As a person who scanslated (and was active in adjacent TL scenes) in another life (and thus has some bias), I disagree. Yes some groups out there are pretty sho

As a person who scanslated (and was active in adjacent TL scenes) in another life (and thus has some bias), I disagree. Yes some groups out there are pretty shoddy and they make cute examples. This was more common in the 90s when anime/manga in the West was new and expectations for translations were low. These days Chinese language translations leak before Japanese language raws (due to weak IP laws in China) and in order to be first, most speed-scanslating groups are scanslated from Chinese translations into English. If you wait for a quality scanslation, it'll often be as good or better than the original.