So Onemanga is closing...

Anybody sad about this news...

July will be their last month.

What is Onemanga...?

Manga website and I guess that sucks.. but I use inaruto.net so it's all good here!

Bad News dude. Guess you have to switch to another manga portal.

Manga publishers don't want them to host those mangas anymore. I hear the Manga publishers are gonna have their own sites where you have to pay to read mangas now.anbu-black-ops

Just when i was getting into manga. O well, csn't do snything sbout it.

This is terrible news. All I have to say is good luck trying to get people to buy the manga. If anything, sites like Onemanga gave good publicity to mangas that would have otherwise received little to no attention at all.

R.I.P. you were a great site.

Meh, I use mangafox and mangastream.siLVURcross

[QUOTE="anbu-black-ops"]Manga publishers don't want them to host those mangas anymore. I hear the Manga publishers are gonna have their own sites where you have to pay to read mangas now.Hexagon_777

Not just OneManga. Mangatoshokan and Mangahelper announced they're removing their scan collection and probably the other top manga sites like MangaFox will have their scan collection removed. Apparently, it has something to do with legal stuff and Viz involvement.

from the site

"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

Next thing you know it japanese companies will want to shut down websites like watchanime now and animefreak. It better not happen. Most of the anime release are japan either going to take awhile to hit to the US and Europe or they will just stay in japan completly. I was using onemanga to read naruto

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"][QUOTE="anbu-black-ops"]Manga publishers don't want them to host those mangas anymore. I hear the Manga publishers are gonna have their own sites where you have to pay to read mangas now.Everiez

[QUOTE="Everiez"][QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]I just went to OneManga myself and saw the message. Sad news indeed. How come the other manga portals are continuing their existence?Hexagon_777

No more Crows!!! ARGH!!!

That's really sad. I used to browse their enormous library for new mangas to read, and I have to say I found quite a few gems.

What are the scanlation sites so afraid of.

The anime industry tried to shut down fansubs and that did not work out.

Meh, I use mangafox and mangastream.siLVURcross

What are the scanlation sites so afraid of.

The anime industry tried to shut down fansubs and that did not work out.

dercoo

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]Meh, I use mangafox and mangastream.SoraX64

NEVER!

I hope:(

[QUOTE="anbu-black-ops"]Manga publishers don't want them to host those mangas anymore. I hear the Manga publishers are gonna have their own sites where you have to pay to read mangas now.Hexagon_777

Where do people hear and find this stuff?X360PS3AMD05

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[QUOTE="anbu-black-ops"]Manga publishers don't want them to host those mangas anymore. I hear the Manga publishers are gonna have their own sites where you have to pay to read mangas now.markop2003

As with dattebayo they want the publishers to make money off their product, so whenever it's announced that's it's getting licensed in the US they remove it. This was the case with naruto and bleach..

As long as MangaTraders is still alive...

:(

I'm gonna miss onemanga, even though the forums will be there still. I've read a lot of series from that site and some of them aren't even liscenced here in the U.S.

I'm sure some other sites will be next as long as it's not all of them.

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"][QUOTE="Everiez"]Not just OneManga. Mangatoshokan and Mangahelper announced they're removing their scan collection and probably the other top manga sites like MangaFox will have their scan collection removed. Apparently, it has something to do with legal stuff and Viz involvement.Everiez

Like I said, I would hope that the publishers would release scanlations themselves for very reasonable prices or even for free, gaining revenue through advertisements. There is a vast fanbase to tap if manga websites were shut down. Digital distribution is the future and much more efficient for me and publishers would reach their fans far quicker.Hexagon_777

I will die if I cant read my bleach every week.......... just when its getting Epic:?

I use Onemanga a bit, bummer. :(

This is terrible news. All I have to say is good luck trying to get people to buy the manga. If anything, sites like Onemanga gave good publicity to mangas that would have otherwise received little to no attention at all.

R.I.P. you were a great site.

Sky-

This, this, and this.

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]Meh, I use mangafox and mangastream.SoraX64

[QUOTE="dercoo"]What are the scanlation sites so afraid of. The anime industry tried to shut down fansubs and that did not work out.SoraX64

I read about this yesterday, and yes, this sucks. Mainstream manga will always find a way to be distributed, but its the obscure ones that are going to suffer. I loved going through OneManga's catalog and finding a gem to read. You also know it's just a matter of time before mangafox, mangastream, and the other big ones go down too.

The same thing is going down in MangaToshokan, looks like scanlation sites are dying.

I am rather worried about a certain website that starts with F and ends with u now, considering how other manga websites are being cracked down upon.