Tons of popular series nuked. Gone to atoms. This site is on borrowing times.
Mangadex is hit with the largest DCMA takedown in its history
Why are japs so fucking autistic about file sharing?
This site is on borrowing times.
Oh please, this site has been on borrowed time for years.
It's 3AM on the east coast.
I don’t get the point of this if most of the people mangadex caters to aren’t even a big chunk of the profit in the manga industry. Isn’t is just Japan and then everything else is the cherry on top? So why would they target them if we don’t Truly matter to their bottom line?
My favorite thing when something happens to Mangadex is watching all the turdies come out to shit about how bad and unusable with a terrible interface and whatnot Mangadex is while they themselves read their shit on fucking Mangakakalot and the shambling skinwalker versions of Mangafox and Batoto.
normalfag problems
Rev up the next dmca list senpai.
DCMA
pft
Ignore that jewish crap
I don't get why japs care when you steal their money
It's borrowed time you ESL buffoon
There is no money to be made in the west
Half of my library is just gone
check my follows
nothing missing
If they tried catering to westerners more I would've understood but I fail to understand how this is actually stealing from them, when not even the majority of Japs can read English.
how does one borrow time? I need few months asap
dmca's fan translated scans that have no offician translation
FUCKA YOU GAIJIN -_- YOU STEAR MY MONEY -_- DISHONORABURU -_-
No fun allowed, and maybe since others scrape mangadex, killing mangadex is easier than chasing the ad ridden aggregators owners.
let's see how fun it is when people steal your money
From Shonen Sunday (Shogakukan):
Oogami Tsumiki
Utsuranain Desu
Momose Akira
Ryuu to Ichigo
Te no Geka
Mizuopolo
Red Blue
Tatari
Frieren
Aozakura
Maojou de Oyasumi
Shibuya Near Family
Mikadono Sanshimai
Finished ones like
Komi-san
Yofukashi no Uta
H2
Hayate no Gotoku
Karakuri Circus
Ushio to Tora
Maiko-san chi no Makanai-san
Shiroyama to Mita-san
Last Karte
Kiki to Warui Koto ga Shitai, etc.
With how greedy japs are, how is the native manga industry so drivable and popular? You’re telling me all these japs are paying for each chapter and volume?
Manga+ technically exists but it is so fucking shit
They DMCA'd all the Cocktail Knight chapters, even the ones made after the series got canceled
Because fuck you gaijin that's why
Free (you), enjoy.
A number of the hit titles have official English versions.
Mangadex bends the knee too easily
how come everyone is against streaming anime and tells you to download episodes, but when it comes to mango everyone uses viewer websites and then screeches when they get hit like this? if everyone was using torrents and direct downloads like they do for anime you wouldn't have to deal with this kind of thing.
Where's the anon with the pastebin of series that were hit
Yeah because they're defending the right to produce an official TL of Gal Cleaning. It's just one big ban of specific sites and publishers.
Is the Mangadex frontend open source?
Only ever bought those instead of pirating them out of goodwill to support the series, so the publishers can kick rocks from now on
upload to madokami please
Finished ones like
Maiko-san chi no Makanai-san
how did it end?
What do you think? Piracy is so rare in Japan they can afford to release Hollywood blockbusters half a year behind the rest of the world.
Seriously, not this shit again. Mangadex is the third site. mangatraders ->batoto ->mangadex
I'm getting way too old for this
pastebin.com
328 series so far
The translated Momose Akira chapters are still there
Thankfully the one I'm reading now is alive
I'm reading narutaru and tsugumomo
I'm lucky
Piracy is so rare in Japan
Check any nyaa raw torrent, nips are two faced fucks.
Japs literally look down on resold intellectual goods. Now think what that means for pirating. This may be a foreign concept to you, but for them, it's a matter of filthy gaijin ripping off their people. It's not necessarily true of course, and some of them are well aware, but even then they wouldn't say it out loud.
everyone uses viewer websites
They have handy dandy tools for checking what chapter you read last
happens after mangadex bans scamlators paywalling their shit translations on sites filled with ads and malware
im not surprised if its one of those scamlators who reported kek
So they’re cucks to corporations? Well, if manga wasn’t so profitable they industry would’ve been smaller and never reached us…so continue to pay Japan!
They restrict who can upload
You forgot onemanga, anon.SAD!
Oops you're right, they're just so far behind I just assumed, sorry for the mixup
Let's put all our eggs into one centralized basked and also sabotage the decentralization efforts by having scrapers pick up chapters with a single page telling people to only read on MangaDex!
Because they plan to go legitimate one day, CR style.
Well if they don't want free promotion.
ura baito taken down
For what purpose
When anon is even older than me
Not just normalfags, won't someone pleeease think of the spics and brazillans!?
So they’re cucks to corporations?
Yes, as if that's not super obvious. Being selfish and following self interest is big no no, at least on the surface. That's how you have Mercari and Yahoo Auction, but you don't admit to buying your stuff from there, you got it when the thing came out.
Because they are a retarded bugman sheeple society and you will be socially ostracised for simply eating your food on the pavement so I'm not surprised they're anal about this
Fans over there will suck off the companies too, see the recent Pekora controversy
Crunchyroll are bastard-coated, bastard with bastard-filler
isekai walking
that series would never have got translated if not for mangadex, the simulpub came like 80 chapters in because it got popular there
biting the hand that feeds, shit sucks.
fuck, i recognized almost all of this.
I dont think so, unless there are retards on md team thats on the coin/paywall scamming pot.
A Straight Girl Wanders Into a Lesbian Mixer
Even something this obscure got nuke? WTF
This is very far from complete. Probably thousands of series removed, at least a dozen not listed there just casually checking my follows
I'm sure there are scanlators here and the other ones I have talked to all have back up places in mind already. It's not like we're gonna stop because of one place even if it makes it less convenient. I personally wouldn't stop if I loved a series, I'd just dump on Anon Babble if worse came to worst.
one outs is gone which is really funny because I remember the mangaka clarifying something about the translation when asked on twitter
Is this the cleansing we need for a soft reset on the scanlating scene?
What’s funny is not everything under the sun got taken down. I bet an admin clicked their fat fingers on old chapters marked for deletion from years ago and only just recently decided to pull the trigger on everything once their little hugbox got rattled by the big publishers. Some chapters on some series just got released a month ago and it stayed while the rest simply got yeeted out of existence.
There's infinitely more manga than anime that you need an integrated database to follow them and on an updating basis. You should still download your manga whenever possible
I can’t believe Anon Babble was right
It's everything from 4 publishers, you don't have to do this
Please add Pan wo Nameruna and Mite Minu Furi wa, Tsumi Desu Ka on the list - oddly enough, the entirety of Kingdom Hearts III manga was also targeted alongside these
mangadex stops hosting scam groups that link to their paywalled sites
mangadex suddenly gets hit by DMC
Really gets the noggin joggin
This edited version remains.
well I didn't do it anyway, I just copy pasted from someone else
Nips are the biggest corpo bootlickers I've ever seen. The good recent example is how so many people jumped to blame Palworld and defend Nintendo with the lawsuit.
Titles from multiple different publishers got hit, which means this is most likely the work of an anti-piracy consultant company. Publishers hire them to hunt the web and strike down all piracy they can find. They have no nuance about which forms of piracy can actually be beneficial
more like /leftypol/ was right
pure corporate greed without a designated ethnic villain in sight
Fucking Gal Cleaning got nuke.
Who does that?? Even Anon Babblenons who was translating it was disgusted at the end and you're telling me some exec was concerned about that?
I bet it was some legal team saw their works on MD, sent their DMCA template letter to MD team without any thoughts and logged off for the day.
SAARS, PLS, BORROWING TIME!
shut the fuck retarded negro everyone has said that not all of them got hit
keep searching your lists
The fear of getting hit is not the reason people tell you not to use streaming sites, it's that they compress the shit out of video. This is less of an issue with manga and the mangadex reader is flat out better than a lot of comic reading programs.
Or the DMCA arrived, so they decided that was also a good time to stop those groups.
Aggregate sites also exist so unless those are hit too, people could just migrate to those sites. It sucks for Mangadex but it's not necessarily the end of the world.
Nips are the biggest corpo bootlickers I've ever seen.
Reminder that Japan does not have US-style fair use. Doujins are technically illegal there and are only tolerated out of the honor system, but companies can (and sometimes do) take them down if they wanted. They usually don't because they know it would be a PR nightmare even for the Japanese, but they legally could.
I wonder if there could be a manga equivalent to downloading just the subs of an anime, where the scanlators wouldn't share the entire chapters translated but only the typeset (and possible redraws) that you would then overlay on top of the raws that you pirated purchased yourself. It doesn't sound practical at all and if the resolutions/croppings don't match, it would be more annoying to fix than simply syncing subs, but in theory it would make it so that scanlators can share their work on big websites completely legitimately and not constantly in a gray area like it is currently on Mangadex
Because japs are retarded.
it's that they compress the shit out of video.
Let's be honest here: outside of Anon Babble, most people don't even care. They just want to watch the anime. Convenience matters way more than quality. It's kind of like with video games: you have people who make such a big deal out of high framerates and 4K graphics and see people or groups like Digital Foundry as gods, but in reality only a small minority of gamers are going to care and the vast majority are just happy to play the game at all.
were any of those blocked in japan?
Same, nothing from my library is missing either. Must be all normalfag shit.
So why would they target them if we don’t Truly matter to their bottom line?
This is how it goes:
Jew: if you hire our company's services for a small ten million dollars, we will kill piracy and increase your sales by 100x
Manga publisher: ok sounds cool
Jew: HAHA MANGADEX GO BOOM
This shit is never done by actual publishers thinking about their bottom lines, it's all proxies with egos.
Kek, I think there was powerpoint translation posted with the original jap intact.With arrows and shit.
It's always the shit heads like you that can't even behave and type right that fling shit at others, Guess it's par for the course when it's a wide encompassing topics like this one.
At least it would be less likely to be targeted, and the extra effort to use them would get less attention. Couldn't someone do the inverse, generating those from existing chapters?
It was too late for that even in 2018
Series are there but chapters are kill, maybe only the scanlators for their own series, outside of md team.
At least it’s licensed series, right?
check one of the millions of alternative sites
everything is still there
Crazy
Of course it's not just those.
Learn Japanese
It's all sorts, plenty without any English license at all. Seems like it came from JP publishers who just DMCA'd their whole catalog.
it's not like you are reading every mango in existence. if you can download each anime episode that you are watching it shouldn't be any different to download each mango chapter. it should be even easier since a lot of series only come out every 2 weeks or every month instead of every week.
How do you think scanlators do it?
I think something like that will pop up eventually utilizing AI for syncing and stuff
lol no. Series that will never be license got hit too.
Exactly. This has been the issue with most "piracy is bad!" people for years, and it's not just Japan that's guilty of this. Piracy is an issue and it does lead to lost sales, but not in the way these companies think. They pirate because pirating is often more convenient than going legit, and in some cases pirating is literally the only practical way to actually consume the media especially if the legal alternative is nonexistent or hard to do. The way to beat piracy is not take down pirate sites, it's to provide a convenient alternative. Just look how much Spotify has helped many former music pirates turn legit, how Steam is often more convenient than pirating (as long as you can afford the games), or even how well Mangaplus is doing. These people never learn.
why dont japs just hire the scanlator groups and make better sites/apps with subscription?
surely people will pay just like netflix/youtube/whatever?
Not necessarily egos, they need to take down as many sites as possible to make it look like they're doing a great job.
i dont care about any of these
I remember being devastated when onemanga went down, it’s just another day now
I still remember how Baka-Tsuki got a DMCA for Shakugan no Shana despite official TLs for that stopping after like two volumes and there being no plans of actually officially translating the series into English. The translations were literally the only way to read them in English for the foreseeable future and they did not even want that. I can at least understand DMCAs for stuff that has official translations, but why bother when they aren't and never will be translated? I know it's their right to do so, but having the right is not necessarily the same as it being the right thing to do.
you're always welcome back home you know
Because they want people to pay by chapter (or even half chapter) like what they do in nipland
no more mangadex comments section
Damn. Now where else can I laugh at rubes?
You could, if you had the exact original raws. Which is difficult.
I bought and have seen dozens of others buy Japanese volumes of series they read on mangadex that have no English release. Not to mention how it helps build fandoms with tens of thousands of readers, a considerable portion of which buys those series once they are translated into English. It's free and effective marketing for lesser know series. I understand that for popular series, the marketing effect of piracy will be negligeble compared to more official marketing means, so it makes sense to nuke something like Frieren, but I don't see what advantage they get from nuking series like Bugle Call or Tower Dungeon, which have no official translation and are relatively obscure; much less for something like Red, which finished over 20 years ago, has no english release and had less than 4000 follows.
Exact would be ideal, but not required to get something readable.
Where?
why dont japs just hire the scanlator groups and make better sites/apps with subscription?
They literally are and probably the reason for the takedown. There was a startup just last year in Japan with some French guy using AI and promising faster translations.
Anon Babble loves it because muh sekrit club
This obsession with sekrit clubs has to die.
aren't those uploaded and seeded by autistic westfags who learnt / live in jp
Japs literally look down on resold intellectual goods.
Huh, is that true? Piracy being shameful is one thing, but I didn't know it went that far. Especially considering
you have Mercari and Yahoo Auction
Why does Japan try to destroy piracy if it helped to spread their culture worldwide?
have to get lucky your request gets approved
lolno
Frieren and Witch Hat got nuked
Japan only cares about the principle of piracy. It doesn't even matter if it's something that's been out of production since showa, the only way you should get something is authorised commercial distribution.
Japanese people are not known for their decision making skills or long term planning.
you can always use this
what do you mean by "this"?
not telling
brilliant
According to that one movie, arm wrestling and banging Amanda Seyfried.
Anon, are you fucking retarded? You can't provide a convenient alternative to fan translations. 99% of manga is not profitable enough to pay for a professional translator. Doujins have pioneered an "official fan translation" system where any amateur can translate something and submit it to be sold officially, but manga publishers will never accept that because the lack of quality control is huge risk for their brand image.
They nuked Aqua Knight, a manga from almost 30 years ago that had a tiny smidge over 400 follows.
what happens inside the dungeon
lezhin got in on this as well? I finished this a while ago already but still kind of shocking to see all of it gone
Do other places like R****t even know about Madokami or is it just an Anon Babble thing?
Even if you don't read everything (impossible anyway), the amount of consumption is multitude greater than anime. Say in a season, you know from the start you're getting 20 anime and you pick out 10 to watch, for example.
It's not as simple with manga due to the sheer amount you might be interested in. Tracking new releases to decide which one you'll follow like with anime is already a big ask just from the number of magazines.
people see irc and instantly give up
It's definitely not that unknown. It has a whole guide written for it too wotaku.wiki
You can't provide a convenient alternative to fan translations.
Mangaplus. It's not perfect, of course, but it shows it's possible.
From what I remember, it's actually the Webtoon publishers that are even more anti-piracy than the Japanese ones. Which is funny since historically Korea has been a lot more chill on the piracy front than Japan. I've read reports that Webtoon and other webtoon companies are seeing declining profits lately, but I don't know if their strictness is related to that or not.
Japan is absolutely retarded about exporting their culture, unlike their neighbor the Korean. That's why their music and movies never took off beyond their border. Anime and manga are popular worldwide thanks to collective effort from generations of international weebs
you forgot mangarock,
So they’re cucks to corporations?
Essentially, Japanese enterprise has direct continuity to feudalism via zaibatsu and then keiretsu.
I don't mind, for some reason I can't access Mangadex after the hacking thing happened.
Of course not everyone shares the same sentiments, but in general people who buy from Mercari are treated as subhumans and people who sell on Mercari are treated as the devil.
Same with torrents apparently, looking at the last thread. This generation is too dumb with computers.
They just DMCA'd the manga, not individual chapters
But they do buy and sell there. Is there any data on how prevalent it is?
It's a game of telephone. The publisher hires a subcontractor to destroy domestic piracy but they go ahead and destroy international piracy too along the way.
wasn't mangadex like the most cautious about this? It doesn't even have any official translations unless ex-licensed. why are nips so fucking jewish....
oh yeah ive been aware of webtoon publishers being a lot more strict with copyright takedowns, i wouldnt have been too surprised if it was taken down at any other moment, its just surprising they seemingly joined in with this massive dmca takedown at the same time as the japanese publishers
It's by chapter, since some manga still have chapters released within the last few weeks.
japs are the out of touch boomer meme x100. wasn't there some thing about a character in a yakuza game that had to be removed or something because the talent agency for his voice actor was paranoid about things even being on youtube?
The image of theft is usually a lot more extreme than actual theft. It's because companies and publishers get paranoid that they end up doing dumb shit like locking up products behind cages and opaque LCD screens, which causes regular customers to suffer due to an inability to get what they want.
本音 vs 建前
You should understand this. Cognitive dissonance is essential.
More likely it varies by publisher, some DMCA'd the whole series and some DMCA'd all but X most recent chapters
japs pay per chapter and sometimes those greedy island jews chop up the chapter in 3 parts, each sold separately and firthy gaijin wouldnt pay for that
Mangaplus
I already addressed that
99% of manga is not profitable enough to pay for a professional translator.
Obviously Slopeisha is the 1%
I check back on some of the nuked manga
the scalators are just brazenly reuploading the nuked chapters
wasn't mangadex like the most cautious about this?
Anon....they never have been. Who told you that lie? They were no different than every other manga site, other than having a sleek(and laggy) UI.
I thought that was a thing around the world, I was surprised to learn some countries are incapable of that.
Dangerously based
I was thinking they compiled a list as of a certain date, then sent that, so there's a delay where some new ones didn't make it. Any older manga will have everything gone.
Muh muh Japan has no fair use clause.
Anon, what is sold on Comiket would firstly be illegal in the U.S.A. too and no, it wouldn't count as “parody” because it doesn't significantly provide any commentary or criticism of the original and Japan does have “fair use” it's simply not called that but it comes down to the same thing in my respects, is less permissive in some, and more permissive in others.
en.wikipedia.org
I don't know why this is repeated as fact so often; it's very much false.
Yeah, it's true. Both posts are mine. Buying second hand is not officially supporting the original creator. There are legitimate utility to auctioning that's acceptable, but largely the sentiment is not positive. The whole backward importing and scalping gaijins who otherwise have no access (like me) is also something they don't like so not just buyers, but sellers are also viewed negatively like said
Are they really in tatemae mode 100% of the time even on Futaba and 5ch?
I knew this was coming. I saw more and more manga getting officially published in the cesspools that is comikey and the likes.
So? What are we migrating to? Madokami again?
So ficking zazed
I've been uploading to mangadex and nyaa, I'll just keep uploading to nyaa I guess, unless they personally DMCA me but I wonder if they're also going after the hundreds of translators or is it just a blanket letter to mangadex
what? it's that easy???
i thought it's invite only like other private trackers where i need to either suck dicks or upload terabytes of content before i even get a chance at an acc.
I don't get why japs care when you steal their money
Ah yes, there is a paid alternative where I can read these titles taken down.. right?
nigga i use mangadex for tracking and finding links to the buy the volumes; will the manga be removed from the catalog?
Are they really in tatemae mode 100% of the time even on Futaba and 5ch?
Yes. They have post IDs and their IP is public.
I thought mangadex already had a system in place where the pulishers could request taking down licenced series. (without resorting to dmca)
You have to hope the troons in there accept your registration first.
you people still read manga by the week? why would you want to get hit in the face with however many cliff hangers on the regular?
there's so much shit to read now, just download by the volume, binge it over a few days and forget about it. by the time you remember it again there's a backlog of new content.
Kek.How does dmca works? Is the initial request only for that particular moment online or indefinite ( meaning the site owner got to remove everytime?)
the mangadex reader is flat out better than a lot of comic reading programs.
Are you trying to stoke my rage
It was Judgment and it was about it not getting a PC port because the company was paranoid about people making porn mods of the game. Yes, really. Things got better after Johnny Kitagawa kicked the bucket (and his empire came crumbling down) and now it's on PC, but yeah it was a thing for a while.
I didn't say that Japan has no copyright exemptions, I said that US-style fair use is not a thing there. For example, blatant piracy is illegal in both, but in the US, parody and commentary are both legitimate examples of fair use, but in Japan even parody is not protected. It's why you see trademark names being censored in media there, unlike in the US.
Its still there, just the chapters got nuked.
And what Japanese law firm or publisher is actually gonna bother with that?
also Mangahere, anyone remember Mangahere?
They're maxed out on xenophobia as a race, God blesses their souls for that
Those alternative sites will not be getting any new chapters if the mangadex page gets nuked you idiot.
I read a single weekly magazine and all series I read in it aren't included in every issue. Most manga I read are monthly.
Is honne and tatemae the reason why no-face personalities like manga, or singers/utaite like Ado, or even VTubers are so big there? In Japan it's so common for even public personalities to not show their face, whereas literally everywhere else I can think of it's the exception and when it does happen (like Sia or Daft Punk) they stand out.
They would literally rather no one read/watch their shit. Remember the Usogui mangaka meltdown?
So what scanlators are reuploading? This may give us a good window to download some stuff before it's gone again.
It's why you see trademark names being censored in media there, unlike in the US.
Then why is it the other way around for Jojo? Their names are uncensored in Japan but censored in the US.
They would literally rather no one read/watch their shit. Remember the Usogui mangaka meltdown?
The what?
Probably just the beginning. I'm sure more publishers will start taking notice soon. Time for another exodus like with Batoto
I wouldn't say it's a fantastic reader but it's absolutely better than the dogshit that a lot of people recommend.
no idea, i don't go on reddit
Modern day book burning. But because it’s WITHIN THEIR RIGHT it’s morally and legally correct and you should feel bad if you don’t support this.
Not always and the cheap magazine system still exist there and it works almost like our pirate sites with some publishers even losing money and use them mostly as a promotional tool.
Good. Westerners are spoiled little shits and don't buy anything, all scannies should fucking hang.
Exception not the rule. I was speaking in general.
It's slow as fuck. In fact Mangadex isn't even my main manga site but rather one of the aggregates. I only use Mangadex for stuff like downloading pics to post, but for actual reading I go to other sites.
once again the turd world will have to save the piracy scene by completely ignoring DCMA requests
mangadex does not reduce the image quality of the scans unlike other sites.
Good. I hate it whenever a piracy site tries to pretend they're official and forgets what made them huge in the first place, like Crunchyroll or Fakku. Mangadex should die. They don't even host Japanese raws.
What aggregate site do you use?
They have manga cafe and stuff.
The sales for translated doujin are non-existent. Most of them are in the low double digits.
English and Chinese readers aren't used or willing to pay for digital manga because they're too used to piracy.
Looks like the first three chapters of Bugle Call are back up
mostly romance slop and shit that's been mainstream for years
This might actually be a good thing. Won't mean shit in the long run because there's plenty of other sites that does the same job.
I'd say just upload the chapters to Nyaa but nu-scanlators will probably hide their releases behind a pisscord wall instead of being smart about it.
Ive been using for the last months weebcentral. I liked more
Madokami is great and all but has making new accounts not been closed for half a decade now?
Still a good place to ddl official scans though.
Yeah I just looked at a 200+ chapter series I saved 2 days ago and now it only has a few random chapters.
deeply based. this is why it's always morally correct to pirate CR's shit, since their whole scummy business began by stealing fansubs and profiting off of them. same as fakku.
Huh, is that true? Piracy being shameful is one thing, but I didn't know it went that far.
If you think about it, second-hand resellers are literally the same thing as paywalled piracy. So it should be even more shameful than regular piracy.
A no-name one. Mangahub, I don't even think it's complete.
It's slow as fuck
spoken like a thurdie
Yeah no anyone can join, which makes the whole registration thing stupid in the first place. They should either be completely open or invite-only if they want to fully embrace sikret club faggotry. Not this weird useless in-between
It's a bot that does it based on coin flips
Maybe if official translations weren't all ass quality tl's by retards with personal agendas. And released more than a few chapters per year unless it's fotm normalfag shit.
I have never been able to see anything but nep images whenever I open a chapter
outside of Anon Babble
And why should we care?
It's kind of like with video games
Oh you're a Anon Babbletard, makes sense
time stop brave and yakuza reincarnation got nuked
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ARE TAKING EVERYTHING FROM ME
batuque got hit
but not usogui nor genisakuri
jojolands got wiped
but not magical girl 201 that runs in the same mag
i really dont get the how or why of the takedowns
doujin
Are doujin even popular enough to really expect 3 digit sales? Unless they're hentai only a handful of them get more than 10k pairs of eyeballs on them, even if they're free.
Who do you think makes fan translations? Or how fast they get released?
Stop being retarded and read raws.
One example of Japan being so anti-piracy is that, while archive organizations and libraries exist, they aren't even allowed to give case-by-case copies of materials they have. There was a recent case of a group that archived hard-to-find Japanese video games, but due to copyright issues they couldn't actually share these games or make them playable, they only preserved them. In other countries it's more case by case, but libraries providing copies is often an allowed exception to copyright. Copyright holders are trying to change that, but it's a thing.
Not even a Anon Babblefag, I'm just giving an example. No idea why you're triggered unless you're pro-sekrit club.
This.
Discord really was a mistake. Every day I wake up hating it that little bit more.
Its a game of whoever shills their alt site first. Not trying to be an asshole but you really can't shill piracy sites like these anymore without some youtuber or reddit broadcasting to the world the next site the very minute someone posts any. This site is already under everyone's watch list. Just know there's hundreds of niche site still out there all still have regular updates including the stuff that was taken down from dex. Nothing changed.
Get back at them by donating to kick streamers.
They do in Japanese and to a lower degree in Korean.
There's a lot of lines to cross regarding distributors and even just pure awareness; record labels and publishers can be very difficult to deal with in general. JoJo notably had to steer away from Disney gags but was able to use Warner Bros ones in their stead, and shockingly the Tezuka stuff made it in.
M-Maybe if *post hoc drivel*
You don't buy the books. You would never buy the books. You are a parasite.
What happened to MD is regrettable but it's not the end of the world. Literally one Google search is all it takes to find alternate places that still host the taken-down stuff. Unless THOSE sites got taken down too it's not really a major issue at least for now.
This was from a western publishers most likely, not the japanese.
So someone like comikey or manga up.
Can't be Viz Media, because they are happy with mangadex directly linking to their site when you click on a chapter.
So look in the sidebar next to the chapters who the "official english" is.
Maybe we can get Anon Babble to make a new site that does everything we want and nothing we don't want.
But not outside of Asia, and in english, so it doesn't really matters in the end.
The problem I have with cmk is that it doesn't have spreads
You WILL buy the coinwalled chapters
You WILL take the .1 .2 .3 minichapter dick up your ass
You WILL enjoy the watermarks on every other page.
You WILL read the end of chapter join my discord spiel, the "please don't support this sniper" spiel or the le funny discord conversation spiel
You WILL wait months for releases
You WILL enjoy the le funny t/n mid page commentary
You WON'T learn japanese
those that do host raws are constantly living on the edge and have to keep their viewer 1/3 the size of the screen for some fucking reason, or for downloading, host on retarded mirrors that might stop working god knows when.
FUCK the japanese i wish madokami uploaded raws
less "want" more "good luck finding a manga which is both fully translated and has a satisfying conclusion instead of a perma-hiatus or premature axe"
it's definitely backlog time now though
Cool, I'll make the logo.
Red livin on the edge got nuked
Ehm. I dumped the whole manga last year, i think i have a backup somewhere in my laptop. How can i help?
I'm in, I've got logo ideas already.
dai dark is kill
One latest chapter left (20 days old) untouched.
idk man other sites seem to upload even official releases like it's nothing
China is in Asia and the situation there is the same as with English.
At least it isn't strip-only like the worst scrapers, no fucking clue how the normies read like that
Many series whose rights haven't even been picked up by anglosphere publishers are also gone.
Cool I guess I'll read the official releases then..
shitty localized title
shitty localized dialogue
censorship
schedule so slow that it takes years to catch up
Oh
Most stuff don't even get localized
Same as usual.
I actually prefer scrolling sites to those that are page-by-page since it's more convenient. It was why Kissmanga was my main manga site back in the day.
better than what they're receiving from the pirates
Sounds like shutting down pirate sites is the way to go.
I'm pretty sure they just pass the puck if they ever get hit or in this case domain like with kissmanga
.com
.net
.cn
.ru
.tn
.hack
Buying second hand is not officially supporting the original creator.
I get that sentiment, especially for ongoing/somewhat new series. I would buy/have bought new instead of going for used stuff in some cases because of that.
Is the sentiment the same for older stuff, though? Even if it's not out of print, for older series, I'd usually go for second hand instead of buying new.
What Gabe said has been accurate for years but companies (both Japanese and Western) refuse to listen. Hilariously, several years ago the EU commissioned a study on piracy but suppressed its full release because the study showed that piracy either did little to harm sales or even boosted legitimate sales. They instead only released snippets that fit their narrative. It was pretty funny when it happened, if only for the fact that said mindset has actual consequences.
Learn Japanese if you actually cared about any of those points.
Vast majority of that stuff doesn't have any english release and most will never have one. It's not the Americans.
Whatever, that just means that TLing doujins also isn't profitable enough in China.
For now just save it and then check if it is on madokami
I have a feeling mangadex ain't gonna last
He went ahead of his time, it no wonder Steam is standard for pc for good reason.
Sounds like bullshit because it is
lol
lmao
last time someone understood how some part of their site works, they got HOMBRE'd
That study is decades old and has been made completely worthless by the growing digital markets.
No, by Chinese and Koreans.
read extremely fast in English
wonder if I'll ever match that in a second language
I'm learning and even reading, but it gets frustrating at times
desuarchive
based retard. why would you go to a non-japanese site for japanese raws.
Yes, if it's still available. You can probably sit down and convince a Japanese person if it's something that's already out of print, but don't bother bringing it up otherwise.
And for limited goods, you should have been there and lined up properly or you're participating in scalping.
Gaijins always garner minus points.
Destiny Unchain Online
Mato Seihei no Slave
Otherworldly Overnight in the Car: Outrunner PHEV
Fuck you
Ask people about 転売屋.
People complain about muh steam monopoly but lot of times pirating something don't worth because feature like proper controller support, workshop or even screen recording.
Sure you can setup on pirated releases, but sometimes don't worth hassle. And prices are attractive even on third world shitholes.
Having similar marketplace for mango would be great for both ends, but yeah companies refuse do do that shit.
This.
Tsumiki was dropped by the original scanlation group when it got published by Viz and the translation quality is so ass.
I'm never going to buy your shitty english publications if you """localize""" it. That's not what people read manga for anyway.
Either your ISP or browser DNS are cucking you. Skill issue btw.
a tankobon in japan is like 3 USD compared to the 12.99 or whatever it is in the states. Not to mention that they can actually just pop down to 7/11 and pick up whatever weekly or monthly magazine they want.
decades old
gizmodo.com
It was literally just 10 years ago
So that one episode of Henjin no Salad Bowl about falling in line was accurate?
hmm thats weird how come i have all these japanese raws in my amaz*n library?
268890316
The Links i made are dead, and i dont have the backup such a shame. The manga still there in desuarchive tho
Storytime
Yeah no anyone can join, which makes the whole registration thing stupid in the first place. They should either be completely open or invite-only if they want to fully embrace sikret club faggotry. Not this weird useless in-between
It succeeds in filtering retards.
literally less than 10 years ago
eventually submitting a 304-page report to the EU in May 2015
Try looking at a calendar.
And try comparing the digital manga market from 2015 with the one for 2025.
what is suruga-ya
just to name one second-hand site. nakano broadway has dozens and dozens of physical second hand goods stores. you're inventing scenarios.
I still can't believe execs can't just ask the pirates for the data of the people that pirates their media and use that data to try to develop a better marketing mix for their products, if it's possible to convince some of those pirates to buy some of your stuff, are they braindead or failed at marketing 101?
why would you go to a non-japanese site for japanese raws.
have you never looked for japanese raws? the nipponjin are too scared to pirate because they have strict laws.
steal their money
Just translate it and let us buy it legally then
That primadonna faggot Nagano needs to learn
I don't know about your secret club sites but whenever I want to find jap raw all the sites are slow as shit or they upload the chapter on rapidgator or some aids filehost
Yeah, I misread the year and already corrected the post. But yeah, if it was true back in 2015, I imagine it's even more true now.
Post screenshot.
desuarchive.org
If the manga doesnt come back i would have to save the scans by saving page per page
censorship
surely that must be rare, and probably only shounenshit.
So what happened? Current popular aggregator gets hits, oh no, we need a new one. Brb 2 weeks.
You WON'T learn japanese
but i am
Frontend is always open source nigga
That’s the point of frontend
pretty sure there are extension or apps like desu4chanx (or something like this) that may offer gallery download per thread I think
are they braindead or failed at marketing 101?
Exactly this. In manga's case a lot of actual paying customers started out as pirates. For example, I used to pirate all my anime music and I still pirate my anime, but when Japanese artists come over I don't hesitate to pay my hard-earned cash to see them live. I've even imported CDs with my own money. I know not all cases are like me, but they really don't see the potential in converting pirates into paying customers.
Piracy isn't theft, bootlicker.
It's slow as fuck.
Not a fault of their reader but their image servers (and their MD@Home thing).
The only site I know of that has a reader that rivals MD's is cubari.moe, and that's not even a full-fledged manga library but just a proxy.
no.
This fucking pisses me off immensely
Store exclusives is a business model that should have never been started, for any industry.
Remember to back up the things you like.
The web hasn't worked that way in like 30 years dude
Digital sales now dominate the Japanese manga market. In 2015 there was barely anything.
Yeah. Kaiju 8: Relax got nuked but Sakamoto Holidays is untouched, but both are Shueisha/Saikyō Jump.
Maybe if official translations weren't all ass quality tl's by retards with personal agendas, and released more than a few chapters per year unless it's fotm normalfag shit, maybe then I would buy the books.
word of mouth
free advertisement
purchasing original vol still more difficult than it should be
Japanese publishers are genuinely retarded.
Reminder to SEED the things you like you fucking leech.
Frieren is the one I most care about. I'm A Spider So What was entertaining, but if I never read the manga again it's just whatever.
official TL that's just an awkward rewording of the fan scan, removing all flow of the dialogue
T-thanks
Sounds like you’re just misusing the term frontend
All my scans I uploaded are gone ;_; Hope this gets sorted out cuz Mangadex was the only site my series gained traction on.
purchasing original vol still more difficult than it should be
Where exactly are your problems? On sites like Kobo you don't even have to know Japanese to buy them.
I don't see how that disproves the claim? Are you saying that piracy is worse now than it was in the past?
Batshit crazy rockstars with huge egos are more likely to sue
purchasing original vol still more difficult than it should be
I hope you don't mean digital raws. Because bookwalker is as easy as you can have it.
Frontend is always open source nigga
lmao
So that one episode of Henjin no Salad Bowl about falling in line was accurate?
Didn't watch it, but yeah, probably
Devil's in the details, and I said intellectual goods specifically. You have the universal concepts of auctioning and antiques of course, just that certain things in certain conditions will lose you honor points, not like they ban it.
reminded me of my anki card for this
I'm really thankful to the me from 6 years ago who stopped making dumb excuses to avoid learning Japanese and started spending just 15 minutes a day on Hiragana and Katakana, grinding through a random Anki deck and watching 10-minute grammar videos daily, moving onto anime with interactable subs (no mining deck, shit's boring) and so on and on, because now I can read raws without stressing over disappearing sites.
What are the key requirements for a new site?
Japanese manga only
English translations only
no downscaling
all of Asia geoblocked
Plus I was under the impression that the massive push for anime/manga merch these days was because it's more resistant to piracy. Sure you can 3D print your own waifu figurine or whatever nowadays, but it's a bit of effort to make something comparable to mass produced official merch.
Hope this gets sorted out cuz Mangadex was the only site my series gained traction on.
That won't be the case anymore. People are going to scatter everywhere. Just google aggregator sites and upload to the ones you find there as well whenever.
I stopped keeping up to date with To Your Eternity because I got frustrated of waiting two weeks for every chapter, but I prefer waiting than the mangaka getting burnout. I'm also going to stop keeping up to date with After God for the dame reason.
Imagine if the DMCA happen when 4ch went down.
see that kaiji was on the list
"haha they wouldn't take down foreman would they"
they did
holy shit the madmen
i worked on that every day for 9 months
do Japanese consumers have no rights when it comes to digital "sales" (really leases, you effectively own nothing) like in the west?
Oh no, i might have to migrate the source of some of my followed manga on the tachi!
literally the only thing I cared about was liar satsuki but it's already finished anyway
I thought it was 転売ヤー (using the English -er suffix for resell-er)
Huh, both forms are in dictionaries
That's part of it. In many cases, live events make most of their money not from ticket sales but from merchandise and other related stuff. It's kind of why the Japanese insistence on banning recording at events made sense in the past but makes a lot less sense now, when they could allow it as free advertising. It's like how most Western or non-Japanese Asian concerts allow recording because they know that the experience of actually being there is still different from seeing clips online, plus those clips count as free advertising.
The new chapters are up on nyaa
nyaa.si
but I imagine other aggregators will keep reuploading it
In parts it's the same sites like Amazon Kindle.
It unironically would've made for a good single player game.
Where would aggregator sites scrape from if not Mangadex?
digital is now the king
publishers still rape digital manga releases with filters because fuck you, buy the print instead
Ebin.
Mikadono
Huh. Didn't think they'd find the series relevant enough to care.
Nope. If anything, it's even worse. For example, your purchases are tied to your account, and if you lose access to that account: tough luck, you lose all those hard-earned purchases. I'm out of luck because the service I use is primarily intended for the Japanese market and you can't recover your account unless you have a Japanese phone number. So if I lose the password to my account, those thousands of yen I spent on my e-books will be wasted.
It's easy enough if it's on US Amazon or the european equivalent. Publishers seek range, at least they should be, and most people purchase using Amazon. It's the same for any centralised platform like steam for video games. If you need multiple extra accounts on websites requiring their own apps with differing payment options (another topic of interest any purchase of Japanese goods located in Japan) then you already lost as a publishers.
Obfuscated javascript is not open-source.
Server-side rendering is not open-source.
Webassembly apps are not open-source.
they got Redline and Shimosa
Fuck
and Medalist
Fuck, I kinda wanted to check that out.
and Mato Seihei
Fu- Wait, that's still up though. Delayed reaction?
and Nagatoro
Fuck, I wanted to catch up on that.
buy the print instead
The number of series that get print releases is shrinking. Lots of manga is digital only.
It's just the search term. There's plenty sites in there that allow you to upload just like mangadex.
Only buy if you can rip it is the advice
bleak as hell.
And now they've already been taken down again
Batoto has been back for years
The scanlators just need to come back home
And for limited goods, you should have been there and lined up properly or you're participating in scalping.
Surely, the concept of
somebody buys something because they enjoy it
years down the line, they don't enjoy it as much anymore or have to downsize their collection for whatever reason
they sell it instead of throwing it in the trash
somebody else can enjoy the thing now
exists, right? If not, I'm sorry, but that'd make the Japanese a bit too autistic.
Does Anon Babble recognize the value of storytimes now? Desuarchive might become the only way to read something now
A ton of series that were removed aren't on this list.
Wait, that's still up though. Delayed reaction?
Oh nevermind, only the last few chapters are still up. 99% are gone.
You can't legally rip from almost anywhere that I know of.
I've been using Obok
Dont think its gonna get sorted out to scanlators benefit anon.I hope you have local backups but I do see some one man group used their phone to do their work so those are probably shit out of luck since phone storage gonna get raped if they keep all of them locally.
Publishers are retarded and indie manga isn't really much of a thing in Japan. Even stuff that starts as web/social media series eventually gets picked up by a publisher.
The sites that scraped mangadex are still up, anon. It's less actual losses than a pain in the ass for uploaders and readers alike
Kobo lets you purchase Japanese, European, American etc ebook with the same account. They have two different storefronts for Japanese but the library and accounts are the same.
kobo.com
books.rakuten.co.jp
Permaban anyone who adds more than a single page not in the raw
indie manga isn't really much of a thing in Japan
Comitia?
Pretty much. It sucks but it's recoverable and not the end of the world.
publishercucks think I'm gonna buy any of this slop
Will forget about sll those by tomorrow lol
The manga industry has been rolling in dough since the pandemic for minimal investment. How the fuck are they still not satisfied?
What is stopping them from sending a takedown notice to those?
All I need is a website that uses MangaUpdates API to keep track of releases, and Anilist API to filter out my series + update them when I click a link to a new chapter.
It doesn't seem difficult, but alas I picked wrong dev path and have no idea how to make it myself.
nuke series that barely anyone gives a shit about like Tawawa
official means to support isn't out yet
charge $25 because lol why not
Surely this DMCA claim converted a lot of filthy pirates into legitimate customers.
The retards who go on about Madokami or how they're reading from 20 decentralized networks are always bullshitting you. They're Nguyens and Pablos using Mangakakalot.
Damn shame. Thats the manager/foreman outing series? I really enjoyed that one.
Should I just rebuild my ebook library on Amazon or a different service? I have a huge ass collection on Ebookjapan, almost 300 titles there, and I'm paranoid about losing access to my Yahoo Japan account since Yahoo Japan is very gaijin-unfriendly.
it isn't
there's no limits to corporate greed
(or to out of touch boomer execs, for that matter)
Which doesn't stop giants like, for example, Kadokawa raping their entire catalogue of manga with filters, even if the source was 100% digital to begin with.
yep yep, i was gearing up to get caught up to date and do the first 10 as well, but...
they also took down tonegawa
A limited one, yes. One that isn't Amazon; one that does not allow for physical purchasing.
having no backlogs solves this problem :)
This will increase profits by 1%, so of course it's mandatory we do this.
Also, the reason I'm so paranoid about losing access to my Ebookjapan account is that I've spent the equivalent of $1,435 or so on that site and some of the stuff I bought are no longer available digitally since they got delisted. Is it still worth it to migrate to another site like Amazon or Bookwalker, or should I just find a way to download everything I have even if it's encrypted?
Amazon Japan is separate from the other Amazon entities.
Kobo is probably your safest bet.
Bookwalker also had the same account for Japanese and English but they've begun untangling it with separate currencies.
How the fuck are they still not satisfied?
It's a fucking corporation not Salvation Army.
It converted me from buying my favorite series to only pirating them
indie manga isn't really much of a thing in Japan
anon please
Pixiv
Twitter
COMIKET
amazon.co.jp
Rakuten does allow physical purchasing.
out of touch boomer execs
Worse out of touch japanese boomer exes. Idk if it's because the japanese market is too different but japanese execs act like retarded high schoolers most of the time.
What should I do now? I don't want to lose my collection but I don't have the means to rebuy everything. I guess I can just keep whatever I still have on Ebookjapan but moving forward I buy my stuff elsewhere?
All I need is a website that uses MangaUpdates API to keep track of releases, and Anilist API to filter out my series + update them when I click a link to a new chapter.
This + a torrent tracker for translations
and Medalist
Fuck, I kinda wanted to check that out
nothing is stopping you, zoomer.
fucking internet spoon feeding everything to everyone has created generations of emaciated retards that can't feed themselves in front of a lake full of fish.
meh im not really high on needing to rely on r/manga to read scanlation again.
medalist is kill
Fuck this gay earth.Thanks for your work, I hope you have backups.
just ask ChatGPT to make it
Yeah, it exists. Based on circumstances, the fault COULD be with the buyer in this case, I'm just saying in general. You can examine the case by case context, based on who's benefitting and if the benefit is "honorable", just that certain categories and transactions are looked down upon.
For a contrasting example, second hand PC parts and electronics are glorified if you're doing honest business and not obviously scalping.
hatch potch punch wiped
Good, fuck that nigger grifter TL adding 15 website shill watermarks and 3 patreon shill pages per chapter
It's okay to lend it or gift it, as a part of an evangelical operation to turn that person into a good consoomer who will go on to buy more things from that franchise legitimately.
Selling is a no-no.
Or if you want to go the Suzaku route, maybe someone can set up some method of embedding manga that retains the things the companies care about (like ads) so that there can at least be a hub for all the "official" manga instead of split between a dozen sites.
The reality is that even if the official websites weren't shitty, no one is going to waste their time bouncing between 20 different official channels to follow their mangalist. This MD nuke will temporarily bring a lot of traffic to the official channels, but in the long run they're just punishing themselves because...
... at the end of the day Kissmanga will always be there. The MD nuke just makes it so that everyone knows there is only one aggregator that always seems to come back, and everyone will eventually flock there. And unlike MD, Kissmanga isn't going to respond to DMCA or link to your shitty magazine app. If you take it down, it'll just come back under a different name because what everyone wants is an aggregator.
The publishers think that killing Mangadex will put them on top, but the only thing it will actually do is turn the clock back to when 5% of people mostly used Batoto, 5% mostly scanlator websites like Jaiminisbox, and 90% stayed on Kissmanga. The only difference is that now the scanlators will open a discord and a donation page instead of paying for hosting.
Then use the data to make a break-even point analysis to find if winning some costumers from the pirates it's worth the investment, if not just leave them alone.
So what's the alternative site to use now?
jesus christ you are so fucking dumb
let's me guess, any website that filled with chinkshit and gookshit is next on the chopping block right?
lol yep thanks
didn't back them up because i thought mangadex wouldn't take down a niche manga. still have the memories doing them and hanging out with the gang and i'm sure there are a bunch of aggregators out there hosting it all on some indonesian website with all the pages watermarked :)
He got pissed about scanlations because they were piracy and when people pointed out that it's not licensed so they can't read it legally he screamed about how he'd rather nobody read it instead.
Surprised it didn't happen sooner desu
Great, now I won't be able to read Gundam manga on such a public site.
Buy the raws, you don't even need to learn japanese just use AI like your favorite scanlators were already doing and cut out the middle man
They really haven't heard of the hydra haven't they.
The only difference is that now the scanlators will open a discord and a donation page instead of paying for hosting.
So basically the old days, just with Discord replacing IRC.
The Japanese care about honor more than about profit.
there are aggregators bro
front page full of pornhwa , chinkshit, gookshit phone scroll
no filter for manhwa or manhua
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
They're out of touch because.. they don't want other people to steal their things
wasn't mangadex like the most cautious about this?
No, because they allow turdies to circumvent the bans using their shitty fan colors.
One more reason why gacha is cancer.
If you can't rip what you bought yourself, grab a copy from nyaa or whatever. Having a DRM-free local copy, preferably with a proper backup plan, is the best way not to lose a collection. High quality manga barely needs storage space compared to HD anime.
There's no Discord equivalent to #news or #lurk.
You're on the wrong site then.
he screamed about how he'd rather nobody read it instead.
Jesus Christ what is wrong with the Japanese?
On the jp storefront you can't actually purchase unless you're in Japan because of lack of options; I do think they actually allow overseas shipping using a different service. This is already way too much work compared to Amazon, which is exactly the point. Seeing as how a raw vol costs 20 bucks when purchased off of Amazon us/eu it's a very poor, or very good depending on the view point, deal.
just learn Japanese
More and more stuff doesn't even get raws anymore, especially doujins.
then just buy it
Content is not available in your country.
What about things like manga cafes, then? Not exactly something that lets the creators benefit directly.
Is that also okay because it might get people to buy the things?
It's not their entire catalogue. Dengeki Maoh releases for instance are fairly unfiltered while Dengeki Daioh gets an extra dose.
Boomers steal hope and optimism from younger generations every day since the mid 2000s.
sandpanda is now full of AIslop
and now this
This end times really suck.
Even funnier is when they get paranoid and assume everywhere else acts like them when it comes to fair use. Clark from KoF used to be called Clark Steel which was an obvious Superman reference until some point in the mid 2000s. SNK suddenly got it in their mind that DC would somehow sue them over this and changed his last name to Still to avoid it even though that would never fucking happen.
looks like a lot of other series got nuked as well, I can't see Ponkotsu Ponko and Dai Dark now
btw google doesn't bring up a lot of aggregator websites like kissmanga so use yandex instead
desuarchive.org/a/thread/270467711/#270468516
you've had 20 years to learn japanese
That wouldn't work in the 21 century anymore, at least not with China and Korea eating their part of the cake regarding media.
steal
That's not how it works, pirates are: potential costumers or "fired" costumers. Fired costumers don't give you profit so you just ignore them instead of wasting resources so they don't use your product, that's retarded.
Those are like libraries.
So if I wanted to switch ebook stores, should I just go with Bookwalker despite having DRM, or is Kobo still the safest bet? I'm planning to use it for both manga and LNs, but I'm not sure if everything that's available on Ebookjapan or other sites like Comic Seymour is available there.
I dl all manga i read and like and people make fun of me.
Last time I used chatGPT to make a browser extension it became an unmaintainable mess about 5 features in.
Luckily I got hooked on Kobo years ago when Borders liquidated and I snagged a cheap reader. I'm still loath to spend more than $2 on anything DRM'd on principle though, so I need to look up how to rip that shit sometime. Basically the only e-manga I buy are random DRM-free Humble Bundles.
If it's a stand based on principle, it's a principle that few creatives in any industry share. "I want to get paid, but I want as many people to read my stuff as possible" is a far more common viewpoint, and limited time free deals and keeping some chapters free but making you pay for others and such are commonplace when promoting manga domestically.
If it's a stand based on maximizing profit, then they're simply doing a bad job. You're supposed to hit the titles that people are actually buying overseas and leave the obscure ones up to market them.
Comick is probably the second largest aggregator with a great filtering system, but they downscale and compress the images quite heavily. Also, the comment sections are full of retarded esls and zoomers.
Kinda fascinating digging and seeing stuff under the Shueisha/Kodansha umbrellas that didn't get touched.
Hell Sensei Nube
Zach Bell/2
Hinomaru Sumo
A-bout!
Boy's Abyss
Bakuon Rettou
Bookwalker is hiding R18, BL, TL and some other content from foreign IPs. You can still purchase and read them but getting them into your shopping basket without VPN is challenging.
Bookwalker is cheaper than Kobo and has more frequent campaigns.
I don't know if it's still the case but supposedly Kobo's DRM is easier to break.
nyaa has manga
You, just as the idiots doing this shit, don't realize how fucking much free advertisements free fan translation provide
I haven't used Kissmanga in a while but last time I did it was a pretty shitty, even without taking into account the aggressive attempts to pozz your computer if you weren't using a good adblock and anti-script they were arbitrarily censoring pages.
Would it also be a good idea to just use both then? One reason I stuck to Ebookjapan was because I already had a large collection there and it didn't seem to make much sense to switch, but if that's the case then maybe I could just switch anyway. Maybe use Bookwalker for stuff that you know won't ever become lost media, but Kobo for adult stuff?
I buy plenty of manga I read on Mangadex if it's available and I can afford it. Unfortunately publishers want to charge me $12-$15 dor something that costs $5 in Japan.
Zach Bell/2
Zatch 2 is being self published and no publisher holds the rights for Zatch, only Raiku does.
Same reason why private equity firms buy swathes of real estate and leave them vacant while housing prices keep going up from the supply squeeze.
So why didn't anyone create a replacement when MD was hacked and unavailable for years?
That's so fucking retarded...
evergreen
What a waste of time. As if they'll ever be able to defeat piracy. It's a concept, an idea. It cannot be eliminated. And it's also a service issue. What these companies provide is shit, reason why so many pirate digital media.
What's the current domain then? I think there are at least two sites that use the Kissmanga name: one is just a Mangahub clone and doesn't even use the Kissmanga UI and logo, while the other does but it keeps changing its domain name and the old one I knew is now a squatter site. I don't even know if it's the original .com Kissmanga or if it was just a clone that stole the branding.
didn't back them up
You fucking dumbass nigger.
They have been doing this for a while now. This whole event probably coincides with the massive increase in anti piracy measures coming from Japan this last year or so.
What's truly terrifying is that Mangadex essentially uses the exact same website model as the panda. This same thing could easily happen to the panda, at a scale that dwarfs previous content nukes like the Wanipocalypse and ongoing takedowns.
Oh no, how is Kirei Cake going to take care of her sick mother now?
Ah, paired them by mistake then.
This whole thing is wack. It's like they threw darts at a board.
holy fucking shit mang I thought only big series like frieren and 100 gfs got nuked but hundreds of mangos are actually gone
no twitter shit
Doesn't Xun already have their own site already anyway?
Where is the anon that's been scanning Heavenly Delusion? I'd like to know where he plans on posting next.
i don't need to keep the stuff that i did. hell, i didn't even proofread or re-read any of the chapters after i uploaded them
i only scanlated for other people in the first place and the small group that read it together as it happened will share that period in time amongst ourselves. that's what was most important to me, not back-ups of my work
Another reason I'm considering between Bookwalker and Kobo is because I want to make sure I can recover my account and stuff even if don't live in Japan and don't have a Japanese address or phone number. Are Bookwalker and Kobo both safe in that regard?
Ah sure let me just buy it the english release...oh wait it doesn't exist? Oh wait 1 volume is 15$ while in japan is 5$?
Guess you don't want my money.
Just look at how Slitterhead a indie title which needed to develope for more time, thought it was a good idea to spend tens of thousand of dollars per month by adding Denuvo.
Few hours earlier they pushed an update banning the "come to our website" bullshit so maybe some buttblasted pinoy sent fake DMCA as retaliation.
Well, considering what just happened, you clearly did need to keep it.
It's all just so tiring.
How do you still believe wealth cures greed?
Yeah I have it all saved on my PC, it's just that Mangadex was the only place the series got any engagement.
some buttblasted pinoy
Unlikely, Pinoys are huge manga and webtoon pirates.
Fuck I was reading Senryuu Shoujo and don't remember which chapter I was in.
trust me you don't want the $5 volume printed on toilet paper
Heavenly Delusion is still up.
If it's a stand based on principle, it's a principle that few creatives in any industry share. "I want to get paid, but I want as many people to read my stuff as possible" is a far more common viewpoint, and limited time free deals and keeping some chapters free but making you pay for others and such are commonplace when promoting manga domestically.
They do share the principle, you just don't understand it.
It's not about money. It's about using the official channels.
Reading something during a free-reading campaign is not the same as piracy, at least from a Japanese honor standpoint.
only the newest chapter as I cannot read portugese
Only applies to white/first world countries. Browns don't pay for anything.
But a private, profit-driven one. And I thought the logic is
profiting off of intellectual works without supporting the creator = bad
So it's okay if things don't permanently change hands, or what's the logic, then?
We have been defeated today my friends
Let me add a point to what I've said. If you officiate it and the benefit is transferred from an individual to an official business with a mission instead, you're guilt free. So selling your own property instead of giving it to the recycling man might be not very appropriate of Takeshi, but might be acceptable, selling it to a business that helps people rid of their undesired possessions is a-ok. Same applies to buying. That's why Surugaya is okay because they buy and sell the items at their set price, unlike Mercari or Yahoo Auction where it's only a platform.
For manga cafes and book offs, they're like that too. You're doing proper business and not harming the original creator intentionally, if at all.
I'll never cease to be amazed at the heights of Japanese autism.
I picked a random nationality but the idea is that some scanlator who profits off of his website/patreon had his source of income cut off by Mangadex, and decided to burn everything
scanlators tend to be mentally unwell drama queens after all
Wow, some titles I was working on got hit. Including my favorite one I was working on.
Oh well, message received I guess. I'm not going to continue with it after that.
You'd be surprised at how big Steam is in places like SEA, or how much people spend on mobile games there.
It gets worse.
Mangadex didn't host official scans from extant companies (although if a fan scanner kept going after licensing they'd host that, and they had a lot of the Tokyopop archive) and linked back to places to buy the manga legitimately.
They're pushing people from a pirate site which tries to play nice with the industry to ones which don't give a shit.
But with a manga cafe you're "robbing potential sales". How is that nor harming the original creator?
I don't get it at all. Am I just not Japanese enough?
surprised it wasnt nuked despite having official scans
let us dmca series
also let us not translate them
and prevent foreigners from buying raws
Yes, this will help us make those series popular and profitable, what could go wrong.
Learning Japanese has never been a solution because after a point a lot of shit is just unavailable outside the mainland.
This is our hobby gaijin, get your own.
Official scans
“Scan" is just your new word for “translation” isn't it? I swear you people just type without thinking about what you're saying.
I'm an American, my hobby is stealing your shit
Is there any way I can quickly download of list of titles I've read / am reading?
and prevent foreigners from buying raws
The preachiest anons always out themselves as the ones who never buy raws. It's stupid easy these days. Most sites offer EN layouts and accept any foreign card.
I only follow like 6 mango series and all of them have someone who posts chapters here so I don't have to look for them. I tried to read a series years ago but when I found the scanlation group's website and looked for a torrent link like how I downloaded fansubbed anime they only had a link to some reader site which made me annoyed because I wanted to have it saved on my computer. now I feel like my autism was justified.
Use Bookwalker for the subscription at the very least.
bookwalker.jp
They didn't go far enough, there's lots of slime still permitted. Now instead of "permanently" locking content you lock and dripfeed it as slow as permissible :) along with no restrictions on watermarking, adding 15 begging pages per chapter, etc. as best as I can tell.
Steal a thing that doesn't exist.
Come on. Paying 5 bucks for a magazine-like digital service and another 5 for one tankobon every month it's dirt cheap everywhere outside some of the poorest places on this planet but even digital manga in english from Bookwalker it's still at least 10 dollars per book so yeah, you can see why people don't buy a lot of manga here.
Did you know that most of the English scans of Jules Verne's works were abridged? This led many people to dismiss them as mere children's books.
Bookwalker
I've been using a foreign card since the start and still have access to all my purchases.
You are found lacking
Loyalty, Dedication
So no Nanako
This is true I never bought manga and am not planning to no matter how bad it gets.
I would however use something like Crunchy if they made it cheap and GOOD. If they restrict me from reposting screenshots to my friends, that's a no-go.
No.
then keep complaining.
I pirate everything but I don't try to keep the moral high ground, just because it's not available doesn't mean you have the right to read it.
But I don't give a shit about rights anyway
Yeah I think I'll stick to Bookwalker. The DRM is less of a problem to me as simply having access to my account and being easily recoverable.
Some sneaky Gookshills trying to paint Korea as the piracy friendly country
Remind me again who fucked over Tachiyomi?
not new, old.
I come from a time period when most manga on the internet was actually scanned, as in with a scanner, from a physical raw, and not just ripped from a digital release.
Although technology has updated, my language hasn't, for which I apologize.
I think stuff like that is good for notes and whatnot. Onban Kikou for example, the TL has a page at the end where he points out all the references, historical/cultural contexts, etc. But that's about the only point where it's acceptable.
Buying digital versions from overseas is perfectly feasible.
To be fair one of their movies got nominated for Oscar's best picture and there is also Godzilla Minus one and Babymetal
I'm so tired.
Batoto has been back for years
Some shitholers skinwalking for their digital AIDS cryptominers or whatever isn't "back".
Yeah and that still only applied to bootlegged translations.
Official translations didn't use any scans. They obviously got the it straight from the master and didn't have to redraw either because they probably also got a version without text.
Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan has all but four chapters removed, what's up with that?
All the stuff I couldnt get an update for today
Maybe it'll help someone. One shots, axed manga and to love ru of all things. Glad that it's only 40 entries from 400+ I have on tachi
! No chapters found
# MangaDex (EN)
- 1-nen A-gumi no Monster
- A Drifting Life
- Arakure Ojousama wa Monmon Shiteiru
- Bareteru! Cocktail Nights
- Black Torch
- Call of the Night
- Death Note: Never Complete
- Doujima-kun wa Doujinai
- Fate/type Redline
- GALAXIAS (Pre-Serialization)
- Girlfriend, Girlfriend
- Golden Kamuy
- Goodnight Punpun
- Hatsukoi Zombie
- Hikikomari Kyuuketsuki no Monmon
- Hiraeth wa Tabiji no Hate
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 9 - The JOJOLands
- Kin no Ito
- Kisu Shitai Otoko
- Koi wa Ameagari no You ni
- Musume no Tomodachi
- My Dress-Up Darling
- Myo-chan-sensei wa Kaku Katariki
- Okuru Kotoba
- Shi ni Aruki
- Shounen, Chotto Sabotteko?
- Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru
- Sousou no Frieren
- Telework Yotabanashi
- The City of Imprisoned Love
- The Stray and the Weeds
- The Summer Hikaru Died
- To Love Ru
- Torima Minshuku Yadori-teki na!
- Uchuujin no Kakushigoto
- Untouchable Lover
- Usotsuki Satsuki wa Shi ga Mieru
- Variante - Requiem for the world
- Welcome Back, Alice
- Yoko-chan is a positive girl
- Yuusha Goikkou no Kaerimichi
Supposedly, the cafes bought their manga legitimately and they're running a cafe business, with their manga for lending. This is acceptable because their intention is selling coffee, not spreading manga for free and also a business can promote you, but a random individual less so (corporate/conformist mindset yet again).
Contrasting that to buying a manga that just came out a a week ago and still well in print, your intention is to benefit yourself by not buying from the creator to save some money for yourself and the seller is enabling by providing.
Yes, it's very autistic and you have to get into the mindset to have a sense for it. There's no explaining it fully without going over examples after examples.
Batoto has been back for years
lol
Onban Kikou for example, the TL has a page at the end where he points out all the references, historical/cultural contexts, etc
What's the point? Either you get those things by yourself or they're wasted on you.
If the Japanese original doesn't explain Communist Bloc, pirate radio or whatever, why should a translation?
Both can be true at the same time. K-Pop for example is a lot more foreigner-friendly and less copyright happy than J-Pop, but it's also true that Webtoon and friends are the ones who are at the forefront of the fight against piracy sites.
They need to host this shit in Belarus/Russia or some shit like that.
I will forever miss mangatraders, scanlations peaked then.
Yeah but they didn't post those translations to the internet so someone still had to scan them
The retards who shill all these turdie sites are the ones running them.
Deference to authority and shit. Think of the mindset that causes them to vote for MCs in popularity polls.
I hope he whales himself to debt
The overseas market exists because of piracy. It literally earns them money.
Retarded consulting company doing retarded consulting company things, at this point even a shitty LLM can make a better work.
If you die, they win
Many series have the most recents chapters still up, it's only for technical reasons, they'll be removed manually.
Tell us about the manga piracy in 1970s France or Italy.
That's the stupidest shit I've ever seen.
Oh fuck.... what's the alternative (that's actually good)
I actually looked for a way to give Mangaplus money on their website and read chapters there, but I guess they only want to support the mobile app, so back to pirating I went.
Learning Japanese and buying digital releases.
Think of the mindset that causes them to vote for MCs in popularity polls.
By that logic Japan wants you to fuck your teacher.
What if I want something readable?
I'm not paying for anything I can't de-DRM.
The blessing in disguise of these threads has been scraping anons' lists for recs
Yeah well I translated them based on the unspoken gentleman's agreement that they are cool with it if they don't take it down. They can never explicitly say it of course but people sort of felt scanlation lived by that unspoken agreement. They tacitly allow it so long as it not become a for-profit business.
They sent their message now; they don't like it, and I'm not going to risk my skin now that I have notice.
Also, it probably helps that I've been wanting to stop for years but didn't out of some weird sense of obligation to finish what I started.
While failing to provide any actual, good alternatives to keep people from "stealing" the shit they don't even put out.
that's actually good
Can't speak for then, but for today at least the French manga industry thrives because they actually license a lot of shit, prices are cheap, and manga are easily available.
So what is the non normalfag alternative
AB/madokami literally reupload mangadex shit
I wish half the doujin I wanted was actually available digitally. The only way to get shit is scouring resellers and then getting a middleman shipper. Annoying as fuck and expensive.
shibuya
kumeta we're the only ones reading your shit manga.
Few hours earlier they pushed an update banning the "come to our website" bullshit
What?
In the early days they actively encouraged that, with first-class support for delayed mangadex uploads and redirects to the scanlator's website.
What caused them to do such a 180?
Question, does this restropectively delete anything in my reading history? It would be fucked up if so, I don't even remember what I was reading aaaaaaaa
I mostly use kobo since they're easier to rip with calibre/dedrm. Though I guess bookwalker has cheap subscription and a lot of stuff for free, and screenshotting doesn't have that terrible quality, at least if you do it on an ipad. For some reason the releases on ipad app are better quality than on the web or on android.
bugle call gone
all the other sites only have the AI translation
I hate this fucking timeline.
I just checked and looks like it does... just fuck my shit up sempai........
Wew, gotta be a shibuya nigger to read that goy.
Like 90% of modern scanlators are either donation-beggers or autists with huge egos, neither of which should be pandered to
This is acceptable because their intention is selling coffee, not spreading manga for free
Sure, that explanation is exactly what I'd expect, but manga are clearly a part of the business model here.
(corporate/conformist mindset yet again).
Seems like it really boils down to that, if your explanations are to be believed. Corporation does it = good, individual does it = bad.
They didn't ban it. They only banned very specific infringements. You cannot upload 1 chapter of a work that only exists to advertise 100 chapters permanently paywalled on your site. Your site cannot host others' work. But there are vague loopholes to these rules.
forums.mangadex.org
this is why I use kitsu with mal-sync
Are you autistic? No one sent any message. The publisher and mangaka don't even know you exist. This is a carpet bombardment by a subcontractor anti-piracy company that they pay so they don't need to think about you and others like you.
There are real gentlemen's agreements, like what Pokemon Showdown has, but you never had anything like that.
Those sites are paywalling or using some coin bullshit with real money for chapters.They withhold chapters for like months and then uploads them with missing chapters (sometimes dozens) in between.
Fuck I was reading Battle Angel Alita.
You cannot upload 1 chapter of a work that only exists to advertise 100 chapters permanently paywalled on your site.
So they were fighting against horders like Soseki Scans? Good.
For me the DRM is less of an issue as long as I can still easily access my purchases and I know there's no realistic chance of me losing whatever I buy. For me stuff like promotions, cheaper prices, and especially the ability to recover my lost account, are more important.
A nigga like me cant have shit in life huh.
What with shit recently? This site, Nhentai, now Mangadex.
You are genuinely retarded and intellectually lazy holy shit. Go back to TikTok you mouth breather. Half the fun of hobbyshit manga or historical manga is being able to talk about these otherwise niche topics. Maybe people will find learning about pirate record creation in the Soviet Bloc interesting.
Is it derivative content?
I know a lot of artists aren't comfortable with selling that digitally since they're profiting from other people's work. Original doujinshi typically aren't a problem.
Does it work on phone?
Doujinka don't want to make money, they want the happy feeling of handing their thin book face to face into a fan's hands at a convention.
Even more so for non-original doujins. With print they can limit their supply, but with digital they could accidentally sell too much and earn too much profit, which would force them to commit seppuku because it's a shame to profit from someone else's copyright. (although this kind of extreme thinking is mostly seen with fujoshi)
If the Japanese original doesn't explain Communist Bloc, pirate radio or whatever, why should a translation?
Exactly. Just translate the fucking manga, you tards.
I'm going to guess that Kumeta actively does not want foreigners, especially not westerners and ESPECIALLY not Americans, reading his stuff.
And you need some retard that may not get all references to do it for you? Do research for yourself instead of demanding to be spoonfed. A few pages aren't going to cut it and just interrupt your reading.
An ESL tourist like you shouldn't be allowed anything period.
The hoarders can still paywall but have to release anything withheld "freely after a consistent delay". I have no fucking clue what that entails and I'm sure scum will call one year a "consistent delay" to dripfeed their hoarded shit, so hopefully MD enforces a more realistic standard (like 1 chapter withheld at most)
If I am buying Raws, which store allows me to easily deDRM the manga for offline reading?
Writing up a DMCA takes time, and you have to manually list every single individual item. So their chapter list was probably out of date.
giant killing.... gone...
Kobo. Calibre+Obok for deDRM.
Probably not, unless you do your reading on browser.
too bad.
A lot of shops having reading software that allows you to download and read offline. Pretty much all are on Android and iOS and some on Windows as well.
Maybe they also don't have the latest volumes? In that case they would still function as free previews that encourage you to buy to continue reading.
That's not removing drm.
It's offline reading.
Kobo for sure, but it's so easy to get banned there for no reasons. I got banned on 3 accounts, so make sure you save it on your PC after deDRM
Thanks, anons.
I got banned on 3 accounts
Did they provide any reason for the bans?
If you have the raws and the fanslation then you should be able to do some sort of image diffing to get just the sections that were changed with the fanslation on every page. It would work best if you had the raws the fanslator used but it might be possible to figure some way to get something workable with other raws.
The next issue is that you have to come up with some simple way to package them so that people can apply them easily. Shouldn't be too hard, could probably just do an archive with numbered images (missing numbers means that page gets skipped when applying changes) and could probably write a simple program that bakes a raw with a fanslation package together into a fanslated archive.
It's all doable, I dunno how much trouble its worth it unless someone is willing to set up a site to host such fanslations.
Fanslators have a tendency to be autistic drama whores so there's that too. Also part of the reason Japanese are against fanslators is because it increases the distribution of raws, which they argue actually impact the Japanese market.
from shonen sunday, mao got hit hard across all languages
only the most recent chapters are still up
Mato
Mikadono
Vermeil
Did you upload them?
I dont think so, they just suspend my accounts then ask me to fill out a form, but I never bothered with it.
I did, ofc
No because the pages have to be edited to have the Japanese text removed, which can get complicated very quickly because very rarely do pages have nothing but basic text bubbles. It would also require transparency and text rendering along with layers so you would need an image editing software like Photoshop. It's literally just easier to have an edited chapter like scanlation does now and just distribute it through irc or whatever is less regulated.
A few of them don't even have a simulpub like The no Geka which just ended this week and Tatari which will end next week so why they are doing it?
Well, there go basically all the series I'm working on
So where do we go from here?
Because it's still competition.
Somebody reading Tatari or The no Geka isn't going to read the series they offer. And Mangadex fosters the mindset that manga should be gratis and they obviously don't want that.
So what's the replacement?
Watamote and MGX too
Not gonna lie anons I feel cold and I feel like I lost someone in my life.
Blue Giant and the sequel got fucked as well.Its that jazz saxaphone nigga manga.Grim.
i wish a second HOMBRE would hit the website right about now
I2P
MangaDex but on I2P
Back to the old ways. Scanlators upload zips to their own sites and you download from them to read.
I'll adapt but yeah, I'll never get used to the feeling of a good thing getting fucked.
nothing i scanlate got taken down
please, I want to be free
what? it's that easy???
lol
lmao
Scanlators upload zips to their own sites
Probably just going to camp at nyaa then. I will never bother going through discord for this stuff
Watamote
Oh shit, you're right. I was just reading the latest chapter but didn't scroll down so I didn't even notice.
Do they actually have an I2P mirror? I know about the madoka site but that isn't a viable replacement if the scanlators don't use it.
Oh that's true, a lot of these dipshits use Discord to distribute now. Discord is garbage zoomer glow ware and should not be used for piracy. But I'm sure that's where most of it will go now.
That comick site seems similar enough and it even looks like groups can upload their shit there
meh, just go to one of the hundreds of scrapers and reuploaders that just steal from these scanlators and put on their sites.
Kumeta is going to kill you in your sleep for allowing your filthy AMERICAN eyes to gaze upon his grorious work for pure nihonjin only.
I lived all this time while dodging making a discord account but I may not have a choice anymore I guess.
anon constantly begs to snipe and deliver him from his misery in scanlation threads
nobody does
mangadex get fucked by massive DMCA bomb
none of series he's working on are affected
The joy of irony.
I'm glad I know basic jap and visit raw sites regularly for my manga. But still hurts seeing mdex suffer this way...
compressed images
It's shit
I don't even see basic bitch series like Nagatoro there but I might be using it wrong
my first impression it got nice UI but the same manhwa/manhua bloats like battwo. The comments section being uncultured make me wish there are android ublock so I can script out the section to oblivion.
They just need to ban non-Japanese stuff because most of these shitty groups are mainlanders/SEAs who mostly translate Chinese and Korean slop and then put their credits pages at the start of chapters.
5 months out of date
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Just start typing nagatoro in the search bar and it'll come up dude
There is a special place in Hell for DMCA requesters.
If I see one of them there I will personally take a job application to torture these fucks for all eternity
Kinda weird Shogakukan doesn't just simulpub all Sunday titles like Shueisha currently does for Jump considering Shogakukan is the parent company of Shueisha.
As much as Anon Babble hates Webtoons and Manhua, they're there for a reason: they're popular and bring in readers. If Mangadex got rid of them, Anon Babble would celebrate but a lot of people are going to be pissed. I'm not defending what they're doing, far from it, but Anon Babble severely underestimates the backlash Mangadex would get if webtoons and manhua were banished to another site.
That website doesn't really work correctly for me. If I click on the gear icon to tinker with the settings some kind of grey overlay pops up but I can't really do anything, same deal when I try to jump to a specific page.
refuse to translate a series officially, meaning westerners won’t buy your product
get mad when a fan translates it instead, because they want more people to experience your product
Retards.
Shueisha doesn't do all Young Jump titles and that magazine is bigger than Sunday.
There simply isn't enough interest from paying customers. With Weekly Jump they just try to cut the losses from illegal translations that way.
Like the rest of these it's probably whoever runs the site playing hyena and shilling it.
The solution is simple. Add more korean and chinese shit.
I swear everything I like is under attack
Anime and manga
Vidya
Guns
Kinnikuman got completely nuked.
Despite the fact that it will never get an official translation.
Why do Nips have to be so fucking retarded?
So which publishers are the main culprits of this DMCA? Every single one in existence? I'm surprised they even got something like the OPM webcomic considering it's a literal hobby project that doesn't make money.
I miss the days of them just crying about their sick mothers in the credit page.
And it's all thanks to droves of people who don't actually like any of those things.
Lord is kill,adam and eve, trillion game too. So its all ikegami stuff as well most likely.
The 'fix' for that was to update your browser
Because fuck you Gaijin
Fuck you, fuck your tastes, and if we decide by the will of Kami-Sama to let you have crumbs of our series, we will give it to publishers who will censor, mistranslate, and take years to catch up.
Fuck you, asshore
There's enough people that know Japanese and could easily buy the official releases but preferred to use Mangadex because they didn't want to spend money.
I'm waiting for an official announcement. I still hope for a chance that it's some random DMCA unrelated to publishers that's a malicious attack on Mdex. That way the chapters can come back up.
Letting Americans into Japanese culture has been a fucking disaster, it's finally time for them to fight back.
The dude translating Dai Dark is still keeping that tradition alive
Megami no Sprinter too, same publisher as Hajirau
Jej, this one nuked as well.
I wonder if anyone bothered to back up anything that got taken down
If you count aggregators as backups then yes.
he doesn't download his manga
Shiggy diggy.
Honestly I wish this was a hentai instead
Anything remotely popular obviously would have been DL'd by some plenty of people who habitually hoard online media (AKA smart people) and its not like the translators themselves would be tossing the files into the recycle bin
I have copies of everything I read, have read, or plan to read up to what was available at 07:00 UTC today
and its not like the translators themselves would be tossing the files into the recycle bin
We do.
its not like the translators themselves would be tossing the files into the recycle bin
lol, lmao.
its not like the translators themselves would be tossing the files into the recycle bin
lol ask me if I still have the raws for the koibumi chapters I helped with
If that was the case then why would those people use MD instead of actual raw sites or the official online release?
Does he know?
do you really need to make an account to read manga on comick.io?
does it have dual page view yet?
kill yourself
Because raw sites have less than Mangadex and official sites are normally limited to a handful recent chapters.
Might also have to do with people being used to Mangadex and refusing to go elsewhere.
I think 4 publishers will use AI translation for all series nuked
Only 5 series I actually follow that are fucked
Only 3 of which aren't getting official translations or aren't available on nyaa
Only 1 of which I've actually started reading
Could be worse
Works for me, I pulled up that exact manga.
Even automated translations and typesetting aren't going to be cost effective.
Kinnikuman raws are fully available. No use going to MD if you know Japanese.
t. JSL
oh wait, you're not even that ahaha
Where is Anon Babble when you need them
Anyone know an equivalent to mangadex-dl that works with other sites?
There's genuinely Anon Babblenons that do.
no idea, saw it mentioned in the last thread and checked it out a bit ago. The only real reason I give a damn about it is that I saw wizard scans uploading some bugle call which means its at least a short term place for scanlators to go for now and not just give up on working on shit
Make them an offering of programming socks
Dance Dance Danseur
Literally why? There isn't a complete translation. And the fanslation is an Everest behind.
hakuneko
Yeah, it's called right click save as.
dork gathering got hit
nooooooooooo
Doing things manually
Christ, what a boring little fart you must be
HakuNeko is using a CDN to cache manga lists for certain websites to protect users from being IP banned for making to many requests. Unfortunately the CDN needs to be updated manually right now, so it can take 2~6 weeks until the list is updated.
And sometimes for whatever reason, the translated pages are higher res than the raws
Kek
dungeon island inn is kill
Man, cant I have some relaxing shit to read left alone? Is a western publisher gonna even touch this shit?
flower and asura
kunoichi tsubaki
my home hero
No official physical manga release, so they were never getting my money anyway. This solves nothing. Even the author of Kunoichi Tsubaki doesn’t care about the series, so that’s a strange choice.
medalist, insomniacs after school, skip and loafer
Are the official releases any good? I was planning on getting around to them eventually.
nagatoro
The series is over and the English release is almost complete, so not a huge deal. Still annoying.
nichijou
The manga releases at a glacial pace. It’s your own fault I can’t give you my money sooner.
"Not intended as a mass downloading tool"
No command line interface
Sounds shite to be honest
Are the official releases any good
Insomniacs official release is five volumes behind with a glacial release schedule
Based.
batuque
Son of a bitch I had just gotten to that in my backlog last month
True, then we might have gotten more than a few fleeting seconds of penetration
Didn't Viz simulpub it
It's also not getting some updates now since a replacement is getting worked on.
two of the series i translate got nuked
meh, i'll still dump new translations here
How the fuck should I know?
Sounds like an excuse to avoid heat, honestly. But even if true, it must have been scrapped by someone and is siting on someone's hard drive.
it's called ai upscales
If they're not planning on making it officially available internationally on their site, they can fuck off. No fucking wonder Kinnikuman isn't popular here if this is how they treat it.
They just hit very wide, Ushiro no Shoumen Kamui-san got hit and they're definitely not showing this one to a western audience.
Sometimes they can't be consistent within a chapter and the resolution changes by page.
nuking watamote
a series that only exist because of its western popularity
Nigga what the fuck
All these posts implying any suit or anyone who works for a suit is capable of sane, intelligent, thought
Shiggy FUCKING DIGGY
read the AI translations in jpg quality and censorships dirty gaijin
Its gonna be forever to find series nuked to shit. At best maybe I'm lucky to catch a fresh upload from a kamikaze scanlation team members there. I think series we know were nuked were from android manga reader app that has "series has no chapters" function.