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22/07/2010:

Manga 'scanlation' aggregation site to shut down

One Manga to remove all manga by next week

With the recent news of manga publishers worldwide united in the face of the growing threat of unlicensed, unofficial fan translations of their works, it's perhaps unsurprising to hear that one of (if not the) biggest site which aggregates these "scanlations" is about to shut down.

One Manga has now announced that it will be removing all manga, regardless of licensing status, from its site by early next week, while their full "farewell" message reads as follows:

It pains me to announce that this is the last week of manga reading on One Manga (!!). Manga publishers have recently changed their stance on manga scanlations and made it clear that they no longer approve of it. We have decided to abide by their wishes, and remove all manga content (regardless of licensing status) from the site. The removal of content will happen gradually (so you can at least finish some of the outstanding reading you have), but we expect all content to be gone by early next week (RIP OM July '10).

So what next? We're not really sure at this point, but we have some ideas we would like to try out. Until then, the One Manga forums will remain active and we encourage all of you to continue using them. OMF has developed into a great community and it would be a shame to see that disappear.

Regardless of whether you stay with us or not, on behalf of the One Manga team, I would like to thank you all for your unwavering support over the years. Through the ups and downs you have stuck with us, and that is what kept us going.

As a certain Porky was fond of saying... That's all folks!

Time for me to go lay down and let this all sink in.

- Zabi

Is this the beginning of the end of manga "scanlations"? It seems unlikely, but let's hope this at least opens an opportunity for the major manga publishers to create their own digital manga portals featuring legal, licensed series.

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