This absolutely sucks...

Onemanga's Zabi wrote:

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 '10).

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.

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

The publishing companies have begun to more aggressively pursue the scanlation sites. As a result, you can see above that Onemanga is going to remove its material. Mangafox also has come under pressure and has already begun eliminating licensed material such as Bleach and Naruto. If this continues to all scanlation sites, we readers in the US are going to have to wait now for our manga series to come over to us. The crappy part is that many of the series I read...I don't know if I can ever count on them being translated by an American publisher.

Don't worry Kuro! I'm sure there will be pirating sites with torrents you could use!

It's true. At least 90% of the manga I do read aren't even state side. And yes I buy the US releases too. I have like 3 books on pre-order that don't release til Sept! I support manga, but the wait and the number of books I can get are limited. What's even funnier is the scanlation people do a better job at translation and I love the little notes and comments they leave. Not sure if Marly making a joke, but yeah torrents and irc are going to be back in season.

Yeah... I had Star Wars 3 on DVD before it was even in theaters too... And yeah... ima go fire up the old bit torrent...

One that most people dont know about(at least that I talk too) is http://www.mangareader.net/ Im not sure if it has come underfire yet... it hasnt said anything at least... I am posting this cause it seems that will be a temporary site for yall, perhaps permanant...

Edit: Another i found, http://manga.animea.net/

I saw what was happening to onemanga and kind of laughed to myself, though I know about four websites that haven't been hit because well...they hide their stuff and don't advertise it over the web as they are manga posting websites, one website I have is that you have to have a friend from a mod ad you to the manga list in order to see the mangas, so if they don't know you...you aren't allowed to even know that section is there.

but we all know that once the manga people settle down and turn their backs towards the websites...they will post again....lol