Update about the spoiler situation in baidu

Not sure if this has been posted on tumblr yet, but I’m just going to roughly translate parts of this post made by one of the moderators of the TG tieba forum (translations may not be 100% accurate).

“Q: It’s okay if there’s no Chinese scanlation, can we see the spoilers first?

A: The spoilers come from the raw provider, and the raw provider did not manage to buy the magazine, so it’s impossible for us to have any real spoilers and this is coming from the tieba Chinese scanlation team’s side.

As for other sources such as 2ch etc, those spoilers may not be trustable, unless there are pictures. Only spoilers with pictures can be trusted! Everyone please stick to this rule!!

Anyway, we still have raw providers who are able to buy spoilers from the 11th ward, but they are not necessarily willing to release spoilers, especially at this time.

Q: What’s the situation now?

A:

There are no spoilers on Saturday, as the man who was originally delivering spoilers to different stores got arrested.

Last week there was a holiday, so spoilers were early.

There won’t be spoilers on Sunday, because there isn’t delivery service on Sundays, so there won’t be magazines delivered to stores that day.

There won’t be spoilers on Monday, because the raw provider has lessons the whole day. From the shop’s opening hours to closing hours they will be having lessons, and since the shop is at least half an hour away from the school, it’s impossible for them to make it. Plus we can’t make them skip school every week to buy the magazine, so we have no choice but to give up on that.

We used to advertise every week looking for raw providers because we were afraid of situations where raw providers couldn’t get the raws. But no one came forward, or if they did they were unable to scan the raws. It’s not like they could scan it at a shop, that would be like getting caught red-handed.

And there won’t be spoilers on Tuesday too, because at the moment it’s confirmed that one of the stores selling the magazines is closed on Tuesdays.

So that leaves Wednesday.

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At the moment we are no different from any of the baidu users, we don’t have any news about 55.

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I don’t want to repeatedly tell you guys this just so that everyone can say stuff like “oh raw provider, you’ve worked hard, oh Chinese scanlation team, you’ve worked hard too, we will wait, we will support you all”. Because the truth is, without the pictures, we also can’t do anything, no matter how much thanks and sympathy we get, it doesn’t change the anxiousness of the readers who want to read 55.

Some people aren’t sure about it and so they spread false information, rumours about us are already everywhere, and so 1 or 2 more postings doesn’t matter. But I wanted to explain why there aren’t any pictures now, and unless someone thinks their position is OK, is able to scan, and can get the raws on Monday, if not then from now on Chinese scans will be on Wednesday.

In any case, we aren’t sure about the English scanlation team’s side, but we’re sure the Korean scanlation group’s status is stable, though I don’t know when they release their scans.

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… And yes there will be a Season 3 in 2016, and it’s still Studio Pierrot animating it.”

(清明節快樂’s original post)