Thread:Rigigerald/@comment-3544775-20141025152019/@comment-3544775-20141027185839

There are no "chinese raws", there are "chinese scanlations". The chinese use japanese raw to translate it to chinese. To be "chinese raw" it have to come out in chinese version of Jump magazine or other chinese manga/manhwa magazine and be scanned from it. If japanese raw is used, then it's scanlations.

Magazines come out on certain day/date each time, but they have to be shipped earlier in order to be available on Thursdays. They can't suddenly make it available everywhere on Thursday, so they print the magazines earlier and dispatch them towards shops earlier. But some shops simply don't wait for the official release date and sell the magazines to regular customers earlier. That's how you get earlier english/chinese scanlations before official dates. Shonen Jump comes out each Monday, but Naruto/OP/Bleach/Toriko comes out in english almost a week earlier before the official release date.