What is wrong with reading manga for free?

[Torche]

Viz is cheap, it's literally the same price as a loaf as bread lol

Maybe Viz isn't in his country. :|

 

[Seventh Sama]

Because piracy hurts manga sales.
anyways just pay for the manga via viz.
You not only get the best translation possible but you also support the industry by paying for it.

 

[P3ĮÑ]

It's not even that expensive, But where I am now, I cannot buy it, rather read it online then going around and frustrate myself to buy it "But...but I wanna support this manga" ohh please, that is none of my concern.

 

[Torche]

Because piracy hurts manga sales.
anyways just pay for the manga via viz.
You not only get the best translation possible but you also support the industry by paying for it.

The best translation would be to learn Japanese and read it yourself. Do you buy Viz doe?

 

[Seventh Sama]

The best translation would be to learn Japanese and read it yourself. Do you buy Viz doe?

Too lazy and isnt it costly for lessons? And yes I do pay for viz.
I only like pirate chapters because they're ahead of the current chapters released by WSJ.

 

[Torche]

Too lazy and isnt it costly for lessons? And yes I do pay for viz.
I only like pirate chapters because they're ahead of the current chapters released by WSJ.

You could teach yourself if you had time. I used to do Japanese at school, I was bad at it. Lol Probably because I didn't pay that much attention. I guess Viz will be earlier than non official chapters, but sites could just upload Viz now, or find Viz translations and change the text. :|

 

[Seventh Sama]

You could teach yourself if you had time. I used to do Japanese at school, I was bad at it. Lol Probably because I didn't pay that much attention. I guess Viz will be earlier than non official chapters, but sites could just upload Viz now, or find Viz translations and change the text. :|

Oh well, Im happy with my viz sub.
U_U

 

[Retro Chaos]

Nothing is wrong with it really, I mean I do both; for the larger series that would cripple me financially such as One Piece and Naruto, I just read for free - their writers and what not already have a lot of money anyway. On the other hand, I tend to buy shorter series since I feel like I can catch up, I can afford it, and I prefer having the physical copy.

 

[Etari]

there is nothing wrong with it

actually the opposite is wrong. anyone who pays to read naruto is a moron

You're the moron here for thinking that. If nobody bought a single copy of Naruto in the first place, you wouldn't be bawling your ass up around here. There isn't anything wrong with it, as long as what you are pirating is something that you already or will physically/digitally own. If you're pirating to say, test out, a program or a game to see if it's worth it, then there isn't anything wrong with that, really. You just really have to support the industry, even from time to time. If you pirate everything, then you're not helping them. Oh, and using the statement, "that company is corrupt, and therefore doesn't need money from me using their product" just doesn't make it a legitimate excuse, but rather an asspull of expired logic.

 

[YowYan]

Mangakas should be happy people read their manga. It should be about the art, not the money.

 

[Listz]

Mangakas should be happy people read their manga. It should be about the art, not the money.

I don't think that's the point here... It's true that most probably all mangaka are whole fully satisfied when there are readers for their series, but the one that want their work to be paid is definitely the staffs, the publishers, the producers, whom done a lot of tasks to get the series to be marketed and swept some sales.

OT: At the very least, whenever you can contribute to the manga in any way by money, please do. If less people buy the manga and decrease the sale, the publisher may drop that manga and this will trouble both mangaka and fans. Perhaps not much a big problem for the Big 3, and other popular series, but the smaller ones are on the verge of falling.