Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[sings0ngbingb0ng]

Popular mangaka are at about the level of Hollywood celebrities

Not even close

 

[Eighty-six]

Oops sorry we don't have the same information here.

A quick example find on google:
He makes much more money filming children than older girls. The DVD of the six-year-old made him “four million (£28,500) or five million yen (£35,500),” he says. “The senior high school girls will make about one million (£7000)”.

Idc about the UK and I am not linking my argument to fictionnal characters.

But the article you linked to, did.

Didn't know a journalist working for BBC was BBC.

...w--

well, now you know.

It is totally banalized in Japan. For example this fucking author who wrote Act-age was not banned from publishing companies, so he worked on another serie after Act-age was cancelled. Also the company was actively protecting and supporting him.

They made him publish under a pseudonym, and it was a big deal to other workers in Shogakukan, and in general, when the connection was made.

 

[RogueKitsune]

MangaDex is a UGC platform and upholds applicable law, including copyright law. This has always been the case, from removals like One Piece, Demon Slayer, and My Hero Academia earlier this decade, to the large removal in May 2025 and the thousands of removals since then. The company does not have data prior to April 2025, but anything since will be added to the Transparency Report in our Copyright Centre shortly: https://mangadex.org/copyright/transparency

This still has not happened

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

They made him publish under a pseudonym, and it was a big deal to other workers in Shogakukan, and in general, when the connection was made.

Yeah, several Manga are on Hiatus because of it due to the mangaka leaving that publisher

 

[Garett]

I did a look up: it was the western side. Either Europe or America and their silly laws on something that aren't likely originally from their land.

What a year.

 

[Archimedes5000]

It is so funny how people jump in on the ideas of "Mangadex turn corpo" because of this incident AND the Twitter article (their first one article mind you) that isn't officially from Mangadex.

Sorry but are you trolling?
The reason why people are saying MD is going corpo is not because of some shitty twitter post, it's because they are doing the same thing Crunchyroll did lmao

1. make a pirate site
2. make company for it or sell it to one
3. try to make money legally with the piracy site (flawless idea)
4. get fucking hammered with DMCAs until you are forced to remove all pirate content

Now to be fair, MD is a bit smarter here because they aren't actually trying to get licenses from companies while pirating their shit, they instead made an independent publishing company that they increasingly push into people's faces, basically they are sacrificing MD to get an exposure boost to their new venture.

The internet are becoming more strict day by day with the data collecting, glorified as "age verification" so things like this might happened more frequent than you might think

Nah you must be trolling...
PIRACY IS ILLEGAL
They don't need to pass a law for that bro, it already exists

The moment this site tied itself to a real, legal company, IT WAS ALREADY OVER, and effectively THIS SITE IS ALREADY CORPORATE for all intents and purposes.
It's not a conspiracy theory if it already happened.

 

[dreminh]

live long enough to be company or sunk like a pirate ship

 

[RogueKitsune]

MangaDex is a UGC platform and upholds applicable law, including copyright law. This has always been the case, from removals like One Piece, Demon Slayer, and My Hero Academia earlier this decade, to the large removal in May 2025 and the thousands of removals since then. The company does not have data prior to April 2025, but anything since will be added to the Transparency Report in our Copyright Centre shortly: https://mangadex.org/copyright/transparency

Another week has gone by and this still has not been done

 

[DavidianMillerian]

Another week has gone by and this still has not been done

though EN has stated they would like to do it

6. DMCAs from March 2025 to be added to the transparency report. First batch will be the ones that used the system, second batch will be the ones from CODA and COA, also known colloquially as "the massacre

 

[RogueKitsune]

UPDATE
I was wrong. I had a short conversation, off the record, and the last round of removals was not related to payment processors.

Spoiler: I was wrong

We have some answers now... and yes I wish this was a shit post

Spoiler: Close enough?

Allow me to don my cap of speculation.
quickly wraps head with tin foil

TO CLARIFY THIS IS ALL JUST A GUESS (I.E. SPECULATION). This is just based on what I have observed as consumer of various good and services as well as one who works within the financial industry.

This has nothing to do with the recent law(s) passed in Texas. Its much simpler; Money.

We all know and love that payment processors have effectively unchecked control over what we are allowed to spend money in the digital age and use that power to force their prerogatives on merchants. How does this affect MD? Well you need a payment processor to process all those donations users are giving every month, and if Mr Big PP comes over and sees something he doesn't like. Well, it plays out kind of like you would think a mafia shake down would.

There is also the advertising side of things. Some may have noticed after a certain event that there was an seemingly an increase of one type of title that was being uploaded to MD (Porn. Its porn. lots of porn) . Well most businesses don't like their brand/product being put next to that kind of content which makes it harder to find people that will give you money to advertise on your site (well at least the non-shadey businesses).

I might not be right but it seems like I might have been in the right post code

 

[GlyphXion]

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We have some answers now... and yes I wish this was a shit post

Spoiler: Close enough?

I might not be right but it seems like I might have been in the right post code

It's just fucking over.

 

[vidopnir]

View attachment 46739
We have some answers now... and yes I wish this was a shit post

Spoiler: Close enough?

I might not be right but it seems like I might have been in the right post code

Shit is officially fucked and I guess we're going to see another mass removal very soon.
Can't wait to see what the shills I mean powerusers have to say about this.

 

[RogueKitsune]

Hey everyone I updated my previous post with some details that I learned.

tldr; I was wrong

EDIT: If I get an OK I will update my post(s) with more information (not that there is a lot to it or the person I talked to can provide the details) but for now I am treating the contents of that conversation as private and not to be shared.

 

[darkdepths]

tldr; I was wrong

It's still very concerning that a piracy website has payment processor logos on it's sidebar. Considering how they make sites like Patreon and Fanbox ban certain content for being a "brand risk" despite it being legal under US law, you would think that a piracy website would be even more of one. And while they may not be the reason for the last round of deletions, I'm sure they will be the cause of removals in the future.

 

[Trobilobada]

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[Imryse]

it's obvious what's happening. the site has been taken over by UK authorities, it's acting as honeypot for people who upload copyrighted content. this is why they had to purge content in accordance with UK laws and cannot say why. they are being compelled by law enforcement.

 

[BestBoy]

updated my previous post with some details that I learned

Maybe don't post unverified speculation in the first place?

 

[pandascepter]

Why were whole entries deleted like Noraneko Shoujo and Tae-chan to Jimiko-san not just chapters?

wow, they did? I guess dynasty scan and /u/ is back on the menu. I should reread it.

 

[pandascepter]

Yo dawg, I got some manga to report: 49 pages of titles

1LDK is a long running vanilla (underage, depicting highschool girl running away from parental issues being played by so called "adult teacher") stupidest hentai and its not even removed? Be proud @sterven your ass is being forgiven.

 

[pandascepter]

Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii

Finally someone mentioned peak content. Kitakimi is also a suprising one nuke when it got translated and uploaded here.

Holy fuck witnessing the death of MD in real time.

Several times this happens, though i only use forums mangadex dot org

You really think they'd consider backtracking from this? it's obvious that this is happening because the staff got taken over by these kind of people so there's nothing to do about this, aside of mourning the death of MD.

From the future. Nope. They add visa, mastercard, and american. Jump the ship already, glad im here only to fuck around and find out till the dusk.

Thanks, she's Yashiro Kasumi from Muv Luv Alternative.

@BakedBanana just played the vn. tell em the English can eat shit. I wish im not able ableing english reading read Neko

Don't forget

Bokurano, Narutaru, Alien 9 (I forgot if all these three were removed alr or not ), Berserk, Horimiya...

Dont forge to ban for those people that geeenlight Usagi Drop ending. It shouldve been banned for grooming.

Tsugumomo

God damn right, I am reading this just this morning before going deep into this thread. Man, how about those non existent sexy aura from Kiriha?

I look forward to your site shutting down permanently if this is how you intend on treating your userbase.
We're not fucking retarded. Stop treating us like the average UK citizen.

I'm used to moving on when it comes to manga. Mangadex is just one of many that have fallen by the wayside. We will move on from you and your moronic puritan power trip.

Please dont move on, your supporter badge are much worth. btw wall.txt is incoming, si

Berserk depict underaged character nekkid on top of Guts.

Horimiya has the main characters (Highschoolers btw) doing the thing.

Last I check they're still up, why is that?

Yeah, why is that? Maybe becaus they make a lot of money? But lets continue ask the question, why is that?

What I would be mad about is if they retroactively got licenses for scanlated manga, then made a profit by selling subscriptions to read fan-scanlated manga without paying anything back to the groups that did all the work.

Sounds like Jaimins Box were right all along. Those beautiful days they said they wont but yeah... I think the thread still exist.

Honestly, when it came to 1LDK chapter 14 and 15, I swear Project-H almost 1:1 ripped off my group's translations, then gave up for some reason after releasing chapter 15. Probably found out that our group was still working on it, and is current. I always wondered what the reason was.

@sterven
thank this man for translating your favorite vanilla "underage" hentai

Screen cap it just in case they try to hide it.

why would you screen cap it? just look at the doki dot co. Its literally their latest release and still on the site

To all the people who have entered my thread, are currently visiting my thread, have previously looked through the thread, or considering looking through the thread:

Please. I implore you. Keep discussions about this topic in my thread to a minimum.

Firstly, because @RogueKitsune said so:


Secondly, because it breaks Rule 3.5 of the Forums:


And thirdly:
My thread is meant to be a safe space for people to talk freely about harmless, fun topics that shouldn't affect the forums or the main site. I only ask you to maintain some civility there. I will not tolerate anything that breaks Rule 1 of the forums.

As for me and this whole debacle, I wish to be neutral towards all this, though I cannot guarantee I won't make any statements that might anger the general populace of this thread.

Now, are we clear?

wow im disappointed with you... who the fuck cares.

While I am not around long enough to know the inside jokes or what the regulars there consider as harmless fun, it's not my place to fun police, it's the internet after all, I can understand where you are coming from.
BUT
The other way around also has to be respected as well if you are asking people from this thread to be civil on the other thread. While sure, some people here are less than pleasant to be around, from what I have seen, the people from the casual chatting thread have been constantly mocking and making jabs, mocking, dismissing and downright antagonizing at the genuine concerns made by the people in this thread for a dozen pages now.

Glad i am a regular was not there at the times. Sometimes people are being retarded and does not understand when is the right time to wear such a clothes. Right, a clown one at that time.

My guy has been spitting facts for hours.

My last day off reading all of shit in this thread.