#scanalations

1) Now the most easiest one is to create an account preferably on mangadex or bato.to because that’s where scanalation groups most often go to, to upload their chapters. The website will give you notifications on mangas that you subscribed or added to your list once you’re on the website. 

2) If you’re looking for more chapters, I recommend going directly to the scanalation group’s website which mangadex and bato.to tells you. Or if you look at the first page or last page of the chapter, the group’s info is usually there. 

In whatever format they use, you’re going to follow them in some way. (ex. Tumblr, follow, allow notifications). 

The advantage of following them directly is that some groups have a policy of uploading onto their website first for whatever amount of hours, days, or weeks before uploading it to the manga sites. If you can’t wait, then this is the way to go. 

Heck, some only upload only onto their website due to the series already being licensed or some other legal issue.

Plus, you support the group because the ads run there will help with their website costs. 

3) My favorite one is following their discords. These have become massively popular with the scanalation groups as they are an easy way to communicate. The best feature is that their discords give you notifications whenever they upload a chapter. 

Even more, some chapters may be very restrictive that you can only access with a direct link or need a password that their discord will give you.  Oh yea don’t even think of joining to to rip off from them to upload on manga websites because the mangago admin tried to infiltrate in one server  and he got kick out so fast. Like nuh uh

Also, some fans like me are dying so much to get a chapter that some groups  use MTL (machine translation) to get reasonably accurate translations so they can release chapters even faster 

How is this better? Instead of going through the hassle of individually following their websites, you can put all of it into one platform: Discord. 

Another feature that I love about it is that you can choose on what specific manga you want to follow so that you’re not notified whenever a group releases any chapter. Some groups have a lot of projects with a lot of variety. 

Lastly, you get to communicate with the group. For many years there’s been a disconnect between the readers and the group because there was no real way to communicate. With discord, it has made it easier for people who been reading manga for a long, long time and actually want to help out with the group. Whether that be applying for a position within the group, coordinating volunteers with projects, or even simply suggesting manga for them to pick up. 

Also, you find a space for people who are reading the same manga so you guys can all discuss on it all together cuz we all have that one manga we just love to death but no one knows about. Or worse, no one around you reads manga or thinks it’s weird. 

I created a discord account only to stay updated with my manga but I’ve been having fun with people who have the same interests as me. I hope you will too.

Update: I became part of a scanlation group through discord. I finally got to put my weeb passion into good use 

As of writing this I do not have any experience working with a scan group or with a translator. I mostly clean Nekojiru panels for fun in my free time. (raws found here https://read-nekojiru.neocities.org/works)

I DO NOT PROVIDE RAWS. Please come to me with your own raws!!

Examples of my cleaning work: Before > After

Simple style

Title: Nekojiru Manju by Nekojiru / Chiyomi Hashiguchi

More complex style

Title: 36.8 ℃ no kyoukai by Achikochi Owari / Fukutsuu