Normally leackers (those who leak spoilers) do it for fame or reputation on the internet. No one would risk leaking content of anything with the fines and penalties against it if they don't profit from it.
However here we have Mr. redon, known for his spoilers in practically the 3 most important markets (america, europe and japan, his name is regularly quoted in forums in all languages, including japanese). And nothing happens to him. :wink:
Also he has access to the script or the chapter (I think the script) more than a week before its official release, which is strange.
Before the arrival of a certain app, spoilers used to come out very briefly on Tuesday/Wednesday, Thursday there was already some picture and something else and on Friday there was the raw chapter. This was for the public, many scanhunters had it all a day before.
The leaks were always for two reasons: 1) someone in japan with access to the print jump cast got their hands on one. 2) someone in china or korea with access to the jump distribution in those countries did the same.
The most popular was option 2, where Japan had little control. And in order for the stores to have the jump on Sunday, they would start the delivery to those countries a week or so before. Even so, those who did it in Japan, used to get it fast and those from China and Korea took longer, but in the end they also fell. God, I still remember nja, what times....
In 2019 Manga Plus appears, as an anti-fraud measure, or so they try, but since its appearance and the hiring of external translation studios, the leaks are even more complete and in advance. Since then, almost almost, redon no longer credits his sources in spoilers, and on twitter he doesn't even cut himself in generating hype.
I'm surprised that someone openly known, who even knows his name, city where he lives and where he works (fuck, just need to know his social security number) is not in the eye of Shueisha or Jump, knowing how many other leakers have been falling.
If I was told that Redon works for Shueisha itself to "regulate" how many spoilers are leaked and when, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
A person who respects the publication schedule almost every week exactly, in a very specific order? And come the day, he releases all the chapter information.
It makes him an accurate character, that you can trust what he uploads and when he uploads it. It makes you no longer worry about other leakers, because what's the point? Redon gives you everything, and surely the way he does it, Shueisha has less losses.
Redon is like the perfect filer...and perfect doesn't exist naturally.
It could also be that he just knows someone in the publishing world, given his profession, with access to the content and passes on the info.... But with the amount of detail and content he uploads.... Pfff, someone would have fallen for it a long time ago.
There's also his personal war against Youtubers and people who want to get famous by gutting the chapters with clickbaits and shit...
It's like super legal, despite "illegally" leaking content from a megacast series....
Then things happen like this week, that someone "takes them for fools", and cancels their content as a protest or to say, "spoilers I give them, the way I give them, otherwise, they will close our business". Do you want to keep getting the amount of spoilers I give you? Then respect the rules."
If your job, or one of them, was to be an official Shueisha leaker.... Would he be as revered as he is? It would just be an errand, he wouldn't be doing us fans any favors, it would be his job.
Besides, come Sunday, when the mangaplus publication comes out, and Redon quotes or retweets the official Mangaplus account as if he had to do it.
The alternative to this is that Redon belongs to a group of leackers who don't want to be caught and provide him with the content in exchange for discretion. And if someone comes along who wants credit, Redon gives it to him, so much the better for him that the target is someone else.
I don't want to get anywhere with all this, since Redon is in charge of spoilers they have accustomed us to a precise schedule and calendar, making us more addicted. Years ago, not so many, you never knew when the spoiler was going to drop, sometimes it was Friday and there was still nothing about the chapter....
It would be funny to discover that all this is nothing but a very well elaborated Marketing exercise, to control spoilers and the piracy market....
Final note:
I don't intend anything with Redon, it's been a while now that I don't care what he does or doesn't do, nasty enough he was by privates without even wanting to talk to him again. I understand that he has to deal with assholes on a daily basis and has to be a dick in private, but that's no excuse for losing your temper at the drop of a hat, even to those who talk nice to you.
Knowing what I know, I could make a few calls and at the very least Redon would have u
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