Given that ancient torrent is long dead, I decided to re-upload the manga and also organise the folders into volumes as having them in chapter folders is something I really fucking hate. Anyway, the manga's pretty good, and while the art starts off as how to draw manga-tier, it does get better as it progress. In any case, enjoy.
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Thank you for the upload.
From what I can see online, this series is now being licensed by Dark Horse Comics, and is slated for release in Onmibus paperback format later this month.
Sources:
* https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-07-04/dark-horse-licenses-lynn-okamoto-elfen-lied-manga/.133769
* https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3002-488/Elfen-Lied-Omnibus-Volume-1-TPB
I REALLY appreciate that you uploaded this in volumes. It takes SOOO much time for me to create volumes myself. I spent so many hours when I did it for the Attack On Titan volumes from MangaLife, who more often than not release volumes split up. I like to use ComicVine Scrapper in ComicRack, but manga is a pain in the ass to tag when it's not in volumes because ALL manga is in volumes on Comic Vine, essentially. So, basically, I've had to either manually rename all the pictures in each volume the right page number and create volumes myself, or tag each file that's from a volume the same volume manually over and over again. Which is FAR more time consuming than I'd like it to be. Especially if it's a LOOONG running series. So you uploading this saves me TONS of time. So thank you so much for that. I'm curious though, how did you do it? Did you manually create all these volumes yourself? And how long did it take if you did? Is there a time-efficient way to make volumes yourself if need be?
I don't upload torrents, I do mega , but it's real easy with Thunar bulk renamer. Just incredibly repetitious. I did the 18 volumes of Brynhildr today.
Yeah, that's probably similar to what I did. I used Advanced Renamer. And renamed pictures using the number feature. I had to go into each archive, extract it, take the pictures in it, then for the second archive rename the pictures to the next number based on what the previous one was. It takes a ridiculous amount of time even with so much of it automated.
I JUST finished tagging almost my entire manga collection with Comic Vine Scraper. It's taken me probably more than 12 hours to tag around 1000 chapters of manga. Quite a lot of that time was spent manually adding titles for each chapter since Comic Vine Scraper doesn't do it for manga since it's in Volumes and the vast majority of my stuff came in chapters. (A lot of it from volumes though, but split up into chapters from the volumes.)
I also renamed some of the file names using Advanced Renamer to help get the titles using a Filename Parser script. But that's really only helpful if your comics are named properly to begin with. Manga Rock uses pretty good file names, the only thing I had to change was adding the series title at the beginning followed by a - and then change chapter into #.
That seemed to help get the series name, chapter number, volume number, and chapter title without having to manually do it. But most of the comics I've downloaded are from Manga Life since they seem to be better overall than Manga Rock when it comes to official volume releases. And they also use image formats like .jpg and .png whereas Manga Rock seems to more often than not use .webp, which is much more compressed and harder to open in image programs than standard image formats.
So it's come down to a trade-off between getting official volumes and therefore better picture quality and a professional translation, and better file names. And the fact that Manga Rock DOES seem to have higher resolution images when they actually have official volumes. So it's kind of come down to figuring out which source is better for a given series.
Ran out of space, so I'll finish my comment in a second one. If only people who uploaded torrents named their files properly, and better yet bothered to tag them so the end-user didn't have to do so much manual labor to have their comics/manga with proper metadata. I'm positive doing so would be more effort for the uploader, and would probably delay releases. But in the end, it would be worth it for the end-user who actually wants to download it. Though I guess in the end, we're getting free comics/manga so we can't complain too much about it even if it's a valid complaint.
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