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ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday said:
We now must suffer again as the best MD alternative site comick.io has now shuttered its doors. It went down this morning and as I do scanlation I'm in their Discord server. They announced about an hour ago that they've shut down the site with no clear answer why though it's speculated it's DMCA related.
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It's all so tiresome, bros.
 
ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday said:
Does anyone have a suggestion on alternatives
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numetalborder said:
You don't think raw sites will eventually get shut down too? Or you're telling us to buy every single series we want to read, which is impractical and usually not available where you live.
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I'd be very surprised if raw sites got shut down but English translations somehow continued to be available for free. As it is right now though, learning japanese is very much worth it if you want to read manga and not have to rely on english translations and sites not getting shut down left and right.
ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday said:
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Learn japanese.
 
rapecel said:
I'd be very surprised if raw sites got shut down but English translations somehow continued to be available for free. As it is right now though, learning japanese is very much worth it if you want to read manga and not have to rely on english translations and sites not getting shut down left and right.

Learn japanese.
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At the rate scanlations are taken down, they will go after raw sites next, because raws mean some scanlator groups and sites will enviably spring up again, and that's what the copyright enforcers are trying to squash. Buying series doesn't mean much if the series is out of print, astronomically high cost to ship or just won't make itself available in your country by any means. This is how media dies.
 
Is it the japeneese going after the piracy sites by pressuring the west? Or is it mainly western companies trying to nuke them of their own accord?
 
SandyCat said:
Is it the japeneese going after the piracy sites by pressuring the west? Or is it mainly western companies trying to nuke them of their own accord?
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It seems like it's more of going after piracy sites in general, as TV shows/movies, and sports piracy sites have also been targeted more frequently this year.
 
SandyCat said:
Is it the japeneese going after the piracy sites by pressuring the west? Or is it mainly western companies trying to nuke them of their own accord?
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It's not even the Japanese its the Korean manwha that always ends up getting these sites taken down at the end of the day. It happened with Tachiyomi (I know about the fifty million forks and alts to it now) and I was pissed because a lot of great sources and features were lost because to some people, it's CRUCIAL that they read NTR ISEKAI LOSER FAGGOT or whatever. You should be scared as soon as a manga site starts picking up Korean manwha.

Also japanese manga raw sites/nyaa have horrible preservation and you're often left with pretty low quality scans for raws.
 
I wouldn't mind paying retail price for all the anime and manga I consume, if I could get everything that I wanted with high quality downloads and high quality translations, that has the money actually go to the creators and not a middleman. The issue is that if you find a legal avenue to purchase what you want, it's oftentimes not high quality at all, and usually some kind of streaming shit with built in DRM, and the translations either are awful on purpose, or are nonexistent. I do not want to buy a BD or physical manga copy that is Japanese only. I do not want to pay Crunchyroll for low quality streams so they can pocket the money to make awful propaganda cartoons. I do not want to have to hunt around a bunch of different distributors to find one series. And I most certainly do not want to find out that the older series I am interested in doesn't have any legal means to purchase a translated copy, but is still purged from the internet for being "pirated". Anime and manga is increasingly having the worst of both worlds where piracy is cracked down on with glee, but there isn't a reasonable legal option to purchase either. That's all without getting into the increasing Western corporate and government censorship, that is actively trying to stifle the handful of legal avenues of purchase that exist for English speakers.

Also, on a personal note, piracy is the only reason I am into anime and manga; I was a poorfag growing up with an old, hand-me-down laptop, and if it wasn't for piracy sites, then there is a good chance that I would not have turned into a lifelong weeb. I highly doubt I am unique in that way. Piracy has always been free advertising for Japan's main cultural exports, so I think it is really stupid of the companies to crack down on it without first getting a proper distribution network set up for legal purchases to at least give people the chance to purchase legally, with some confidence that the creators are being compensated for their creations.

It seems like everything is becoming more and more fake and gay as time goes on.
 
Fount of BadSpeak said:
The issue is that if you find a legal avenue to purchase what you want, it's oftentimes not high quality at all, and usually some kind of streaming shit with built in DRM, and the translations either are awful on purpose, or are nonexistent.
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The other pervading issue in purchasing manga is, while in Japan you can pick up a copy of each chapter + a dozen or so other series for like 5 bucks every week, no such thing exists in the West and you’re reduced to paying exorbitant prices for the collected tankoubons.
 
McMitch said:
The other pervading issue in purchasing manga is, while in Japan you can pick up a copy of each chapter + a dozen or so other series for like 5 bucks every week, no such thing exists in the West and you’re reduced to paying exorbitant prices for the collected tankoubons.
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Probably even cheaper than $5. From what I find, manga magazines depending on the magazine sell for 300 to 480 yen, which is basically 2 or 3 dollars.
 
With Comick going under it's time to release a minor PSA to all manga sites:

DO NOT ADD ANY MANHWA TO YOUR CATALOG.

This is the second time a site has gone down solely because a manhwa author got upset so any prospective piracy sites just shouldn't bother with the effort of adding them, why take the risk anyway? It's not like there's any manhwa people are dying to see any time soon.
 
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Bored need some more Mecha fuckshit to watch so any based on these

Watching
* Blue Gender
* Gundam 0079 (rewatching the UC timeline since idk where the fuck I’m at on Zeta)
* Macross
* The Big O

Favorites Mecha Fuckshit
* Gurren Lagann
* Gundam SEED + SEED Freedom (fuck Destiny, also I’m willing to get made fun of)
* Evangelion
* RahXephon
* Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans
 
I apologize for asking what is probably a very dumb questions, but what are the best websites for fansub torrents etc. these days?
I haven't really watched anything anime related since Ergo Proxy, tried watching some of the new stuff that was mainstream subbed (CrunchyRoll, I know they are shit) and the subbing is shit, it's just dialogue that's covered and not all the rest of the stuff.
Would appreciate the help, sorry if it's a noob questions, mostly just looking to watch Yuru Camp.
 
Mussolini’s Merkin said:
I apologize for asking what is probably a very dumb questions, but what are the best websites for fansub torrents etc. these days?
I haven't really watched anything anime related since Ergo Proxy, tried watching some of the new stuff that was mainstream subbed (CrunchyRoll, I know they are shit) and the subbing is shit, it's just dialogue that's covered and not all the rest of the stuff.
Would appreciate the help, sorry if it's a noob questions, mostly just looking to watch Yuru Camp.
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Try AnimeKai or Nyaa
 
McMitch said:
The other pervading issue in purchasing manga is, while in Japan you can pick up a copy of each chapter + a dozen or so other series for like 5 bucks every week, no such thing exists in the West and you’re reduced to paying exorbitant prices for the collected tankoubons.
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The breadth of manga that can be had for dirt cheap at a store like Book Off can't even be compared to the sorry pickings that English readers have to endure walking into the average slop peddling American bookstore with a pitiful catalogue.

In a way manga distributors shoot themselves in the foot by vastly underestimating the market potential of properly English translated manga. From what I've seen the stuff that does reach the States consist of "safe bets" where there is already a huge audience to drive sales.
 
KorokiKokoro said:
With Comick going under it's time to release a minor PSA to all manga sites:

DO NOT ADD ANY MANHWA TO YOUR CATALOG.

This is the second time a site has gone down solely because a manhwa author got upset so any prospective piracy sites just shouldn't bother with the effort of adding them, why take the risk anyway? It's not like there's any manhwa people are dying to see any time soon.
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Is there even any Manhwa worth reading?
 
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