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So I live in Japan now, and I went into a convenience store to take a look at last week's Jump, and the printing quality is absolutely horrible--no wonder it's only 250 yen. The blacks are grey, and aren't solids at all, the printing paper are hideous shades of tinted colour. But I take a look at MangaStream and Casanova's releases, and the art is flawless, and the screentones are consistent and gorgeous. And they manage to do that within hours. How is that even possible?? Is there some higher-quality version of SJ that's available for more money? @ _@
And the tankoubon for SJ are much smaller than they are in N. America for SJ manga. It's so small! Too small! Are bigger versions available at all?
Do they have to redraw the entire page? Where do they get the screentone patterns--does each group make their own screentones...? But are the screentones even accurate...? MangaStream releases are extremely high quality, but I'm thinking that maybe they change a lot of the original. Gah, sorry, too many questions.
I'm providing scans for a doujinshi group right now, and my friend gave me a sample of the redrawing work, and it was inaccurate and terrible. They took way too many liberties with the art, and made the lines thicker and uglier in the redrawing process. They claimed to want to 'preserve as much of the original as possible', and make the screentones into gradients to make them 'nice and shiny' and 'Pixiv-quality', but the reality is that the page was shit. MangaStream is much higher quality, but I'm afraid that they also sacrificed accuracy with their consistent screentones.
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And the tankoubon for SJ are much smaller than they are in N. America for SJ manga. It's so small! Too small! Are bigger versions available at all?
Do they have to redraw the entire page? Where do they get the screentone patterns--does each group make their own screentones...? But are the screentones even accurate...? MangaStream releases are extremely high quality, but I'm thinking that maybe they change a lot of the original. Gah, sorry, too many questions.
I'm providing scans for a doujinshi group right now, and my friend gave me a sample of the redrawing work, and it was inaccurate and terrible. They took way too many liberties with the art, and made the lines thicker and uglier in the redrawing process. They claimed to want to 'preserve as much of the original as possible', and make the screentones into gradients to make them 'nice and shiny' and 'Pixiv-quality', but the reality is that the page was shit. MangaStream is much higher quality, but I'm afraid that they also sacrificed accuracy with their consistent screentones.
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A New Blog Post Posted Nov 1st, 2017 by Jinn. Wow, I can't believe it's been almost a year since the last blog post. Sorry about that folks. We still love ya all. The last year's just been pretty rough, schedule changes and personal matters have had their toll on us and the amount of energy and time we had left over for scanlators-to-fans communication was subsequently pretty limited. May 09, 2012 This is my tutorial on how to redraw, keep in mind, this would take a lot longer, but i did time lapse it a lot. If you have any questions, please ask, i will be more than happy to help anyone.