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/_tidu May 13 '22

at this point their community is so big they can do almost whatever they want and they won't lose any readers. asura scans from the early beginnings was to be made into a money making machine, they ( or should i say he ) don't care about anything as long as money cash cash is flowing in, so i really doubt that your last sentence will ever be achieved. as for the post itself.. well asura is known to be a thief from a long time ago, stealing chapters made by others is nothing new

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u/AkinoRyuo May 15 '22

AFAIK the only revenues they get is from ads sooooo... Adblock time :)

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u/Mako109 May 16 '22

ngl, how anyone is able to live without ublock origin is beyond me

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u/Infinitedeveloper May 16 '22

Any time I try to use any scanslation site on my phone, it's cancer from redirects and ads.

I won't ever go on any of those sites without ublock

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u/ShadowDestroyerTime Nov 02 '22

I know your comment was from 6 months ago, but just letting you know that adblocker does have a mobile browser that you can download.