One-Punch Man (Webcomic)

[hahanaho]

Murata DMCA’d the webcomic translation. Because he’s ashamed he’ll never reach this peak.

 

[joex92]

I think this manga has already overstayed its welcome. I truly feel the end was meant to be after the Garou mega fight, showing the world who number one is. But... let's better go back to loads of text and run of the mill characters that are not even appealing.
It's like DBZ, it could have ended with Vegeta's glorious sacrifice, but no, Toriyama doesn't grasp the concept of moderation. Don't do the same, ONE.

You are wrong about Toriyama... Toriyama way back in the day wanted to end DBZ with Freeza's arc and take a break on DB, but then TOEI forced him to keep making more episodes because DB was selling a lot... He was forced until the Buu arc, when the TOEI head changed and gave permission to Toriyama to finally take a break... It wasn't Toriyama's fault, it was TOEI's...

 

[joex92]

Murata DMCA’d the webcomic translation. Because he’s ashamed he’ll never reach this peak.

Really? Is there public info about that? Or just rumors? (Not the "because he's ashamed" part, but that he DMCA'd it)

 

[zetsuravez]

Wait... Was this dmca'd?... I heard this is some free web comic thing so why the hell this got hit?...

 

[zetsuravez]

Murata DMCA’d the webcomic translation. Because he’s ashamed he’ll never reach this peak.

Is that true?... There's no way that is true...

 

[Autenga]

Why did the webcomic get hit with the dmca lol

There's no copyright on this thing, it's a free webcomic.

Wait... Was this dmca'd?... I heard this is some free web comic thing so why the hell this got hit?...

I suspect that the DMCA demand about One Punch Man basically just said "take down EVERYTHING you have concerning the One Punch Man copyright, or else!", and that the mangadex administration decided to play it safe.

Though it's entirely possible that Shueisha, the publisher of the OPM manga, did also specifically include the webcomic in their request in spite of not having any legal grounds for that.

During that whole DMCA disaster, a whole bunch of Japanese and Korean publishing houses teamed up to spam mangadex with tons of DMCA requests in the span of, what? A week?

You can bet dollars to donuts that they were counting on mangadex just rolling over without contesting any of those claims. And that, in turn, also means that this DMCA barrage would, in theory, have been a great opportunity to slip in a bunch of takedown requests that would not have held up in court.

In addition to that, those publishers were explicitly trying to cripple mangadex when they undertook that DMCA barrage. This time around, they didn't just take issue with a few specific works being on mangadex - they were now taking issue with mangadex existing at all. Simply because mangadex had now grown so big that they believed it to be a threat to their businessmodel.

What I mean to say is, Shueisha had a plausible motive for DMCA'ing the webcomic's fan translation even though it (AFAIK) had no legal basis for doing so.

 

[Mdex1]

Oh god, YES! The last chapter was fucking awesome!!! UUUhhh!!! Let's fucking go!!! It made me completely forget how bad the animation was in the third season. I was so excited reading the chapter that I thought I was going to faint at some point. A solid 10/10 masterpiece.
Despite Kuseno being the mastermind behind it all, it was obvious at some point in the plot; One managed to make us genuinely suspect Metal Knight.
It is because of this type of plot that One Punch Man is so good.