How many of you, coming into comics, I was disappointed to find yet another supercool-strafighissima-e-deluxe-reissue-of-most perfect "Dragon Ball" ? (Just as an example). To those of you happen to want to read a manga at all costs that you have heard much good in the reviews, but you do not have the opportunity because they must first be published titles like "Virgin Crisis" or "I love you baby"? Well, it happened to me many times and let him say, is something that in its small way is very frustrating.
frustrating because I am perfectly aware that publishers have to meet the needs dictated by a myriad of factors (including an audience largely composed of bimbiminkia) of which I will not go on, but I also know for a fact that There are a multitude of titles and authors (manga), which, it being the case, I can never understand or appreciate.
Luckily this is where IRC comes into play and, above all, the scanlations.
The last word is a contraction of two English words: scansion (scanning) and translation (translation). This is what makes the number of working groups ( scanlators ) around the world: take comic original license, which is in the Western publishing houses have not bought the rights, scan them, make the translation from Japanese ( but also from the Korean or Chinese) to the language (usually English) and then scans and cleans balloon the texts translated and adapted ( editing). The work of these people is great if you think that derive from all this, economically speaking, absolutely nothing. All of them and all those who support them are tied together by a single interest: the comics and their spread, and last true purpose of the various groups.
Well sure, their action is at the limits of legality and some of them, disseminating comic license, do the actual theft, but groups of serious scanlators not want to substitute in publishing. In each of their site or at the beginning of each chapter scanned There are clear warnings and as big as houses, explaining that the work will be discontinued and withdrawn from the network as soon as they are purchased the rights in the West and that urged readers to buy the comic once in sales, to support the ' author and all the people who worked there.
This, from the fans, it may seem a clever way to do their own comfortable and protected in some way, but on balance it is not. The authors and publishers in particular have got to stamp out this phenomenon at birth, but this did not happen, because thanks to scanlations the world of manga (and similar) is expanded. People have the opportunity to know and love more manga, more fond of characters (who often become real gods) and who derives income from this sector took the opportunity to focus its efforts in that direction. Important, therefore, is to maintain this balance between fans and experts, and are essentially two ways to do this: Do not support groups that disseminate material license and buy the manga that are being made available (so the price of "Beck" I do not squirts from 4.50 € to 6.50 €, say!).
So far we have only been rumors, but where are the scanlations in question?
Obviously the means of communication is the internet groups and refer everyone to your site, blog, livejournal, etc.. However, not all groups allow you to download the manga translated directly from the list of their projects, but prefer to use IRC channels ... and at this point that the pain begin! Few, in fact, to chat about this and even fewer are those who know how to use to exchange files. Surfing the net does not take much effort to find a site entirely devoted to IRC, but often use language very technical and are certainly too large for our purpose.
In this regard, I allowed myself to create a small guide for beginners, which carry the essential steps useful enable mIRC (one of the most popular IRC client) and download files from users who provide them with the hope of making more accessible the wonderful world of scanlations .
Links:
MangaUpdate
Manganews
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