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RELEASE - Kasenjiki Ch 2
Discord: HERE Release: HERE Patreon: HEREThis was released early on Discord for our patrons! If you’d like to read them early, please check our Patreon!
RELEASES - Kimi to Tsugai ni Naru Shohou Ch1 and Raion Gotoki no Kuni Kara Ch3!
Happy Spooky Day everyone~ Enjoy these fun releases. I’m super excited over this new one, since I’m a big advocate of TCM and this omegaverse centers on that theme! As always, enjoy, and don’t share anywhere else! Discord is HERE Releases are HERE Patreon is HEREThese chapters were released early for Patrons! If you’d like to read them early too, check out our Patreon!
What happened to Raion Gotoki? I don’t see it on the Release Site anymore ;w;! Also are you seeing a lot of projects being effected by the pandemic or would you say publications haven’t been effected as much? Big thanks to your team for your hard work! I’ve been kept sane by your projects! Cheers!
Ugh. Sometimes popular manga are a pain to translate. :/ Someone shared a screenshot of it on social media and then people proceeded to link our release sheet site AND tag the author. So it's been removed until Ch 3 is done and everyone will be pinged on Discord when it comes out, which should be soon. If things like this continue to happen, well...let's just hope people are smart and don't. So I"m gonna say it again here for those who didn't know: DO NOT SHARE OUR RELEASES TO SITES OTHER THAN OURS WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION. And if you feel the need to link something to someone, link the Discord, NOT OUR RELEASE SITE. As for the pandemic, I actually feel there's been more of a drop in releases since quarantines have let up. A few groups have been impacted, but thankfully we've been able to keep finding new people to help. We all keep trucking and where there's a will, there's a way, haha.
RELEASE - Moratte Kudasai Ch1
Enjoy as always and please don’t share/post without permission! Also, if you’d like to help out, come check out the Discord!
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This chapter was released early on Discord for our Patrons! If you’d like to read them early, too, please check out our Patreon!
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RELEASE - Kasenjiki RomiJuri Kousou Kyoku Ch.1!
I’m back again with a release! Sorry I’ve been AWOL, my health hasn’t been too well, so I’ll keep this short. Thanks to Kimmy and Paty for making this an amazing release~ If you need anything, message on our Discord channel as I won’t be checking this often! Please enjoy, and don’t share elsewhere!
Also we’re always up for more translators <3 Discord is HERE! Release is HERE! Patreon is HERE! This chapter was released early on Discord for our Patrons, if you’d like to read them early, check it out! <3
RELEASE - Hana Tokidoki Ch. 4!
Hey everyone, I’m back with more dumb boys again XD
I’d really like to thank our typesetter Paty helping to keep us going and for the extras this chapter, they’re super great and I hope you enjoy them too!
I’d also like to address the incident the other day before we get to the release. That manga that was shared on social media will be put back up on the release sheet when the next chapter is released.
I’m not sure when that will be considering we’re in desperate need of a Typesetter and Translator (so come check out the Discord if you want to take the test and help this get these done sooner XD), but it will continue to be worked on, slowly, until then. I just don’t trust it being up on the site for the meantime. I’ll say it again though, DO NOT post our release links or screencaps of our work to Twitter.
Also, against my judgement, I’m going to open the server back up and continue to put the release link in these posts since the situation has been rectified, but if something like this happens again, access to the link will be from Discord only.
I hope you understand and I’m sorry for any inconveniences that might cause. <3
Discord is HERE. Releases are HERE. Patreon is HERE.
This chapter was released early on Discord for our Patrons, if you’d like to view it early, please feel free to check it out!
ANNOUNCEMENT
DO NOT and I mean DO NOT post links to our sites or pictures of our scans on Twitter under any circumstances without my permission.
And DO NOT TAG THE ARTIST. EVER.
If whoever posted it to Twitter follows us, I'm kindly asking you to remove your tweets.
SCANLATION IS ILLEGAL and posting our works only puts us in the eyes of authors and publishers.
For the present time, the server will continue to be closed until I deem it safe enough to open back up. And the links to the work that was posted have been removed for the time being.
Where is your discord server?? Trying to read the last 2 or 3 chapters of Houtoumusuko to Koi no Ana
Discord is closed temporarily for reasons. It’ll open up again soon! Sorry for the inconvenience to anyone. <3
UPDATE - More Info On Amimaru Wages and Futekiya
Anime New Network has updated their article with more info they’ve received from past employees of Amimaru. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-08-29/translation-typesetting-company-amimaru-issues-statement-regarding-low-pay-rates/.163440 As stated in the article all freelancers were expected to do 50-300 pages for $1 per page, equaling $284.75 a month!! And then not even be able to claim their credit! It’s slave labor is what this is, when a more normal wage is roughly $5 a page minimum, according to some professional letterers. The editor goes on to say in their forum thread about this article, that no one she talked to earned more than this. Not a single one. If someone didn’t believe it before, I don’t know how they can ignore it now. These practices are appalling and have no place in what should be an industry full of dreams and hope. This is how we get manga with uncleaned SFX and poor translations. In addition to this update, it seems many of you may be getting these advertisements from MangaPlanet/Futekiya in your inbox. I’m not sure that this is a good time to advertise for more subscriptions when everyone now knows you sell your manga off the backs of hard workers. What makes this even more scary, I’ve heard this from people that haven’t even made an account at their site are getting these emails! Just from where they used their site’s contact feature. If you receive this email, don’t go to their website. At the bottom of the page, click unsubscribe so they don’t have your information anymore. We can’t trust them to source good labor, so we can’t trust them with our info. Please, if you haven’t already, make a twitter and share ANN’s tweet and let these corporations know what’s up. Feel free to reblog fellow groups.
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BREAKING NEWS
Anime News Network has just released a report with confirmation from previous employees of Amimaru that they were paid $1 per page to typeset manga.
Link to article: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-08-29/translation-typesetting-company-amimaru-issues-statement-regarding-low-pay-rates/.163440
This is just the beginning people. Share this everywhere and tweet Amimaru and Futekiya as well as Renta, Kodansha, and Coolmic about how we all feel about this mistreatment of workers.
Here are their Twitter handles: https://twitter.com/AmimaruManga https://twitter.com/KodanshaUSA https://twitter.com/futekiya https://twitter.com/MangaPlanet https://twitter.com/Coolmic https://twitter.com/RentaMangaStore https://twitter.com/Renta_Yaoi
Also retweet this article from Anime News Network and spread the word that you support fair wages!
Tweet from ANN: https://twitter.com/Anime/status/1299772567356690433
#nomoreslavemanga
Tag them and tell them you won't stand for this and won't support them with your money until they address this issue!
This can just be the beginning, but we all need to work together to make a change. I know we can, so please reblog! I'm proud of all of you who have stood up for what's right! <3
i'm so dissapointed with futekiya, been promoting them on twitter since they made the 1 month free subscr. But now everytime i tweet asking clarification on the issue they suddenly dont reply at all. canceled my subscription to them & informed my mutuals as well. They better get this shit sorted out :/ & tqsm for bringing this issue out,we all wouldve not known anything if it werent for u guys. I guess the only current legal way to buy softcopies of manga is through sublime yeah?
I’m really glad to hear people are talking about this now, and I’m super proud of you and our other followers who are taking action against injustice <3 I felt this needed to be said after outrage in the professional letterer/translator community, and thankfully I don’t have a lot to lose by speaking up like they do, so I thought it good to get the ball rolling.It’s terribly sad to hear, though, I agree. In fact that free month had me worried for numerous reasons, as well. I mean how much of a loss is that for a company? Huge on the surface, but you know I’m sure there’s plenty of reasons as to why it was a strategic business move instead! And these statements are nothing but false placitudes meant to appease people and pass the buck.
Remember it’s not just Futekiya that uses Amimaru!
It’s Renta, Coolmic, and the huge Kodansha Comics, all of which do more then BL. And I can’t stress how important it is to take this movement to Twitter in full force. Tumblr is relatively contained, but with enough exposure, a wildfire could break out and that’s what we need to light a fire under these companies! So make sure to share there especially! You can refer to my other posts for the twitter handles of all these companies. And hey, maybe let some news outlets know too like AnimeNewsNetwork or Kotaku? As for purchasing soft copies, Sublime https://www.sublimemanga.com/ is a decent choice, and they have some good exclusives.
There’s also companies like: MangaCat: https://mangacat.io/ Small and newer company, but who care about their freelancers and authors. They’re also transparent about how they operate and I hope to see their selection and quality expand dramatically in the future. Manga.club: https://www.manga.club/ I’ve never purchased from them, nor looked into them, so I can’t speak to their quality or practices, but it’s an option with limited titles that you can mostly buy other places, too. I’d be wary, though. Fakku https://www.fakku.net/books Uh, well this is a mostly R18 site, but they do have a couple of titles from their BL label called KUMA (both digital and physical releases) and will be having more in the future. There will also be R18 BL doujins by doujin publisher Irodori Comics’ new Irodori Sakura label in just a couple of days as well! Amazon Yes, there’s a market for BL/yaoi on their kindle market, but you can usually buy them elsewhere as well and support a company that doesn’t treat workers horribly, though they’ll be one of the few places to get YenPress’ titles now that it’s in the BL game, so I guess this counts. June Manga https://junemanga.com/ I only put this here to illustrate another company with it’s own set of scandalous issues, even though they have their own exclusives I believe (I don’t buy from them nor do I like the titles they pick up mostly), but uh, here I guess?But yeah, not a lot of good options to choose from sadly for soft copy, but I wanted to be fair and list multiple sources so we as fans can choose the best fit for us. I tend to opt for hard copies myself in most instances (unless purchasing JP versions), and that’s another set of publishers, like Sublime and their parent company ViZ, June Manga’s parent company Digital Manga Publishing, Seven Seas Entertainment, Tokyopop, One Peace Books, etc.
Official Responses
Amimaru and Futekiya have issued official statements on the news spreading on social media about letterer and translator wages and poor contracting conditions. Here are a few links to them: Futekiya’s response from their parent companay Fantasista Inc: https://fantasista-net.jp/AboutAmimaru20200828.pdf Amimaru’s response: https://amimaru.com/en/news/regarding-comments/ Futekiya’s twitter post: https://twitter.com/futekiya/status/1299234568881541122?s=19
So, to sum it up, they’re not going to tell consumers more information and they’re not going to look into anything, but they hope you keep giving them your money. These kinds of responses are meant to pacify and stop people from inquiring further. There’s no discussion of valuing letterers/translators from either of them, no plan of action for how they’re going to verify working conditions (both wage and fair contract terms) and what they’d do to correct them if they’re found to be lacking, and (in Futekiya’s case), passed the buck. As consumers, we have a sort of good faith agreement with companies that they're treating people right (mostly not the case, but it's there), ethical businesses have a job to do in checking these concerns out and correcting problems and letting the consumers know something is being done. I don’t know about you, but I’m not giving my business to a company that wouldn’t do this. Please share your thoughts about their statement with them and share them wherever they can be seen if you feel the same way. Maybe they’ll eventually listen.
On Twitter, maybe use #nomoreslavemanga
Oh, and don’t forget! Renta, Coolmic and Kodansha Comics all use Amimaru for their translation services. Let them know you’re not okay with their translation company’s practices, and that this systemic disease needs to be stopped, as well.
https://twitter.com/KodanshaUSA https://twitter.com/Renta_Yaoi https://twitter.com/Coolmic It warms my heart to see people standing up for workers in the industry, and I can’t tell you all how proud I am of you! Please feel free to reblog here and other places.
Clarification.
Some people have come to me thinking I have something out against Futekiya or Renta or legal manga in general, and want to bring them down. This is the last thing I want to happen. I love BL and the fact it’s getting released in English is amazing. But people deserve to know how rotten the manga industry as a whole is and be able to choose where to spend their hard-earned money. This isn’t just a BL problem, this is a manga problem, in and out of Japan. Unfortunately, companies only listen if you withhold your dollar. Contact them and tell them what they’re doing is wrong, how they can rectify it, and that you hope they do this so you can support them without the guilt of knowing your patronage is taking advantage of workers. Things like: -Vet their translation companies thoroughly to ensure their workers are treated fairly contract-wise or translate in-house and pay your workers a good wage -Be transparent about where a subscriber’s money is going and how it’s being used (i.e. how much of that subscription is getting to authors and used to pay workers) -Credit all translators/cleaners/letterers at the end of each chapter so they can develop a portfolio -Re-evaluate price and payment models to accommodate these changes. (Most BL and manga fans in general would pay the extra to know people are making a good wage!)
The issue about Amimaru is that not only do they pay their workers an incredibly low wage per page for the amount of work done, they also pigeonhole them into incredibly strict contracts and NDA’s to make sure these facts don’t get out and they can’t negotiate pay or work somewhere else. There’s even other appalling conditions I’ve heard about from people who’ve worked for them! Companies that use Amimaru need to know that these are not normal employment conditions so they can change what translation company they use or translate in-house instead. So please, use any info I’ve provided you with to make an informed decision on how you want to support the manga industry and I’m always happy to provide suggestions on how to do this, or alternatives to help support authors if possible.
A little more Amimaru info for y’all
Here’s a copy of a recent (2019) NDA used by Amimaru for freelancers.
https://www.scribd.com/document/441477819/01-Amimaru-NDA-FreelancerEN24042019 Found online by a concerned party. Please peruse at your leisure and note that it forbids those contracted with them of discussing their current wage, and parts of the NDA remain in effect for 5 years after termination, a termination that requires one month's notice, during which time you can't take up another letterer job if you've signed a non-compete clause as well!!!
Remember, go check out my other posts and share this anywhere you can, let people know the practices the companies they buy from use!
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More alarming info about Amimaru.
Here’s a cap sent to me by someone who works in the industry
They leaked all their info to other employees, and didn’t care one single bit. And remember, these people can’t claim credit OR work for another company to supplement this income!
All their private info, just out there, and then asking them to clean up their mess. And this didn’t just happen to one person, we’re talking multiple.
Please share these posts with any other interested groups or parties. We need to let them know we won’t stand for this anymore. Both how they treat their workers and their contracts, and what they’re being paid.
Please feel free to share on any social media.
And for those wondering, I’m piling all this info of my own accord, do not presume that anyone whose social media I’ve posted or tagged have instigated this or are any part of this information gathering, here or other social media. This is all my doing and I have a platform to speak, so speak I shall.
If you have info you’d like posted about Amimaru, please send it to me anonymously in an ask, or on Discord.
Link to previous post with proof of Amimaru’s wages:: : https://galaxydoesbl.tumblr.com/post/627445186525609984/notice-proof-and-what-you-can-do Link to my original post and how to contact Amimaru and Futekiya: https://galaxydoesbl.tumblr.com/post/627371964088156160/notice
Fyi check out Amimaru on Anime News Network for the Kodansha stuff that they worked on including like the digital-only BL
Haha, I was just getting to sharing more info with people! Amimaru works on tons more that just BL, take a look here:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=12689 Tons of works you love have been done by the, including Black Jack, Cells at Work, etc. The list is exhausting
And also check out this twitter thread where someone extrapolates on how low the pay is at Amimaru based on their 700-900 yen per page rate: https://twitter.com/know_market/status/1280837441285271554 Say they pay someone .85 for a 700 yen page, that’s barely 1/10th! Stand together everyone! Share this everywhere, with BL figures, non-BL figures and sites, encourage other scan groups to share too! United we stand as fans!