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Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 22] (ani.social)

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

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Another week in the books. Let's chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.

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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[–] wjs018@ani.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So, a bit of a meta update from me after the mangadex dust is settling a bit. I plan on making a full post about this in the near future when I get a chance, but wanted to give a tl;dr version now to give people an opportunity to provide some feedback.

Pertaining to acceptable sources to post to this community. Previously aggregator sites were not really allowed because of how they also host scans of official releases. However, in a post-mangadex world, I don't think this rule is really enforcable any longer while still allowing discussion of most of the series that get posted here. So, here are the guidelines to follow going forward:

Posts can be chapters hosted on aggregator sites, but...
Posts must be fan translations. Scans of official releases are not allowed.
Posting a link to the scanlation group's site directly is preferred. However...
The content must be accessible and not behind a paywall or login wall of any kind.

Basically, don't post scans of official releases or stuff that is behind a paywall.

Like I said above, I welcome feedback on this before making these rules more final and adding them to the sidebar.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about links from official sources? I posted a link from Viz today. The latest chapter is free to read for 3 weeks, then it will be behind a paywall.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that is fine as long as it is available when you post it. I similarly post Viz chapters from time to time as well (Tsumiki mainly).