PLEASE It's driving me insane.

[systmh]

Dear Evil Genius,

I love your scanlations and I'm really grateful for the selfless and free service you provide for all of us. I make a policy of running out and buying manga when it is printed onto tree pulp in my country to support the artists, too. But there's just one irksome thing I just have to bring up.



Could you please please please stop doing that? I'm a pretty compulsive reader and my eyes can't help but bounce around between these dramatically redundant descriptions of what is happening in an art splash. It's incredibly hard for me to even see the art at all anymore, my eyes are too wide and busy bouncing around between that URGENT LOOKING CAPSLOCKED TEXT.
If you really need to barge in with your interpretations of what is happening in the first panel of a chapter, could you possibly find it in your heart to put them in a footnote or something? ...Instead of covering up nearly a third of the pretty artwork with them? Please?
Or just do it in lower case even? I implore you.

[spoiler]I made an account to say this.
Maybe I'm just obsessive compulsive.[/spoiler]

Sincerely,
me

Postscript: I'm not asking you to go back and change anything by the way, just rethink doing it in future releases. I hope to not be so arrogant as to demand that you re-release everything. That would be an absurd request that I wouldn't dare make.

[tsubaimomo]

Well, those kinds of sentences are in the Japanese magazine releases, but they are taken out when the volume is published (because people would be reading it all at once and don't need to be refreshed on the story), so it depends on the raw used. The awkward positioning is to try and cover up the area where the Japanese text was, so that as little artwork is covered up as possible.

For the chapters you've shown, the volume scan probably weren't available then, so they used the magazine scans. But yeah, those kinds of things greatly annoy me. Especially in Berserk... plus, the author likely doesn't even write them...

[systmh]

Those were in the Japanese version? Really? ARRGHGHTHBPLTBL that is so evil. And not in a genius sort of way.

[miyagiCE]

Lol. It's a necessary evil. I mean, we're not just gonna redraw the artwork and then leave it like that.

[Eldo]

OK, I'll tell you on behalf of the group, the truth.

We do it to annoy you specifically.

Heh.

[Starnum]

Yeah dude, that stuff is written into the Japanese version, which is usually printed in a magazine, before it goes into volume form. We're not the ones adding that text, we're just translating it. So there's not much we can do about it, aside from leaving it in Japanese, but personally I'd prefer to be able to read it.