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[Endless Torment]

Mangadex got just utterly nuked. Not only the big series, but a shitton of older and finished titles too, complete burnt ground.

We'll see if this will get people to adapt or simply kill off a lot of scanlation/translation efforts. Pity, it was a good resource to read older/niche stuff.

Centralization was always a mistake.

I imagine they will be forced to remove more series and the site will either die or just exist as a place for various groups to direct to other places where the chapters won't be taken down.
edit: damn it's gutted pretty bad and it will be annoying to find some of these again.

 

[vern]

Mangadex got just utterly nuked. Not only the big series, but a shitton of older and finished titles too, complete burnt ground.

We'll see if this will get people to adapt or simply kill off a lot of scanlation/translation efforts. Pity, it was a good resource to read older/niche stuff.

Centralization was always a mistake.

Not the first time, I was around when Bato got nuked and even after a 10 years MD still isn't as big.
Going through my list it seems to be everything new and old from Shogakukan, Square-Enix, Kodansha and Shueisha, even the unlicensed stuff
A few series by Champion are still up (Iruma, Jitsu wa Watashi wa, etc) and most niconico/pixiv web manga are there

If anyone is wondering how things got so centralized even after bato got nuked, its because MD was one of if not the only scanlator site that let you edit chapters, the old bato site made you delete the whole chapter and reupload it, and they had the option where you could block other people from uploading a series if you where the one who first uploaded (this was to try and prevent snipping but it just ended up having 3-4 different versions of the same manga, and sometimes not even by different scan groups), so it became the go to for people who where making scans save the big groups who had their own personal websites (Mangastream, Jaimini's Box, etc)
I also think its because their reader was better then most since most scrapper sites still reloads the entire site if you select 1 page, or makes you endlessly scroll through the entire chapter like its a damn webtoon, but that's just me preferring the 2 page option.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I am going to sound naive or optimistic here but these companies can't understand that even if they take down one site, people will go to great lengths to preserve whatever media it is they try to remove.

Piracy is something that will never die, no matter if there are official services, people will do their best to preserve as much copies of media as possible. Even if Mangadex is down, there are still going to be other sites that have the same copies, it is just going to be a pain in the ass to find them.

It is impossible to burn down every library.

 

[Namekian George Floyd]

He is an utter failure as an author because he somehow managed to take the concept of war bad, pacifism good look so utterly retarded you would look at anyone who takes the story seriously with disgust. Anytime I hear something new about it I wonder what do the people still reading it think deep down?
Unless the story ends with Thorfinn dying in despair because he lost everything because of his ideals while realizing what a fool he was then I can't see how the story can recover.

The author himself stopped taking the story seriously a longass time ago when he started making The Shining references and threw in a Yeti monster, that entire war at the end of the third arc was basically a comedy. I stopped when a tranny was introduced at the beginning of the 4th arc with plans to finish when the whole thing is wrapped up, did they really fuck it up that bad since I stopped reading?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The author himself stopped taking the story seriously a longass time ago when he started making The Shining references and threw in a Yeti monster, that entire war at the end of the third arc was basically a comedy. I stopped when a tranny was introduced at the beginning of the 4th arc with plans to finish when the whole thing is wrapped up, did they really fuck it up that bad since I stopped reading?

I stopped watching in the farm arc after the scene where some dude cuts the protagonist while he doesn't react because pacifism. It's retarded and edgy, and not in the fun ways.

 

[Endless Torment]

I am going to sound naive or optimistic here but these companies can't understand that even if they take down one site, people will go to great lengths to preserve whatever media it is they try to remove.

Piracy is something that will never die, no matter if there are official services, people will do their best to preserve as much copies of media as possible. Even if Mangadex is down, there are still going to be other sites that have the same copies, it is just going to be a pain in the ass to find them.

It is impossible to burn down every library.

Preservation isn't the issue the biggest in regards to this because what is more worrisome is scanlators quitting.

 

[ringtones]

I've noticed a pattern. Someone on kf will say "anime sucks and is for troons" and I will say something like "some anime is good actually"

then some mouthbreathing fag will jump in with

"MY FAVORITE ANIME ARE FMA: BROTHERHOOD AND AKIRA"

if this is you please neck yourself

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

I wanted to show 2 new manga that are noteworthy for completely opposite reasons. Any kiwi can read them on Mangadex.

Not recommended: Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru!

Spoiler: Autism

Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru! sucks ass. The character design is the only thing going for it. It's award winning, don't ask me why..

It's porn bait disguised as a comedic slice of life. Great art, but the mangaka can't write for shit. None of the characters feel like real human beings. All of them are little effigies to a variety of fetishes. A loli with huge tits? A trap? A flat chested rich girl? A milf? The artist lacks any real understanding of the world beyond the idealized representations found in anime/manga. It's Plato's Allergory of the (Goon) Cave.

Here's how everything went to shit (they're talking about highschoolers):

Spoiler

The editor was right but gave the worst advice. None of the characters seem like they could exist in the real world. There is no organic chemistry, no believable flaws, nothing. I might be harsh but go read it for yourself. Everything feels about as plastic as the mangaka's pile of figurines.

0/10

Recommended: Heisei Haizanhei Sumire-chan

Spoiler: Autism

Heisei Haizanhei Sumire-chan is the opposite of Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru! The art is wonky at times but the writing is solid.

The main character Yusei is the highschool nephew of title character Sumire, a former failed idol, and encourages her to become a cosplayer to pay off her debts. Sumire is pretty similar to Bossmanjack, addicted to gambling with an extroverted personality.

The manga uses sexualized characters to discuss the gravure modeling, idol, pornography and prostitution industry.

Unlike the previous manga the character's motivations aren't explicitly spoonfed to you, instead one can infer based on what's shown. For example, Yusei works to be Sumire's producer because he wants everyone to appreciate her, stemming from his childhood admiration of her when she was an idol. Again, this isn't told to you because the mangaka respects your intelligence.

If you find these random pages intriguing then it should be worth checking out.

Spoiler

Very good/10

 

[Namekian George Floyd]

I stopped watching in the farm arc after the scene where some dude cuts the protagonist while he doesn't react because pacifism. It's retarded and edgy, and not in the fun ways.

The farm arc is great though, it's probably the best exploration of slavery I've ever read in all of fiction and you couldn't have had that if Thorfinn just went, "Fuck this" and started killing everyone. I don't know about you but it was nice to see a slavery story that wasn't just, "Look what those evil white devils did to those poor black people, fuck white people #BlackLivesMatter", there was actually a demonstration of why the concept is wrong at its core without it being polluted by identity politics. I never watched the anime version though, I heard they stretched it out into 24 episodes and added pointless action scenes.

 

[funwithshemales69]

Mangadex got just utterly nuked. Not only the big series, but a shitton of older and finished titles too, complete burnt ground.

We'll see if this will get people to adapt or simply kill off a lot of scanlation/translation efforts. Pity, it was a good resource to read older/niche stuff.

Centralization was always a mistake.

What are the series(es) which got removed? I dont see any and for the most part the site seems okay to me but I could be wrong given how limited what I read is.

 

[BiggestKai]

What are the series(es) which got removed? I dont see any and for the most part the site seems okay to me but I could be wrong given how limited what I read is.

Allegedly most of them are on this pastebin but I'm not in the mood to go check all ~900 of them. Can confirm at least Heavy Knight has been nuked.

 

[star slaw]

Eden: It's an Endless World!

 

[sasazuka]

What are the series(es) which got removed? I dont see any and for the most part the site seems okay to me but I could be wrong given how limited what I read is.

The first one I noticed was WataMote save for the most recent four chapters (which were probably posted after the DMCA was filed).

 

[funwithshemales69]

Allegedly most of them are on this pastebin but I'm not in the mood to go check all ~900 of them. Can confirm at least Heavy Knight has been nuked.

Yeah just saw Vinland and Battle Angel was nuked, confirmed with external available sources also. Very Very sad, I use Mangadex for reading/referencing all the obscure stuff I cant get, looking at them nuking stuff is sad.

The first one I noticed was WataMote save for the most recent four chapters (which were probably posted after the DMCA was filed).

Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

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A lot of people are theorizing that the "WSJ series that ended more the 15 years ago" is Psyren unless anyone else can think of another series that ended around 2010 that never got an anime

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I haven't read the series in years so someone else will have to chime in whether it holds up but from what I remember, a bunch a kids stubble on a phone booth and get trapped in a cycle of being sent to a post apocalyptic future and told to play certain games (can't remember if it was just a battle royal or not) before being sent back once each game ends, and each character starts to develop some kind of psychic power the longer they stay in said post apocalyptic future.
IIRC most of the series was either fighting or the cast looking for clues both in the future and present what the fuck happened, I might reread the series if it turns out to be the hinted series.

A Psyren anime would legitimately be a dream come true. The characters were great and the overall plot was highly interesting.

Spoiler: Ruminating on the plot

If I recall, the "game" was basically a ruse by Phantom Q (a psychic in the future) so that the players could figure out exactly what happened and stop the apocalypse. I don't remember much after that, I'd need to reread it as well.

 

[Giga Troll]

Mangadex got just utterly nuked. Not only the big series, but a shitton of older and finished titles too, complete burnt ground.

there was a lot of nice obscure manga out there that got purged, sad shit. of course this will be ineffective because you can literally just look up [series name chapter _____] and get a billion aggregator sites if you wanted to read something specific. if publishers continue to push this shit now might be a good time to start downloading anything in your backlog.

 

[KorokiKokoro]

Mangadex got just utterly nuked. Not only the big series, but a shitton of older and finished titles too, complete burnt ground.

We'll see if this will get people to adapt or simply kill off a lot of scanlation/translation efforts. Pity, it was a good resource to read older/niche stuff.

Centralization was always a mistake.

This is probably the closest manga has gotten to a Library of Alexandria moment.

 

[RSU 1741]

of course this will be ineffective

It will be, I fear. MD was the primary source for a lot of scrapers and a primary staging area for scanlators/translators. Scraping sites won't endure long without some place from where to get chapters: of course, there's the option of flat-out getting official scans and hosting in countries that laught at DMCA requests, but this will still massively impact the scanlator/translator combo.

Add to that the Discord clique mentality that poisoned everything (this is no longer an age of "small little translation site as a hobby") and MTL and we could be getting a killing blow. Not for the bigger series, they will be pirated at once, but for the smaller niche series that no one would have discovered if not for some sperg translating them? Older finished series? Half-known classics?

It is possible to poison a well, and most people aren't willing to risk legal issues for hobbies.

 

[ringtones]

the scrapers should have a copy of all lost data though

 

[McMitch]

I’m old enough to remember when OneManga went down. Things trucked on just fine afterward, and that was a total shutdown of the site. Frankly, the only actual benefit MD had over scrapers was not trying to slip porn ads past my Adblock. Half the time the site performed poorly of it performed at all, and I’m convinced it’s a mess under the hood for a site whose primary function is loading jpegs.