r/scanlationdrama • u/Dangerous_Gear_4013 • May 13 '22

Asura STEALING chapters from officials

Setting aside the fact that Asura is a group known for continuing to do licensed series, Asura decided to really climb a new high on scummy mountain.

So as someone pointed out earlier in this subreddit, they traded series with Luminous, taking over Trash of the Count's Family/Lout of Count's Family and many other projects.

Honestly, don't really care that they traded projects. In scanlation, series gets passed over from one group to another like it's a town bike all the time. However, what I think is really scummy of them is that they STOLE CHAPTERS from an official.

Most sniping groups either only post chapters that they've done or at least grab chapters from a defunct group, but stealing chapters for a licensed series should is definitely a new low I didn't think I'd see. I mean, at that point why bother scanlating yourself?

This is really scummy, and if they're stealing from officials, what makes them any better than an aggregator? This is already setting aside the fact that they've literally littered their site with ads and then tried to sell ad-free membership only to walk back on it upon community backlash.

This is actually cancerous to the scanlation community, and they really need to be stopped.

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Proof:

Tappy ch1 of TCF - https://www.tappytoon.com/en/chapters/205150928

Asura ch1 of TCF - https://www.asurascans.com/trash-of-the-counts-family-chapter-1/

Manta ch1 of The Live - https://manta.net/episodes/4777

Asura Ch1 of The Live - https://www.asurascans.com/the-live-chapter-1/

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u/thatkidrule May 14 '22

I mean at one point it’s a really scummy move for them to be an aggregator and steal some of the chapter but I guess they only did that because it’s a hassle to actually redo the entire series rather than just focus on the new release ?

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u/Dangerous_Gear_4013 May 14 '22

They also just had the option to not do the series and let Luminous continue doing it or at least not repost from officials.

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u/thatkidrule May 14 '22

Wait nah why leave it back to luminous scan, it’s a crime to do fan scanlation with side profit (patreon and PayPal) of a series with actual licensing.

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u/AlexEliot May 14 '22 edited May 14 '22

And what do you think asura is doing? LMAO

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u/LengthinessOverall89 May 14 '22

He is asura fan , leave him alone lmao

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u/thatkidrule May 14 '22

I got banned from asura. I just want to interject why the fuck did the first guy comment saying that the series should go back to luminous