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Manga Stream to end scanlation of Viz Titles

VIZ Media Licensed Series Dropped

February 11th, 2012

Dear MangaStream supporter,

It's with a heavy heart that I make the following announcement. MangaStream will no longer be releasing the following series:

- Naruto
- Bleach
- One Piece
- Hunter x Hunter
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn
- Claymore
- D.Gray-man

VIZ Media has demanded that we end our scanlation work for all of the above. This comes despite our best efforts to pursuade fans into supporting official distributors by being the only group to actively prevent an archive from forming on their website through the removal of chapters that are older than a couple weeks. They've succeeded in little more than invoking inconvenience to the community as their digital magazine missed the mark; it runs several issues behind and only features 3 of the above series. So long as their product continues to be slow, awkward and inferior to something a ragtag group of nobodies can churn out in a few hours - fans will continue to look to scanlation groups and aggregators for their weekly fix.

The aggressive and escalating nature of their threats have forced our hand into removing the content. MangaStream will no longer be posting full scanlations for any of the aforementioned series, we will instead focus our efforts onto the series we do that are not licensed by VIZ Media (you can assume everything currently on our directory will be continued).

Our final message to our loyal JUMP audience will be this:

Thank you for supporting us over the past two years and making Mangastream your home away from home. It was a pleasure sharing our time with fans who were just as passionate and dedicated as we were.

Although MangaStream will no longer be hosting any of the Jump series, if it's something our fanbase is interested in, we're considering leveraging our connections to bring you accurate spoiler summaries for the Jump chapters as early as possible. We know this isn't much, but hope it can whet your appetite until the dozens of aggregators release the official Jump chapters on Wednesday.

i mean i get why people are upset, if there was a better alternative there would be less people upset. fact that viz doesn't even publish all the of the manga's they shut down is what's gonna really make people angry.

i mean as manga stream put it, a bunch of nobodies are able to translate the later chapter and get them out the same week so why can't we get this done through official channels in the same way the crunchyroll has been doing with anime for the last couple of years.

fact that viz doesn't even publish all the of the manga's they shut down is what's gonna really make people angry.

1- Viz has licenses for all the titles listed and has released print & digital editions for them (Their edition of Teborn is on hiatus, but everythingelse is up to date. They even sped up digital eds and pront solicitations of some if these because....)


2- Shonen Jump Aplha just launched, less than a dollar a week, near simultaneous digital release.

2- Shonen Jump Al

Hypeathon, if you were curious about how Paypal works and how you could set it up, it really isn't that hard. If you wanted, I could help you if you were trying to subscribe to Shonen Jump Alpha, but if you were just commenting, I'm sorry for getting carried away.

Would you rather I PMed you about this?