Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai! - Ch. 122 - Kouhai and Settlements

[packnerz]

No, i think she gonna be our wingwoman instead

I want her for Kiri tho, instead of Ami.

 

[Reader1138]

About 800+ series got nuked because of DMCA.

tbh this isn't the first time. This seems to happen every few years that the publishers or their legal representative send out a wave of notices and legal threats.,generally to those they identify as the bigger sites. Its a reason why Mangadex (and its spiritual ancestor Batoto) would actually see surges in members periodically over the years as other sites decided the legal threats to them weren't worth continuing and their regular readers had to look for new aggregate sites.
I hope this doesn't lead to Mangadex's demise if they decide the headaches of maintaining the site and dealing with the legal threats both isn't worth it because they have one of the best configurable reading apps on the internet. Even publishers reader apps are often very basic or even trash to use.

 

[TheGodEmperor]

About 800+ series got nuked because of DMCA.

To be fair, a lot of the nuked series were licensed and many easy/free to read/keep up with (especially the shonen jump ones). But, ya... quite the nuke.

 

[danvolodar]

Unfortunately by respecting this joke of a law they dug their own grave

I mean, the admins of the site can literally be jailed for stuff like that, respecting the law or not isn't a choice for them.

 

[KuroeNekumi]

Yeah, no surprise that a bunch of groups are not responding well to MD throwing them under the bus to try and cover their own ass.

I mean, it's not like either of them are really blameless, specially MangaDex that's trying to be "a more 'neutral' middle man to access manga" or whatever you want to call them, by trying to neither be bought or put ads to fund themselves and trying to push the most legal face of the scanlation scene as they can. They did just provide a ground for anybody to upload, with just the statement on their desire to shape the site to a certain degree, but without really having a way to enforce it. One could call it maliciously trying to obtain a wider user base for their site by hosting works that they don't agree with...if only there was anything for them to gain except MORE problems (as the occasional instability of it demonstrates), since, again, they don't profit from the site anyways, beyond whatever they crowdfund for server hosting costs.

A lot of groups obviously aren't being particularly legal, not even because of translating content for mass consumption at no obvious monetary benefit to any of the people making the original work, but more because of doing that WHILE profiting out of the work (regardless of justification, legally it isn't something they have sufficient justification to do). But it still feels frustrating to just dump their entire work, sweat and sometimes tears into a work, upload it to a particular platform hoping it would remain for some kind of posterity, and then all of a sudden having it vanish.

Frustrating overall, yet I can still see the why for both sides of the equation. No shame to either side in particular, just a shame that the wider scanlation scene can never agree (or really accept) these kinds of platform that try going for legality.

After all, we aren't all here because we necessarily can afford to just spend money buying any and all works whose cover looks interesting or that is being talked in particularly good light in forums and the like, and not all official works have the kind of special touch that particular groups give to the TLs they work on, be it care in conveying the original nuance more than trying to make it palatable to a foreign audience, or in trying to do something fun to make the work more charming without fully misrepresenting it (shark isekai my beloved, how much I miss you).

 

[Joelburger]

I mean, it's not like either of them are really blameless

Rather than vomiting out a bunch of words vaguely gesturing towards the broader topic, we can ask ourselves this: how exactly are scanlators to be blamed for MD instituting a total farce of a new policy statement (one that basically no release on their own site can adhere to) that exists purely so they can say "prosecute them, not us"?

 

[Makeiks]

Tsk tsk tsk coward author he dont want the boy and onee-san couple sadge

 

[Trashmaster123]

Thanks TL

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

Watch out Ami, your soon-to-be-buff boyfriend is getting snatched away from you!
... is what I'd like to say but damn,

We'll be pausing uploads indefinitely

took all the fun
Let's hope an official announcement addressing the current state of things and the odds of other publishers acting up in the future will be made soon...
For the time being, even if it comes with a lot of uncertainty, I think uploading to MD is still one of the best ways to get your stuff on other aggregators so it won't be in vain imo.

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In any case, thanks for all of your Uzaki uploads up until now!

 

[mgRdr]

so they can say "prosecute them, not us"?

As opposed to, "prosecute us, not them?"

 

[LoliShinobu]

more like 14 hundred now and some are still added to list and it's everything from manhwa to manga, smut and romcoms and shonens alike

Who gives a shit about manhwa in a manga site, it's what started this domino effect.

 

[frostman1214]

is she blind? and also have some other condition? i don't remember since chapters take so long

 

[jokerxhisoka]

Again? For fucks sake.

Only here in MD, or is this scorched earth with any aggregator and translation group?

impossible to do it to all aggregators.

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

is she blind? and also have some other condition? i don't remember since chapters take so long

Well she's a new character (afaik) so there's not really much we know so far, other than her being frail and regularly at the hospital (going by this chapter), at least in the past. At least last time I checked being blind doesn't mean you regularly have to visit hospitals nor were there any other indications in her actions, so I don't think she is. I guess that's just the way her eyes are drawn...

 

[mgRdr]

is she blind?

Nah, that's just cataracts

 

[ThreeTakeWonder]

I’ve already been using MD with mangasee on the side since mangasee has EVERYTHING plus more, but I really would rather read my stuff on mangadex.
Edit: Oh sorry, it’s called weebcentral now which is cringe

 

[Moth92]

It's not just the takedown, but specifically because MD now requires you to check a box saying that you have permission from the publisher to post a chapter, so they can theoretically use that against you if they get sued for copyright.

So they want to kill the site? Cause no publisher is going to give permission for free to give away their product for free.

 

[MalevolentBacon]

It's not just the takedown, but specifically because MD now requires you to check a box saying that you have permission from the publisher to post a chapter, so they can theoretically use that against you if they get sued for copyright.

I cannot blame either side, except of course the companies issuing DMCAs. Mangadex staff don't deserve to have their lives ruined permanently for our privilege of reading manga for free. It's been good to us for years, but all things must come to an end. Mangadex has fought the good fight, but it's a losing fight.

The scanlators are also right to leave. Not to spite Mangadex, but for their own wellbeing. The companies hitting MD now just want a person to blame. If MD can avoid it, the scanlators can too.

Maybe it won't be this way forever, but it has to be this way right now so the actual people who have given us this luxury for years remain okay. A day in the life of a pirate, I suppose. Friends come and go, good hubs get raided, and you move to the next one.

 

[MalevolentBacon]

Thanks for all the hard work and variety, Orchescans. I'm sure I'll be reading your work somewhere.

 

[cajones]

I read the policy update. I don't have an issue with it. I have never liked scanlators that ask for money for fan translations beyond a donation to help buy raws.

This is how this beast works. Whether you think it'a fair or not, piracy isn't legal. All of us are sailing the high seas here. None of us have any right to complain about the new policy OR the scanlators who decide to run somewhere else.

All I know is, I'm never joining some discord server for a translation. You want to talk about a bad look? Swapping to just discord releases comes right before demanding money for fan translations. It's happened before, and I don't trust any group to not do it. Sorry, not sorry. You can release it to another site, or I'll just stop reading it. People act like 100 of these romcoms don't release a year.