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NEWS: Translated Manga Scan Aggregator Removes 350+ Series

I just hope I'm able to read and finish Mysterious Girlfriend X and the new Captain Tsubasa manga before the sites go away. I generally buy my manga but there are some unlicensed stuff that I already started reading and got into.

My heart bleeds for these poor beleaguered sites that just attempt to spread the love of manga around the world from the goodness of their hearts.

Yeah, right. Who am I kidding?

FMABleach wrote:

You guys are bashing JUST OneManga and MangaFox? Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't there A LOT of manga scan sites out there? Shouldn't they be shut down too?

There's 30 sites being targetted- some like MangaHelpers are already shutting down. If MF's forums is any indication, some indivudual scanlators are also closing up shop

FMABleach wrote:

Anyway, I hope OneManga lasts long enough for me to read the D-Gray Man chapters up to the latest before they shut down since I just got into DGM the other day.

VIZ has published dozens of volumes of D-Gray-man and Funi has the anime. Not like you can't just pick up with the legit editions, most of which are still priced at 7.99 each

FMABleach wrote:

Question for whoever wants to answer it: Is Manga Stream next? They're also a manga scan site so I was just curious.

Everyone is next. This might take awhile, but they're targetting 30 sites, tho haven't named names, so I imagine some are closing due to suspicion they might be one. I imagine that site will be targetted.

FMABleach wrote:

Oh and another question comes to mind. Does anyone know if Crunchyroll or VIZ Media uploads D-Gray Man chapters?

VIZ doesn't have it online, but you can go to any brick+mortar local bookstore and order it. Or any online bookstore. Or your local library which can probably get it on interlibrary loan.

You have options, all quite legal. Do that and support the artist rather then some greedy aggregator site.

http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=26 You can also watch the anime legally on Funimation.com. Ad money from them goes directly to them and the original producers.

FMABleach wrote:

I finished Full Metal Alchemist when the manga ended a few weeks ago so now I just have to buy the volumes. I'm also planning on buying Rurouni Kenshin and InuYasha. Not sure about D-Gray Man yet until I read the manga up to the latest chapter.

Good for you, go buy the manga, and if it has chapters you haven't read yet, well, it'll make it all-new and make buying the manga more exciting. Try that out. Support the artists rather then screwing them over by reading it online on some illegal scumlation site.

If you want to read legit manga online-
http://www.shonensunday.com/top.shtml
http://www.sigikki.com

There's others, but these'll give you an idea of the kind of offerings VIZ has, and what any potential expansions'll look like.

FMABleach wrote:

You guys are bashing JUST OneManga and MangaFox? Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't there A LOT of manga scan sites out there? Shouldn't they be shut down too?

OneManga has an Alexa traffic rank of 326, with an estimated ranking under 400 and sometimes nearly 0.2% of the total internet hits and over 0.3% of the total internet audience. It attracts notice as the number one generator of advertising revenue for itself by ripping off the work of artists, publishers, and scanlators.

And Mangafox is not only number two, but also having just taken down 300+ titles in reaction to takedown notices, attracts attention.

But the industry knows that if they just take on the top one or two they will just lead to three, four or five becoming number one, so they are going after the top thirty.

I wish there was a way for the manga industry to allow some mangas to get published in both language and made available for sale to both countries thru " on demand" !

Meaning they could print it in your language if you ordered it from them.

Drunk_Samurai wrote:

So removing a bunch of series from one manga site is really going to help the industry?

It's most likely just the start. Start with the major ones then work down to the smaller ones.

Drunk_Samurai wrote:

The hilarious thing about it is that most of those series are on other sites anyway. This is just going to make people pirate more when they find other sources.

They'll eventually get to those smaller ones too. When people have to keep moving from place to place to find their stuff, it eventually becomes inconvenient enough that more and more people fall off the pace.

Ha ha, it's funny how some people complain like it's their right to have free access to someone else's property and then have the audacity to claim to be real fans without ever once paying a dime. It's a shame that all of the Philosopher's Stones known as these scanlation sites, providing something for nothing, can't go down everywhere and force the bums to practice some equivalent exchange by supporting the manga legally.

I hope this doesn't lead to a boom in the "manga cow" population at my local bookstore if some of these freeloaders can't get their fix elsewhere. On the bright side, they'll be leaving the house for their mooching and will get some much-needed exercise in the process.

Question for whoever wants to answer it: Is Manga Stream next? They're also a manga scan site so I was just curious.

enurtsol wrote:

Drunk_Samurai wrote: The hilarious thing about it is that most of those series are on other sites anyway. This is just going to make people pirate more when they find other sources. They'll eventually get to those smaller ones too. When people have to keep moving from place to place to find their stuff, it eventually becomes inconvenient enough that more and more people fall off the pace.

They really won't. If one site gets shut down then 3 others will replace it. Or else everybody will go through IRC and IM.

ankoku22 wrote:

I hope this doesn't lead to a boom in the "manga cow" population at my local bookstore if some of these freeloaders can't get their fix elsewhere. On the bright side, they'll be leaving the house for their mooching and will get some much-needed exercise in the process.

Regardless of what you think you don't need to buy something in order to be a fan of something.

Regardless of what you think you don't need to buy something in order to be a fan of something.

They really won't. If one site gets shut down then 3 others will replace it. Or else everybody will go through IRC and IM.

Regardless of what you think you don't need to buy something in order to be a fan of something.

What other sites have been shut down? I am glad about Mangafox which I stopped using months ago since it killed my computer too many times, but I do use some other sites.

What other sites have been shut down?

B) having the gall to assume the legal rights holders would even entertain allowing them to continue to profit from their IPs (albeit legally) when they've been robbing the artists and publishers to their faces for years.

Drunk_Samurai wrote:

Regardless of what you think you don't need to buy something in order to be a fan of something.

In the same vain. If you are a fan, you would also want to support the creators so that they will continue producing the manga series that you are a fan of.

Why don't the mangaka, anime studio's and other creative generators of "data" set up some kind of micropayment donations system,
so they can get some euros/dollars/yens as donation from people when something isn't licenced in the western world or if someone
can't/won't spend a few dozen euros/dollars on a manga/anime series, but does want to spend a bit to support their favorite artist?