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Oskye

Oskye

Member Since 29 Jul 2011
Offline Last Active Jan 21 2018 04:56 AM

#1854591 Batoto will be closing permanently

Posted by Trebor on 08 January 2018 - 10:28 PM

Grumpy,

I've been a silent follower since you started working on ToG with The Company, creating batoto, having to contend with Naver and webtoons and their works. Signed up for registration when you guys needed it. I remember your ideals in sharing the monetizations by the scan groups for the scan groups.

Thank you.

Thanks for your hard work in creating this site. Thank you for creating a place where I could read manga and not go to scummy monetized pure ripped sites. Thanks for putting so many hours into this site to make it work. It's shows over the years as you guys kept growing, gaining followers appreciating you're work. You deserve a break.

I wish this site could exist without you, but thats your decision to make and I respect that. We will find something else to replace what we have, even if we don't want to . Thanks for letting us export lists, I still want to follow so much.

Take care and have a good life grumpy!

 

Honestly been frequenting this site since its inception, and been keeping track of Grumpy and the Company for at least a year prior. Sad to see you and this site go, but no one can fault you or your reasons.
 
Live your life, and I hope that you have only happy and fortuitous occurrences in the future. Thanks for all you have done for the community.

 

Hi Grumpy
Thank you for everything. Really.
I have never been here often safe for a couple of periods when I came to the forums for Tower of God and Kubera to read spoilers and impossible fan theories :P
I started reading Tower of God thanks to you guys, even when you were just Grumpy & co. on the old website. You have come a really long way.
It was really sad when Naver opened the official western website with the official translations and you had to close down TheCompany and the scans were put down :( I still believe that if it wasn't for you guys, naver would not have taken those manhwa the same way (i.e. already publishing translated chapters of ToG in order to not lose the fanbase you guys built). And I remember coming to the forums reading complains about the awful translations the first months ahahah
 
Thank you, again, for the beautiful work you always did and for the dedication you put into it

 

I followed thcompany to batoto, and am sorry to see you go :(
 
I wish there were a way for a trusted staff member to take it over and continue running it...

 

I came here since I saw the ads on the first chapters of Tower Of God. After OneManga closed this was my go-to manga reading site. And I loved the emphasis on respecting the Scanlators, their work and the Original Content. It's been years and I've been on this site almost every day since. Even after The Company stopped scanlating TOG because it was licenced by Naver, I never thought of leaving this place. But now this site is leaving me.

Thanks for all your hard work. All of it. I had no idea. I appreciate it. I can't express how glad I am for having had this site. I wish you the best.

 

As someone who has been around since 2011, who saw onemanga go down in flames, who saw the Company essentially shatter against the forces of Naver: this has been long overdue.
The internet is a very different place then it was seven years ago, and the scanlation scene (especially for manwha) is in a mush different position then i was then.
 
Thanks, it's been a long ride, and i've enjoyed it. Now i hope you find something you find worthwhile, while not having it smother you. <3

 

Thank you for everything!
I've followed your old website, the company, when you first began scanlating Tower of God til the beginnings of batoto. I loved the quality of your scanlations. I appreciate all the work you and your team have made.
Again, thank you and take care.

 
Crazy to see how many old timers there are here. I took the easy way out and retired, but Grumpy has continued to soldier on.
 
On behalf of Grumpy, and all of the old members of The Company, thanks for the well-wishes; we remain humbled by the small impact we've had on the world. 
 

I think post like this should be resend to all users of this site as personal letter.

 
I think Reddit has that taken care of...




#1854578 Batoto will be closing permanently

Posted by Trebor on 08 January 2018 - 10:01 PM

Thank you Grumpy, I remember using the Site frequently back when The Company translated ToG.

Take care and enjoy life ^^

Cry. Sadface.