Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[TristhaniaGevra]

Long story short: This site is cooked, isn't it?

 

[BestBoy]

If it isn’t pornography

It was though. Papa Milk is literally toddlercon

 

[PilotNOT]

Long story short: This site is cooked, isn't it?

Yup, time's ticking for death or corporatization, either way it's a bad end for us here.

 

[Wito]

Sooo... When will you remove Berserk?

 

[Quroh_JG]

Just delete this website already. What a pointless piracy site. I was right to stop scanlating years ago. The japanese cartoon community is ass, flooded with ironic moral warriors from the winnie hut jr. Thank you Covid for opening the floodgate!

The destruction of the free internet happened with 2 major steps:
1. The creation of iPhone (smartphones), which opened access to hundreds of millions of non-weirdo nerds
2. COVID, which forced even more billions non-weirdo nerds to spend their time online.

"Our" "home" is completely gone now as it's full of stupid immigrants with extreme moral panic who treat fiction like reality and corporations turning the entire place into sanitized haven for mass surveillance and money making machine.

Late Zoomers and Gen Alpha grew up with this environment, so they never knew any better, but this shit sucks as a millennials who experienced the rise and the peak of the free internet where literally everything is available to enjoy.

Remember to always gatekeep your hobbies guys. Once you open the gate to people who want to change it for themselves, it's over.
Animanga should be weird. There's nothing wrong with lolicon, shotacon, incest, and everything else that filters the posers.
Otakus should be weird, and that's fine

 

[Kanami-chan]

Remember to always gatekeep your hobbies guys. Once you open the gate to people who want to change it for themselves, it's over.
Animanga should be weird. There's nothing wrong with lolicon, shotacon, incest, and everything else that filters the posers.
Otakus should be weird, and that's fine

Consumers can't gatekeep when Producers want to expand. It just can't happen.

 

[Quroh_JG]

Consumers can't gatekeep when the Producers want to expand. It just can't happen.

Yeah... yeah you're right

 

[cybeast21]

Ok remove Kaguya-sama love is war then there are depictions of confirmed underage characters having sexual intercourse.

Don't forget

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

 

[PilotNOT]

It was though. Papa Milk is literally toddlercon

Could give less of a shit, it deserves to stay here.

 

[ankiwi]

Fucking corpo mumbo jumbo. If you're going full corpo then be up front about it. If not, then you'd better have a good explanation for the sudden policy change or these people are gonna be pissed (they already are).

Also,

That should've been "I'm sorry I was being such an asshole. That was unnecessary of me".

Read the room and just quit being an admin dude, nobody wants you here.

For real let's not waste people's time so they can move on to another site instead of here where their upload is at risk of being removed cus some corpo or staff believes it's wrongthink or want to virtue signal.

 

[aunony]

Long story short: This site is cooked, isn't it?

The site will survive as long as namicomi, the company behind MD, remains operational and continues to support it. It will survive, but at the cost of mutilating the entire site because they have to appease the ad networks, Visa, and Mastercard.

 

[madokatan]

We were made aware of content that goes against our content policy, specifically clause 3.1.1 regarding underage characters in pornographic settings. The content that was removed, and some content still being reviewed, includes entries labelled Mature, with characters that are engaging in sexual intercourse and either:

• They are clearly very young in appearance, and the content does not confirm that they are adults.
• The content itself confirms that they are under the age of 18.

Nothing else is being examined at this time.

I mostly use this site as a database for searching up and sampling the first chapter or so of new releases as I prefer to just buy them from Japan, the reality is that if you specifically stick to this is probably doesn't affect me TOO much because I tend to stick in the erotica and suggestive categories. Still though every time I see websites in general capitulate to this kind of stuff, a few months later they almost always end up making the line stricter and stricter. Today its hentai but tomorrow its https://mangadex.org/title/32f49758...san-wa-joshi-shougakusei-ni-kyoumi-ga-arimasu something like this. They are drawings at the end of the day and people are only interested in banning it because they get upset that other people like it. It's getting so ridiculous.

 

[Quroh_JG]

It was though. Papa Milk is literally toddlercon

Ok, did any toddler get injured? No?
You can like it or not, but censorship is a bad thing. If you start censoring things that are "though", we're opening the door to censor everything that's not politically correct.
By that logic we should censor eroguro, gore, anything that shows abuse, etc

 

[Kozera7575]

Jumping back here because my previous post had a sentence that was poorly worded and came off as too much of a personal attack or moral grandstanding. I also didn't provide enough context on the content being removed, so that's on me.

I've been reading some of the replies, and thank you for voicing your opinions and concerns, whether in this thread or elsewhere. Users want clarification on the removals, so please find it below.

We were made aware of content that goes against our content policy, specifically clause 3.1.1 regarding underage characters in pornographic settings. The content that was removed, and some content still being reviewed, includes entries labelled Mature, with characters that are engaging in sexual intercourse and either:

• They are clearly very young in appearance, and the content does not confirm that they are adults.
• The content itself confirms that they are under the age of 18.

Nothing else is being examined at this time. We're currently exploring options to retain the title entry and other non-infringing metadata, but for now, we need to proceed with the removal.

Moral and legal compliance bullshittery
On a fucking pirate site
"clarifying"
just damage control

The mods are just "covid weebs" anyway. Tourists born out of covid. Like twittards and tumblr refugees


Aight, MD is done boyz. The predditors and lefties have taken hold. Back to reading them mangas raw

 

[NikoNikoNii]

Personally I am surprised it has taken this long for the end to come; we all knew it was over once the PIRACY SITE bent the knee to the Shonen sites and once the gooktoons started spamming DMCA. All we can pray is that a new site becomes a convenient hub and that someone posts something that lets us import our follow list. Manga needed to be gatekept harder

 

[Cobaltzero]

as technology gets better, they'll be no more piracy as crackdowns will be easy. Mangadex is moving in the direction of legal like other sites have before they get hit for good. Sad but true.

piracy will never die. getting to the sites will get harder though.

 

[Pauan]

The site will survive as long as namicomi, the company behind MD, remains operational and continues to support it. It will survive, but at the cost of mutilating the entire site because they have to appease the ad networks, Visa, and Mastercard.

Which means they will die. The manga on MangaDex are not created by MangaDex, not scanlated by MangaDex, and not uploaded by MangaDex.

MangaDex provides the platform, but all of the actual content comes from the users scanlating and uploading it. Without the users, MangaDex has zero content. Nobody will visit a manga website that has zero content.

 

[BestBoy]

we're opening the door

miss me with the slippery slope fallacy

 

[Quroh_JG]

miss me with the slippery slope fallacy

 

[meccaflare]

So just to clarify... should we leave it entirely up to staff review? If future moderation decisions are made, will uploaders be penalized retroactively? Or will there be some kind of cutoff date where prior uploads won’t result in strikes?

I’m asking because predictability matters. If policies are evolving, it would help to know whether enforcement is forward-looking or if older content is at risk.

On a separate note, I think section 3.1.1 could be worded more transparently. If the driving factor here is compliance with payment processor requirements, it may be better to state that directly rather than framing it purely as a legality issue.

After all, legality varies widely by region... there are countries where LGBT content is illegal, yet that’s clearly not the standard being applied here. I'm betting this constraint is specifically tied to Visa/Mastercard policies, clarity about that would avoid confusion and speculation.

It is what it is... platforms have to operate within their financial constraints. I just think being upfront about the reasoning would go a long way.

Just to expand on what I said... I genuinely can’t tell whether people are catastrophizing this or if there’s actually a broader shift happening. That’s why I’m asking for clarity.

If this extends beyond explicit NSFW content and starts applying to mature-themed works that feature younger-looking characters in suggestive contexts, then that’s a much bigger deal. I’ll be honest: I don’t even know what Papa Milk was, so I’m missing some context here.

If, however, this is strictly limited to explicit NSFW material, then it’s not quite as apocalyptic as some are making it out to be. I say that as someone who regularly uploads NSFW doujinshi. On MangaDex, those might get 300–700 bookmarks, while on other platforms the same release can pull 30k–70k. I like having the option to upload here and I use it, but this alone wouldn’t be the end of MD. It just depends on how far this goes.


On rule 3.1.1 specifically:

“3.1.1 Illegal Content, in particular, child pornography, child abuse and drug abuse.”

The inclusion of “drug abuse” feels out of place and overly broad. Depictions of drug use are common across all forms of media... film, television, literature... and are often used to portray reality or explore serious themes. There isn’t a blanket law against fictional depictions of drug use. As written, the rule could technically apply to a wide range of mainstream works, including manga currently on the site. It should just be removed.

More broadly, the wording of 3.1.1 feels overly literal and ambiguous at the same time. It doesn’t clearly distinguish between real-world illegality and fictional depictions. Adding qualifiers like “non-fictional” or “real-world” where appropriate... or explicitly clarifying how fictional portrayals are treated... would remove a lot of confusion.

At the end of the day, I’m asking for clearer boundaries so uploaders aren’t left guessing where the line is.