Site Update - 14th of May 2025

[Basic_human]

the artist gets my money

Making doujinshi more profitable anyway lmao. People pay for them, I remember that one author who's manga didn't catch on, give up and make H doujinshi and get hella rich

 

[Robinisback]

People still use sadpanda even though fakku and that other site completely killed it with dmcas.

Yeah, I know but that still doesn't change the fact that sadpanda definitely had views and traffic dropped significantly, especially after the purging event. Sadpanda has managed to retain a core loyal userbase, but its reach and influence have been diminished, especially among casual or new users, due to visibility loss and content scarcity and it remains the same way till today.

 

[Judge_Dreddpool]

They even took away Rent-a-Girlfriend, Life isn't going to be the same anymore, guys.

As bad as this whole DMCA takedown is (losing 100 Girlfriends hurts me), RAG being lost isn't a big deal for me.

 

[hhenrikh]

kek (not kek) over 70 series I was reading got hit by DMCA, thats like...

 

[Xanhomey]

Cooking Papa isn’t even licensed officially

This is what I don't get about the takedown. By all means, take down the licensed stuff, but what about the content that has zero means of being read? They even took down very obscure titles that don't have a big JP following to begin with.

Damn. I was reading that and was happy to see someone picked it up again.These seldom released series gonna die a quiet death without anyone noticing.

Same here. I found it recently and was really loving it.

 

[Robinisback]

As bad as this whole DMCA takedown is (losing 100 Girlfriends hurts me), RAG being lost isn't a big deal for me.

Maybe not for you, buddy. But there's a whole 98K users who used to come together just to shit on the cuck MC, I'm going to miss the comment section so much.

 

[Basic_human]

Im now imagining future that will never existed

Instead sinking us, they reach out to us for an agreement. A bond were made, we can keep chapters but the profit went to them. They have free service of staff and profit, we get to keep something good.

Sure we might have annoying ads but we were backed by the actual company, the community too. But no we got this shit

 

[Heika]

It will stay as long as publishers allow it to. In other words, it will be taken down when we receive a DMCA request.

Why even run a giant mega-popular piracy site if you will kowtow the moment someone asks you to remove something?
Especially when that something is 300 very popular series

 

[kn4ll]

Why even run a giant mega-popular piracy site if you will kowtow the moment someone asks you to remove something?
Especially when that something is 300 very popular series

Mangadex isn't primarily a piracy site, it's a scanlation site.
Honestly I think that it's silly that they've allowed people to work on licensed series, but I guess it was to keep the community alive.

 

[Liar]

I'm not sure what the average is for readers here, but this isn't the first time a manga site gets purged.

Before MangaDex, there was Batoto. Before Batoto, there was OneManga. It's just the nature of things.

 

[a_singular_strike]

Im now imagining future that will never existed

Instead sinking us, they reach out to us for an agreement. A bond were made, we can keep chapters but the profit went to them. They have free service of staff and profit, we get to keep something good.

Sure we might have annoying ads but we were backed by the actual company, the community too. But no we got this shit

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't this the history of Crunchyroll. Started as a piracy site until it aquired legal distribution agreements.

 

[kn4ll]

I'm not sure what the average is for readers here, but this isn't the first time a manga site gets purged.

Before MangaDex, there was Batoto. Before Batoto, there was OneManga. It's just the nature of things.

I'd say it was mangahelpers and #lurk and not onemanga. Onemanga, Mangafox, those Tazmo sites, and all those shitty aggregators were just leeches. Batoto, Mangahelpers, and #lurk were the community.

 

[kn4ll]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't this the history of Crunchyroll. Started as a piracy site until it aquired legal distribution agreements.

Iirc the original intent of mangadex was to be the equivalent of crunchyroll for manga, but it didn't work out. You can find like five year old posts from the mods back then about this, but their goal has changed. I guess it just wasn't possible, most likely because the publishers weren't interested since they wanted to be in control of their own products. Like both shueisha and kodansha nearly translates all their manga now themselves.

 

[Xafono]

That's painful, used this as main reader and tracker for a lot of manga. Will be very difficult to put together everything affected, likely going to never read so many series ever again and a massive amount will no longer be translated regulated to permanent partial translation limbo

 

[Quroh_JG]

Well that sucks. I was reading chapter 461 of Kingdom and then everything dissappeared.
Piracy is one of the reasons on why manga is popular outside of Japan. It's a shame that publishers are forcing us to use apps and pages that a lot of time are not even available outside of Japan.
Even when they translate manga, it's translated only in english, and that sucks for someone who doesn't speak the language. Heck, as a spanish speaker myself, I was forced to learn english to be able to read and play japanese products.
Gotta try harder in my japanese lessons, I guess

 

[kn4ll]

That's painful, used this as main reader and tracker for a lot of manga. Will be very difficult to put together everything affected, likely going to never read so many series ever again and a massive amount will no longer be translated regulated to permanent partial translation limbo

Most likely the groups are just going to upload to batoto or similar instead if I had to guess. In the end it changes nothing.

 

[Quroh_JG]

Like both shueisha and kodansha nearly translates all their manga now themselves.

Translations that most of the time:

1. are only in english, limiting the content to only the people who knows that language...
2. are not very good... or simply they suck

 

[kn4ll]

Well that sucks. I was reading chapter 461 of Kingdom and then everything dissappeared.
Piracy is one of the reasons on why manga is popular outside of Japan. It's a shame that publishers are forcing us to use apps and pages that a lot of time are not even available outside of Japan.
Even when they translate manga, it's translated only in english, and that sucks for someone who doesn't speak the language. Heck, as a spanish speaker myself, I was forced to learn english to be able to read and play japanese products.
Gotta try harder in my japanese lessons, I guess

The issue is that it's not a service problem anymore, it's a "I don't want to pay" issue. People are so used to reading manga and scanlations for free, that they somehow forget that this is a product that you actually have to pay for, and that exist because the people (mostly Japanese) reading the manga support it and buy it to keep it alive.
Honestly way more people should support the manga they like by buying Japanese raws from bookwalker or kobo or whatever. Lots of good series that have been axed because of low sales could've avoided this if people just bothered supporting the stuff they like.

 

[kn4ll]

Translations that most of the time:

1. are only in english, limiting the content to only the people who knows the language...
2. are not very good... or simply they suck

France has a pretty good comics culture and is the second biggest manga market after Japan, but they understand that they have to buy and support manga.

 

[Quroh_JG]

The issue is that it's not a service problem anymore, it's a "I don't want to pay" issue. People are so used to reading manga and scanlations for free, that they somehow forget that this is a product that you actually have to pay for, and that exist because the people (mostly Japanese) reading the manga support it and buy it to keep it alive.
Honestly way more people should support the manga they like by buying Japanese raws from bookwalker or kobo or whatever. Lots of good series that have been axed because of low sales could've avoided this if people just bothered supporting the stuff they like.

Not gonna deny that, you're right