Nice read by haji, and...
Oh no, not One manga. They all fall one after another. Mangatoshokan first, by having only Manwha now, and One Manga now...
The next one will surely be Mangafox... T_T

Invictus

Singapore2697 Posts

July 22 2010 10:31 GMT

#62

wtf i read other manga at onemanga too and now its down T_T. hope i can find some other sites that also has other mangas.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

July 22 2010 10:43 GMT

#63

here's food for thought.

Effectively every single TV-channel / newspaper company employee over 40 years old gets paid well over $100,000. You have to be a damn superstar to be paid this much in the western world.

Keep in mind that Japanese TV shows are mass-produced low budget pieces of shit (the majority of shows right now feature (a) comedians eating, or (b) comedians on quiz shows). Also, Japanese newspapers do no real "reporting" and simply regurgitate facts (which are actually often misrepresented intentionally). The papers are incredibly corrupt in Japan, which you wouldn't expect from a supposedly democratic country.

Japan is more of a socialist/communist state than a democracy imo.

TanGeng

Sanya12364 Posts

July 22 2010 11:05 GMT

#64

Democracies can be socialist. It's an economic philosophy rather than a political one. But yeah. When you value keeping people in their current jobs and are much less responsive to consumer satisfaction or desires, that's kind of socialist. There is also the NHK TV tax where the national broadcasting companies basically try to force everyone to pay something like a cable subscription.

The whole media distribution industry needs to redeploy their workforce so they can lower costs on both books and on TV. It's the same situation for the music & record industry here in the US and the Western nations. All you have to imagine is that it's even worse!!!

Murderotica

Vatican City State2594 Posts

July 22 2010 11:11 GMT

#65

Do the publishers not realize that people who read translated manga are the people who also would not buy Japanese books? Morons. They expect us to wait for them to release version in English like 3 years late? Fuck you publishers. If you did a better job there would be no need for manga websites.

TanGeng

Sanya12364 Posts

July 22 2010 11:19 GMT

#66

Most titles don't get translated to English, and many of the ones that do are trash. Based on personal experience, a lot of the translations done by Japanese translation houses are bad, terrible. And some the publishing companies insist on using Japanese translation houses. In the end, it's better just to learn the damn language yourself.

lesser_good

Canada698 Posts

July 22 2010 11:34 GMT

#67

all the good shit is on 1000manga, which has yet to display any messages of closing down

T0fuuu

Australia2275 Posts

July 22 2010 11:35 GMT

#68

lol . It seems like only games sucessfully moved to digital distribution with retail and online sales getting to parity.

Its pathetic to see print publishers still try to thug around digital distribuition.

I have money and i would pay for current and updated manga if u sold it without the niche tax.

Seriously if one piece came out on steam a day after the jap print came out for 1 dollar a chapter ppl would buy it. Its that simple.

Heck you could even put jump up for pretty cheap

Zetsubou

Sweden19 Posts

July 22 2010 11:42 GMT

#69

I don´t read that much manga but I think I will manage with http://www.mangastream.com/

Also they are always faster with one piece, naruto, bleach and fairy tail which is the only manga I read atm.

Noxide

United States2870 Posts

July 22 2010 11:46 GMT

#70

A sad day for all of us

Mangastream is great for getting the best ones fast but if you ever want to read anything fully, even the big three, OM was good for it.

I still know a bunch of sites though so shouldn't be too bad.

Feels like torrents all over again.

san-tokie

Korea (South)185 Posts

July 22 2010 11:56 GMT

#71

On July 22 2010 19:43 thedeadhaji wrote:
Keep in mind that Japanese TV shows are mass-produced low budget pieces of shit

Beat Takeshi is the cancer killing Japanese TV.

Also, "Uwa, umaiii~!!"

chaoser

United States5541 Posts

July 22 2010 12:31 GMT

#72

Well, time to go back to downloading off IRC. To to truthful, I always knew this day would come. The manga scanlation community isn't going to die out though. They existed before onemanga, they'll exist after. Onemanga simply spoiled the current generation of pirates.

It was a good run Onemanga, i'll miss you <3

sluggaslamoo

Australia4494 Posts

July 22 2010 12:46 GMT

#73

On July 22 2010 19:43 thedeadhaji wrote:

Japan is more of a socialist/communist state than a democracy imo.

Its actually a very conservative capitalist country.

The irony is that all your ideas have leaned heavily towards socialist ideals, I 100% agree with everything else you said though.

On July 22 2010 20:56 san-tokie wrote:

Show nested quote +

Beat Takeshi is the cancer killing Japanese TV.

Also, "Uwa, umaiii~!!"

Not only TV but manga as well.

Toriko aka Unnnmaiiiiiii!!!

LeDuck

Germany152 Posts

July 22 2010 13:57 GMT

#74

A huge blow for the scanlation community, first mangahelpers, now onemanga. Though, I still think it's the wrong way to approach this, there are just little to no alternatives for the western world and it sucks to wait months till the volumes are released. They should realize, that you simply can't crush piracy as long as the illegal content is way more attractive. Stuff like DRM for the latest computer games are an impertinence (Ubisoft anyone?) and will only support piracy in the end.

I've already seen people gather to host websites that are searching the conflict head-on, I guess a lot of people go back to irc, so scanlations are far from over. What is really annoying are lesser known mangas, since they are nearly impossible to get outside of japan. They better change their outdated marketing and give people outside of japan an equal offer, otherwise this is going to lead nowhere.

Conquest101

United States1395 Posts

July 22 2010 14:13 GMT

#75

Fuuuuuuuu...

What shitty news to wake up to.

While it's still possible for me to get all my manga from scanslator sites directly, if all the big manga sites go down, it's going to be 20x more annoying since I follow like 30+ series. Shit.

johanngrunt

Hong Kong1555 Posts

July 22 2010 14:14 GMT

#76

So besides mangastream, mangafox,

could anyone come up with a semi-complete list of places to go to once onemanga goes down?

Noob here sorry T.T

Victor

New Zealand1016 Posts

July 22 2010 14:19 GMT

#77

On July 22 2010 23:14 johanngrunt wrote:
So besides mangastream, mangafox,

could anyone come up with a semi-complete list of places to go to once onemanga goes down?

Noob here sorry T.T

Mangatraders, or manually search for any series you missed on mangaupates

johanngrunt

Hong Kong1555 Posts

July 22 2010 14:27 GMT

#78

I guess I'm just spoiled. Onemanga had the beta where I could track all my 20+ series easily and not miss out on any!

Sigh, does any other website even have something like that?

alypse

2784 Posts

July 22 2010 14:39 GMT

#79

On July 22 2010 15:56 flamewheel wrote:
NO >_<
T_T
I read Bleach there.
Love Hina.
Liar Game.
Doubt.
...
...
...
I'm sniffling right now...

Damn ......T_T

I read the whole Love Hina series there too.

And Bamboo Blade, and Claymore, to-LOVE-ru....

You will be missed, OM.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

July 22 2010 14:40 GMT

#80

On July 22 2010 23:27 johanngrunt wrote:
I guess I'm just spoiled. Onemanga had the beta where I could track all my 20+ series easily and not miss out on any!

Sigh, does any other website even have something like that?

Such a service SHOULD be provided by the publishers.

But alas, they are morons. I bet you the 20 year olds in the companies have actually proposed such ideas, but have been quashed by the 40+ year olds who aren't connected with the world.

Make some subscription service + one click thing (kind of like amazon), where you pay 25c per episode, directly linked to a cc account or something and you'd have a massive revenue stream.