We announce licenses on the main page and in the IRC channel. If there is a possible license (rumors that have started from either an inside tip or perhaps a listing on Amazon.com or something) then we WAIT to announce anything until the license has been made official. In other words, if there is no official press release involved, then we will not stop work on a possibly licensed series. To the contrary, we will speed up and get as much of it done as we possibly can in hopes of finishing it before it's officially licensed. If there is never any press release, then once the books hit store shelves, the series will be removed from the website and all work will stop (with the possible exception of text translations, which may continue to be updated on the website).

No. If you have the need to ask this question, then the project is not dropped. Anything that has been dropped would be labeled very clearly as such. If something is going slowly, then it means that we are short workers on that particular project.

The site policy is to allow this. As long as you agree to leave in the credits for all of the english work (scanning, translating, and editing), then you have my permission to translate the scans. This is, however, only for SC ONLY projects. If it's a joint project, then you need to get the permission of both groups in question, and I won't be helping anyone do that. Also, please do show the courtesy of simply asking me for permission, even if you know you'll get it. You know, it's just a nice thing to do.

Yes, listing and finding are both allowed at #snoopycool. The only condition is that you can't @find any series that has been licensed in North America. Most series have an automatic ban script associated with them, and those that don't, if they are witnessed by a mod, will result in a ban. Consider this FAQ to be your first and only warning.

If this wasn't a FAQ, then this question would get you in seriously deep water. But as it is a FAQ, I'll just answer it. The site is updated on a very loose (read as 'nonexistent') schedule. We have a few days that you KNOW we will release on. April 1st, July 4th, and December 25th. Other holidays may get a release, but those other holidays change pretty much every year. Now, of course, these aren't the only days we release, and there are probably about 35 releases over the course of a year. It comes down to about one every 9 or 10 days, but sometimes it's spread out to 3 over 2 months depending on circumstances. As for the contents, that depends on the current group priorities, which are kept private for the most part, but are pretty obvious if you simply look at our recent release lists. Also, any member difficulties we may be having (like lack of translators or editors) can also hinder the release of your favorite SC manga.

It depends on a lot of things. In your request, be sure to include things like whether or not someone else is currently translating it, if you can provide one or more jobs if we do decide to select the series (like scanning or translating), how long it is, a link to the cover, preferably at least a brief synopsis of the story, the genre of the manga, and anything else you may think we'd wanna know. We have a section of the forum dedicated to suggestions of these types, so feel free to offer up your favorite manga. Er... but we won't be working on anything that's already translated by another group unless that group has dropped the project. And I don't mean 'dropped' as 'going slow', I mean has actually publicly stopped work on it all together and don't plan on continueing it. Also we are currently not interested in shounen-ai or yaoi. Take your fangirl fantasies somewhere else, please.

7. Where can I buy the stuff I see on SC?

You can't purchase anything in print as you see it on our website here. You can however buy these mangas in Japanese from any number of import websites (google for it), or, when they're licensed, these mangas will be translated into English by the import companies (like Viz, Dark Horse, and TokyoPop) and can be purchased in just about every bookstore in America nowadays. When a manga is licensed, we provide a link to the publisher's website in place of the download links, so be sure to support the English manga market.