one less scanlation site

[kokoronagomu]

onemanga is closing and will be completely gone this week. http://forum.onemanga.com/showthread.php?t=86405

the companies aren't making money because people are reading their manga on line instead of buying it-- sad, but it makes sense economically.

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Comments

[lrdrandallslady]

I was so sad when I saw the announcement last week. To my knowledge, Mangafox is still going to be up also. There's also Mangareader.net, tho they are a little slower on the updates. I'm in the process of getting all of my OM bookmarks changed over to other sites. ;_;

[kokoronagomu]

i heard that mangafox might go too. i'm hoping that something can be done like sharibet said below about either places with a membership fee or to watch a short commercial before the manga comes up-- kind of like they did with 'the final act' on shonen sunday. *shrugs*

[lrdrandallslady]

I do like that idea, and would be willing to pay the money, but I guess the question would be whether the site it run by a third party who hosts manga for all publishers and then turns around and pays them for the rights or if the publishers would host it themselves. And if the publishers host, what do we do about translations? I think we would end up with a much more limited offering, but it would be better than having no access at all.

[kokoronagomu]

i agree!

problem is that i prefer the -fan sub- than after the corporate translators get a hold of it and 'dumb-it-down' for americans.

a whole lot of the kikyou/inuyasha/kagome drama was because of the "lost in translation" errors-- intentional or otherwise. that and they just indiscriminately transated 'youkai', 'mononoke' and 'oni' as 'demon' ('akuma' <--a word that was in neither manga or anime) --something that makes me throw things at the television if my husband watches it in english (there are anime that he's forbidden to watch in english-- inuhyasha is one of them).

[sharibet]

I know this is a sensitive topic among the fans, but I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner.

Honestly, I think the best solution would be for the manga publishers to adopt the model that a lot of anime producers are using--they offer anime via streaming video, in exchange for the consumer either paying a subscription fee or watching a commercial. You could do the same for manga, possibly by embedding ads in the content, the way that magazines and newspapers display ads alongside content.

That way, the authors and publishers won't lose income from seeing their works being pirated online, and fans still have a low-cost way (either in time spent watching commercials or via site subscriptions) to keep up on their favorites works.

[kokoronagomu]

i agree, i don't blame them but more times than not i'll go to a site to preview something i heard about before i invest the money. i would watch a commercial before reading/watching something i wanted to see/preview. i wonder if they might be thinking of doing that-- although i would rather read a fan-sub than after the corporate translators dumb it down for american audiences.

[kokoronagomu]

no problem, glad to post a heads-up. i would like to find out how to download stuff from the torrent[?] whatever sites --i can figure out lots of things, but i haven't figured out how to do that. i know that's really lame-- but i'm old and senile. =p

[lrdrandallslady]

Torrenting isn't so bad. It's actually how I saw all of the original Inuyasha series and got my hands on a few others. You'll have to install torrent software (Hubby uses BitTorrent), and then when you go to the site and tell it you want to download, it should just go. Depending on the popularity of the item and how many people are uploading/downloading on that file, you can sometimes get things in a matter of hours. (IY was so big that it took nearly two weeks!) The nice thing is you can stop it at any point midway through if you need a faster connection and as long as you don't close the torrent program, you can pick up where you left off instead of starting from the beginning

[kazzamoonshadow]

I haven't read manga online for a while, but now I'm just gonna go download my favourite ones just in case the download sites will go down as well... The mangafox server is currently down, but I hope that that's just because of something temporary...

[kokoronagomu]

i'm not sure if it is temporary. from what i read at the yahoo inuyasha group 'adinuyasha', all of the scanlation sites are going.

i have to figure out how to download with the torrent[?] sites, first i have to find them and then figure out the downloading. like i can get an audiobook from theaudiolibrary that's been uploaded to rapidshare/or any other fileshare site and unzip it, but i could never find stuff like manga. =/

[lrdrandallslady]

I posted about torrenting above in reply to sakuraryuu's latest comment if you want to know a little more about it.

[kokoronagomu]

okay, thanks =)

i'm going to look at that and see if i can figure it out. maybe check out a better firewall (currently i'm using vista's default firewall) before i do any downloading. i personally would rather get japanese released raws if i have no choice instead of buying american released manga.