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.