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NEWS: Viz Media, Manga Plus Service Will Not Publish Ayakashi Triangle Manga's 74th Chapter

Viz is doing something shitty? what a shock haven't touched any of their product myself since they cancelled Patlabor and Guyver decades back.

well that and censor dragon 'after their first print run" censoring the urusei yatsura manga as well. I'm in my mid 30's and I never thought we would still be fighting to have uncut manga/anime in the west again but here we are.. all we can do is vote with our wallets and not support companies that keep doing this.

As for digital store-fronts they are 2/3 of the problem as well, I truly wish we could go back physical books instead. I understand that's not the norm now, but do limited print runs "with all content intact" instead of this BS.

Clearly Shueisha doesn’t want this published since it’s getting pulled in other countries. Makes you wonder why they let it go to print in Japan if they have such an issue with the material.

Not to be rude or anything, but I can only make a guess on why this is happening.

Now this is only a guess on my part:

The mangaka of Please Tell Me! Galko-chan just got caught with CP correct? And if, it is true, on the fact there is groping on a loli in that chapter. It would make sense, I think, for it to get pulled. And digital is easier to pull than printed. So...that is just my guess. It will also explain why MP is doing it too.

I remember a few years back when Tapas was releasing series censored, but not saying they were censored.

If that was the case, then the pirate sites wouldn't be using the official translation for Ayakashi Triangle. The pirate sites are still around because they make money, by taking translations from fans, and the official releases

Clearly Shueisha doesn’t want this published since it’s getting pulled in other countries. Makes you wonder why they let it go to print in Japan if they have such an issue with the material.

All the "piracy is never going away" folks just climbing out of the woodwork looking for literally any reason to justify theft.

Replica_Rabbit wrote:

If that was the case, then the pirate sites wouldn't be using the official translation for Ayakashi Triangle. The pirate sites are still around because they make money, by taking translations from fans, and the official releases

The how and why pirate sites do their thing was not what I was talking about.
I was talking about what fans do.

merr wrote:

Clearly Shueisha doesn’t want this published since it’s getting pulled in other countries. Makes you wonder why they let it go to print in Japan if they have such an issue with the material.

Not sure if it is true for this franchise, but usually it is not a problem in Japan that the publisher is worried about, but rather western reaction.

Gem-Bug wrote:

All the "piracy is never going away" folks just climbing out of the woodwork looking for literally any reason to justify theft.

I am sure there are plenty that do that, but censorship and editing for content is a problem, and sadly piracy is the solution for that problem. I buy tons of manga and light novels on my Kindle, and I would rather read them on my Kindle, rather than my PC. So, it becomes a problem when Amazon starts delisting some volumes of my favorite series.
If western companies continue to censor and edit for content Japanese manga (and recently Japanese light novels), there will continue to be a run to the pirates. Yes, there is some over reaction, because those of us who rely on legal means, really are at the mercy of the western companies. We really can’t jump ship from our legal providers. Yeah, we can read the pirates version, but it is not the same as having it on your reader in sequential order with the other novels or chapters.
So, I have no problem with those that rage and scream at the unfairness of it all. Let them get it out of their system. Whether it is Amazon or Viz, censorship and editing for content is wrong, and degrades the relationship between publisher and customer. Especially for customers in long running series and franchises. And if all that raging and screaming makes the publisher think some more, then perhaps there is some worth to it. Because the last thing we want, is for the publishers to think that censorship and editing for content is pain free and has no risk.