User blog comment:Godisme/Everything But The Rain/@comment-4243147-20130228070534/@comment-4431351-20130301120832

Lemursrule, I do read the mangastream, mangapanda and viz translation (when I can buy the volume), but I still prefer the Mangastream one. Sure they don't translate to the letter, but they do translate the meaning of the text. If I compair mangapanda and mangastream with each other, I read the exact same content. The only difference is that mangapanda translates more to the letter, while mangastream translates more loosely. It's normal to do so, actually in literature. I have studied Latin and the first years we had to translate to the letter, but later on they taught us giving the text a translation adjusted to your own language's expressions is more useful. It helps making the text more clear and keep its liveliness, instead of stiffing it down to the letter.

To finish, I'm not bashing you, you have every right to prefer others while I prefer mangatsream. I just find it strange how almost everyone "despaired" when mangastream decided to quit, telling they were the best fan translations, but now they seemed to have all turned to the once "despised" mangareader, and are bashing mangastream. I respect your choice, I really do, but I just wanted to make this clear once and for all.