Site Update - 14th of May 2025

[Sprocket]

"Anything is better than fucking over artists"
Publishing companies already do that all the time all over the world, that's why the guy that made Gash Bell burned every bridge with every major publisher to form his own company

 

[Nami]

Yeah, like in the end the only person you’re really hurting is the author so, like, if you’re not bothered then go with g*d and all that.

The author is not responsible for DMCA takedowns, my guy.

 

[BrotherCoa]

There’s no defense here, it’s just entitlement in action.

Y’all, we have the internet.

If you don’t pay for the content you risk losing it altogether.

I am fine with this but what about the people living in 3rd world countries that have absolutely no option to buy original work at all? Like Helldivers II players outside Japan, US and most of Europe today?

 

[radchad]

fuck my fat chungus life

 

[middle-the-nerd]

Two of my favorite series are insomniacs after school and the fragrant flowers bloom with dignity

Whenever a new volume releases in english I buy them hell with fragrant flowers I even buy every new chapter just to support it

well both of those got nuked so these publishers can go fuck themselves i'm not giving a single cent more after this

 

[HoshiNoNighty]

Look guys it's simple, if you don't have the means to buy an official version, nor the means to form your own publisher, nor the means to buy licenses... then honestly it's all on you for sucking, being poor and worthless. You just don't deserve manga.

It's fine, learn your place in life, it's better than bothering those of us doing the right thing and with our money, we're just better.

/s

I am fine with this but what about the people living in 3rd world countries that have absolutely no option to buy original work at all? Like Helldivers II players outside Japan, US and most of Europe today?

It's their fault, of course.

 

[MacKnight]

Update

Other series that got nuked are:
Soul Eater
Fire Force
Goodnight PunPun
Useless Ponko
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Rave Master
NTRevenge (partial nuking) (thank fuck)
Redo of Healer
That’s my Atypical Girl
Fairy Tail

This list would tell me that the arse publisher is bloody Shonen Jump...

 

[Heika]

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.

I mean they can say that they are primarily a scanlation site, but in practice, they have knowingly become a piracy. Second of all, there isn't a difference, It is still piracy if a series is unlicensed.

 

[KatoShuu]

Well, look at the bright side? The hentai doujins and tankoubons are safe

Edit:
some of it I guess, the loli-baba mom fox's was removed

Edit 2:
My bad, it was already removed before this incident
https://mangadex.org/title/bd70d83b-096c-4c5e-8790-771e8eaad6ed/loli-baba-okaa-san-wa-oshi-ni-yowai
idk why tho

 

[Sheza]

Such futile and idiotic actions from japanese corpo. They fail to see that MD is the sheriff thats stopping the overseas manga community from becoming a wild west without any level of civility. Japan publishers and corpos have made their move now all bets are off, official sites be damned!
Mark this as the day that everyone will be going back to the high seas. It doesnt matter how many they take down we will spring up like mushrooms after the spring rain. They cut off one head 2 will take its place. HAIL MD!

 

[DetectiveAme]

Sigh, this sucks. What a genius move hosting a piracy website on DMCA lands, with their legal names on the billing address too My two series were nuked, time to move on from MD, thanks for everything

 

[jeezits]

Hope everybody likes reading manga on MTL pay as you go apps, because that's the only possible reason to DMCA dozens of series that have never even gotten an English release in the first place. Gonna be a lot of garbage coming our way soon.

 

[Tscheddov]

Well, look at the bright side? The hentai doujins and tankoubons are safe

edit:
some of it I guess, the loli-baba mom fox's was removed

which one was removed ?

as a mod said earlier here: theres blood in the water now.
Fakku Irodori J18 are gonna give it a shot now as well.

 

[DracoSafarius]

Then you're completely disregarding facts. Have you noticed that people are boycotting K-manga because they think it's too expensive, and that people expect at most to pay $2 a month for a subscription like on viz or mangaplus, even though shueisha and viz are obviously losing money on having such a low price? You can make excuses all you want, but the issue these days are not a service problem, it's that people don't want to pay and basically expect to get manga for free.

It's bits of both. You can't have all the terribly designed apps/sites like the publishers currently do, but you also can't massively overcharge like plenty of them also do (only gets worse with the ones who break chapters into 2 or 3 parts to sell you coins/tickets). However, the needed solution (basically something like Mangadex with a subscription service, but very cheap) is all but certain to never happen as publishers would rather keep the model of overcharging since the JP side buys into it.

 

[DracoSafarius]

Some manga that have never had an official English translation have also been removed. Can they really do that? Don't they have no right to the English translation, and doesn't the English script belong to the scanlator, so that what they DMCA is not fully theirs anymore?

Eh kind of? Whether the language is licensed or not doesn't really matter since it's from the publishers (original rights holder), however for plenty of these they wouldn't actually have the right since it's transformative enough if it's not just a bad text swap with MTL.

 

[Cool.Ice]

The list has exceeded 1000
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...w5fxHMdz1N_PNWe3OPXtrin0/htmlview?gid=0#gid=0

 

[DracoSafarius]

I bought some Manga, not as much as I'd want because of money problems, but what I bought was incentivized by this website and this community.

Don't they understand I could still read those, I can go on a lot of other aggregator website that won't respond to any DMCA request, but here was special, I care about this community, the scanlators, is a great source for staying updated through community effort on new or old Manga.
There are many stories that now I will likely forget about it, and I won't be talking about anymore and thus they will get less publicity.

My friend bought like 4 full bookshelves worth of manga (I think he has even more in his closet) because he used this site for a good 3 years and wanted to start collecting en masse. I now also own a fair bit just because he gave me the extra copies he had from bulk buying or the really damaged ones. Publishers absolute morons to think this site doesn't make them a ton of money.

 

[Owyoushotme]

Welp shit, Mangadex is how I find most of the manga I buy!

 

[RonBWL]

You think they have a good take because they’re two white guys telling you that what you’re doing is okay.

Starting a discussing with "white guys" is a good way to discredit yourself, but I don't think you're that intelligent. Anywho...

You’re still stealing from an author by not buying their book, plain and simple.

Sorry that doesn't work. Before Amazon forces me to upgrade Kindle and move to their DRM-infested ebook, I was buying YAC every month for scanlating purpose. Now they suddenly lost me as a customer, while at the same time gaining no new ones because those who didn't care already didn't care. Business 101: Instead of convincing people to buy, let's convince your regular customers NOT to buy.

You are consuming the content without paying for it, you are perpetuating the notion that artists should be willing to do things for free ‘for exposure’. Every other comment in here is ‘I can’t afford this’ or ‘and now I’m really not going to buy it’, and most people don’t. Also licensed translations require translators, letterers, cleaners, redrawers, editors, and they have to get paid as well.

It's shown time in time again that the people who are "complaining" aren't going to buy REGARDLESS - they aren't buying before, they aren't buying now, they aren't buying in the future, period. Again, business 101: Let's make it harder for regular customers to buy and they'll stop buying, while the ones already don't buy don't ever buy. Smart.

Apparently the takedown was done by Japanese publishers—who aren’t marketing to western audiences and probably don’t love western fans sharing panels of scanned stuff all over the place, sharing rented chapters, etc.

If they aren't making money from the Western Audiences anyway, can you say we steal from them, since they never let us give them money in the first place?

It would be one thing if the publishers were paying us to do this to drum up sales, but they are not and we are stealing.

Again, we aren't even paying them (because we can't) so we can't steal what we didn't give lol.

TL;DR: We might not like being the bad guys, but we’re not the good guys.

Nor are those publishers. Stop white-knighting.

 

[Tscheddov]

can someone confirm that there is now a new button / checkbox for uploads:

”click here to confirm you have received permission from the copyright holder/author.”

if this is how its going to be from now on this site is finished.

it should be clear that almost no one has the permission here. with that checkbox MD can now shift blame to the uploader if they get legal complaints on uploaded content. they might then even give out whatever personal info they got stored on the uploader and ban the account for violating the sites rules.

i am truly disappointed. "scanlator friendly" should include protecting scanlators and their work as well.