specific users, i've found out one of them got married and had a family, there are a lot of more stuff to this story, like the conversations themselves or posts which can be really funny, or, you can keep digging, and see what was that other group that replaced this one in releases, you can keep going down almost infinitely
it's pretty incredible that you can find out this much stuff from a single panel at the end of a random lucky star chapter
here is a cool page detailing the generals of scanlating from 2000 to 2010, it's a pretty interesting read
I have more weird stuff to showcase, maybe in a future thread I will show more weird rabbit holes I find on the internet
Have you ever read a manga online and saw a panel like this at the end?
these are little panels that these group makes to indicate that they scanlated that manga, they often have links to their own pages, thing is, scanlation has been around for a long time, and due to the nature of the practice, these groups dont last for very long, so,you end up finding tons of old defunct websites and forums, let's see what happens if we try to google some of the links from that image using wayback machine
well, this certainly is a pretty plain site, let's see if we can go a little bit further in the future to see if there is some more interesting stuff more than the funny, now outdated IRC guide
now this is something more appealing to look at, there is a list of all the staff, an irc, and more, from this picture we can gather that this group was dedicated to minami-ke, chapters release were going smoothly, let's go more in the future to see what happened to this group and why they went defunct
this is the newest picture in the wayback machine, it seems they expanded to a lot of other mangas, some of them they had to drop, from now we can probably make the guess they expanded too much and couldn't support it, forums too seemed inactive, probably could not gather new people to replace someone who quitted, but we're going to search a little bit deeper
Making a few google searchs I found up they had to move site, and look at that, we can start seeing the groups downfall, their translator quit and everyone else is busy, let's see what groups scanlated minami-ke in that age
(Page, baka-updates manga)
you can see here that their slow scanlation led to other groups to try to sneak in to scanlate what they didn't
it looks like they didn't manage to get a translator back, and that's the end of the group
looking at specific users, i've found out one of them got married and had a family, there are a lot of more stuff to this story, like the conversations themselves or posts which can be really funny, or, you can keep digging, and see what was that other group that replaced this one in releases, you can keep going down almost infinitely
it's pretty incredible that you can find out this much stuff from a single panel at the end of a random lucky star chapter
here is a cool page detailing the generals of scanlating from 2000 to 2010, it's a pretty interesting read
I have more weird stuff to showcase, maybe in a future thread I will show more weird rabbit holes I find on the internet
