Re: translations going away?
Geisha wrote:
Well, she said in her blog that it was due to personal issues. Fandom is great, but if you have real life issues to sort out that may be all you care about for the time being. That said, comments like "I don't want to see Mana's face anymore" and wanting to stop translating his blog because of personal issues sounds like she may have been expecting something that a fan/artist relationship can't give. She made a number of remarks over the years that gave that impression (btw, that harsh comment on her blog is NOT from me).
I don't think she was expecting much at all (or anything).
I don't understand why that person gave that harsh remark though. I don't think there's a clear villain here or anything, but it's certainly not Sarah o_O I don't get why people are mean. I don't even know how one can call her a stalker because I don't even know how she qualifies as a stalker. It's as if they think they know all the details of her life or something? Geez, it's not as if she moved solely for Mana or something, I was talking to her years ago when she was still deciding whether to go or not for unrelated reasons. She's just sharing her feelings right now, which she has all the power to do on her blog, I'm not sure why people make all these assumptions about her life and calling her "emotionally unstable". o_O I mean, can you really know about what's going on based on blog entries? It's not as if she writes her entire life there, I don't know why that person assumes it's about the recent event, haha.
But she's not 'just losing interest.' I think we all go through that at some point, but it's usually not a big deal, and it wouldn't be for Sarah if that were the case.
Perhaps Midi:Nette simply asked her to stop translating. They're known for being tough on copyright stuff, right? Kamijo recently made an entry on his blog demanding that all Versailles related translations, be it magazine interviews, blog entries or even tweets, should stop, which caused a huge outcry. He later retracted it and said that he was upset about magazine translations violating copyright, but the message was clear. Don't necessarily expect gratitude.
No, I know what it is now and it has nothing to do with anything like that. She's not just losing interest though like any other fan, it's more than that and it is involving something Mana did IRL and weird things going on, the difficulties are mostly related to him. And people can be real ogres, so it's a mix of everything. I don't think she's overreacting either and I'm feeling really shocked and bad for her. I hope some things don't turn out badly, especially since she's a good person.
I thought the Deep (or dark, or whatever it's called) Sanctuary thing (I forgot where it was posted in the main forum) sounded a lot of fun, and I don't think anything that badly about Mana. Except that he's weird XD But I've always thought he was a weirdo for a while in good and bad ways. So when Berserk wrote in another thread how upstanding and classy he was, I kind of laughed to myself. But I liked what he did for Yu~ki and his jewelry line. But I didn't like the way the entire Mon Amour thing was handled.
I haven't heard any rumors though, but rumors are kind of normal anyway. It's not like anyone's immune from these things. I didn't even know any were going around, TBH.
" Because in retrospect Kamijo has a valid point and you should buy the magazine to get the article/pictures, but people who can't read Japanese wouldn't get much out of the articles... This is exactly why scanlations and fansubs are such a gray area... Plenty of Japanese people access fansubs because they can get the episode in Japanese for free instead of shelling out 5,000 yen... I guess with translated interviews and articles you aren't posting the original text and Japanese fans still have to buy the magazine... The pictures on the otherhand...
