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 Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:30 pm
So, just relaying the news for any who care.
This was posted on their front page:
"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
Just thought I'd open it up to discussion for everyone.
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:08 pm
It makes me depressed that they're shutting it down. sad
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:18 pm
Me too. I've been using onemanga as my primary/only online manga source because of the large selection of manga, nice interfacing, etc etc. It's really sad to see the site go down after all this time.
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:15 am
I do believe that it isn't just Onemanga either. Soon other sites will have to start shutting down because the authors, or whomever don't like the sites putting their manga up for others to read when they could be making money by people buying them.
I hate our economy... stare
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:53 pm
This is utterly ridiculous. I think it's a bit of a joke, really. I mean, there's no way it's costing them sales, since sites like this are what made manga available to us, and it's how I find manga I like and then I buy it! We have no alternate, like a weekly magazine with all our fave chapters in it like they do in Japan. The only reason they have such a broad international readership already is because of scanlations. If not, they would be waiting years still to increase their readership and sales by so much!
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