"There is an end to everything, to good things as well."
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 2010).
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.
You can also show us some love in this moment of sadness by 'liking' our brand new Facebook page. It would be nice to see just how many of you came to enjoy our 'better than peanut butter and jelly' invention.
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
It was the first Manga web site I used and discovered a lot of Mangas and Manwhas. I found it because I was watching the One piece Anime and when I was done with the Anime I was eager to know what happened next, so I googled and found onemanga.com. I'm disappointed because 80% of the Manga found there aren't even published in North America and some probably won't ever be published.
According to google, onemanga is among the top 1000 of the most visited sites.: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-28/google/unauthorized-manga-site-is-among-top-1000-sites
Here is an article with some more information: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/43437-japanese-u-s-manga-publishers-unite-to-fight-scanlations.html
There is also some online petition: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ommmm/
http://www.petitiononline.com/mangapol/petition.html
I'm actually not quiet sure that petition is going to change anything. Manga book is a business and when money is involved, the publisher won't back off. In a way I can understand that, but I'm still disappointed and wish onemanga could continue to exist.
This is not a good omen for other online manga, streaming anime and J-Music sites :(
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