Evil Genius

True that, but apparently that wasn't their reason, the owner of the forum/site and scanlator told me he was not interested as where the story was going. Its a shame though, they would come out with great high quality scans because it was taken from the best source possible, the actual manga books. Oh well Evil_Genius have great quality as well, maybe not up to par with the image quality of the Hawks but thats only normal considering they take it from the magazine and Hawks took it from the actual book. Anyways, I'm glad another group exists to scanlate this and with as much quality as you guys have hopefully what happened to the Hawks won't ever happen here.

v.33 ch.298??? Is it ever coming ?

kalifani6 wrote:v.33 ch.298??? Is it ever coming ?

don't jinx it

kalifani6 wrote:v.33 ch.298??? Is it ever coming ?

This tends to fall under the heading of questions you're not supposed to ask, especially on a first post. It says so in this very thread. When anyone knows anything about the new chapter, it'll be announced. Until then, wait patiently like the rest of us.

kalifani6 wrote:v.33 ch.298??? Is it ever coming ?

Oh, it's already out. I've got it right here. Jump for it, noob! Jump!

hbi2k wrote:

kalifani6 wrote:v.33 ch.298??? Is it ever coming ?

Oh, it's already out. I've got it right here. Jump for it, noob! Jump!

a response for you from another forum a few weeks ago:

berserk0015 wrote:

Saiyoid4 wrote:it came out 2 weeks ago! i can't believe u haven't read it yet it's fuckin awesome

It's a stupid lie. Ban the mother fucker!!. Even if it was supposed to be sarcasm it's still stupid. Ban the mother fucker!!.

Yeah, you're right, that was mean, wasn't it? But seriously, dude, if any of us had any idea when the next chapter was coming out, it would be front-page news. You don't have to ask about it, and doing so will only annoy people.

Right, it's not as if we all know when the next chapter will come out and are just keeping it secret or something. Sheesh.

Right. Of course. No reason to hide it. At all. Nope.

Hi! My post is concerning raw scans of Berserk: I'd really like them! I was wondering if there's any way someone can upload (ideally) the beginning of the series in the original language. I want to restart reading the series in Japanese, and if someday eventually everything that's been released in Japan is uploaded here, I'd be ecstatic. If I could even be linked to another website that has the series in Japanese, I'd still be extremely grateful. I've scoured the internet to no avail. I know at least a few other people would really like the raw scans as well. Thanks in advance.

volume 1-23 are there.
http://mangahelpers.com/m/berserk/raws/

But you could always buy it. amazon.jp or yesasia.com have it.

Nice! Thanks a lot! I might actually be able to find Berserk in Japanese at some book stores nearby, but I can't really justify spending money on comic books at the moment. :/ Someday, though....

Thanks again!

you cant justify spending money on something someone worked their ass off to produce? fail

The Herald wrote:you cant justify spending money on something someone worked their ass off to produce? fail

Please, don't be such a retard. He says he cant afford it right now, not that he doesn't want to help Miura reap the benefits of his hard work.

i'm not being a retard, just an ass for calling him out on the wording he used. i just hate how, especially here in my university, people pirate entertainment off the internet and the wonder why shows get canceled and new movies lose funding and whatnot. the internet is a good information sharer, don't get me wrong, and sites like EG do a good service by providing updated translations and whatnot, but a line must be drawn somewhere before copyright law is infringed upon. and this is all i'm saying about this subject before i get into a long winded argument that ends up in the interstice.

The Herald wrote:i'm not being a retard, just an ass for calling him out on the wording he used. i just hate how, especially here in my university, people pirate entertainment off the internet and the wonder why shows get canceled and new movies lose funding and whatnot. the internet is a good information sharer, don't get me wrong, and sites like EG do a good service by providing updated translations and whatnot, but a line must be drawn somewhere before copyright law is infringed upon. and this is all i'm saying about this subject before i get into a long winded argument that ends up in the interstice.

But on the other hand if I don't have the money to spare to purchase the product in the first place, than the author/producer looses nothing by my downloading it. And since I then know of the product's awesomeness, later (when I have more money) I can buy it to support the author. So in that way the internet acts as free publicity. Personally, I hate it when people complain about the money "lost" to free downloads, without looking at the other side. After all, libraries also let people view books for free, but nobody claims that libraries cost authors money. It's the same idea: if the product is worthwhile, free publicity is almost always a good thing for sales in the long run.

The Herald wrote:you cant justify spending money on something someone worked their ass off to produce? fail

We don't all live with our mother. Some of us have "bills" to pay, meaning we can't afford to piss off our savings on a whim for Berserk. Someday, when you grow up to be a big boy, you'll really understand what "working your ass off" and "spending money" means.

Istvan wrote:But on the other hand if I don't have the money to spare to purchase the product in the first place, than the author/producer looses nothing by my downloading it. And since I then know of the product's awesomeness, later (when I have more money) I can buy it to support the author. So in that way the internet acts as free publicity. Personally, I hate it when people complain about the money "lost" to free downloads, without looking at the other side. After all, libraries also let people view books for free, but nobody claims that libraries cost authors money. It's the same idea: if the product is worthwhile, free publicity is almost always a good thing for sales in the long run.

Agree with this totally, if it wasn't for the internet, I wouldn't have known of Berserk. If I hadn't of been able to read the Manga, I'd probably never have imported the game from moonspeak land.

I think you picked the wrong shop for anti-piracy Herald, I'ver personally saved thousands upon thousands in illegal downloading. Berserk is no different. How you spend your money is your business.

FightClub wrote:We don't all live with our mother. Some of us have "bills" to pay, meaning we can't afford to piss off our savings on a whim for Berserk. Someday, when you grow up to be a big boy, you'll really understand what "working your ass off" and "spending money" means.

I work my ass off at two jobs to make ends meet. You know what I do when I still can't afford to buy a luxury item like manga? I wait until I CAN, and THEN I buy it, because THAT'S what responsible adults do. I don't use my own financial circumstances to justify screwing somebody ELSE out of money. We're not talking about a necessity like food or clothing. Entertainment is not a right.

Look, obviously I wouldn't be here posting at the EG forums if I felt that ANY breach of copyright was an unforgivable sin. But I only download what's not legally available to buy where I live, and if/when a legit version comes out legally, I buy it. I keep up-to-date on the legit English release of Berserk and every other manga I read through scanlations, and I would hope that everyone else here does the same (unless they live somewhere that it's not licensed and thus can't, of course).

Real fans support what they love. Douchebags leech. Simple as that.

Even as recently as five or ten years ago I might've been more sympathetic to that point of view, Starnum, but the days of paying $5 an episode for anime are over. Single disc releases are on their way out and multi-disc box sets with per-episode pricing comparable to American television shows on DVD are in.

Of course, regardless of the price, you definitely shouldn't be forced to buy anime sight-unseen on the off chance you MIGHT like it just because it doesn't happen to be shown on television in your home country. But there are all kinds of ways to try out anime for free or very VERY cheap without resorting to piracy these days. For a $9 a month Netflix subscription (SUBSTANTIALLY cheaper than cable, which is a total ripoff compared to any number of legal alternatives) you can get all the anime you'd ever want. Watch what looks interesting, buy what you really like if you want to have a permanent copy of it for your collection, forget the rest. Between that and streaming sites like Crunchyroll, Hulu, the official Funimation site, etc., there's really no excuse to download torrents except in a VERY narrow set of circumstances.

The fact that you pay too much for cable doesn't give you any rights to shows that don't receive any kind of kickback from your overpriced monthly cable bill. That doesn't make your piracy any more justified, it just, forgive me for being blunt, makes you a foolish consumer. If you're not getting your money's worth out of your cable bill, cancel it and put that money toward another entertainment service that IS worth it.

More than any other time in recent history, the Internet has given us the power to decide what sort of entertainment we're willing to pay to support. On the whole I don't think that's a bad thing, but it DOES mean that the responsibility is shifted to us to support the things we love. It shouldn't take an industry-wide crisis for anime and manga fans to realize that their actions have consequences.

(Once again, I'm speaking only of the situation common to those who live in the U.S. Everyone's situation is different and there are a lot of places in the world where there aren't nearly as many reasonable, legal options for anime fans, so I'd never presume to speak for everyone.)

A couple of common misconceptions that the RIAA and MPAA have been pushing for years which simply aren't true:

- A song or movie downloaded illegally from the internet does not equal a sale lost.
- A legal purchase of a song or movie does not directly benefit the artists nor does it mean it'll ensure further production from the same artist.

I love this quote from a study called The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis, published in the Journal of Political Economy in 2007:

"Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero. Our estimates are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the primary reason for the decline in music sales during our study period."

I'd extrapolate from this that it's the same situation for the movie and anime industry. Here's the full study if you wanna read it:

http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/JPE%20 ... -12-12.pdf

Yup, the ones that take the hit are the middlemen.


As for me, I wont even pretend to be bothered by the moral implications of downloading stuff freely form the Internet.
I download something, I watch/read it, and, if its worth it, I buy the damn thing. That's it.

PS: Why cant everyone do like the creators of South Park? I don't know the details, but their sales system seems to work.