Scum behavior tbh cause japanese publishers are super retarded.
Do they unironically expect everyone to read in Japanese because they think everyone reading manga must be from Japan or some shit??
Thankfully certain aggregators are keeping shit.
Also, aggregators and pirate websites
got me addicted to introduced me to mangas. I’m pretty sure that the first site that I ever used for mangas was mangakakalot after searching “XXX manga free read English” (I take only a little shame)
The only thing that pisses me off more than what you said is when the Japanese look at how much piracy websites in their traffic and automatically assume that that’s how much money their losing without realizing that
1: it’s a service issue. Fix your own goddamn problems.
2: at least a good chunk of anime and manga viewers
will not pay for the official release even if it’s in English.