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 publisher 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 remaval 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 idea 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 will 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 out 'better than peanut and 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.
Today marks a sad history on online manga reading. I'm shocked, stunned or what ever suitable reaction humans could possibly had when I saw the news this morning. I simply can't accept the fact that One Manga will be taken down.
I've been visiting One Manga almost everyday since July 2007, even when the manga gallery only consist not more than 15 series at that time. For me, One Manga is the best online manga website there is to offer since its easy to navigates, fast image loading and frequent updates on high quality manga/manhwa/manhua. The site clearly abiding to the licensed series rules and this recent changes of stance of manga publisher regarding manga scanlations has forced them to take down the site.
Sure, there still tons of similar online manga website but none of them are as good as One Manga. Yes, clearly Manga Stream is the fastest site on updates and even image loading but that site only caters for few famous series such as Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. They also didn't archives the whole chapter of that series, only the 10 latest updates of it.
Well, beggars can't be choosers. Looks like Manga Stream, Mangatoshokan and MangaFox will do, for now. I'm hoping that the manga publisher team won't hunt down every online manga sites and shut them down as well or else, I won't be able to read my mangas anymore.
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Sad sad day indeed.
sedihnye wuwu!!!
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