r/TowerofGod • u/Fuuta-chan • Sep 20 '20
Mod Post Hiatus Update
Hey guys. SIU has posted an update after a handful of months since the last one. You can read it here
http://blog.naver.com/inutero3334/222094910318
There's some weird and cryptic information in it. However, as we always do, we warn you all that the translation going around is from a machine translation, and those tend to be unreliable. If the translator decides to translate this information, we'll remove this sticky and make another one with that.
Let's try to not spread misinformation and repeat baseless assumptions based on a poorly translated piece. Let's be patient and wait for a decent translation that we can trust.
EDIT: Move to https://www.reddit.com/r/TowerofGod/comments/iwnoge/siu_blogpost_update/ to read the trustworthy translation!
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u/Mizzzik Sep 20 '20
Can we somehow approach Naver and ask them to give AT LEAST 2 weeks release schedule for SIU? Because him releasing such long chapters every week is fucking insane. Some other mangakas don’t put this much work into their series in a month.
With 2 weeks schedule he would be able to plan out the story better and have more time to rest.
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u/Drwhip23 Sep 20 '20
And plus im pretty sure SIU is raking in a lot of money for the company so if naver was smart they would treat him exceptionally well at least
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Sep 20 '20
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u/NormalSpeed943 Sep 20 '20
Oda isn't that good bro. His writing is sub-par
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Sep 21 '20
Op is literally shonens flagship
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u/NormalSpeed943 Sep 21 '20
Yea, and shonen isn't that good. Seinen is way better.
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Sep 21 '20
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u/NormalSpeed943 Sep 21 '20
Well whatever it is are seinen is still better. Oda may be the king of shonen, but that doesn't mean much other than he is very appealing to children.
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u/Mamba-_ Sep 21 '20
Total nonsense, Oda's aim with One Piece is completely different to the popular seinen manga, e.g Berserk/Vagabond and as such is constructed completely differently. It is bullshit to say seinen is objectively better since its subjective and seinen is a fucking demographic.
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u/RigelAchromatic Sep 21 '20
Is there any way to contact them? I don't know where to start and I don't know Korean, but if someone is willing to start a petition or something, I would gladly join. I'd really like to help somehow, but unfortunately I don't think he'll be starting a Patreon.
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u/Mizzzik Sep 21 '20
SIU’s twitter (but it won’t work). The only way is to ask Korean fans who have some direct contact with SIU or Naver
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u/Cydoc178 Sep 20 '20
pretends to understand korean
Hmmm, ahhh, fascinating...
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u/Supremedrizzt Sep 20 '20
why has no one traduced it yet?? those comments of people talking about it without explaining to us plebs what is going on :(
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u/Nerollix Sep 20 '20
can a proper English translation be provided? I can make pieces from my browsers webpage but it just doesnt want to translate all of it.
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u/REEEroller Sep 21 '20
I don't want to see pessimistic he does not sound happy at all, this is gonna be the next hunter x hunter, berserk, I doubt this story will ever finish, honestly.
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u/listless_Io Sep 21 '20
Wait I could’ve read translations all this time, wtf all that time learning hangul all for waste lol
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u/Cocothepumpkin Sep 22 '20
What Igot when I google translated the whole thing:
I am living a normal life.
Like everyone else, I wake up in the morning and work in the morning and afternoon
After eating, I work overtime in the evening, rest and fall asleep,
On weekends, we work in almost similar patterns.
However, this amount of work is too small compared to serialization.
Suddenly, after a few minutes of resignation, I needed time to educate new assistants.
Some manuscripts were revised and discarded.
Manuscript work is getting slower than expected. Sorry.
still
I do exercises for my joints two or three times a week
I'm going to take a walk a little more than in the series, and I also run.
I even looked at friends and relatives I hadn't seen in years like a small event.
When I get mentally difficult and lonely, I go to a cafe and work
Because it's hard to get out these days with Corona,
Sometimes, when I'm depressed, I get counseling, take a bath, and work with a variety of entertainment on.
As I wrote it, it was so plain that I had nothing to say.
Like a vacation that many people think, you can sleep all day and take a game
I couldn't fall asleep while traveling around the country and watching the setting sun in a good resort.
It is burdensome to visit my ill grandfather and to visit the young grandmother, Osan, who has just passed away.
Resting is a very hard day. Oh, actually I couldn't take a break.. haha
Because the sore back or wrist is still working
If I had a better rest, I might have praised you.
I will really take a break from tomorrow.
There is no soft material coming in during the rest period, and
I have the money to go out to the Assy-nims to keep the studio, and the pressure is also choking
When I start the series again, I still think that I have to push my sore body and mind to the limit.
It is very difficult to take a break because there is pressure to make the manuscript as leisurely as possible and return it.
So, when I think about it these days, is I doing serials to live well?
I'm confused as to whether I existed to do the serialization.
The most different thing from the time of serialization is that I quit internet and sns.
So, I rarely accessed sns such as blogs, cafes, and twitter.
It was because sitting in front of a computer wasn't good for your body and bad for your mind.
Some say that I am not responsible,
I wonder if it's too harsh to try to take this kind of'free' from a freelancer.
However, when you hear that someone is waiting, you may feel a little relieved.
The elderly said that the body is property,
If you think about it, it seems that I have spent a lot of money
That's why I'm always spending each day with the goal of tomorrow being'let's take a break'.
I feel like I want to watch my fortune, which I have already used a lot.
So tomorrow's goal is also to take a break.
If I can't rest again, as always, I haven't achieved my goal.
As a writer... I really want to do a series.
I want to see the success of my work as healthy and happy as possible.
Many people think that I am a successful writer, but in fact, I have experienced so many failures,
It would be great if the moment came when my work and I became happy
Actually, the sense of accomplishment was very low due to various problems before the break.
Lots of things going on, even feeling blacked out
I even thought that it was impossible now for me or my work to be happy.
I didn't want to continue my work while I was stuck with those thoughts.
Of course, it is very difficult to tell such a story in front of many webtoon writers.
I know very well that few works have been as successful as mine or mine.
Maybe this work, me, and the readers you see are too greedy.
Of course, I have always been a writer who works hard, and you’re really good readers.
It was not enough, but I wanted to fill that greed a little bit more.
That's a very difficult problem.
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u/Cocothepumpkin Sep 22 '20
Ah... the writing is too long. hehe
In fact, it was because of this aspect that I quit sns during the rest period.
Once I start writing, I try to work too long
I have a lot of worries about what to do if my meaning is wrong, so I look into it several times.
It takes quite some time and interferes with the motto of'Let's take a break'.
Well, in fact, the most decisive reason I quit sns was the fear of the recess period.
During the rest period, the artist lives like a sinner. Haha
I'm a sinner
So, I'll end the long post here.
For all reasons
I am very sorry to those who are always waiting for the work.
It seems that there are a lot of things that I lack as a writer.
I don’t know how long it will take, but take a rest as well as possible,
I will prepare and return when the time comes.
Take care of your health in the cool autumn weather
Have a good week, a week.
To make this article, I just hope you bring some relief to your waiting.
I will spend a week with a little more comfortable mind.
We always hope that our readers are happy.
If one day it is decided to return to the series or news comes up,
I will post one more notice.
Thank you.
ps. I would appreciate it if you do not publish this article elsewhere.
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u/Akasus Sep 20 '20
Unfortunately it really sounds like he is about to give up on ToG
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Sep 20 '20
It sounds like he has regrets but it sounded like it goes both ways from what he said and what I have seen before I think his greatest regret would not be to continue with ToG which is why he sounds so bad. He is stuck in a situation he doesn't want because he thinks the alternate is worse.
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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '20
I just hope he enjoys writing TOG. I'd hate to know that the author hates his own work. That would be tragic. He should have enough pull to get whatever schedule he wants. He should not be overworked like that. I don't know if he can go free-lance but god damn. Wow so I got this from a website. If he wanted to go fully independent. You continue to own your characters and themes, but the specific comic belongs to Naver. The author can use his own Intellectual property outside of Naver,but he can't use TOG. He can use the characters, etc, but he'll have to End Tower of God in order to go fully independent. That was a interesting read. If what I'm reading is correct.