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Jaymie
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Thought I'd post this before ANN got a crack at it.
So that's the end of Onemanga. What a milestone in the Scanlation war, and right before SDCC too. 
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jetz
 Posts: 2148 Location: Manila, Philippines |
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I feel kinda sad about it, cause One Manga triggered my interest in manga
 Since I started reading manga there, reading manga became a hobby for me
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matrixdude
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Tis to be expected that it would be closed soon, but I agree with jetz, kinda feel sad about it. Especially for the series that aren't liscened in the U.S. and probably won't be ever. I wouldn't call it a scanlation war since it's pretty much a one-sided game of whack-a-mole, use legal pressure to close one down, move on to the next, etc.. Either that or a slaughterhouse, a very efficient slaughterhouse.
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Deadwing
 Posts: 174 Location: North Augusta, SC |
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Wow. This sucks. I've been visiting OM since late 2007, originally in order to catch up on the latest chapters of Negima (yes, I've bought all 26 volumes Del Rey has released so far). Since then they've introduced me to several unlicensed titles I never knew about and probably would've never discovered otherwise. A couple of those were eventually licensed and I fully plan on buying the official releases, but there are many others which may never see the light of day on the side of the Pacific, at least not officially.
I figured they'd eventually have to do something due to the industry backlash against scanlations (which is something I'll address later; not enough time to talk about it now aside from mentioning that it doesn't address the root causes of the problem), but I never thought they would do something as drastic as "voluntarily" shutting down the whole site. I always thought they should have at the very least deleted chapters of licensed manga as they are released in North America if not remove them entirely to avoid conflicts with licensors, similar to how Anime Suki has stayed alive and well for over 7 years by removing links to fansubs of series that have been licensed. But a total shutdown? MangaFox didn't even go that route, opting rather to just remove all Viz titles.
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tattie bogle
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this is very sad news, i can understand the companys fearing they lose out on sales but i am from the uk and the selection of manga on sale is a joke, i have no problem paying for it they just need to either step up the print run and release worldwide or get their own online sites set up, i cant find any official sites for manga reading.
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ZenErik
 Posts: 392 Location: Boston |
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Fantastic news!
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Elexin
Posts: 11 Location: England. |
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Oh please, the UK is hardly one of the places where manga is impossible to get. Comic stores have manga. WH Smiths sells manga (although I've rarely seen a smiths with a good selection). Waterstones sell manga (some waterstones have great selections, I guess it varies by location). Then you have the online stores; Amazon, Bookdepository... Yes, some titles end up more expensive, and a few slip through the cracks altogether, but there is an awful lot of manga available for purchase. In terms of online sites? Viz has Shonen Sunday and SigIkki, both free, and sometimes post previews of other series (although unfortunately that abomination of a reader they use to display their shojo titles hasn't yet been replaced with the properly functioning ones from SS/SI) And in terms of paid sites, there's always DMP and Netcomics (although admittedly you'd need a way to pay for their arbitrary payment points in dollars), and probably Yen Press, depending on what they do with Yen Plus now. |
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doubleO7
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Good riddance.
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Ggultra2764
 Posts: 4052 Location: New York state. |
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I just discovered OneManga last year where I was able to keep up-to-date on some manga titles that held my interest such as Cross Game and Ouran High School Host Club. I was kind of expecting sooner or later this site would go down when I got word of Mangahelpers halting its links to raws and scanlations a month earlier.
As for those screaming good riddance and to go through legal channels for the stuff, that option isn't accessible to every manga title. Either due to series printing cancellations (Narutaru) or specific titles being unlicensed and likely never will be due to being too old or risky for Western markets (Kimagure Orange Road, Koi Kaze, Elfen Lied), scanlations give readers an opportunity to check out titles that will very likely never see the light of day on American shores. Not to mention that it gives American distributors an idea of what titles are popular enough for fans where they would be worth licensing instead of dunking into a bucket of apples blindfolded and risking to lose money from a title that won't give them much profit. It's no different from the debate over the legality of anime fansubs. |
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OLady
Posts: 163 Location: Texas |
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I am in mourning for OM, despite being in favor of morality. (The word applies to much more than sexual behavior.) Tokyo Crazy Paradise, the Kindan no koi arc, Midnight secretary, will never see life in ink again for one reason or another, and now even their digital ghosts are to be exorcised. If there were a way to save these to an archive, I'd like to do it.
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zawa113
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I hope that all the scan sites don't shut down. Now, I buy as much manga as the next guy (usually more, my collection is over 430 volumes and growing), but what about OOP stuff? Maybe Viz should update their site to have their own scans for long OOP (like OOP for 4 years or more, which would still encourage people to buy their new releases so they don't have to wait so long) hard to find stuff like Basara so that people don't need to go to scan sites. And then they'll know if they got enough hits to warrant a reprinting of the series in BIG too.
It's easy for companies to just shut it all down because they own the licensing rights but in the case of OOP stuff they really can't just turn around and say "go buy it" because some of us would if we could. Besides, I've been good, I've been keeping up with Viz's release of Kekkaishi and haven't been following the scans like everyone else. Now if only my bookstore would actually sell Kekkaishi....(I'm getting 21 and 22 at Otakon soon) |
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OLady
Posts: 163 Location: Texas |
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I have read opinions to the contrary from people I suppose should know (somewhere in these forums. Alas, I am old and forgetful.) that popularity in the scan sites doesn't equate to print sales and profit. I can sort of see how that could be. People willing to follow free on-line might not like the series enough to actually pay for it: a boredom factor. As for wider selection, I'll miss that, too, but even with the scans, we only saw what the scanlators chose for us to see. (I wonder how much extra per volume it would cost us if the publishers were to hire some of the best scanlators on a consultant basis to find the wonderful series that might otherwise fall through the cracks?) If that happened, maybe we wouldn't have to settle for the lowest common denominator or the truly disgusting and perverted ideas (like those of one long deceased company) of what they think we want to see. |
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Tamaria
 Posts: 1512 Location: De Achterhoek |
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I'm not completely against scanlations, but I don't mind seeing sites like OneManga go. These sites have very little to do with making unlicensed and OOP titles available. Sites like OneManga are leeching off the work of authors and scanlators. OneManga closing does not equal scanlators disappearing. They'll still be there, they'll just be a bit harder to find and you'll have to do a bit more work to get your scanlations.
I'm not surprised they chose to shut OneManga down instead of taking down the licensed series. Filtering all the uploads is a lot of work and probably not worth it, because they'll lose a lot of visitors if they remove the licensed series. Less visitors means less income from adds, which means there's less reason to keep the site online. |
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BunnyCupCakes
 Posts: 224 Location: The Sunshine State |
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Is MangaFox next? I hope so.
Eh, I don't really understand what's so sad about this. There's like a dozen other manga sites that host better quality scans than OM & MF put together. Plus like mentioned before, scanlation groups will still exist after this. It's not the end of the world, ya know. People are such drama-queens these days. |
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Paploo
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Nothing but wonderful news. Sorry kiddies, but I don't buy the crocodile tears for the death of the site where you stole all your manga. There's lots of other, legit ways to get your manga on.
I hope MangaFox is next too. They're pretty openly in it to make a profit. I hate scum like that. It seems like the plan to drive scanlations underground again, and make them less accessible, is working. |
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