Bad news

It saddens me to say that for once we are bringing you a post on an unfortunate note. The next post I made was supposed to bring a light hearted situation in the form of more terrible fan-art, but that will have to wait until Jackie and I cheer up a bit from this misfortune. 

Some of you may have noticed we had a really rude comment posted recently, and if you didn’t see, you may be the lucky one. Jackie and I remained unphased by this insulting an accusing flame, but, as I had dreaded, and had an inkling that this would happen. (Since there is no proof to link the flaming person to what happened I can not say for certain it was them, by the coincidence makes it highly likely)

Now for what actually happened- You all, loyal, and friendly readers, come to our blog to read chapters early and leave encouraging comments and make us happy, however someone disrespected this, and downloaded all of the chapters we have not posted on the manga readers such as mangafox yet, and uploaded those chapters themselves. This person was not affiliated with us, and I found it very insulting and disrespectful in how we clearly have a policy of releasing chapters on our website here in advance, to you honest people.

This upset both of us, and it makes me wary of trust. I do not want to deprive you guys, who have been so kind to us, because of this one person, but now that this person has made themselves apparent, I am not sure how to stop them from uploading our chapters in the future. I’ve seen scanlator websites have passwords for chapter releases, but I don’t want this to be the case, as it is unfair on the rest of you. If you have any suggestions we welcome them. Hopefully Jackie and I will be able to think about what we will do about it before our next post.

If that person is reading this, what I have to say to you is that you should be ashamed of your disrespect, especially as we disagree with your opinions on this matter and it does not give you a right to do this. But at least you credited us… I suppose. (Jackie also has something to say to you in her half, which I suggest you read since she is much nicer than I am)

I hope I can give you a post continuing with the silly fan art later on, but until then we want to reflect on this. Thank you everyone for your time, and please read Jackie’s section.

-C

Jackie

Jackie: Hi all. It’s been a long time since I’ve written a post. I wasn’t meaning to make my first appearance so depressing, but… sorry. I don’t think I can do funny and happy at the moment.

There are lots of occasions where you realize only after it happens to you, that – while you could understand on a mental and logical level – you could never truly understand the hurt, or joy of something until it happens to you.

Unfortunately, this one’s the former. It’s funny because while it is not our work, it IS our work. So something that is both not ours, and ours was taken without permission and it’s an odd kind of feeling.

When something you’ve worked on for hours and hours is taken from you without your permission, it’s just this messy ball of frustration, anger, and hurt that wells up in your chest and lodges itself there. I didn’t understand why scanlation groups would threaten to end a project if people continued to upload their work to aggregate sites without permission. Now I do.

It’s so tempting to try and punish the one person who hurt you by taking it out on everyone, banning everyone as if to say to the one person “see what you’ve done. You’re the one who’s taken this from them”. But I then I remember all your kind comments and your jokes and support and cheerfulness. And that thought dies.

It’s disheartening though. So this is a shameless plea for some comfort and cookies I guess.

Two more comments before I finish my budging in on Cae’s post.

1. We received a strongly worded concern a day ago that our ending credit page that we uploaded to the aggregate sites (like Mangafox) was very offensive. It was not meant to be. It was meant to be in humor, but I wanted to check. Those of you who read it, were you offended? If you were, I’m very sorry. I promise it was just meant as humor and was not intended to offend.

2. The person who uploaded our latest chapters onto the aggregate sites without seeking our permission first, did credit us when they uploaded. So if you are reading this, thank you for that. But please, please talk to us before you upload our chapters.

-Jackie

 

Also, after all this sombre stuff, is some good news in that we have started chapter 16, an official post should be coming later as well