User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Animated Goodness/@comment-28288412-20160605012137/@comment-25936766-20160605231015

Yeah, many manga artists get very rabid towars scanlations. But it's never really justified well. I mean, scanlations exist, they are made, precisely because the manga will not be released in the west, either because they currently can't or because they don't even plan on doing so.

So a group of fans decide to translate the manga so that people outside Japan can see it and make it and it's artist more well-known, which can make a western release much more profitable for them if it's reception is good enough.

And yet they complain if they see an scanlation, because "it make them lose profits"....yet that logic falls appart the moment it tries to stand, because it's esentially the same as saying that you refuse to sell an apple to a guy, so he gets an apple from someone else, somehow making you lose profits as a result.