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Celicia wrote on 2010-07-22 09:18
On a note, yeah, I get most of my Manga updates from One Manga or Manga Fox. Though, I do remember an article on Sankaku Complex about how Mangaka are trying to abolish online scanners and such, so the closing of One Manga and its series didn't really surprise me. Maybe I'm just typing this up for one reason or another, but I just have to wonder: What are the Otaku's of this forum going to do?
Go to local bookstore and read there to free? Find another site that hosts these series and read from there? Or just not care too much and think of it as a lost cause? So, what are you going to do?
I, personally, am just trying to find other sites to check up on. A few that come to mind for me are Manga Fox, Manga Streams, and Manga Helper. Although, if these sites also decide to follow suit, then they're out of the picture as well. Aside from that, I'll just continue to do what I've always done, browse the forums and go outside.
Some references:
MangaHelpers - Manga Scanlations, Translations, Downloads, Forums and Community Website
Manga Fox: Read Free Manga Online!
Manga Stream - Read free manga online!
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Chillax wrote on 2010-07-22 09:42
Like some people have noted before, Manga Toshokan is great too. The pages load a bit slower than Onemanga though, but the series they have are about the same as Onemanga.
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-07-22 09:53
People should just go private with it.
Advertise something else but when signed up you see manga scans. I dunno :I /tired and bored
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Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-07-22 11:28
Go to local bookstore and read there to free?
Most books are wrapped.
But good old days, we used to go to this store after school to read manga. Sadly, it's no longer there.
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Melchinoir wrote on 2010-07-22 12:57
Quote from Chillax;100966:
Like some people have noted before, Manga Toshokan is great too. The pages load a bit slower than Onemanga though, but the series they have are about the same as Onemanga.
Unfortunately, MangaToshokan was the first to get Cease & Desisted. It happened last week. It now only hosts a few unlicensed manga along with manhwa and manhua.
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Kurezan wrote on 2010-07-22 13:04
Quote from Chillax;100966:
Like some people have noted before, Manga Toshokan is great too. The pages load a bit slower than Onemanga though, but the series they have are about the same as Onemanga.
Yeah what's already been mentioned. Toshokan is gone now too..
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Moppy wrote on 2010-07-22 13:07
Even if they are trying to abolish it, this process won't be overnight. I'll be migrating from site to site until the scanlation well is bone dry. If that day ever comes, I'll probably subscribe to SJ again.
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Tatsu wrote on 2010-07-22 14:07
I'm sorry, but Mangahelpers was C&D'd first. About the month before this, I think. You know, the site that has all the new manga up first like Prunus Girl and Onii-chan Control.
You can nab them off the scanlator's site. If you don't know them, there's manga-updates to find out who. There's also crazy-tge.be but their library doesn't have all the common manga that most people read.
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Paul wrote on 2010-07-23 16:30
Mature Manga site plix, since 1000Manga is part of 1manga and will probably be gone too.
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-07-23 16:55
Guess I'll stick to mangafox for now.
I do hope that onemanga has a rebirth, w/o all the mature 17+ and stuff.
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Axx wrote on 2010-07-23 16:58
I check mangaupdates for releases. It's either that or bookmark 30+ scanlation sites, which I really don't wanna do.
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Chillax wrote on 2010-07-23 17:45
Quote from Melchinoir;101043:
Unfortunately, MangaToshokan was the first to get Cease & Desisted. It happened last week. It now only hosts a few unlicensed manga along with manhwa and manhua.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-07-23 18:25
I WOULD PAY FOR THE OFFICIAL RELEASES IF THE QUALITY WASN'T SO **** AND THEY'D ACTUALLY RELEASE EACH TRANSLATION THE MOMENT IT COMES OUT.
They have absolutely NO ****ing excuse not to be able to do it. If scanlation teams can do it, then so can they.
Why do we prefer sites like one manga over paying for the real thing? To tell you the truth, the price isn't the biggest reason.
1. Its a massive database in which you can read manga you've never even heard of. If publishers could do the same instead of limiting themselves to a silly bookshelf or like 5 "featured" mangas online, it would actually do them some good.
2. Its instant, at latest a few days after original release. In the publisher's case here, it takes over a month for the translated version to be released. WHO WOULDN'T JUST TORRENT THE RAWS AND ASK SOMEONE TO TRANSLATE IT?
3. To everyone's surprise, the quality is much higher. Its cleaner, the translations are more accurate, and its not censored. Especially the case in TokyoPop's mangas. They have people who failed middle school English doing the translations there.
4. Paying for individual usage is so last decade. A monthly subscription for limitless access is probably the best way to get people to consider actually become consumers rather than looking for sites like onemanga.
5. A few page previews for each chapter, or perhaps the first chapter of the series for free. One of the reasons why we prefer to go to these scanlation sites is that we can TRY new manga for free and determine if we like it or not.
I swear if the publishers weren't so ****ing retarded they would actually be able to stop piracy to a great extent without pissing off every reader out there and still make a good revenue out of it.
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Tatsu wrote on 2010-07-24 01:05
^that
Only advantage the official releases is that it's in book format. And that's only for some people.
[Image: http://www.tsukuru.info/hwbooks.jpg]
Though, you can always spend money doing that.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-07-24 03:16
Actually some raging discussions have ended up in an economic model of what would happen to the industry if licensers took their manga online instead of printing it.
Result was a 300% profit.
Paper is dead now, and only have novelty value for collection, the same way news is better read online or by TV compared to magazine and newspapers, and the same way DVD's are borrowed by subscription fees instead of single usage fees (block buster going down, netflix on the rise).
If we apply the Porn sales model to manga, we'd be seeing this:
1. A preview of the content for free
2. Unlimited access for those who subscribe
Overall this would be great incentives for consumers. Piracy will never die, so instead of stopping it while distributing half assed products, they should try to compete with it legitimately. In this case many people probably won't care to toss in some dollars to switch to the official release as it would help the manga industry.