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I've been enjoying Father I Don't Want This Marriage, it does do the misunderstandings trope but actually does it well because nobody is a complete social idiot. Plus the previews for the next episodes are hilarious
 

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BiggestKai said:
Allegedly most of them are on this pastebin but I'm not in the mood to go check all ~900 of them. Can confirm at least Heavy Knight has been nuked.
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It didn't look like any of the series I followed on mangadex were removed, but I generally avoid mangadex because they are one of the slowest sites to update. I could have a series that has 30+ more chapters on a different site compared to mangadex. Plus some have become paid access only.
 
Endless Torment said:
Mangadex does not have paywalled chapters so I don't know what you are talking about. Also you only ever post webtoons/manhua which mangadex is not the primary source for.
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i don't remember which ones but there were a few mangas where instead of having the chapters mangadex redirects to some third party paid site. And they're the same thing.
 
Betonhaus said:
i don't remember which ones but there were a few mangas where instead of having the chapters mangadex redirects to some third party paid site. And they're the same thing.
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The links aren't third party sites but the official sites for official translations.
 
RSU 1741 said:
It will be, I fear. MD was the primary source for a lot of scrapers and a primary staging area for scanlators/translators. Scraping sites won't endure long without some place from where to get chapters: of course, there's the option of flat-out getting official scans and hosting in countries that laught at DMCA requests, but this will still massively impact the scanlator/translator combo.

Add to that the Discord clique mentality that poisoned everything (this is no longer an age of "small little translation site as a hobby") and MTL and we could be getting a killing blow. Not for the bigger series, they will be pirated at once, but for the smaller niche series that no one would have discovered if not for some sperg translating them? Older finished series? Half-known classics?

It is possible to poison a well, and most people aren't willing to risk legal issues for hobbies.
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Yeah, was was taken down will probably stay online in one shape or form, but a lot less new stuff will probably never get scanlated going forward. What ever is popular in Japan usually gets brought over from the several licensed manga sites now (and in turn finds it way on scrapers) , and before anyone says this will allow scanlators to pick up more obscure and less cookie cutter mainstream series, most scanlators are attention whores and will only stick with a series if it gets enough Internet points or unrelated donations (Hox was probably the only guy I can think of who generally found interesting series to scan a decent basis)
Unless a new site naturally develops for scanlation groups, the only people left on MD will be lazy MTLers who depend completely on OCR and Deepl and are completely lost when the former fails to identify some basic kana, or ESLs not afraid of some dumb amerimut DMCA and who vastly overestimated how much of a grasp they have over both English and Japanese

Edit: if some people are worried about losing track of the series I might recommend mangaupdates even though its UI is extremely old since I think its the most detailed list of published series and it does record most scanlation uploads no mater where the group uploaded the chapter (prefer it to MAL since there's not a lot of people who try to be "reviewers" like that shell of a website)
 
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it won't matter when it is, you will just go to yandex and type "watch <shounen slop> online now" and the first result will have your animu
 
Betonhaus said:
i don't remember which ones but there were a few mangas where instead of having the chapters mangadex redirects to some third party paid site. And they're the same thing.
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yeah anything translated by that company J-novel Club was like that. I still have a lot of tolerance for jnovel club though because their bookworm LN translation is excellent and I pirated that shit. Basically if you saw one of those offsite links it was a strong signal the series was worth pirating (or even paying actual money for)
 
If you want less popular manga to get fan translations you could pay the fan translators for them. It's just a suggestion, but I think it's better than doing nothing and complaining.
Unless you only want stuff for free, which is understandable, I do too. But beggars can't be choosers. If it seems like fan translators only translate things for popularity of donations, well, no one likes working for free, don't you think?
 
Grog said:
If you want less popular manga to get fan translations you could pay the fan translators for them. It's just a suggestion, but I think it's better than doing nothing and complaining.
Unless you only want stuff for free, which is understandable, I do too. But beggars can't be choosers. If it seems like fan translators only translate things for popularity of donations, well, no one likes working for free, don't you think?
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better yet
learn japanese
 
As anticipated Anne "lightning war" Shirley is already studying for the Queen's College exams, it won't be another 3 eps before the girl is grown. They also briefly cover the King Arthur river barge mishap. In 79' Anne almost drowns, and they devote an entire episode to the event. Her friends, honestly thinking she might have died at one point, weep over her when they see her safe.
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In the new version, Anne doesn't even get wet... and is welcomed rather jovially.
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Gilbert saves her all the same but there's no connection between the two. They've had four maybe five sub-minute scenes together, and there isn't even a narrator to delve into their deeper unspoken feelings for the audience. Matthew also has a heart attack at the end of the episode which Anne sees, a deviation from him keeping it a secret until after the time skip. I'm guessing this was done because they are going to remove multiple scenes surrounding his heart issues - meaning they want Anne to already know of it before his final one so they don't have to add scenes explaining it all to her... I'll bet you anything that's what they're doing, because, they just don't have the time.
 
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You know, I have to hand to it the author of The Promised Neverland. He made a main character that would have made excuses for even the vilest scumbag.

I wonder why. (Totally not because Japan were arguably worse than the Nazis)
 
oh, no, half of my mangadex bookmarks just died. Luckily i sorted my bookmarks by source so i could find them on mangabuddy or kaliscan
 
I somehow missed this, despite usually being on top of this sort of item, back when Volume 18 of Sakamoto Days was released, this short film was created as part of the promotion for it, starring actress/stuntwoman Saori Izawa, who is one of the co-stars of the Baby Assassins franchise of films and a TV series.

 
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