With the last line of my previous post I didn’t really mean to you, but yeah, you know, it pisses off greatly when you translate a manga fast enough and people will tell you that you’re slow when we’re basically releasing at the same pace for over a year now.

In other words, I was raging in general, not over your words. “Go check someone else’s stats” to me meant “others are slower than us anyway”.

“Now, don’t get me wrong. I love your work and I don’t mind it if you guys take a lot of time on it – the releases are very high quality so it’s well worth the wait. I just don’t like it when people make clearly false claims.”

We’re going to release 151 today or tomorrow, so 7 on August.

Even though it’s true it’s not 2, we’re keeping up around 1.5 per week. Then, also some of the re-releases take time, because it’s about fixing mistakes to get an even better quality.

Don’t like it? Go check someone else’s stats.

“…we’re still releasing two chapters of HnG a week if not more…”

is simply not true. Here’s the number of releases by duration (according to onemanga):

Since 2 weeks ago (August 12, 2009)
1 release = 1/2 release per week

Since 4 weeks ago (July 29, 2009)
3 releases = 3/4 release per week

Since 8 weeks ago (July 1, 2009)
9 releases = 1 1/8 releases per week

Since 12 weeks ago (June 3, 2009)
14 releases = 1 1/7 releases per week

Even looking at it since 12 weeks ago, you never reached the “2 releases per week” claim. And this past 4 weeks, you guys have released less than one per week. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love your work and I don’t mind it if you guys take a lot of time on it – the releases are very high quality so it’s well worth the wait. I just don’t like it when people make clearly false claims.

Or check Hayate 000 on the DDL page from the top bar.

…. Um, I can’t find it. My search-fu is weak.

:o

;)

I consider the complaints about slowness just a mark of people loving and appreciating the work done…unless it’s overly annoying or entitled-sounding as it usually ends up sounding.

I think we’d all love it faster, but consistent, quality work like you’ve been doing makes it all worth more than a bit of a wait when necessary. Thanks for all the work to everyone involved and hope to see many more chapters from you all in the future!