Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[Hugh.Mann.Bean]

Just registered an account to say:

I for one welcome the outstandingly brave, courageous, and FEARLESS actions of @EtherealNeko and @Xnot to defend these lines and dots on a screen from the awful privations they have to endure! Truly THIS is the most important thing that they could be spending their short time on this Earth on! A story they shall tell their grandchildren!

I tell you, long after we are all gone there will songs and statues to the brave fighters like those two. WARRIORS in the fight against being able to tell apart fact and fiction.

But I have to ask: have they gone far enough? Wouldn't it be better if they gathered together all the ikky material they don't like in a big pile and set fire to it? Maybe march around it whilst they do, and then round everyone they don't like up and put them in camps so they can be concentrated in some way? It's just a thought. For after all, Namicomi shall be an empire that shall last a 1000 takedown requests!

 

[karimsss]

There are underage around us.

one of them angry

 

[MeePotato]

I just remembered that one ex-reddit mod from r/livestreamfails that made a video for the CEO(?) of reddit to make rules about mod rights to have it monetized and such, and just started spouting bullshit about why he's right and everyone's wrong on the decision to kick him lol

 

[dq_fanaticman]

I haven't used this site in months because the UI was really unpleasant looking, only used it to read dragon quest dai no daiboken to look at Maam's sexy thighs
Anyways, can someone tell me why a piracy site cares about legality????
Bro if any of the mods get arrested for this site(highly unlikely), it'll be for the mere fact that you're illegally hosting a site filled with manga series worth lots of money 😭
Not the lolicon stuff

 

[pink_rabbit]

One last thing to say in this thread- I will never understand how mangadex NOW wants to "protect" these drawings rather than stand up against the government that is harming, hurting, actual children today. I know this is the "others have it worse" but this is something I want to know in this topic. Texas is banning this type of content but what about gore? what about the countless titles like danganronpa? Most of the titles have underage characters. Miku Hatsune has been 16 for over 20+ years and she's married to some guy IRL!

Art is meant to be the freedom and speaking out the messages about our opinions. What we believe and want to see more in the world. If this is what the staff truly believes in then I hope you are all able to sleep knowing you ""protected"" these drawings than the millions of victims out there in the world. Just know that the government never cared about us. They don't care about anything but themselves. The fact you are obeying while putting your head down to it.... Ironic when there is so much manga about freedom and revolutionizing on this site....

This is not an attack on staff. It's a statement. If you know what you are doing is right then you can freely ignore all of these people commenting (including myself)

 

[ellatron6000]

bullshit, ruining the site

 

[Tscheddov]

I'm doing my part

I hope this is a fucking joke!
this is not helping AT ALL.

the core problem is something else:

Despite people like bestboy continously denying the MD is going Crunchy accusations, they are true.

Mangadex is a registered business. Mangadex is a company. The owners are known and easily available for authorities.
They have to comply with laws (regarding copyright stuff)
They are dependent on services from paypal stripe visa and mastercard. Therefore they have to do as they say. not even fakku was save and hatd to remove over 7000 of its galleries because creditcard companies didn like the content.

MD owners try to run a pirate site as a legal business. this wont work. They don't consider themselfes to be pirates.

pirates are free from restrictions and such bullshit. you are slaves now.

theres no way back. its too late. this website is doomed and i am incredibly devastated. i miss the good times from 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

i regret having lived long enough to witness this.

 

[DavidianMillerian]

I hope this is a fucking joke!
this is not helping AT ALL.

the core problem is something else:

Despite people like bestboy continously denying the MD is going Crunchy accusations, they are true.

Mangadex is a registered business. Mangadex is a company. The owners are known and easily available for authorities.
They have to comply with laws (regarding copyright stuff)
They are dependent on services from paypal stripe visa and mastercard. Therefore they have to do as they say. not even fakku was save and hatd to remove over 7000 of its galleries because creditcard companies didn like the content.

MD owners try to run a pirate site as a legal business. this wont work. They don't consider themselfes to be pirates.

pirates are free from restrictions and such bullshit. you are slaves now.

theres no way back. its too late. this website is doomed and i am incredibly devastated. i miss the good times from 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

i regret having lived long enough to witness this.

to you, has MangaDex lived long enough to become a villain?

 

[sillyangelboy]

Oh no, there’s every reason to go there, since it’s always the same group of “people”.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes”, you tell me to.

Lol no there's not, gender identity has nothing to do with what content you like. I and many others like me are just as confused that this is happening as anyone else, just say you're salivating at the chance to be a surface-level dimwit and leave it at that.

 

[Thokri]

Urgh, fakku and crunchyroll again.

Thank god found better sites but I still miss this ones how to check library and where I left at on web version.

 

[fabyan]

ahhh, it's time to search another site, yet again. It's been a good run guys. Ain't gonna trust piracy site that going "legal", they often full of bs

 

[deleted-user-f488881bc9]

I hope this is a fucking joke!
this is not helping AT ALL.

the core problem is something else:

Despite people like bestboy continously denying the MD is going Crunchy accusations, they are true.

Mangadex is a registered business. Mangadex is a company. The owners are known and easily available for authorities.
They have to comply with laws (regarding copyright stuff)
They are dependent on services from paypal stripe visa and mastercard. Therefore they have to do as they say. not even fakku was save and hatd to remove over 7000 of its galleries because creditcard companies didn like the content.

MD owners try to run a pirate site as a legal business. this wont work. They don't consider themselfes to be pirates.

pirates are free from restrictions and such bullshit. you are slaves now.

theres no way back. its too late. this website is doomed and i am incredibly devastated. i miss the good times from 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

i regret having lived long enough to witness this.

i mean, they paint a target on themselves,s then go don't shoot me. Since the ower is chinese, here a proverb for this case:
"做了还要立贞节牌坊"

 

[ShujixXChise]

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.

I'm sorry but kindly shut your mouth paedophile, this was never about children, we never were talking about children, we were talking about fictional characters making fictional love in a fictional setting in a fictional manga/doujin so kindly take your meds skitzo because fictional characters are not the same as actual real csem victim you creep.

 

[deleted-user-9b22eee95c]

Fuck you, tourist

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.

 

[ShujixXChise]

This. 100%.

No this sounds more like the mod projecting then anything else and its pretty creepy comparing fictional manga characters to actual csem victims buddy.

 

[Perm]

Platforms will choose to follow laws of jurisdictions in which it is beneficial for them to continue being able to operate on. Are you sure you really need me to explain this to you or are you just arguing in bad faith? Have you ever wondered why youtube or twitter will follow common western laws but don't ban LGBT content? Come on man...

Pretty sure it was pointed out already, but it just feels like you guys are doing the Visa/Mastercard thing of catering to this very American notion of "common western law" in advance so you won't get targeted (which is ironic because this is a piracy site), rather than any actual specific legal concerns...

 

[ShujixXChise]

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

Wrong, this doesn't applies to fictional characters or anime/manga and is just reestablishing already existing laws because dumb fuck anime/manga IS protected under the First Amendment under the US.

 

[Tscheddov]

to you, has MangaDex lived long enough to become a villain?

i know i am being naive and stupid.
i overidealized this project and the people behind it.

the original MD Staff ( i dont know who of them is still on board) were heroes to me.
Legends. i admired them.
Again, i know i am an idiot for being emotionally so attached to something fragile like this.
but thats how i am. thats who i am. i just cant help myself.

the short answer to your question is: yes.


this is a question i avoided to deal with for a while now: would it have been better the webiste just died properly earlier on ?
right now it feels like this whole thing is someone on life support who is kept alive at any cost.

it all boils down to this or the often used phrase "Die ( proud and upright) on your feet or live on your knees.

 

[ShujixXChise]

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

Wrong, this doesn't applies to fictional characters or anime/manga and is just reestablishing already existing laws because dumb fuck anime/manga IS protected under the First Amendment under the US

 

[sillyangelboy]

you get arrested for a Facebook post where you say you don't want your town under Sharia law

Sharia is a vast web of different interpretations of the Muslim sacred text, similar to the what the Talmud is to the Torah or what Canon Law is to the Bible. There is no one "sharia law" for a town to even be under in the first place.