Response to the July 26th Interview
While I liked most of this
Interview there was one thing that rubbed me the wrong way, and that was question #8. I am a former moderator of the MangaFox forums, and still an active member, and such I am only speaking on behalf of MangaFox and not One Manga, but there are some things about the answer that I would like to address.
1. The choice to keep Low Quality scans has nothing to do with not desiring or wanting High Quality scans, but more in respect to the Edited Manga groups who took the time to do a release no matter how rushed and Low Quality it is. We are a community driven site and people upload freely to us, so if we took down the Low Quality scan in favor of the High Quality scan (especially if the two groups are different) it's a slap in the face to the other Edited Manga groups. And although High Quality scans are better we don't want to offend any group for the work they put into releasing a chapter. If a group releases a Low Quality scan to get the chapter out quickly and then makes a High Quality scan later we are more than happy to re-upload the scan.
2. We make no money off of our site besides ads which pay to keep the site itself up. We allow anyone and everyone to read the manga on our site without charging any fee. And there is only one staff member who gets paid, but that is due her being hired in real life and not being hired online, to work on the coding for the site and to keep the site running smoothly and she is paid from the owner's pocket and not off any of the money earned by the ads on MangaFox.
3. We at MangaFox do give back to the community, we have created our own Edited Manga group and various other groups have been started after their members have met in our forums.
Now I'm not trying to attack Rycolaa Edited Mangas (as I enjoy many of the series you scanlate) or MangaHelpers for the interview. My intention is to do nothing more than just inform you of some of the inaccuracies of your assumptions about us, and I would just ask that in the future you try and learn a little more about us before you make a judgment. And I would like to apologize beforehand if I offend anyone with what I have said.
If you have any questions or comments for me you can email me at
pezztalent@yahoo.com (i would request that if someone decides to send me hate mail that they don't.....even though this probably wont deter you at all but in turn make it more likely for me to get some XD)