Because many of the flash-in-the-pan groups are only concerned with the most popular manga, we (the Old Guard) have chosen to pursue series that are more culturally or artistically significant (for the most part).Īnd another comment on the subject from MangaScreener founder Izumi on Floating_Sakura's blog: You have a few prestigious 'old guard' groups that have been active for several years, a few newer groups that have risen to prominence through lots of hard work, and numerous fringe groups that often leech off the success of a particular manga by attempting to undercut other groups and rack up quick download numbers for the win. The situation was summarized in this article from TCJ by MangaScreener's head translator Stephen:

As the years went on, groups grew smaller and worked on only two or three popular series. Sharing of staff members between groups was commonplace. Some group leaders even resorted to using Excel spreadsheets to keep track of who was responsible for what. In the early days, a group was usually composed of many members, working together on 10+ projects at a time. Thus, taking on a project that has already been licensed would be an even WORSE thing to do.Īs more and more groups formed, the core structure of the scanlation group began to change. You just don't continue series that are licensed, it's something that you just don't do. In one of his forum posts, Snoop圜ool's founder Snoopy commented: It could be argued that DailyManga was mainly geared toward the French scanlation scene in which licenses from North American companies meant nothing, whereas MangaUpdates's mother site, Baka-Updates, was reporting licensed fansub releases back before the manga section even existed.

Manga Jouhou only reported unlicensed scanlations, whereas DailyManga and MangaUpdates reported both. The release-watching sites were similarly divided. The second, which included most of the older groups, did not.

The first, which included most of the new speed scanners and a handful of the older groups (like the Europe-based Manga-Sketchbook, which actually scanned U.S. By 2005, the community was divided into two camps. Some groups formed simply to continue work on licensed series dropped by other groups. fans was replaced by the cheap notion of it as a way to get free manga. As more groups formed, the community's old ideal of scanlation as a means to introduce lesser-known manga to U.S. It was also during this period that scanlation began its deeper descent into the legal grey area in which it finds itself today.

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