Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[Manko-sensei]

Okay, if they involve minors it means you should delete any shonen/shoujo series with erotica or above, and then keep removing more and more titles, it'd not be strange to reach at least a 25%. Of course, this would increase over time at the minor suspiction. After removing all that, is it still worth using the site? I don't need another pointless debate where people who don't understand fiction shout louder than others.

 

[Angry_Panda]

I don't need another pointless debate where people who don't understand fiction shout louder than others.

The problem isn't that they're shouting louder than others, it's that they got elected and started passing very real laws. Like it or not, there are people who are responsible for keeping the site up and running, and they will potentially bear the punishment (or at least be subject to trial) for breaking those laws if someone decides to start filing charges. I'm not thrilled about this either, but it is by far the lesser of two evils when compared to the site getting napalmed wholesale.

 

[Manko-sensei]

The problem isn't that they're shouting louder than others, it's that they got elected and started passing very real laws. Like it or not, there are people who are responsible for keeping the site up and running, and they will potentially bear the punishment (or at least be subject to trial) for breaking those laws if someone decides to start filing charges. I'm not thrilled about this either, but it is by far the lesser of two evils when compared to the site getting napalmed wholesale.

There are things I can tolerate and others than not. Self-censorship? That's even worse than censorship itself, as it's not conceding: it's admitting absolute defeat. It never ends with "some titles" with little artistic value, it'll take series that can only be told that way and keep going with anything it gets a ping. The worst part is removing that metadata, specially since, like others, I volunteered to revise, improve and adapt. Being told "any work you've been doing could be wiped out without your knowledge" only calls for resigning.

 

[Oobaka-san]

Well, considering that crunchyroll still has Astarotte's Toy, I imagine there's still some room for argument for a lenient view on literary merit.

 

[BestBoy]

Just a guess, but it's probably mostly the porn manga with minor and adult relationships that are being removed.

Which does include that how to live with a stray cat doujin, btw. She is 100% a minor when the story starts.

 

[Kanami-chan]

Recently MD has started purging titles from the site for "legal reasons". This does not affect just the chapters uploaded but also the title page itself.

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This change was first discovered by a user who reached out to a group about reading some of their chapters on MD.
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/inquiry-regarding-a-recently-missing-manga-series-page.2552352/

Take this information how you want but it's extremely disappointing that this is happening and even more so that it's trying to be done in the dark.

No. There's no law in any country on the planet that says you will go to jail if a character in a comic book says they 'had a relationship with a minor'. This is a completely made up nonproblem presented to you in order to get you to knee-jerk shut up and not question their bullshit.

Stop the misinformation. Titles being removed depict sexual activity between characters that are minors, either in appearance (handled on a case-by-case basis) or confirmed in the dialogue. It's about law and compliance with it. If you jerk it off to little kids, go and do it elsewhere; there are sites that specialise in that.

lol

 

[Oobaka-san]

Just a guess, but it's probably mostly the porn manga with minor and adult relationships that are being removed.

Which does include that how to live with a stray cat doujin, btw. She is 100% a minor when the story starts.

I'd have to look back but that's not how it looked to me. Seemed like she was just past it but had reached 18. Not uncommon. It's a useful setup in many ways to make the characters seniors, from a writing standpoint, and not just for the age. No denying she's in high school though.

Either way we'll just have to agree to disagree on the matter. The final decision belongs to the mods anyway.

 

[Angry_Panda]

No. There's no law in any country on the planet that says you will go to jail if a character in a comic book says they 'had a relationship with a minor'. This is a completely made up nonproblem presented to you in order to get you to knee-jerk shut up and not question their bullshit.

https://cbldf.org/2025/03/legal-update-texas-senate-bill-20/

 

[BestBoy]

Seemed like she was just past it

I skimmed through for story and found that by chapter 25-ish she'd been staying with the salaryman for a year+ and had gone up a grade in high school. JK graduates are typically 18 and rarely 19.

 

[Oobaka-san]

I skimmed through for story and found that by chapter 25-ish she'd been staying with the salaryman for a year+ and had gone up a grade in high school. JK graduates are typically 18 and rarely 19.

Very well. I hadn't made it all that far when it vanished.

 

[Basic_human]

Man this remind me of the case of Mike Diana the comic artist who were framed for murder and thought to be serial killer because his comic have lot of obscene and gruesome stuff.

People think he is automatically guilty because he draw obscene stuff and anti religion. But it's just drawing in the end.

After the further investigation he was innocent, but his drawing certainly are very gore. He didn't do anything and all just his imagination put into paper.

if depiction of fiction aren't allowed what about all media who have body horror and gore ?

All the revenge manga with excessive blood. Things like mortal Kombat too should be illegal because people get mutilated. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul have a lot of scene about drug, cartel, and dirty lawyer that help criminals. Its all illegal thing that if happen in real life gonna get you big trouble. Yet nothing, no one arrested, because what happened in fiction didn't actually happen.

 

[Basic_human]

Oh fuck

Bruh this is one of the tamest anime and manga in existence.

 

[BestBoy]

Mike Diana the comic artist who were framed for murder and thought to be serial killer

lol no he wasn't framed for murder or thought to be a serial killer. Don't get your history facts from tiktok.

 

[Basic_human]

lol no he wasn't framed for murder or thought to be a serial killer. Don't get your history facts from tiktok.

Well the point still the same, you understand what I'm trying to say right?

Argument 101 is to understand the point as a whole, instead nitpicking stuff here and there. What you want to argue is the idea not just some part of it

Instead of attacking me calling me about "don't get your history facts from tiktok" how about attack my idea and argument instead?

 

[BestBoy]

Argument 101

I'm not attacking your argument. Just correcting misinformation. My advice stands.

 

[Basic_human]

I'm not attacking your argument. Just correcting misinformation. My advice stands.

okay advice taken, my original point still stand. The mods need to answer this instead saying things roundabout way and do SHIT as they pleased.


this whole site existence is the community, manga that translated here were uploaded by people and the mods that just remove things without any info or warning is just unfair. Community built on trust, if they cant even do that its a recipe for doom. Dont become arrogant and think because this site incredibly popular it cant failed

 

[Heika]

Any additions or uploads to the service that are not compliant will be removed as we become aware of them.

As for the comment by the blue guy, read the Content Policy. It's there, has been for a while now.

I'm so sick of these dipshits playing upright citizen while running a fucking piracy site. This is just like that bullshit a year ago, where they purged a bunch of stuff. Hey jackasses, if you don't want to break the law, maybe quit being the world's biggest manga pirates. Did you ever fucking consider that?
Last time I pointed that out some dumb-fuck bemoaned, 'but we never intended to be a piracy site'— but you ARE.

Oh, and if you think this looks like a human child,

, then you need to see a psychologist to discuss your pending Agnosia diagnosis.

 

[ScarecrowB]

Anyone who can't distinguish fiction from reality shouldn't be on the internet. And I'd like to recommend a certain mod to go see a doctor because it isn't healthy to treat fictional characters as if they were real people. There's waaay bigger legal issues with the site than fictional character engaging in fictional situations.

 

[Kanami-chan]

this “minor” buzzword is so hilarious.

I once talked about this on the Bato.to discord and the admins said they didn't allow sex scenes with “minors” in it and I had to point out to them that when you simply searched for the tag “shoujo” that 1/3 of the results featured it in some capacity. Mainstream magazines like Sho-Comi and Cheese very regularly feature 15-17 year old characters having sex.

Or like this Tumblr blog for erotic fanfiction about Diabolik Lovers which claims to refuse to publish anything featuring “minors”, ehh... cool, but the protagonist of the franchise that's featured in 90% of your fiction is 17 years old... that's a minor.

It's so hilarious how people just use this word everywhere in this without realizing what it means and what they're doing. I can guarantee you Mangadex is full of shit with “minors” having sex in it.

 

[Heika]

Anyone who can't distinguish fiction from reality shouldn't be on the internet. And I'd like to recommend a certain mod to go see a doctor because it isn't healthy to treat fictional characters as if they were real people. There's waaay bigger legal issues with the site than fictional character engaging in fictional situations.

I would like to know when they will be removing all of the horror manga. Murder is illegal, and I wont stand for it being on the site.