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Masquerader asks:

What is the relationship between Bleach7 and Maximum7?

To understand this,  we should first go over a quick history of Maximum7, as its relationship with Bleach7 has changed over the years. As you should all know from the spamfest, Maximum7 was formed in a merger between the scanlation groups Manga7 and MaximumT. Manga7 was formed as an offshoot of Bleach7 as its official Bleach scanlation group. Another group of Bleach7 members got together and formed a scanlation group for the manga Trigun Maximum called MaximumT (get it?). Eventually, the two groups decided that it was in their best interest to combine resources to speed up both of their projects and that is how Maximum7 was formed, and became the official scanlation group of Bleach7. Fast forward to the middle of 2007 when Bleach7 was having its extended downtime. Maximum7 contacted Kon, the owner of Bleach7 at that time, and found out that the reason for the downtime was that he had been unable to pay the bill for the servers. Since Maximum7 had vast resources due to its long history in the manga community, they decided to secure a server for Bleach7 to get the site back on its feet. And from the point on, Maximum7, which has once been a child project of Bleach7, became the parent organization. So to sum up the answer to your question, Maximum7 is the official scanlation group of Bleach7, as well as its parent organization.

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