A coalition of manga publishers have successfully forced top manga piracy site One Manga offline for good.
The site’s administration posted a statement detailing their decision:
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.
It probably comes as news to manga publishers to hear that they “approved” of scanlations in the first place, although the rise of P2P-based scanlation was most probably directly responsible for the medium’s huge growth in international popularity in recent years.
Publishers for their part have stated they are under no illusions about the impossibility of stamping out piracy completely, but that commercial sites hosting vast amounts of scanlated manga simply tip the balance of convenience too far in favour of free and online.
Whether they have the good business sense to now offer a superior legal alternative, or instead cling to the delusion that scanlated copies will translate one to one, or even a hundred to one, into paper copies, will likely determine the prospects of the international manga market for some time to come.
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R.I.P.
Even I didn't used it much, I'm a bit sad.
At least the forum will be online as I heared.
I've been using it, sad to see it go. I really liked their site.
bastards ,they killed one manga ! :'(
paper copies..
how about global warming ?
it sucks to see them go, i've been reading from their site for a few years and now i have to go back through the hell of finding my scans the hard way again
The hell of... going on isohunt/demonoid and doing a quick weekly search? Or learning the commands of IRC? Man, people adamantly refuse to do the tiniest bit of work to get something for free.
yeah i just started to get used to it (2 years)
Oh good lord, now I've gotta read all the manga I've been putting off...>.>
R.I.P.
@3:44 anon: lol wth, no offense but OMs library is/was much smaller compared to some other online reading sites out there, the way they handle double pages also kind of sucks, makes it almost impossible to read some of the bubles on some pages (talking about negima here specifically), thats pretty much the reason why i stopped using them like 1 year ago
...and ten more takes its place tomorrow.
mainly i use it to find other manga, not just weekly updates... i have a job where i just sitt in front of a computer, mainly as of late, reading manga, and 100 chapeters just doesn't last that long, so i surf the site for others i haven't heard of. sometimes enjoy, sometimes not... owell
RIP. You will be missed.
Now to finish off a couple series before they remove it all.
Thanks for assisting in bringing so much funs to our life, RIP.
@ Anon 6:28, One Manga actually fixed the way you view doubles and, referring specifically to Negima here, now is even easier to view than Manga Fox.
I've always used One Manga as a preview site. If I enjoyed something on it, then I'd start buying the series. That's why I find it a shame they're closing.
when there is a will, there is a way...
I just go directly to scanlation sites now. Fact is, the only thing they can do is drive things deeper underground. It's impossible to get rid of at this point.
same here. this is a bit depressing.. i hope the same thing won't happen to anime download resource..
Yea I know what you mean. I wonder if they're now going to develop the stones to start going after torrent sites...
This is the second of my favorite online manga sites within the last few weeks. First was MangaToshokan, now Onemanga. I'm fairly sure that Mangafox is next....
MangaFox stopped updating manga series, a few weeks ago.
At least the one I was reading (Claymore).
lehnerus2000
Claymore's updated monthly, isn't it?
The last "Claymore" update (on MangaFox), was chapter 103 in May.
lehnerus2000
i agree.
I've used OM for quite some time now, but...it's really sad to see OM go down.
same here T_T ive been readng manga in their site for 2 years now
Yes, it is sad... I've been reading manga there for some time now. Well no we'll have to go to others then~
Me too...But like a hydra, it will not die...
Scanlations will spread the more you cut it apart...
And that, is peace of mind to everyone who supports them...
Long live scanlations!!!
And nothing of value was lost...
It was valuable for me. They prevented me from having to hop from site to site reading my favorite manga.
bah... while killing onemanga is like removing a tumor. Sure you found and cut out a growth, but until you treat the source all your doing is buying time.
It's quite sad indeed, but I can alway find another site, those stupid publisher effort is all but vain.
god to the damn it.
another one of my favorite sites killed.
i hope sankaku doesnt get ripped next, sankaku is my daily newspaper
Well truth be told the scanalators actually know what the fans want in most of those manga. not only that, but they are pretty much year ahead of the groups that have licensed them in the US, or where ever else is complaining about it.
From what I can say they honestly don't have a right to complain since they aren't anywere close to how many volumes are out in Japan in certain series. Besides if they listen to the fans and keep it to were the inside jokes are not butchers and have a translator note that the back, like some mangas do, them maybe it might be worth buying the book instead to support the industry.
Although I can't support an industry if they do not listen to thier fans about anything at all though.It's kind of like a once bitten twice shy deal here with some people.
Well the real reason they did that to One Manga was because they were making a profit from their ads. Every time anyone visited a manga chapter with an ad, it gave them money over and over and over. I would say that Onemanga was making more than $20,000 a week on ads especially on the weekends when the top manga came out.
Another problem too, if they got a share of money from the ads on that site. They weren't paying taxes. When companies like that don't pay taxes, it's no wonder no one has a job right now.
Don't get me wrong, I loved OneManga, but it sure didn't change my stance with getting a job somewhere else. They've been saying on the news that people globally are not buying things. Everyone is watching or reading things for free on the internet.
Pretty much, if you think real hard...we've destroyed ourselves. >___< I really don't like thinking about complicated things.
Of course we live in a world where we want everything for free, but there comes a point where that must come to an end.
One of the things that sparked all of this shitstorm I'm somewhat sympathetic to. The US publishers pointed out that sites like OneManga are housing scanned copies of the US publication and not just the fan works.
That has a much higher chance of denying the publisher of a sale than a fan translation, which may not be accurate or consistent.
Several years ago, it was practically unheard of, and hard to find scans of official US volumes. Sites driven by green and a blatant disrespect for US publishers brought this upon the scene.
That, and Japan's manga publishers are scared shitless. They know that their people are starting to catch on to this method of distribution and want to do everything they can to stop it.
I don't think the US publishers would have agreed to partner on their quest to eliminate sites like OneManga, if not for their actual works being scanned too.
Anyway, I never liked sites that use online viewers, they always resize the two-page pages and degrade the file for a smaller file/faster loading time. Fuck that.
I agree 100% and I think congress should legalise fansubbing and scanlation, and possibly even making a profit (from ads for example) as long as they pass, say, 80% of their revenues back to the mangaka.
This is why we can't have nice things.
all things that are art should be shared for all
Scanlation is the future. I did not buy manga for quite some time, as I simply have no free room anymore.
Bringing such sites down without offering legal scans will sooner or later ruin those publishers. Maybe it's better this way, the mangaka can sell their work directly over the internet anyways, without publishers sucking them dry and telling them what to draw.
Crunchyroll is going to start hosting manga soon, so there's your alternative.
*as I simply have no money
~fixed
crunchyroll sucked since a few years back.
I was shocked when they got Queen's Blade though.
From what I've seen of Crunchyroll's anime work, it's not very accurate. In fact several lines are made up. I'd hate to see how inaccurate their manga devision will be.
I loved OneManga. THanks to them I had a chance to find many great titles...
I understand thee tip the balance thing, but it's incredibly difficult and expensive to get paper manga in Europe.
Not to mention titles that aren't licensed
the few that are printed are mostly not entertaining anr/or i have already read them online, not to mention that it`s just too expensive of a hobby
I know! These people just don't fucking care! It's just like an artist (sorta technical in this case) selling out and are in it just for the money.
Because all artists should starve!
(I realize what you're trying to get at but the wording isn't good.)
I know they need to make money...
I often have trouble getting my point across.
I think others in this topic may've said this, but the publishers should leave the non-licensed titles (in North American or otherwise) alone.
ESPECIALLY the ones that are most likely to never be seen stateside.
Aren't you supposed to stick to pretending online piracy only ever increases sales?
We are waiting until someone from the other side starts pretending that every pirate copy = one lost sale.
I guess we are, but you can't buy what's not in the store. Manga in Europe, especially in Poland where I live, is scarcer than fir trees in Africa.
Yup. Certainly no manga-mangano mori-mori.
I hear you :( . Every time I look at original prices, price at available reseller, and the three-digit shipping costs, I poop a little. And then the wait...
Only eBay sellers have affordable prices and shipping, but too often it's second-hand stuff, printed on worst-quality paper (can't discern kanji), and they rarely have the books I want. Even then, my best bargain cost 20x more than the original price.
What's wrong with Europe-Japan relations D: