Sentences with phrase «of scanlation sites»

Incidentally, I checked my iPod Touch app that draws from a variety of scanlation sites, and it will no longer load manga from OneManga.com.

They will all be working in concert with US manga publishers Vertical Inc., Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press to bring legal action to a slew of scanlation sites.

Oh, and another possiblity - VIZ's minions have killed off or are in the process of killing off a number of scanlation sites who haven't dropped or added back their titles.

Not exact matches

The site is all in Japanese but you can find the list of websites in English on pages 11 and 12 for manga scanlation sites, pages 13 - 15 for video hosting sites (Youtube, Dailymotion etc.) and pages 16 - 18 for torrenting sites.

So I'm guessing it's more likely we'll see it for an assortment of SJump series that are not in Shonen Jump USA at the moment, but have big online followings, or are newly launched in Japan, thus allowing VIZ to pull a Rinne, and capture the online market for the title in it's entirety, and not have to compete with scanlation sites that also host copies of it.

After two years of double digit declines in sales of manga, American manga publishers have formed a coalition with their Japanese counterparts to battle the illegal Internet distribution of unlicensed manga via scanlation sites where translated versions of manga often appear just days after publication in Japan.

If you like visiting your scanlation aggregator sites and wish to see them continue, bringing them to the attention of a publisher that has a legal department is not a good idea.

I agree with you that there is a divide between the scanlation community and the people who read the aggregation sites, and that for the serious scanlators and readers, quality is of paramount importance.

Premium members may be able to buy a couple of chapters a month to fill in the holes in their digital collection, but it still doesn't take on the unbeatable price of all chapters free on some scanlation sites.

Here's why that doesn't matter: There are still plenty of multi-comic manga apps on the iTunes store, and every one of them is a mobile reader for a scanlation site.

in high school on a scanlation site and was intrigued by Toriyama doing a color comic, which was part of the deal for doing the weekly again, that they'd let him do it in color.

One of the greatest contributors to the growth of the war against scanlations are the many aggregate sites that present free scanlated material while remaining profitable thanks to ad revenue, donations, and in some cases user memberships.

Another site that hosted scanlations has bowed to legal pressures and taken down all of the manga from members in the coalition.

Many manga publishers and retailers who used to believe that scanlations actually attracted new readers, now blame the sales decline on the rise of giant for - profit scanlation sites that have allowed a new generation of fans to grow up reading manga for free online.

Several scanlation sites already have their pages prepped for this week's chapter of Naruto, and last week's is widely available.

But, one fine day, there was a coordinated legal attack by almost all of the impacted publishers and all of the better known sites offering scanlations were shut down, which was followed by a period of vigorous enforcement designed to prevent the scanlation model from resurfacing elsewhere on the web until people got out of the habit of making and reading them.