Gnah

Whelp, that's a sad day for the readers and the many uploaders. Thank you Grumpy for keeping this project running for as long as you did, take your well-earned rest.

I just went and printed out my follow list. Now the question is: where to go now? There's no site out there with quite the same quality as far as I know. Anybody got a recommendation?

Good job missing the point completely, Ocha. This is not about the credit page. Never has been. Please look into the actual issue.

Open the link in the OP post. THAT IS NOT A CREDIT PAGE. That is an actual page in the middle of the chapter that was plastered over for the sake of trolling. An entire page, not forgotten, not mistranslated or forgotten to clean - no, just completely plastered over for nothing but trolling. On the next 3 pages, there has been partial censoring of text and pictures for the same reason. "He did translate all the words" - yeah right, and I'm the queen of Britain.

Edit: Plus the link provided on the page links to a different scanlation group which also works on Grand Blue, clearly in an attempt to discredit them by making it look as if they were the culprits behind this troll chapter. In my book, that weighs even more heavily than the infantile trolling or the bad translation quality even on the parts where he does not troll. At the very least have the decency to protect your other contributors, even if you piss on the readers like this.

What I'd love to know is: Who the heck accepted this chapter in the first place. Who looked at the bullshit that transpired from pg 22 onwards and thought "Oh yeah I gotta release that stuff to the public."? Subby (rightfully) has no contributor status, so someone else had to accept this crap into the library.

I'm honestly confused now. Was this all one big advertisement trying to get FA Scans negative press/donations?

That's at least how it seems to me, looking at the information given.

 Still, what is ugly is ugly, and Subby's work is damn ugly. I doubt the Bato.to admins, despite how utterly authoritarian they are with the comments section, will delete a chapter of manga. Which seems hypocritical, but whatever...

Looking at what that chapter is worth with a bunch of pages in the middle of the chapter effectively taken out for the stupid trolling, it should be, though. Especially because it happens at the expense of a third, uninvolved party, which is made to look as if it was trying to profit from this stupid scheme.

They aren't actually asking for money. The link brings you to a different scanlation group's page, which seems to also have started working on Grand Blue. SubbyD is being "funny" again, as he has already been on the last chapter, although it was to a lesser, less scummy amount the last time. About as funny as a person with the sense of humour of a 9 year old can be.

Apart from disliking his alterations and additions to the works of the mangakas, I think it's a scummy move towards the scanlation group of FA who probably have nothing to do with SubbyD's trolling. Dragging them into this is a no-go.

Thus I'd ask the mods to shoot down the troll chapter. It's not the 1st of April.