anime
Thursday, May 15, 2025
why did mangadex try to become legit?
they were an out and proud pirate website forever, and then a few years after batoto shut down and they blew up they seemed to get all regretful and started unirronically posting cringe "support the official release" bullshit and removing certain series
they never fixed comments, their forum sucks, they've done zero site work in years
I have to assume their founder left or died or w/e, and whoever took over is too innept to run a website and swing his dick around when these DMCAs come in
oh, Mangadex is just dead
got it
yeah they lost everything
idk if their own users have woken up to "oh every series I follow is gone" because they broke all the integrations
and the copyright cuck bots are out in full force too
I have talked to the mangadex people, it turns out they are absolutely retarded
"mangadex shouldn't support piracy so this is a good thing"
said unirronically
What the fuck
imminantly, there will be a 2nd wave of these and they will just die
and all the copyright cockroaches can scurry off to some Discord and huff their own farts
I think these sites all have the crunchyroll dream of becoming the defacto legal monopoly (at least briefly)
Yeah mangadex is dead though
I think Nip & KR printed media also have the most retarded monetization schemes out there
which is why the "support the official" release people confuse me, because I know not all of it can be performative
some of them actually probably do load up their point-card, and pay 10 gems per page they read of new officially licensed chapters
and then are ok with chapter blackout dates, as if reading manga needs to be delivered like boomers are used to for their sports leagues
I think if some official site came along and it was a buck a volume and it had basically everything, it'd do well
But no site will ever do that
I also don't think it would do that well
Make it like steam with a friends list and achivements and what not
now we're talking
lol
Achivement get, got dat dog in ya for reading whatever chapter of fullmetal that is
printed media is weird, because you decisively need filler content or else there's no value
but if you don't properly reward the GOOD series, then wtf are you doing
so sites like JNovel club have interesting models, that fall apart in practice
and Viz and all the JP official sites are just so terrible
I'm also not at all advocating to not just pirate everything
I agree with pirating everything
but with some stuff I can understand how someone can arrive at "I'll just pay"
not with manga though
I really can't point to a single place where that's not absolutely fucked
if they wanted a market they'd make a good product with inherent value (service, not the manga itself)
Anime and manga both, all official services are dogshit, have always been dogshit, and will continue to be dogshit
I also have the bias that I think ebooks are inherently worthless as a product, so digital sales are a joke to me
maybe you're right that if each volume was 99 cents (like they used to all be) then I'd not laugh it out of the room
but digital shit is now the same price as phyiscal books or nearly the same
the idea you'd pay $10-$20 for a pdf
is just laughable
yeah, full agree
if it was super cheap and the service was decent, I could see value in it, but If I have to pay near full price, I would rather just own the physical book
when copyright law is eventually burned to the ground
I hope we return to the old 16th-18th century patron system
as a means to monitize art/media
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak if it was super cheap and the service was decent, I could see value in it, but If I have to pay near full price, I would rather just own the physical book
at leat with LNs you can own a series and put it on a shelf and it won't look retarded
40 volume manga series that take up multiple shelves on their own are pretty funny to think about
I love these retards
>as long as they keep complying
>what does complying mean?
>remove everything from the site, making it functionless
lmfao
he's so right you know
I got him to cry earlier in the thread
that guy specifically
spectacular
also lol at the pumpkin orange theme being used, very spooky
you know
I'm not sure these villainess show's need to be multiple seasons
Friday, May 16, 2025
lol
While that is correct, idfk why Mangadex has a ToS to begin with
they're not liable to content uploaded to their site, but putting explicit blame shifting language in is just cringe
especially if it's not accompanied by some assurance of protection
it's 1000+ series
and no
a bunch of people compiled a list manually
but the site staff are all radio silent
hoping this blows over or smt