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mortalone Jul 24 2010, 06:58 AM Post #1
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From their site:

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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 2010).

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


source: www.onemanga.com

Looks like online manga reading is about to come under attack in a serious way from businesses. On one level I understand that a lot of work goes into translating and then publishing and distributing manga, but on the other hand, it's expensive, I've gotten used to reading it for free, I'd rather not be 2-3 years behind the Japanese release if it's a series I'm serious about following and for less money I can read books, which provide more hours of entertainment.

Edit: because I don't know how to spell, could someone fix the title of this thread for me please?
Edited by mortalone, Jul 24 2010, 06:59 AM.
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Spanks Jul 24 2010, 09:14 AM Post #2
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Too bad for them. I like to keep copies of what I read so I use Mangatraders for direct downloads.

Stupid of them to even try to put a stop to it. The internet is too big to control 100%, and so long as it keeps going the way it is there will always be another site or forum or whatever that has this stuff out there to download.
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li.u Jul 24 2010, 09:18 AM Post #3
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The torrents will save you! :ninja

It might be a bit annoying to torrent every chapter of every manga that you're following, but you'll still get your shit for free and without delay. Can't ask for much more.
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Dilla Jul 27 2010, 11:06 AM Post #4
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Heard this via Sankaku. Too bad really, I liked their update list.
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Kyahaha Aug 20 2011, 10:43 AM Post #5
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Yeah, I know. I used to goto onemanga all the time. But Spanks is right, they shouldn't even bother.
There are a lot of other sites that have manga scanlations (mangastream,mangafox, etc).
Even if you close them all, more will open up.
It's a never ending cycle.
But onemanga respected those hard working authors and closed down their site, and if that's what their admins want, then we should let them.
Though if I were one of those authors, I would be frustrated too, what, with people scanlating all my hard work and reading them for free when they're my only source of income.
Seriously, mangakas have to work HARD to produce those amazing little books.
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