T_T
I read : Naruto* , Bleach , One piece , D.gray man , Bobobo-bo-bo-bobo , Zetman* , Wolfguy* , Ares , Sora no otoshimono , The world god only knows , Baki son of ogre* , Id* ,Yureka and Beelzebub
And I don't like mangafox

* = mangas I read just beacuse they're so bad

Hapahauli

United States9305 Posts

July 22 2010 20:57 GMT

#122

It's a shame it went down, but it'll be just as easy to find mangas on other sites. New sites will grow to replace the old and the cycle will inevitably continue.

Sabu113

United States11082 Posts

July 22 2010 21:04 GMT

#123

Rip Onemanga/ Mangeto shotakan.

Fortunately I only like a few mangas. I Can live without T_T

jackarage

Canada104 Posts

July 22 2010 21:28 GMT

#124

Nooooo!!!!! but that will save the life of mangaka by support them economicaly
but still fell sad

Squalish

United States137 Posts

July 22 2010 21:53 GMT

#125

anyone have an idea of how lucrative onemanga was anyway? getting so many hits must be worth a lot, right? i've always wondered about how much ad hosting on popular sites is worth, or any other kinda of revenue popular sites can get.
anyways onemanga got me hooked to several manga and this is a sad day indeed. they made a great effort to making a quality site without popups, ads that start talking to you, and other problems that plague almost every other manga site i go to.. mangastream is really nice atm but it only has a few manga.

Spazer

Canada8033 Posts

July 22 2010 22:05 GMT

#126

On July 23 2010 06:28 jackarage wrote:
Nooooo!!!!! but that will save the life of mangaka by support them economicaly
but still fell sad

No it won't. Shutting down onemanga won't cause foreign readers to suddenly buy manga. Heck, there aren't that many commercially available translations to begin with.

It's not like shutting down these sites will reduce piracy by much anyway. There are many other sources for manga still available. Sites like onemanga are convenient, but overall, not really necessary.

Adila

United States874 Posts

July 22 2010 22:15 GMT

#127

On July 23 2010 06:28 jackarage wrote:
Nooooo!!!!! but that will save the life of mangaka by support them economicaly
but still fell sad

You mean support the suits economically.

The mangaka will continue to get screwed until the industry changes.

ffz

United States490 Posts

July 22 2010 22:24 GMT

#128

just add the manga u read onto mangaupdates and then d/l the manga from the actual scanlators... its not that hard to figure out. Plus ur supporting the actual scanlators most of the time instead of some 3rd party mangaviewer. Scanlators actually are the ones doing most of the work after the mangaka.

Sandrosuperstar

Sweden525 Posts

July 22 2010 22:25 GMT

#129

noooooo (:< (its a sad smiley) onemanga u will be missed

iamtenninja

United States162 Posts

July 22 2010 22:29 GMT

#130

i'm pretty active over in the onemanga forums, it's pretty intellectual to a certain extent (depending on which series you're looking at). While it's a shame that OM will be shut down, don't lose hope! The scanlators are still alive and kicking. OM after all was just a host site. One with respect to scanlators though.

aers

United States1210 Posts

July 22 2010 22:30 GMT

#131

On July 23 2010 05:25 RoosterSamurai wrote:
I wonder if this will be the dawn of the death of anime and manga, or if it will make anime more marketable? It's honestly difficult to say, as any anime/manga lovers I know generally have no money.

The anime industry (Japan's) is already dying a slow death. The dawn of that day happened a while ago.

If more companies sign on to things like Crunchyroll as alternate revenue streams (ie actually tapping into the foreign market that wants to see things the day they air in Japan), the damage can probably be curtailed.

yrba1

United States325 Posts

July 22 2010 22:32 GMT

#132

-_____-
First these American subbing companies stopped Dattebayo from subbing Naruto and Bleach, now they want to stop Onemanga?!?!
Time to migrate once again.........

illu

Canada2531 Posts

July 22 2010 22:34 GMT

#133

NOOOOOOO

Actually, this won't kill piracy at all. Just need to work a little harder on obtaining these things through torrents, IRC, Chinese websites, etc.

aers

United States1210 Posts

July 22 2010 22:39 GMT

#134

On July 23 2010 07:32 yrba1 wrote:
-_____-
First these American subbing companies stopped Dattebayo from subbing Naruto and Bleach, now they want to stop Onemanga?!?!
Time to migrate once again.........

No one stopped Dattebayo. They bowed out voluntarily when official methods for watching subbed Naruto and Bleach on the same day they air in Japan became available.

Anxiety

United States650 Posts

July 23 2010 00:57 GMT

#135

Wait! People! Stop posting links to manga scanning sites! What if some stupid person that has internal connections to the Japanese reads this and tells them, and they all get shut down! I say stupid because you can just google it.

aers

United States1210 Posts

July 23 2010 00:59 GMT

#136

I have internal connections once removed and I assure you they've been aware for a while now!

SilverSkyLark

Philippines8437 Posts

July 23 2010 01:00 GMT

#137

hey uh, I haven't read anything but if anyone knows other sites, can you share them so that they can be listed in the OP?

mangatoshkan.com seems good, and I think I misspelled that.

The_Pacifist

United States540 Posts

July 23 2010 01:03 GMT

#138

On July 23 2010 10:00 SilverSkyLark wrote:
hey uh, I haven't read anything but if anyone knows other sites, can you share them so that they can be listed in the OP?

mangatoshkan.com seems good, and I think I misspelled that.

mangareader.net
manga.animea.net
unixmanga.com
mangafox.com
citymanga.com
mangastream.com

Those are all the ones already listed in this thread. I may have missed some.

I feel like manga publishers have just taken away my favorite TV remote. Now it's like I have to actually get up and press the up and down buttons on the TV itself over and over to get to the shows I want to see.

seedfreedom

Canada38 Posts

July 23 2010 01:07 GMT

#139

To be honest, this is kinda like the big scare the anime comunity had a while back. Until it just sorta passed and they realized shuting down a billion sites wont do a thing. Now anime is streamed for free in some cases supported by ads and such.

In stead of making this into a "is this the end of manga" situation, it might turn out like anime and manga publishers will find new ways to recouping revenue while keeping fans happy.

DreamScaR

Canada2127 Posts

July 23 2010 01:17 GMT

#140

mangastream is one of my favourite, plus they post theirs extremely fast. This doesn't have me worried, remember when everyone went into mass hysteria about the same thing happening with Anime? Publishers will learn that if they stop all access to it online (HAHA) they'll lose out on sales. A lot of people read the scanlations because they want to know as soon as they can. Which for our society now is pretty much the normal.

If they were smart, they'd do the same type of thing as the anime world with putting certain anime's up on places like CR with manga that would be scanlated and translated into english on a fast scale. I know I personally would pay for a service like that, baring the price obviously.