Not(e) Worth It

One Manga has gone down, and licensed titles have been removed from MangaFox too. My two usual haunts gone during my break, which I didn’t get to enjoy reading manga because I was busy working and my internet was down. Ah, life. So, in the post-OM and MF era, where can one go? I suppose the scanlator’s sites will be worth checking out, if they have one. MangaStream provides very high quality scanlations, but they only have the latest chapters of a few series (they just started not that long ago). There’s also Spectrum Nexus , a not-so-well-known site I found quite a while back. All the manga series here are allegedly hand-picked, so quite a lot of high quality manga (in terms of story) here. Of course, if you can't find the series you're looking for, there’s always torrents, IRC and Chinese scanlations to fall back on.

I actually planned a series of posts on keyboard shortcuts and tricks, but since July is ending, guess I’ll say goodbye to One Manga first. If you haven’t been paying attention, manga scanlation site One Manga has announced that it’ll close down by July 2010 due to pressure from publishing companies. Surprisingly, this doesn’t hit me as heavily as I’d thought, probably because I’d been reading less manga anyway. Besides, there’s always Chinese scanlations. But for the good old memories of manga series I started reading there, here’s a toast to One Manga~ What’s interesting are the debates going on. On the forums, many manga fans are either   a) blaming others for not using IRC and staying low   b) stating they’ll continue getting scanlations via torrents, IRC etc   or   c) blaming others for being pirates and not buying published manga while being all high and mighty ( Kurogane has a great rant post for those people). I must say I have ...