One Manga to Close Down

Yea I saw this when I was checking for the weekly releases of my usual manga I read and I gotta say it sucks but lets hope the other manga sites don't end up doing the same thing or else I'm going to have actually start buying mangas again or learn how to read Japanese o_O.

This is pretty much bullshit. How many of the Mangas they have online are even published in English at this point? If it were up to official publishers Bleach alone would be 15 volumes behind its original counterpart. Why the change in policy? People who buy Manga have pretty much always bought it regardless of their internet viewing habits. That's not going to change unless something drastic happens.

I owe a lot to onemanga. If it wasn't for them i probably wouldn't have had this hobby become what it is. I understand why the companies want to shut such sites down, but on the other hand i buy manga because I am able to read the first chapters or so. I see what i like and support the artists and authors buy purchasing the volumes. This in fact will prob have me buying less because I am more reluctant to shoot in the dark hoping for something good multiple times. That's if other such sites didnt exist though.

I have to admit that I was rather annoyed by the news and how high handed the publishers seemed to be. Granted, they have the right to protect their properties but my reading list consists of unlicensed mangas. If they want to protect their stuff so much, at least provide a viable alternative... Oh wait, they can't because the titles aren't licensed!!

Guess I'll have to start downloading individual chapters again. What a pain.

So lame.

There were so many unlicensed mangas that I was enjoying on that site! It helped me find which mangas I felt were buying too.

without onemanga, i would not have known more anime/manga. Thank you so much onemanga!

Time to call Ken Watanabe and see if he wants to mind-dive again, 'cause we need someone to pay for the first-class cabin. :P

Seriously though, it was bound to happen. I'm not surprised. Regarding the whole unlisenced and lisenced part, it's just like product storage; they're getting it lisenced only because they want the option of publishing it to remain open. And if it isn't lisenced, then it's probably the Japanese publishers who want it down. Nowadays our world has borders only in name anyway, you could sue over to the next continent and bam! you have your case.

I can only hope they realize the power of selling series online; clean, green, and giving back parents the control they want over the media their kids are viewing.

Kind of stinks. I was using to catch some rarer manga. I hate trying to find stuff online. I have a few other sites I can use, but they only do the major series. :(

This totally sucks. One Manga has all of Kamen Rider Spirits and I'm only half way through (;_;)

OneManga was the first internet viewing site I used, and I am sad regarding it's shut down, but I found the liking our Facebook page highly unnecessary. I know that sites like this will pop-up, regardless, and Scanlators will still Scanlate, and possibly have chapters for download through torrenting/Direct Download, IRC etc. I already buy hundreds of dollars of manga monthly, and I have to admit, most/many of the series I follow are unlicensed. At any rate, maybe Onemanga will move all their stuff to 1000manga. Hopes aren't high though.

For every one manga site that closes down, 2 will pop up. I do not get the reason. The only reason I buy some manga is because I've read them online and their good

That bites. What kills me is some publishers don't finish some series (Tokyopoop with Speedgrapher and Ragnarok). I do buy manga when I can, but prefer more mature titles rather than the nonsense I find at Barnes and Noble.

This sucks. Not that there's no other online manga site, but I've enjoyed OneManga more over Mangafox as prefer the multiple page display that Onemanga provided for the Chrome user. I rather wait for the whole chapter to load in a single page than waiting for a 1 page to load. Hopefully 1000Manga will have all of the OneManga's content.

This isnt going to change my buying habits at all, ill just stop reading my mangas on the net and read them at borders simple as that =\

The greedy bastards will pay because they are spitting in the eye of the consumer. As pointed out above, many mangas in the US are way behind what's available in Japan. I visited several book stores in Tokyo and series like Bleach and Naruto are so far ahead that its pitiful. Add to the less well known and unlicensed mangas which exposes readers to new mangakas and this stinks on ice.

Yeah I fell bummed out when I read this news. I buy a lot of french translated manga, but there's always some good older titles that haven't been picked up by any publishers... one manga was the spot to read those U_U

T.T

its sad to see onemanga shutting down and it has provided me with lotta manga viewing pleasure. it was bound to happen 1 way or another but it sorta left a sour note from it all.

Only started reading on onemanga recently after catching up with lots of manga, which here in germany aren't sold or so far behind it's a joke ... Let's see who bites the dust next >.<

Serves them right for generating all that revenue for illegal content. Didn't even have permission from the translators themselves for the chapters they put up

it's such a shame though.. I read manga on onemanga.. well we can't really blame manga publishers about this, if they lose money, the manga industry will no doubt die out, and that would be bad.

I don't see why Japanese and U.S. publishers are being "greedy" for removing content that belongs to them. It sucks, but I can completely understand it from their perspective. Sure, some people use sites like OneManga.com to preview a series before they buy it, but many more are just using those sites to read/download free manga.

It was a matter of time. Things were getting a bit too easy with such accessibility onemanga gave, so I understand why companies shut it down.

Pfft, thank god the publishers are finally defending themselves from pirates who have absolutely no intention of even checking to buy the manga they can just read online.

Seen too many companies go down because of loss of business to a piracy-driven fandom. Makes those of us who actually buy anime sad. :[ It's fine and dandy if it's not liscenced or released in the U.S., but people who just cover up with the excuse they can't afford it make me angry. Especially because just reading manga and watching anime in itself is not the expensive end of the hobby; not when it's becoming cheaper and easier to find it.

seriously? Publishers are gonna basically make them shut this site down. Don't they know that if they shut that one down, another will just pop back up?