Site Update - 14th of May 2025

[Syapaaye]

Someone listed all the publishers involved, it looks like it's less a "we plan on licensing these mangas" and more of a "we know you have these mangas, remove them immediately.

For them it's not arbitrary cause they're against piracy out of principle, even if we never see official translation.

If they're against piracy out of principle, even the more reason to target all the languages the series have been (unofficially) translated to, no?

 

[Mazki72]

they're only targeting the English translations

I'm remember the "watamote" and the "Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru!" in latin american spanish having a lot of chapter that aren't there anymore

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[T-sama]

If they're against piracy out of principle, even the more reason to target all the languages the series have been (unofficially) translated to, no?

That will most likely happen, mods just didn't have time to remove everything

 

[Syapaaye]

I'm remember the "watamote" and the "Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru!" in latin american spanish having a lot of chapter that aren't there anymore

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Ahh, they did get hit too, then? I swear I saw some series still having translations to other languages up. Guess I'm just confused, then. My bad. I can see if they're still in the process of being removed.

 

[Bentoki]

All of Zombie 100 ~Zombie ni Naru Made ni Shitai 100 no Koto~ got nuked
Shuumatsu no Harem: Fantasia completely nuked

We probably should have removed it anyway

 

[Ainkrip]

Then you're completely disregarding facts. Have you noticed that people are boycotting K-manga because they think it's too expensive, and that people expect at most to pay $2 a month for a subscription like on viz or mangaplus, even though shueisha and viz are obviously losing money on having such a low price? You can make excuses all you want, but the issue these days are not a service problem, it's that people don't want to pay and basically expect to get manga for free.

They are not losing money lol. Because otherwise they would have got zero money.

 

[Ainkrip]

Most who wants to continue are just going to upload to batoto or whatever instead.
Though I guess people are most likely going to drop it, especially for the licensed series. There's really no point working on licensed series to begin with, and just a few years ago the general rule was dropping a manga when it got licensed.
But the community has changed and now more groups are doing it for money obviously and clout.

The general rule is to scanlate until the official translation catches up.

 

[Ainkrip]

It doesn't matter for the purpose of this site, which mainly is as a scanlation community. That people can't pirate their licensed manga here anymore isn't really of any concern to be honest.

Buddy it takes official releases years and years to catch up. It is a concern for 99% of all people.

 

[Ainkrip]

This isn't really a piracy site, you can go to comick or mangasee or whatever if your main goal is piracy. It's a scanlation site.

No it is a piracy site. You still pirate lol.

 

[Ainkrip]

If they didn't, mangadex would be taken down like mangahelpers and batoto in the past. The main reason mangadex has survived for so long is because they comply with takedowns. It doesn't really matter all that much for most of the people posting scanlations here, so I doubt they're going to quit anytime soon. The ones mostly affected were the ones trying to compete with official releases on licensed manga, and working on them is retarded to begin with.

Mangadex can probably still be taken down though, but my impression is that the publishers have more to gain by keeping mangadex up, than taking it down. If they do, shittier sites like batoto (new) will just take their place.

Move mangadex to china, russia etc and nothing will happen.

 

[Angry_Panda]

No it is a piracy site. You still pirate lol.

100%. International copyright is very clear - scanlation is a copyright violation. It just wasn't the subject of very stringent enforcement for a number of years.

 

[Odium]

I think we can all agree that it's harder hit than burning of Library of Alexandria or even fall of Rome.

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[Ainkrip]

Ah yes, think of the community, and try to pay 1.3 trillion yen like the last site these corporates sued

They can’t sue the sites which operate in countries that ignore DMCA requests lol

 

[T-sama]

They can’t sue the sites which operate in countries that ignore DMCA requests lol

Mangasee, then mangasee123, now weeb central, probably other names before, never gave a fuck about dmca and they upload official translations to boot lol

If they can do it then Mangadex sure could have done too, but hey, mangasee is eeeeeevil, so we can't be like them lol

 

[Ainkrip]

It's only a service issue if it's not officially available, and that's where the scanlators mostly are free to work. When it's licensed and officially available, the right thing to do is to pay for it, not to expect that people make scanlations and that you can get it for free. Then it's not a service issue, it's a "I don't want to pay" issue.

You can easily go around the region restrictions with VPNs, so there's really no arguments for not paying. The problem is not really the service, it's that they're used to get manga and scanlations for free, and now they feel entitled to get it for free. Like you hear "Manga is garbage, I wouldn't read it if I had to pay for it" and shitty fallacious arguments like that all the time, while they're basically addicted to it.

I don't pay for everything myself and read some official translations on other sites or torrent them, but I buy the ones I like to support them. Though mainly Japanese raws. You don't need to buy everything, but you should support the stuff you like, especially when it's early in serialization and risk of getting axed is high. Which is mainly why I prioritize Japanese raws too I guess.

It's only a service issue if it's not officially available, and that's where the scanlators mostly are free to work. When it's licensed and officially available, the right thing to do is to pay for it, not to expect that people make scanlations and that you can get it for free. Then it's not a service issue, it's a "I don't want to pay" issue.

You can easily go around the region restrictions with VPNs, so there's really no arguments for not paying. The problem is not really the service, it's that they're used to get manga and scanlations for free, and now they feel entitled to get it for free. Like you hear "Manga is garbage, I wouldn't read it if I had to pay for it" and shitty fallacious arguments like that all the time, while they're basically addicted to it.

I don't pay for everything myself and read some official translations on other sites or torrent them, but I buy the ones I like to support them. Though mainly Japanese raws. You don't need to buy everything, but you should support the stuff you like, especially when it's early in serialization and risk of getting axed is high. Which is mainly why I prioritize Japanese raws too I guess.

VPNs are often against terms of use and laws lol. Licensed works are unavailable in 99% of the times at least because it takes years and years for them to catch up or they just abandon the translation.

 

[Variousletters]

I am honestly flabbergasted that

• MD is in the legal position that it must comply with such sweeping takedowns
• The publishers waited this long to nuke MD, if they are

Further confusing me is the fact that they've been phasing out MD@Home with the rationale that individual contributors were more susceptible to takedowns than they are, yet now they are bowing to the takedowns themselves.

Not sure what to make of all this.

I'm reminded of how DMCA takedowns on other sites may not even be legitimate, such as independent artists who put their own stuff on youtube suddenly getting copyright strikes by a label they have had 0 dealings with whatsoever.
It was a terribly written law and I can't remember the last time a case involving it came up that wasn't outright some top-down power abuse.

 

[Variousletters]

Still, a bit more communication would be nice.

Quite a few of our series were hit that weren't licensed or anything, the page itself is just blank and you can still upload chapters to do it, we didn't get any notification or anything saying that a chapter was removed due to a takedown request. It would be nice to know that you just aren't allowed to upload your shit to the website or something, even if it's not public.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "lists" of what a company claims to be theirs were themselves scraped with no verification.
They're fully aware that they can outlast any artist when things get dragged to court. Every motion to delay costs the victim significant money.

 

[Viper4lyfe]

So we can assume the Japanese publishers ordered the hit, right?

Why would they not? If you aren't paying them directly to read the stuff, you are a leech at the end of the day like it or not. Their solution is to curb stomp places like Dex and co to get those reading the stuff there to seek out the official ways to read. Cause there will always be a portion of readers that don't, never intended, and will never intend to pony up the money to legally read the content. And so the cat and mouse games continue as they always have.

 

[Unregistered_Hypercam]

Doing catalogue of all the series im reading and which ones got nuked.
So far the following got nuked:
Natsume Arata no Kekkon (only the most recent chapter is left)
Dragon Yashinatte Kudasai
Furitsumore Kodoku na Shi yo
Dai Dark
I Am A Hero
Dress Up Darling

 

[Ainkrip]

I am honestly flabbergasted that

• MD is in the legal position that it must comply with such sweeping takedowns
• The publishers waited this long to nuke MD, if they are

Further confusing me is the fact that they've been phasing out MD@Home with the rationale that individual contributors were more susceptible to takedowns than they are, yet now they are bowing to the takedowns themselves.

Not sure what to make of all this.

This website just doesn’t make any sense. You can’t sit on two chairs. Just host mangadex in China, Russia, Moldova etc.