Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[sanctuary]

Nice! Is there a PC version? I dont usually use apps.

https://theindex.moe/collection/windows-manga

 

[LilHoodie]

This is all happening because of Daiz. He successfully KILLED anime and manga

 

[ShujixXChise]

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.

Wrong they are CLEARLY FICTIONAL and you have no right to call people paedophile over fictional manga characters, reinstate the manga:Noraneko Shoujo to no Kurashikata and resign your mod powers you fucking tourist because YOU do not belong here.

 

[ShujixXChise]

B-b-but muh feelings ? muh illegal drawings ?

Theres no illegal drawings dummy, its all fictional.

 

[aunony]

My guy has been spitting facts for hours.

 

[bep]

This is all happening because of Daiz. He successfully KILLED anime and manga

Daiz-posting in the year of our lord 2026

 

[Tscheddov]

What would I know about it? I'm only given orders
Us mods are literally at the lowest level of the staff chain of command...

what would i know about it ?
sorry man i am grasping straws here. i thought at least you could tell us something or make those above you tell us what we want to know

are you allowed to tell us your personal opinion on this ?

 

[ShujixXChise]

You keep talking about rules that were always in place, yet Xnot mentioned a recent policy change. Why are we getting conflicting info? And why is there still no official statement?

With all this backlash you gotta see that there are only two options:
1. Embrace that MD is a piracy site and already deals with illegal content by default, so walk back those decisions, or
2. Die on that hill and all of MD with it. It's been a great time, but I guess we'll have to look for alternatives.

Nhentai and Hitomi have always been pretty good sites for finding manga and doujins AND you can still find noraneko shoujo to no kurashikata on Hitomi too.

 

[Basic_human]

Daiz-posting in the year of our lord 2026

Who tf is daiz?

What would I know about it? I'm only given orders
Us mods are literally at the lowest level of the staff chain of command...

Feel like watching cashier get yell by everyone.

 

[Bartolumiu]

what would i know about it ?
sorry man i am grasping straws here. i thought at least you could tell us something or make those above you tell us what we want to know

are you allowed to tell us your personal opinion on this ?

Just in case, I'd rather not, since it might get used as an "official" stance for the platform even though it isn't (it has sadly happened before)
But no worries, since it's obvious that everyone just wants to know about what's going on... (tbf, I would probably be the same, except for those specific individuals being disrespectful to everyone in this thread)

 

[ShujixXChise]

As much as I disagree with EtherealNeko and this whole situation, resorting to insults and personal attacks isn't going to help anything, and will only make it easier for the mods to dismiss the legitimate issues being discussed here.

You're forgetting something, EtherealNeko called us a paedophile over fictional manga characters because we dared to speak up about the unfair removal of a manga, WE have every right to be angry when a fucking tourist mod starts shitting on a manga and moralfags about it in a thread. Umm hello this is a pirate site? FUCK YO UK LAW!

 

[QualityGames]

That was mostly aimed at the dozens of other people asking the same shit. The answer is that we have looked at what needs to be actioned it and that's that.

And you should reach out to your corporate overloads and revise how you handle your pirate website.

 

[Tscheddov]

Just in case, I'd rather not, since it might get used as an "official" stance for the platform even though it isn't (it has sadly happened before)
But no worries, since it's obvious that everyone just wants to know about what's going on... (tbf, I would probably be the same, except for those specific individuals being disrespectful to everyone in this thread)

i understand that. but maybe you and other mods can put some additional pressure on those above you who know.

right now this feels like we are angry rats trapped in a barrel and mods and devs watch us from above, dont caring about us at all.

 

[Hikage255]

Hey mangaDex... how about you don't... you're a fking Piracy site, you're already breaking the law so grow some pairs before you lose your donations and have to shut down like other coward sites

 

[Dzialowy]

why does it affect manga that's published in stores and not doujins only?

 

[Angry_Panda]

right now this feels like we are angry rats trapped in a barrel

I agree with the frustration about how this was handled, but the only reason anyone is on this site is because they decided to be here. Everyone on this thread or on this site is free to go somewhere else with no consequences at all.

 

[Hikage255]

Mangadex becoming the next sinking Discord, alight everyone pack up your lists lets move elsewhere

 

[DavidianMillerian]

Everyone on this thread or on this site is free to go somewhere else with no consequences at all.

which is what certain people are doing, but still, I agree

 

[ShujixXChise]

If you're talking about Stray Cat, I can't speak to whether the tags were incorrect (loli has such a nebulous definition), but based on the story, the character is 17 (technically not an adult) through like 25ish chapters.

Wrong again, the age of the the FICTIONAL character does not equal the same as a actual child and comparing them the same is some seriously skitzo behavior.

 

[yogurtman250]

Recently MD has started purging titles from the site for "legal reasons". This does not affect just the chapters uploaded but also the title page itself.

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This change was first discovered by a user who reached out to a group about reading some of their chapters on MD.
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/inquiry-regarding-a-recently-missing-manga-series-page.2552352/

Take this information how you want but it's extremely disappointing that this is happening and even more so that it's trying to be done in the dark.

PS: Keep all discussion about this in this thread and out of the support forum.

Also i'm sorry if it's hard to read any of this shit I'm a bad writer 😭

This is probably going to be one of THE incidents that'll show the incompetency of the MD staff until it's eventual end as either a forgotten piracy site or an undead corpo manga publisher. Why? Neko's messages, of course. Before I rant about this shit, keep in mind that I do not like lolis or shotas in the slightest. I've avoided and dropped plenty of series relating to them. If the Great Loli Purge went decently smoothly, I'd probably wouldn't care enough to discuss about this topic more than a few messages. Still, the way Neko address the situation, in my opinion the worst way to address banning one of the biggest parts of the anime/manga community, because it accused the audience of something... quite bad to say the least. Looking back to 1954's Brown vs Board of Education, Chief Justice Warren chose to use an objective, non accusatory tone for the SCOTUS decision. This is because he wanted to prevent a situation where resistant southerners try to ignore or push back against the decision.
Having such a tone would've made a GREAT announcement instead of the post because then people would've had some idea of what happened soon after the purge rather than be in the dark for a while. Not to mention, the fact that the mod closed off the thread after saying such a response added some sort of finality to the statement. You do not want to end a thread asking about such a big change with a response like that. Especially since the response got put on a spotlight from someone tweeting about it, getting the "silent majority" (loli/shota fans) of the anime/manga community mad. Congrats.

Going back to the Brown v Board parallel, imagine if Justice Warren didn't try to prevent the southern half of the united states to cause an uproar due to decision, instead he purposely accuses them of... you know and wrote it with a pretentious tone, just to pat himself on the back. Imagine the backlash that would get. This practically what happened in this thread. You cannot write a response like that and don't expect some backlash from happening. Keep in mind, this is someone who spent their time on the forums only on forums on comments of self-published comics, meaning that nearly nobody knows who Neko is, also meaning that such a big change to the site's rules may seem to others that it's mainly the fault of her. If someone who has been more active in the forums, and worded it differently, things would've gone a LOT more differently, like people like this person not telling Neko to fuck off.

In other words, this message alone is THE cause of all this shit you're seeing right now. But i'm like too tired to explain more (just woke up) so sorry for making ranting about an already covered topic