The reaction of Sankaku Complex users to the scathing comments of 2ch on the recent closure of One Manga has found its way back to 2ch and incited an even more biting response.
Their response to the closure of One Manga and the impudent reaction of Sankaku Complex users angry at having to use more inconvenient sources of pirated manga filled scores of threads across 2ch, and was soon picked up by any number of 2ch-centric sites.
A representative selection of their comments is translated below:
“You lot are always begging ‘give us the zip! give us the zip!’ – why is it now you suddenly start acting like you’re normal?”
“Oh come on, this is a fantastic business chance for publishers. If they don’t go for commercial digital distribution now they really are finished.”
“In America the censorship regime makes them change cigarettes into candy! How many mangaka and publishers are there interested in making that level of change!?”
“I was reading the latest Naruto in the convenience store – are the foreigners jealous of me? Forgive me, Sasuke…”
“‘We want to buy but we can’t! We’re making manga popular the world over!’ Die.”
“Just buy it and read you dirty misers!”
“Do these people feel any sense of guilt over what they’re doing to creators?”
“Serves you right, foreigners! It makes no sense at all for these manga to be available on the net in English first. Stop enjoying them before us Japanese even get them!”
“You guys sound pretty intellectual translated into English, don’t you now?”
“‘Ha Ha Ha – Serves you right!’ – someone translate this and tell it to them.”
“Pirates really do think the same the world over.”
“Impudent thieves.”
“‘Foreigner 1: Do all Japanese hate foreigners? Or is it just a minority? Or just 2ch?
Foreigner 2: Japs hate us all. Even the babies!
Foreigner 3: 2ch is how the majority of Japs think. They are polite in front of others, but behind your back they are secretly insulting you. Japs are xenophobes!’Pretty amazing that they go this far to dress themselves up as victims.”
“It seems people on the Internet always develop these persecution complexes – whatever the country.”
“‘Foreigner 4: 2ch is not representative of all Japanese! I like Japan.
Foreigner 5: Sorry. I like Japan too. The Japanese are just angry that we’re ripping them off.
Foreigner 6: 2ch is the scum of Japan.’The guys who understand really do understand!”
“Foreigner 6 – you are a genius.”
“‘Those Jump buyers are complete tools for waiting – hurry up and give us the zip!’
‘I don’t want to buy Jump just for One Piece. I’m glad they get uploaded at the same time as its release. I can keep up with what’s happening in this thread too.’
‘In this damn heat I don’t want to go out and read Jump – hurry up with the zip!’
‘It may only be $2 but it’s a nuisance once you’ve read it. Why won’t they just sell us One Piece without the rest?’
This is from 2ch’s Shonen Jump board.”
“Maybe this thread will be translated and become an article over there? Are you reading foreigners? If you want to read manga, be sure to learn Japanese!”
“With the market for digital manga coming up, these illegal sites are no good any more. Rawpara made $30,000, how much were those guys making…”
“Read your own country’s comics, bastards.”
“It’s a real mystery to me why these damn foreigners can’t get over the fact that you can’t just be reading all this stuff for free on a website.”
“Manga overseas costs $10 a volume though – way too much.”
“But American comics cost a fortune in Japan too…”
“It really is expensive over there. In spite of the fact the paper is shoddy rubbish…”
“Even the guys reading manga are always going on about JAP this and JAP that. Just liking manga doesn’t mean you like Japanese, I see. Japanese are really despised aren’t they?”
“Foreigners are just greedy swine by nature – that’s why they think manga is free.”
“I looked at the responses of the Sankaku inhabitants (not that I’m lumping them together with all foreigners) – pretty amazing.
It’s expensive, 99% of manga is crap, it’s translated because Japanese are uploading it, because they ripped off western culture – their excuses were all on that level. The worst ones are the ones going on about racism or xenophobia though.”
“You hairy foreigners should shut up and wait for your own great mangaka.”
“Compared to Japan and its complete absence of a digital publication market, isn’t consciousness about this much higher over there? Amazon have Kindle and stuff…”
“There are already all kinds of pirated manga on the American Kindle. They’re a real pack of thieves.”
“If all manga fans the world over start thinking manga=free, the manga industry is finished.”
“Even in Japan a lot of young people think that, about games and music too. I hope they really crack down on these sites.”
“Why do these foreigners act so high and mighty when they are reading for free?”
“This reminds me of that damn Rapelay fiasco.”
“Thanks to that we got worked over. Seriously, die you filthy foreign scum.”
“1. Foreigners pirate our manga and develop a taste for it.
2. Foreign big-wigs say ‘This content is violent! Ban it, Japan!’
This is a real problem. If publishers adapt their publications to foreign markets then OK, but just translating the original and spreading it amongst foreigners is a problem!
Do you understand this you dirty foreign scum?”
“Don’t those white pigs comprehend the concept of a thief being ashamed of being caught?”
“Blaming the victims of your own crimes, shifting responsibility to anyone else but you, justifying your own criminality. Total scum, every last one of them.”
The Japanese themselves also pirate the same manga, so I don’t see why they’re so upset about Americans doing it, too.
If you want to say piracy is wrong, then fine, go ahead. But there’s no reason to start being racist against all Americans for doing the same thing that Japanese people also do themselves. That’s just hypocritical.
I don’t really understand what they’re bitching about anyway. If they sell it for $2 over there, and an American company like Yen Press gets the right to translate and distribute it here for $10, the mangaka don’t even receive as much as they get per volume in their home town!
Since that’s the case, why don’t they just find all the JAP to ENG translators and put them on their payroll? So that if someone wants something translated they’ll have to pay the $1.70 PER PAGE we’re paying to get ero-manga translated by SaHa? They could then sell pre-translated material to foreign companies for the equivalent of $5 per page, and it’d be nearly impossible to get online because publishers would take even it a serious theft.
Who the hell cares man? Y’all 2ch’ers can bitch all ya want… to us or let’s say to most of us…. Manga & Amine is like crack… Its addictive…. You trying to ban manga online for free is as effective as Mexico trying to get rid of all its organized crime drug cartels…. it doesn’t fucking matter as long as we want it.. we will fucking get it so shut the f♥♥k up! SO what? u took down Onemanga? who the hell cares we have plenty of other sources of where we can get our sht. pirating happens all over the fucking world… SO what if it happens to you guys? It’s nothing new… What the f♥♥k are u gonna do about it huh bitch? U troll all this Bullshit but really if u were us you’d know how we feel. the main points here are
1. Pirating will never stop!
2. WE don’t hate you guys, and im sure u don’t either… You’re jst pissed were taking all ur sht for free and if the roles were reversed we’d be pissed too but oh well. Deal with it
3.Bitching about it will not make it stop! do something about it! Oh WAIT! YOU CAN’T HA HA!
4.There are pirates everywhere you can get rid of us!
5. As long as there’s a demand it will never STOPPU! It’s like the war on drugs… It’ll never end cuz people wanna get high…As long as theres a way WE WILL FIND IT! Simple as that.
I read manga online, and I download American comics, why pay for it if I can get it for free?
“greedy swine”
“Total scum, every last one of them”
“dirty foreign scum”
“die you filthy foreign scum”
“white pigs”
“these foreigners act so high and mighty”
“these damn foreigners”
“bastards”
“you dirty misers”
“If you want to read manga, be sure to learn Japanese!”
lol all that and they have the nerve to say their not Xenophobes? Sounds to me more like their up on their high horses and are in need of being knocked down a peg… that’s ok We wouldn’t mind stepping up to the plate…AGAIN
As it is their damn lucky we LET them keep their damn country at all!
Anon, YOU didn’t let them keep their country, those old dudes did. Not you.
I guess we can add racist to the mix. I mean, not every one here on SanCom is white, just like me. I’d like to see them stay this cocky if Kim Jong-(be)Il decides to bitc#slap them around a little.
“Total scum, every last one of them”
“dirty foreign scum”
“die you filthy foreign scum”
How cute, the otaku virginｓ speak. Maybe once they leave their mum’s basement and stop reading manga they might be able to get laid. Well, probably not, but I won’t tell them to go die, knowing Japan’s suicide rates, they probably would. Good luck on getting laid.
がんばれ！
They should work on their own problems before complaining about foreign scum. Maybe focusing on the Japanese people uploading RAW manga and anime would be a start.
Well, 99% of Americans dislike manga, anime, and Japanese stuff in general. So assuming we all pirate manga is a little.. arrogant. If sales aren’t good, mangaka really have themselves to blame for distributing such boring, generic material. Maybe the kawaii factor is finally beginning to kill anime/manga, along with Japan. But really, blaming foreign sales on everything is ridiculous. It’s probably domestic sales, and the fact that Japan’s youth is disappearing. Manga sales are dependent on kids.. There aren’t enough kids because of all the ugly virgins in their mum’s basements posting on 2ch…
Rather fun, considering everyone is a foreigner of somewhere. Say there’s around 200 countries, and everyone has a citizenship to just one. 1/200 citizenship versus 199/noncitizenship/foreign? Yeeeeah, those odds aren’t good.
Shame that Japan has to be represented by its trolls. Ah well, let the trolls clash and make virals out of the remains. What else can you do?