Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[NeoRetro]

Well, that just killed the site for me.
I'm cancelling my subscription too, maybe I will come back if they revert these changes but I doubt that will happen

 

[popo53414]

Please don't put account deletion system behind a paywall. At least not for the forum.

 

[MajinChainsawDihh]

You all are getting mad at the site. You should be getting mad at the group creating the problem in the first place, and that is the evangelical christians in the US that think they can dictate their preferences over everyone but themselves. This is the same group that claims 'my body, my choice" when it comes to vaccines, but "your body, my choice" when it comes to sex, abortions or anything else they don't like. They claim to be small government, then promptly shove the government into every facet of your life.

For example, Texas. Strict abortion ban. Then sues other states to get information on Texas residents that traveled to get an abortion. Then you have the elephant in the room, SB 20, that went into effect in Sept 2025. Do I believe it is unconstitutional, yes I do. But to get it declared by a court, you have go through the legal process and multiple levels of appeals, as I guarantee that the Texas AG will fight for it, regardless of the merits. And don't forget this is a criminal matter, not a civil matter. Between that and US courts deciding they have jurisdiction regardless of how removed the defendant may be from that court, and you start to understand how the reluctance of the staff of MD to being the canary about the legality of this law.

Spoiler: Relevant section from SB 20

(b) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) knowingly possesses, accesses with intent to view,
or promotes obscene visual material containing a depiction that
appears to be of a child younger than 18 years of age engaging in
activities described by Section 43.21(a)(1)(B), regardless of
whether the depiction is an image of an actual child, a cartoon or
animation, or an image created using an artificial intelligence
application or other computer software; or
(2) uses an image of an actual child younger than 18
years of age at the time the image was made with the intent to train
an artificial intelligence model to produce visual material
constituting child pornography under Section 43.26.
(c) An offense under this section is a state jail felony,
except that the offense is:
(1) a felony of the third degree if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the person has been previously convicted
one time of an offense under this section or Section 43.23, 43.26,
43.261, or 43.262; or
(2) a felony of the second degree if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the person has been previously convicted
two or more times of an offense under this section, Section 43.23,
43.26, 43.261, or 43.262, or any combination of those offenses.
(d) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
also constitutes an offense under another law, the actor may be
prosecuted under this section, the other law, or both.

Now, if you have the finances and wherewithal to fight this in court, it's easy. Just create a Texas hosted site featuring underage manga characters and don't hide your information as the domain holder. Then you can spend the next several years fighting through the appeals process, and it can take a decade or more depending on how many times it gets sent back to lower courts.

The above is my guess based on what I've seen, though it could be a different legal issue. Same result regardless.

So you can stop bitching that the staff are protecting themselves. Does it suck, yes, but it's more of an annoyance to me than anything else, just like the DMCA nuke last year. And if this is the hill you are willing to die on, why are you still bitching on the forums here, just move on for fucks sake.

Nice blameshift there lad

 

[Whoareyou_vl]

Really? Just remove the whole website already because every manga/comic are violate "legal reasons" and noone will use this website after "purge titles" anyway

 

[deleted-user-a60334f941]

I don't even care about getting my reading list, I just want to know when account deletion will be back online so I can have nothing further to do with this site.

Hiding who and what is making the claim is the main reason why this is causing more outrage than the DMCA by the way, for any mods still reading this thread. We get why and where DMCA requests come from, we want to know who's head to bite off for censoring art and you're not telling us so the only option we have is to rip into you.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I don't even care about getting my reading list, I just want to know when account deletion will be back online so I can have nothing further to do with this site.

Hiding who and what is making the claim is the main reason why this is causing more outrage than the DMCA by the way, for any mods still reading this thread. We get why and where DMCA requests come from, we want to know who's head to bite off for censoring art and you're not telling us so the only option we have is to rip into you.

...
You made your account today for the sole purpose of wanting its deletion?
Man, you have certainly interesting priorities

 

[deleted-user-756fab4ef9]

I guess I'll wait for the account deletion feature, it gives me time to back up my follows. Also, please pass along to the backend devs a feature request for follow import/export, it would make life easier instead of having to manually write down the ~300+ series I'm following. Also, do you have any insight if the "delete account" feature will actually delete all data from your servers, or only raise a "deleted" flag on the account and make it unavailable but keep its data in the servers?

There are ways to transfer library to a cvs. I did all ~1500 yesterday that way.
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_683e6e80-5284-46b8-bf50-807f4d5773f0

I used the first method, make sure to select the option that shows you if you are Reading/Plan to Read/Dropped so you can delete all the Dropped en masse.

Edit - Downside is it doesn't have the stuff they just nuked like "Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Different World".

 

[mawilefan]

I made an account just because I read the headlines, all I wanna say is that it's such a hysterical decision that's done nothing but damage a lot of PR to this site

If anybody ever wants to protect minors they should go out into the streets and help out, those are real people worth protecting, and targetting a manga pirating site has absolutely no bearing in protecting them. Best course of action was not participating because the PR has been damaged beyond repair.

 

[RandomBS]

Manga Dex just vaporized 3000-nen Fuuinsareshi Jaryuu-chan to Tomodachi ni Narimashita. It's not erotica just a story about a anxiety riddled dragon and her emotional support human. What is wrong with this site man.It just got updated after like 5 months and now they atomized it.
Edit: They removed the active groups' chapters not the manga as a whole my bad. Still stupid but not the same

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Manga Dex just vaporized 3000-nen Fuuinsareshi Jaryuu-chan to Tomodachi ni Narimashita. It's not erotica just a story about a anxiety riddled dragon and her emotional support human. What is wrong with this site man.It just got updated after like 5 months and now they atomized it.

What are you talking about?
https://mangadex.org/title/a9a309ea...reshi-jaryuu-chan-to-tomodachi-ni-narimashita
It's still here.

 

[Speng]

Manga Dex just vaporized 3000-nen Fuuinsareshi Jaryuu-chan to Tomodachi ni Narimashita. It's not erotica just a story about a anxiety riddled dragon and her emotional support human. What is wrong with this site man.It just got updated after like 5 months and now they atomized it.

Ahaha that's so fucked it had next to nothing in terms of graphical content.
Hey do tsugumomo next morons, in fact, I'd advise anyone on the forums to point out as many series as possible to get wiped so they drain clientele from this place.

They clearly want you gone so salt the earth and ensure no one comes back.

 

[jmic]

Manga Dex just vaporized 3000-nen Fuuinsareshi Jaryuu-chan to Tomodachi ni Narimashita. It's not erotica just a story about a anxiety riddled dragon and her emotional support human. What is wrong with this site man.It just got updated after like 5 months and now they atomized it.

Sigh..No it's still there they took down some chapters from a groupe caught ban evading. This is normal.

 

[RandomBS]

What are you talking about?
https://mangadex.org/title/a9a309ea...reshi-jaryuu-chan-to-tomodachi-ni-narimashita
It's still here.

They had uploaded 3 new chapters, they got removed from my updates tab

 

[jmic]

They had uploaded 3 new chapters, they got removed from my updates tab

4, but they were removed because the group engaged in ban evasion. Nothing clandestine or sneaky. Standard administration.

 

[RandomBS]

4, but they were removed because the group engaged in ban evasion. Nothing clandestine or sneaky. Standard administration.

Still sucks tho, first group to translate it in half a year and now we're back to square one

 

[Jdeoxys]

LOL! Get rekt chuds, woke wins again. Total woke victory, get your chudslop off our site 👏👍👌

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Still sucks tho, first group to translate it in half a year and now we're back to square one

Well, you can still read it on the aggregators, they'll probs upload it on other sites/other sites stole it from here.
In general, it's always recommended to have tentacles everywhere

 

[Angry_Panda]

In general, it's always recommended to have tentacles everywhere

That's what she said.

 

[hibari_shu]

If you can hear us Dex-chan, please save us

wake up bro, Dex-chan is the bunny girl of this site. she's paid to tell you what you want to hear, nothing else

 

[RandomBS]

Well, you can still read it on the aggregators, they'll probs upload it on other sites/other sites stole it from here.
In general, it's always recommended to have tentacles everywhere

Tried that, apparently have tentacles everywhere "violates personal space" and "is a criminal offense". People these days are so ungrateful