Mangadex hit by massive DMCA takedown, 800+ series gone

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Site Update - 14th of May 2025

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64036567

List of affected manga from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mangadex/comments/1kmzg9q/list_of_manga_affected_by_the_dmca_takedown_to/
Mangadex will release an official list soon (?).

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Mangadex hit by massive DMCA takedown, 700+ series gone

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Holy shit, this is actually a pretty bad list. A lot of classics and actually good modern manga here. Unfortunate - mangadex was great while it lasted. Pirate sites are hydra, if course, but mangadex was actually usable unlike a lit of other sites.
- I'm at the point where I want to self host everything. Is there anything like Jellyfin for Manga?
  
  Yes there is. They're called Kavita and Komga. If you wanna host Doujins then there is Lanraragi, it has a better tagging system then both of them but struggles with chapter merging and all.
  Kavita is the preferred one nowadays.
  
  Yes, Jellyfin. At least that’s what I use. I would be interested in hearing what other people use. Jellyfin is far from perfect with manga.

Here's a spreadsheet of all the current killed titles
- Thats a lot of good titles gone

At least there's Nyaa, and alternative sites to Mangadex for ongoing releases.
- Sadly a number of these don't seem to exist on Nyaa, or in any other English form that I can find.
  
  comick.io ia decent. Has a big collection of Manhwa and Manhua as well
  
  Check out Comick or Weeb Central!

I recommend everyone hit up the Trove, get HakuNeko or a similar app and start making offline backups. Its not going to get easier from now on. KissManga and Mangafox still have suitable uploads for plenty of those series, but we don't know for how long.

Wait, why did they remove Spy x Family? They pretty much only relink what the official publisher Shueisha's titles that are free on the site at that time. Not repost mind you, linking to the official source itself.
Edit: official publisher uploads aren't removed, gave me a scare there.

If you're on Android, you really need to use Kotatsu. If one source is taken down, you have a couple hundred other options and it doesn't change the overall experience.