MangaStream Drops VIZ Media

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-12 05:31

  Dear MangaStream supporter,
  
  It's with a heavy heart that I make the following announcement. MangaStream will no longer be releasing the following series:
  
  - Naruto
  - Bleach
  - One Piece
  - Hunter x Hunter
  - Katekyo Hitman Reborn
  - Claymore
  - D.Gray-man
  
  VIZ Media has demanded that we end our scanlation work for all of the above. This comes despite our best efforts to pursuade fans into supporting official distributors by being the only group to actively prevent an archive from forming on their website through the removal of chapters that are older than a couple weeks. They've succeeded in little more than invoking inconvenience to the community as their digital magazine missed the mark; it runs several issues behind and only features 3 of the above series. So long as their product continues to be slow, awkward and inferior to something a ragtag group of nobodies can churn out in a few hours - fans will continue to look to scanlation groups and aggregators for their weekly fix.
  
  The aggressive and escalating nature of their threats have forced our hand into removing the content. MangaStream will no longer be posting full scanlations for any of the aforementioned series, we will instead focus our efforts onto the series we do that are not licensed by VIZ Media (you can assume everything currently on our directory will be continued).
  
  Our final message to our loyal JUMP audience will be this:
  Thank you for supporting us over the past two years and making Mangastream your home away from home. It was a pleasure sharing our time with fans who were just as passionate and dedicated as we were.
  
  Although MangaStream will no longer be hosting any of the Jump series, if it's something our fanbase is interested in, we're considering leveraging our connections to bring you accurate spoiler summaries for the Jump chapters as early as possible. We know this isn't much, but hope it can whet your appetite until the dozens of aggregators release the official Jump chapters on Wednesday.

  
  http://mangastream.com/content/jump
  
  great
• ZazieTheBeast wrote on 2012-02-12 05:34
  aww i was just about to post this
  
  anyway the only two series that i hate to see go are
  
  - One Piece
  - Hunter x Hunter
  
  i had just gotten back into Hunter x Hunter too :gloom3:
• Lolicon wrote on 2012-02-12 05:36
  DAAAWWWW.
  D Gray-man was my favorite. Wat doo nao.
• Blassreiter wrote on 2012-02-12 05:41
  Fairy Tail's next...
• ZazieTheBeast wrote on 2012-02-12 05:43

  Quote from Blassreiter;771640:

  Fairy Tail's next...

  
  
  :cry:
• Lan wrote on 2012-02-12 05:59
  Mainly care about Fairy Tale, can find Naruto...elsewhere.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-12 06:05
  b-but Manga Stream has quality scans and translations owo
• Tatsu wrote on 2012-02-12 06:10

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;771667:

  b-but Manga Stream has quality scans and translations owo

  
  
  There are so many groups scanning jump series, it's not funny. It's just that Mangastream had easily the best translations and scans out of the rest of them. I'm particularly sad about them dropping HxH and One Piece.
  
  At least I can easily find more groups doing One Piece. I'm not too sure how many groups are doing HxH. At least they're still doing Hajime no Ippo...
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-02-12 07:04
  Now I'm pissed. One Piece is the only manga I even read anymore and the ****tards at VIZ, who can't even keep up the pace with japan's releases (not to mention the lack of digital releases, with high quality translations and no Americanization) go and do this.... I'm not supporting the manga industry in north america anymore. I used to randomly buy manga now and then, not anymore. I'll just find somewhere else to get my One Piece.
  
  Hopefully VIZ follows the way of bandai's north american branch for anime stuff.
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-02-12 08:24
  ****.
• chaolin wrote on 2012-02-12 10:36
  Man, I care about Hunter x Hunter and One Piece but not really the others.
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-02-12 11:12
  I care about Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Hunter x Hunter and Fairytail. :(
• Tatsu wrote on 2012-02-16 03:22
  Has anybody found a good replacement for mangastream? Because Mangazone sucks major ass.
• truefire wrote on 2012-02-16 04:12

  Quote from Tatsu;775894:

  Has anybody found a good replacement for mangastream? Because Mangazone sucks major ass.

  
  
  How bad are they in comparison to Sleepyfan? Trying to decide if they're "necessary evil" level or "not if you were the last scanlator on earth" level, but can't find any of their chapters to compare with mangastream. This is particularly for One Piece.
  
  When I say the latter level, I'm talking about McDonald scanlations for Hayate no Gotoku bad.
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-02-16 05:28

  Quote from Tatsu;775894:

  Has anybody found a good replacement for mangastream? Because Mangazone sucks major ass.

  
  
  The scans on mangareader are decent.