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Major manga scanlation site MangaDex has been hit with a large-scale series of DMCA takedown notices from companies enforcing their copyrights, resulting in an estimated 700+ series removed in select languages. These companies have also filed DMCA takedowns with Google to reduce visibility. This is available publicly and, in just the last two days, includes Kakao, Naver, Lezhin, Suiseisha, Kodansha, Houbunsha, WEBTOON, One Peace Books, Toomics, NTT Solmare, Square Enix, Ridi Corp.’s Manta, Alphapolis, Shinchosha, Toyou’s Dream, Shogakukan, WWWave Corporation, Mag Garden, and Bunkasha.

You can check out the list of titles removed in select languages as it updates (via Reddit). Notable titles include My Dress-Up Darling, Oshi no Ko, The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Apothecary Diaries (both versions), Black Lagoon, Bleach, Blue Box, Dragon Ball, Golden Kamuy, Heavenly Delusion, Solo Leveling, Tensura, and The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity. The above titles are all licensed and readily accessible in some languages, including English. Many have reported that unlicensed titles are also part of the takedowns.

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[–] himeneko@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

notably i believe hajime no ippo had its ~1.4k chapter translation nuked with the official release only translating up to 170ish chapters. many licensed manga with incomplete translations are stuck in a similar boat. fucking hell we really can't have nice things or allow the proliferation of art.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Luckily the currently scanlator group has their own site. But they've only got the last 160 or so chapters.

https://hni-scantrad.net/comics/hajime-no-ippo

[–] himeneko@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

as a "high" note this is going to motivate me to learn japanese even more now, cuz the official tls are too slow and stuff is way more expensive in english

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

This is more manga 9/11 than the Tachiyomi thing, isn't it?

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So fan translations aren't protected? Mangadex is my go-to for reading fan stuff since the licensed stuff is usually botched and censored.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, and neither are translations of chapters not yet released outside of Japan.

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Fuck. And I just picked up Jojo on mangadex.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

They never were, they've always been a completely blatant breach of copyright laws. Sucks:(

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

This is one of my 911s. I hate japan for very valid things. I also hate japan for this

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah shit does that include Jojo's Colored Adventure? I never got around to reading part 8

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is that a fan coloring edit or something

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's pretty great from what I remember

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jojo is still fine for now

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did see Part 9 in the list of takedowns

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

You can find all of those on nyaa.si also even if it did get taken down

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

RetVrn to Tor

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Damn, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-Kun went down while I was reading it last night, guess this is why.

Also RIP Umineko manga, nobody's going to pay $600USD for a second-hand collection. Good thing I finished it first...

E: Huh, somehow Bocchi lived.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

no wonder why it didn't work today, fucking wankers