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Manga General Discussion Thread - RIP MangaDex Edition [2025, Week 21] (ani.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/manga@ani.social

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Welp, it's been a good run, but it is seeming more and more likely that the age of MangaDex is over. With the wave of over 7000 takedown requests and policy changes requiring explicit rights or permission to upload, scanlators have largely stopped using the site.

So, what comes next? I don't know, but let's chat about it. Additionally, feel free to use this thread like you would any other weekly general thread by sharing about what you read this past week, asking for recommendations, or questions.

Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).

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[–] Keegen@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With the news of MangaDex's demise it looks like I'm going back to the old RSS feed + aggregator sites method. I already followed some series that way because of publisher region locking BS (Viz...), this just makes me switch all of my active series to this method.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Even if an official source is available in your region, it is still pretty bad. Kodansha's K manga was available in my region from this year, so I wanted to read official translations to support the manga, but their convoluted payment system with all the coin/ticket/exp/premium system is atrocious. Compared to them Viz's app is god sent. And they wonder why people pirate this stuff.

Also, I have a feeling that all this massive DMCA was a result of their push in new markets.