Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[QualityGames]

Titles being removed are those we have been made aware of through a legal nexus as "considered the distribution of illegal material". Moderation will not go beyond the titles mentioned; there was Papa Milk and anything adjacent, and some others still in review.

If we are notified of anything else, we will try to inform uploaders before proceeding with removals, where possible.

Again, the material is not illegal. It has been on the website longer than you've been reading manga most likely.

 

[Jax277]

Pirate Manga site suddenly cares about the law.

Cmon, be fr for a minute

 

[PilotNOT]

Rip MangaDex, this site has been cucked by the moralfags virus; not even keeping the metadata to act as an index similar to the likes of ComicK.Dev. welp what a sad death, any alternatives bois?

 

[Quroh_JG]

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.

 

[seekermoc]

Rip MangaDex, this site has been cucked by the moralfags virus; not even keeping the metadata to act as an index similar to the likes of ComicK.Dev. welp what a sad death, any alternatives bois?

I love your pfp.

 

[Pauan]

Ew fucking gross. Glad it and anything similar to it is gone.

If you support censorship, then I hope everything you love gets censored.

Either all speech is free, or none of it is. You don't get to cherry pick based on your personal subjective tastes and biases.

 

[kuro0102]

At first I was wondering why would a pirate site need to comply with the law, but then I remembered MD merged with namicomi and they actually HAVE to bend the knee to CC companies now 🤷‍♂️ A shame, really. This site got a lot of traffic again after comick got gibbed, scanlators started uploading to this site again but I guess we shouldn't have put all the eggs in one basket.

 

[PilotNOT]

I love your pfp.

Thanks, she's Yashiro Kasumi from Muv Luv Alternative.

 

[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.