User blog comment:Tinni/MangaHelpers will no longer host manga/@comment-1904799-20100620230059

I, at first, hated Crunchyroll because they required a paid membership to see episodes the week they aired. For maybe a week loathed the fact that they had picked up Bleach, because now I'd have to PAY to see what was previously free. Then, after a week, I realized that it wasn't FREE. It was STOLEN. Teams and teams of people work every day to make a living off of this show that I was taking for free, and who was I to throw a fit when I actually had to abide by the law and give them what they deserve? Without these people, Bleach as we know it would not exist, so the least I can do is give them some credit and pay a couple of bucks to watch a foreign show, carefully subtitled, in the comfort of my own home. How is that at all unreasonable? The same applies to the manga; Tite Kubo has been planning this series out FOR YEARS. He spends a RIDICULOUS amount of time both working out the story and creating the actual manga. He lives and works in Tokyo, one of the most crowded, expensive cities in the world, and this is what he does for a living. I can't justify reading scanlations anymore unless they, somehow, in some way, give credit to the author and publisher and validate everything they've worked hard to provide us fans with.

On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, I wanted to clarify (or ask for clarification) on something Tinni mentioned. When Bleach ends, whenever that may be, I was under the impression that Tite Kubo would be returning to his previous, unfinished sophomore effort, Zombiepowder, instead of starting a completely new series. I seem to recall him mentioning that somewhere, but I could be wrong.