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).

[lrdrandallslady]

I am with you all the way on that. If we ever lose all access to the original Inuyasha scanlations, we'll lose all of our beloved hanyou's oh-so-colorful language :D.

[kokoronagomu]

that too >=/