Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[theblasblas]

The content that was removed, and some content still being reviewed, includes entries labelled Mature, with characters that are engaging in sexual intercourse and either:

• They are clearly very young in appearance, and the content does not confirm that they are adults.
• The content itself confirms that they are under the age of 18.

Nothing else is being examined at this time. We're currently exploring options to retain the title entry and other non-infringing metadata, but for now, we need to proceed with the removal.

Berserk is tagged as erotica and has underaged characters engaging in sex. It even has underaged characters engaging in eroguro. When are you removing it?

 

[Pauan]

There is no general U.S. court ruling that says Visa Inc. or Mastercard are forbidden from restricting transactions based on content. If you think I am wrong provide some links.

And I suspect has to do with the payment processor because it always comes down to money.

He's referring to Trump's executive order:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/guaranteeing-fair-banking-for-all-americans/

But I agree with you that I also suspect the payment processors.

 

[Miros]

its not just the subreddit its X/Twitter also they are sharing alternate site and people are talking about mass reporting MD because of this, i doubt they actually will but only time will tell what happens

oh they'll never understimate the power of autism

 

[Sir_Epic]

He's referring to Trump's executive order:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/guaranteeing-fair-banking-for-all-americans/

But I agree with you that I also suspect the payment processors.

I suspected that's what they were thinking of. Sadly no. It doesn't do that.
I WISH it did. But to quote ai:

No — the “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” executive order does not prohibit payment processors like Visa and Mastercard from setting content-based restrictions on transactions.


Here’s what’s actually going on:

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🧾 What the Executive Order Is About​

The executive order you’re referring to focuses on anti-discrimination in banking and financial services—meaning the government wants to make sure banks and financial service providers do not deny access to credit, accounts, or services based on protected characteristics (race, gender, etc.). It’s aimed at preventing unfair discrimination in things like:

• Loan approvals
• Bank account access
• Financial fees and services

It does not say that Visa or Mastercard:


✅ Must process every transaction regardless of content
❌ Cannot set rules about what type of merchants they accept
❌ Cannot refuse certain categories of sales


The order is more about who you are, not what you sell.

 

[BestBoy]

When are you removing it?

Probably when Kentaro Miura's musty corpse climbs out of the grave and files the legal documents. Or maybe the publisher will do it 🤷‍♂️

 

[hibikiyamada]

Man...i wish can start my post with "let's be civil and adult" because lots of OOT topic with xenophobic posts. But since even staff admin start it with personal attack, i think it's impossible now 😥.

Considering that we have 2 different people that have "staff" level positions in this thread saying 2 different things whilst also completely avoiding answering questions that would clear things up, it's pretty clear to me that any statement from mods, staff and admins shouldn't be taken at face value.

One's saying it was due to policy and now another is saying that it's due to some "legal" issue. The fact that they can't even say "I don't know" about anything says a lot.

 

[MeePotato]

man....

 

[Z3RYX]

@Xnot something does not add up.

In one message you tell us to no longer upload any such content, but in another you say that only certain reported titles are being looked at and removed.

Was the same ever said about titles infringing on copyright? That kind of content is still obviously being allowed to be uploaded until a report comes in, but here specifically you tell us to no longer upload loli content?

Or should we see these takedowns as equal to DMCA takedowns, so that we can operate as normal and titles will only be removed when they're reported?

And on another note, it still hasn't been addressed why titles were wiped instead of only the chapters. You can't say that you're looking at options to not wipe them if there's already a system in place to do just that (for DMCA takedowns).

 

[Aya]

Why stop at lolisho? Rape is bad too go remove that. Ryona is also problematic remove that. Guro is problematic definitely remove that. Age gap romance is weird, remove that. Stories with slaves are problematic, just remove every single one with those. Its only fair right? This is what you admins want right?

Lolisho is illegal in most countries whereas the rest of your list is considered artistic

 

[SleepyDemon]

Wow. So a mod/admin/whatever they are (who joined in 2024) can just shittalk the userbase with crass accusations like that with zero repercussions?

 

[Lolipop_Candy]

of course they are, they are trying to go legal

But are dumb enough to not only to antagonize their userbase but also straight up insult them calling them pedos (which is funny because everytime someone says that type of shit about lolies they have some skeletons in their closet)

Seriously, whenever someone said "2D Lolicons are filthy PDFiles". The next months or years a news reporting the same person who said that was arrested for inserting defiled a real child.

Meanwhile, the 2D Lolicons are mostly people with more common sense. They don't do crimes with real human.

Oh wait, do we just discover the biggest shame in humanity in millions of email and files ? The perpetrator only likes yuri and beastiality tag but we don't find evidence the real predator likes 2D child violated and impregnated by old man which is abundant in Japan.

 

[Pauan]

Lolisho is illegal in most countries whereas the rest of your list is considered artistic

No, it's only illegal in a tiny handful of countries (mostly Anglo countries), it's legal in most of the world.

Homosexuality is illegal in more countries than lolis are. Yet this site allows for LGBT content.

 

[WhiteRaven_OfTheValley]

I am telling everyone right now.

Start writing down your favourite manga titles, as long as you have a name, there's always a place that have them.

 

[on154288]

All of this could have been avoid if you just announcement the new rules implementation and notice the uploader

Not only you did non of those, the metadata got deleted, the Admin, out of all people, insulting the people in your community that your pioneer have build

Removing stuff without annoucing until someone notice and call it out is basically a betrayal, even for legal reason or not. Especially on non-profit-community-based project

 

[karimsss]

The relevant section has been in the content policy for a while. However, as a platform with user-provided content, there are things we enforce reactively based on legal complaints received. This is pretty standard operation for platforms with high volume of user-provided content. Ether stated what was affected in the current round, and I will refrain from speculating on things we have not received complaints on.

I'd also like to clear up, to the many people who seem unaware, that MD operates within legal compliance, as should've been made painfully aware by this and previous content removals. Like it or not, this is the only option for the continued existence of the site.

"operates within legal compliance"
my guy, my dude, how dense are you? MD is illegal by default as MD a PIRATE hosting website.

this level of retardation is unreal lmao

 

[hibikiyamada]

In one message you tell us to no longer upload any such content, but in another you say that only certain reported titles are being looked at and removed.

This is a good point. If works are being removed on a case-by-case basis, does that mean that groups are free to continue uploading content that has the same type of content that's apparently in violation until that specific work gets reported? If this is not the case, then please warn users before you decide to remove the majority of the content on the platform.

 

[hatsuka]

All of this could have been avoid if you just announcement the new rules implementation and notice the uploader

Not only you did non of those, the metadata got deleted, the Admin, out of all people, insulting the people in your community that your pioneer have build

Removing stuff without annoucing until someone notice and call it out is basically a betrayal, even for legal reason or not. Especially on non-profit-community-based project

This 100%

 

[DavidianMillerian]

holy, no one's posted for 6 minutes

truly a big achievement for this thread

 

[Miros]

Lolisho is illegal in most countries whereas the rest of your list is considered artistic

most countries? i really can't name ones besides UK, australia and maybe Canada

 

[Straif_Sitri]

incase noone has been to other chats yall should go check out the last 8 pages of Casual chatting thread they think this is just a joke and that Xnot and Etheral were here talking just cause they got the short end of the the stick and had to deal with it