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"There is an end to everything, to good things as well."
It pains me to announce that this is the last week of manga reading on One Manga (!!). Manga publishers have recently changed their stance on manga scanlations and made it clear that they no longer approve of it. We have decided to abide by their wishes, and remove all manga content (regardless of licensing status) from the site. The removal of content will happen gradually (so you can at least finish some of the outstanding reading you have), but we expect all content to be gone by early next week (RIP OM July '10).
So what next? We're not really sure at this point, but we have some ideas we would like to try out. Until then, the One Manga forums will remain active and we encourage all of you to continue using them. OMF has developed into a great community and it would be a shame to see that disappear.
You can also show us some love in this moment of sadness by 'liking' our brand new Facebook page. It would be nice to see just how many of you came to enjoy our 'better than peanut butter and jelly' invention.
Regardless of whether you stay with us or not, on behalf of the One Manga team, I would like to thank you all for your unwavering support over the years. Through the ups and downs you have stuck with us, and that is what kept us going.
As a certain Porky was fond of saying... That's all folks!
Time for me to go lay down and let this all sink in.
- Zabi
This message came up when I went to onemanga.com to read some of my beloved mangas. Now that onemanga has been eliminated due to manga publisher pressure, does anyone else think that other manga-browsing websites (eg mangafox, mangahut, etc) will also take down all their mangas?
Will we have to return to buying the antique bound books that we have grown to hate?
One future possibility I see is that there may be a subscription based online manga viewer (assuming manga publishers start cracking down).
Is this a premonition of a forecoming disaster? Or do manga publishers just hate onemanga?
Discuss.
EDIT: Heres the link to the situation in onemanga forums.
http://forum.onemanga.com/showthread.php?t=81428
EDIT2: Although this is a massive shock to many (and a minor to some), remember that we at least still have anime!
EDIT#3: I don't think manga scanlators have been shut down, just the mass distribution websites. I guess if you want to read manga for now, its possible to use the unclosed sites( i.e. Mangafox), and if that closes, go to the scanlator directly (like Frankyhouse, Simple Scans, etc)
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Oh Noes. I read GTO and HotD there 
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Are the forums gone? Best manga forums I've been able to find.
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argh... It's happening everywhere
First Ninjavideo, then onemanga? Most likely Onemanga took down their site due to respect of the Publisher's wishes. But whether or not Manga publishers will take legal action on any other site is still unknown.
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And it's an entirely futile fight to try and shut down manga scanlation/translations: you'll get the big sites that host it, but it'll still be all over the web just as it usually is. I mean domestic companies / lobbying groups can't even put a dent in file-sharing of movies and files, yet Japanese companies are going to somehow stop their paper/picture properties from being shared? Yeah right.
The only thing that would help is an actual legal / easy to use / UP TO DATE service of publishing of manga/anime. Manga in particular is months / a year + behind date in North America compared to the Japanese releases: nobody is going to wait that long to get past the cliffhanger in their story if it's available in pirated form online. Same for anime, which is usually years behind in terms of English dubs and their are no official English subs at all.
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Very sad news. my favourite manga site.
I didn't see the news till now since I usually use the onemanga beta site.
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Ugh, this sucks. While getting free manga was a little too good to be true, I'm still gonna miss catching up on some of the series that aren't published in the US.
Oh well, guess I'll have to find other ways to view those series...
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fuck, that is all i have to say
im gonna miss that site
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Blah, what a pain in the ass :/
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Vatican City State1650 Posts
Mangatoshokan is down too. They had a lot of hard to find manga there...
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This is like Stage6 all over again.....
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On July 22 2010 15:42 orgolove wrote:
Mangatoshokan is down too. They had a lot of hard to find manga there...
It seems up to me, but they say that they removed a shitload of series. A lot of the really obscure stuff is still there, though.
Also I need to find a script to download the mangas I'm trying to finish -__--;;
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FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
NO >_<
T_T
I read Bleach there.
Love Hina.
Liar Game.
Doubt.
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I'm sniffling right now...
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I remember about a year ago I read every single Inuyasha chapter, and I was really amazed at the web site, only thing I read on there though.
Sad to see it go T_T
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It was this year that i found out such website existed lolol
Im a generic asian who only reads Narutard and Bleach ~_~
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2629 Posts
I'm really sad to see it go. It was the most comprehensive database of online manga (in a general sense). Now I have to troll the series specific forums to find the latest chapters
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Canada8032 Posts
Well, crap. Back to downloading through IRC, I guess.
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omg :/ this is bad :/ srsly :///
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I read about this on another forum I go to, and it sucks that it really is coming to an end... I don't read a lot of manga series, but I understand how much this sucks for people who read a lot since the site is the best.
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aers
United States1210 Posts
Manga piracy survived before OneManga and its ilk and it'll survive after they fall. They've simply spoiled the current generation of pirates. 
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EPT
