This just shows you how dumb some fanslators are...

[Michi]

One of my favorites (most frustrating) was in Rurouni Kenshin, I'm thinking. Half a page or so (plenty of text) untouched, with "IF YOU KNOW JAPANESE YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS" written underneath. What the fuck? If I knew Japanese, wouldn't I be reading raws? It makes me want to hurt somebody.

I read a scanlation once where the editor couldn't help for some reason but to leave little personal opinion comments all over the manga. A lot of the comments were really rude about certain characters, or certain events. It really began to grate on my nerves. x_x

This is why supporting English manga releases = good. I only ever use scanlations to sample manga anyway, considering we don't have manga magazines over here aside from Jump. ^^ Then I buy what I like. Like Dragon Ball. Having Dragon Ball in nice little book form is a lot nicer than pixelly saturated heavy black and white images on my computer screen. o___O

[Mattias]

That reminds me, what was that one group who translated one of Vegeta's lines as, "Come out, you candy-ass faggot!"? I don't know any Japanese, but I read a lot of rants about how it was not at all what he said.

[El_Diablo]

That's just Anime Labs being idiots

[Endishiki]

Now, now, no one's condoning the downloading of illegal 'scansalations', as it were. Rather, they're insulting the poor translation and quality of them. No problems there.

Oh, and are there any other well-known bad subbing groups beyond AnimeLabs and Super5?

[*PINHEAD*]

I just love it how it says (paraphrasing) "Now he's pure evil, and without mercy. By absorbing Dai Kaioushin, Buu lost power, and became gentler." Double-u tee eff?
I have downloaded scanslations before, but mainly to get an English (or rather "Engrish") translation of Japanese titles I already own. And I end up buying officially licenced manga titles anyway.