Be Beautiful mangas are illegal?

[rekall]

I just saw this over on JournalFen.

Apparently the BeBeautiful manga company has illegially been publishing (yaoi) manga from the Japanese company Libre and Libre is now encouraging English fans not to buy from BeBeautiful.

Wow, good thing I never got around to actually buying Viewfinder (I heard the translation by BeBeautiful is crummy anyway). And this is certainly making me feel a lot better about downloading. ^___^

BeBeautiful's list of manga is found here. The Viewfinder series and Golden Cain are two insanely popular BL series that a lot of yaoi fans have read.

Comments

[von-questenberg.livejournal.com]

...Oh my god. O_O I can't believe a mainstream company would actually release illegally. How stupid can you be? Damn. And I was just putting Kizuna and Haru wo Daiteita on my to-buy list. This will cause a huge ripple effect across the fandom and companies.

Central Park's product has always been rather bottom-of-the-barrel. The Utena dub for one sucked badly.