>Just a thought : this is also why companies like DH dislike fan
>translations... they are eating their money. And in case anyone hasn't
>corrected it yet, the real AMG translating is done at Studio Proteus, not DH.
>SP is purely a tranlation company, that's why the translations are of such a
>hight quality.
>
>BTW : What the japanese artists think of their stuff being translated ny fans
>without their permission. I think they aren't very happy... I suspect that
>this issue divides the fans quite sharply in two.
>
>Mahoujin
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>More gasoline to the flames...
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>
  I have a little consideration in this theme.

I beleive that really we have to pay to the Autors of the Mangas, or the
companies that publish that stuff because with it, we help they for
continue publishing his work. I REALLY THINK that I have to pay the price
of enjoy a worderfull Series like Ah! My Goddess.

However, here in Dominican Republic is nearly IMPOSSIBLE for the most of
the fans (like me) to get a spanish translation of Ah! My Goddess (those
exist???). For this reason I translate some of the first chapter of the
Japanese series for some of my friends (I do not get money for this
translations), and this like so much to my friends that they buy the 5
OVAS, and somes of the DH translations. I see that in this case,  my
translation help to get more fans and more buyers for the AMG series. Is
right that no all peoples are like my friends, and I do not like promote to
pay to pirates for his bogus copies of the Series. I suggest to the real
fans to pay a little more for the original stuff.

But I think that in somes cases, the fans translation help to the original
publishers to get more buyers.

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Edgar O. Perez B.
A AMG fan from Dominican Republic
http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/edgarf/index.html
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