First of all, when I see this I thought, "oh it seems to be a good thing", but then I remember that we just got that new filtering for novel, doujinshi, and stuff like that right mmm...~?

So I thought rather than rejecting most released stuff, isn't better to enhance the filtering and make it more user friendly (it's already good but some people don't really care about it yet because either they don't know or they'r too lazy to apply the filter mmm...

I can agree with the changes, however, I'd like to advice you to keep webtoons.
The line between Korean manga and webtoons is so thin, there's no need to remove them.
It would be silly to lose highly popular series like Noblesse, Tower of God, etc.

Of all those potential changes, webtoons is the only one that matters to me. To be honest, I don't track any of the webtoons (that is if you are talking about LINE webtoon) on MU anymore since the app has a release schedule and i can see what's the last chapter I've read. If you mean webcomics in general, i'd defintely keep them since I keep track of them on here as well (plenty from mangacow and others).

I don't think it's a good idea. Their is indeed an increase in Doujinshi and Novels, but that is logic as their are a lot of doujinshi's, if you check around how many their are of Kuroke no basket for given an example then it's logic it gives a lot of work. I'm OK with only accepting official doujinshi's.

What about novels, well it is indeed to much on the moment. However their are more novels than their are manga, so that is normal. I'm not agreeing with it that just basically all those good novels are banned.

What about webcomics. Well, it's recommend that MU continues with them because it's only a matter of time and everything is a webcomic. Basically all manwha's have become webcomics, this movement will also start with the manga. Webcomics have some advantages as well for the publisher as for the reader. The reader has everything in full color and it's cheap or free, while the publisher only needs to do some mouse clicks and it's published, while publishing on paper is more complex.

What about artbooks, well it's a question mark for me I would only say to allow the ones that are made by the original mangaka.

please dont take away my novels

Regarding novel release
Personally, I'm following 20+ novel at the moment and will have problem keeping track of them if MU de-list them. I don't want to check 20+ website everyday just to kept track of novel updates.

Since the feeling from ln/wn is practically the same with manga, why reject them? The large number of ln/wn in new release is simply because most people didn't know about ln/wn, and only added them here after the recent novel boom. Wait until several month and the new release number will decrease by itself.

Regarding doujinshi, artbook & webtoon
I agree about the new rules for doujinshi, but removing webtoon won't do. As for artbook, I agree with deadpheonix's suggestion to only accept official art-book from original artist of manga/manhua/manhwa.

Active release portal of novel translation: www.aho-updates.com

It automatically update news of release and link to the page. Currently, there's no database like mangaupdates so it strictly report news of release.

With the new changes in MU, I think Aho and MU compliment well each other.

Although, if MU delete the entry of non-manga novels then readers are out of luck concerning that entry.

May I interest you in a compromise: NO reporting on release page, but still silently updating in the entry page. Example: series A got a new chapter done on site Z, that release news doesnt make it to release page, but the entry page still keep the report.

In effect, it's like an enforced filter put on release page that hide all those non-manga novel news.

Lord, the gormless policy WRT fair-use of covers was bad enough, and now this? No more novels? That's BS. If you're worried about it "cluttering up" the release page, then add it as a genre so those who don't want to see it can filter it. But don't just remove content.

I must admit it would be a bit troubling to have all novels removed from this site, though I can fully understand your point and it does make sense.
On the other hand, the aforementioned filtering does sound like a good idea to me.

I don't read doujinshi so I have no say in the matter, I guess. Keep them or exclude them, for me it's the same.

As for the novels,

-Could be added a new genre "Novel". It would help in the filtering;

-This is what I think would be an awesome feature: create a new section in the website, under "Releases", where the novel releases would be put. Something like "Novel Releases" would be nice, I think. It can't be that hard, right? Or can it? Then, there would be no need to remove any kind of novels, webnovels or not.

I'm saying this because there are web novels that are actually good and should not be left out, in my opinion... Stuff like Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (Novel).

I strongly disagree with simply dumping everything that you've found undesirable. The very fact that they're being listed here is due to there being no decent alternative.

This is a problem which is easily solved with user filters and categorisation, I implore you to do that instead.

Please don't remove novels or webnovels. If you do that, I guarantee there won't be any alternative for listings. Ahoupdates is so niche as it is that it will wither away in a year like all splinter-forums.

Just yesterday I was wondering if I should ask about a Novel or Text filter category.

Simply removing web novels? That sounds like a terrible idea, to say the least. Please choose another method, like an option to filter regular manga, novels, and doujins. Novels are just as much a part of the experience as manga, more so in recent times and this will continue to grow. Filtering would be the answer, as far as I understand.

No comment on doujinshi as I don't read them.

Please don't take out the novels....

Please reconsider what to do with novels, filter them out of the release page for all I care but still allow them to be added to the db (I mainly keep up with series I follow through the "My Lists" page).

Please don't do this... Please... Removing web novels and other novels is the worst thing you can do.
And removing them based on whether it has a manga or not? That's just simply insane.

Novels need a new genre, or they need to be in a separate group altogether, but removing them is not a solution. Why do you need to restrict this site to what it was originally meant to be? Why can't you let it be what people need and want?

The site is called MANGAupdates for a reason, so just delete ALL novels without exception.

I have been using this website for a long time for manga but recently seeing lot of Novels on Series Stats I decided to give one of the them a shot. Now I am a fan of Light novel so I must thank this site for that.
I will be sad to see Light novel disappear from this website.

Please don't stop LN to be posted here. I am sure a filter will be the best solution for everyone.

Judging from the comments I don't think most of us are even on the same page, lol.

I agree with eliminating any grey area that may arise from multiple interpretations of what a "doujinshi" or a "novel" is. I'm guessing this is the essence of this move?

I don't really care about doujinshi, since that can be filtered out of both searches and releases, but I'd really approve of your doing something about the recent influx of badly-written web novels by god-only-knows-who authors that are cluttering up everyone's release lists.

But at the same time, I don't want releases of novels by actual proficient authors that don't have a manga version to be removed from the MU database or filtered together with the others. Examples would be Kino's Journey (Novel), Ukikumo Shinrei Kitan (Novel), and Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria (Novel), just off the top of my head. Isn't there some way to standardise novels just like the aforementioned masterlist for doujinshi? For example, get rid of web novels by no-name authors and leave the ones by authors who're actually published officially in their countries (eg: those whose works are/were in print instead of just on a website)?

As of now I don't think webtoons should be removed, but perhaps if they become a plague like their novel counterparts... For now, maybe just have "webtoon/webcomic" within brackets after the title like you currently do with novels?

While this site is called Manga Updates, I completely agree with these proposed changes.

Those who want doujins or novels can set up Novel Updates or Doujin Updates or whatever.

Not accepting anything whose source is self-published online seems like a good idea as well. Let there be a preliminary market filter before it is inflicted on the English speaking audience.

Please, please do not remove novels and webtoons, this is the only way to know when they're updated and if something new has been translated. A simple fix would be to add a Genre group for novels and webtoons, that way people that don't want to view them can simply filter them out. Again please do not do this.

100% agree. This is mangaupdates for fucks sake.

I both agree and don't agree. First ya I can see not adding any new LN or WN to the site without it having a manga related to it but I don't think that the already existing LN and WN should be removed. That would be the best way to please everyone I think but that is just my opinion.

Also for those who said remove everything but manga that includes SAO, Log Horizon, Slayers, Full Metal Panic, High School DxD and a bunch more that I don't feel like listing.

As for webcomics I can't stand reading them since they are like 4 koma which I also can't stand to read.

As for the Doujin, that can be removed in my opinion since it is all ether rape or yaoi my two most hated categories.

I would like to see a focus on manga again. I think novels need a separate website. When I look at the series stats, and see that the list is overwhelmed by novels, this website becomes useless to me as a manga reader.

You should allow printed Light Novels to be added to the site regardless if any chapters are translated or not.

Also have Holy'bell decided yet if non Japanese mangaka who are getting published by Japanese publishers in Japanese are allowed or not?

lambchopsil´s linked Doujinshi guidelines are reasonable and thought out firstly.

I also agree and welcome the decision to have novels that don´t relate to our 3 different versions of Asian comics exiled as the sites focus has been slipping away during the last 2-ish years. These aren´t "harmful" and i have no problems with all this detritus on a personal level as i use the site as a research database first and foremost but the point of mangaupdates shouldn´t be these.
The ones mentioned by calstine (~ ) are proper (light) novels with a real Japanese publisher behind them so I assume that these are and should be save as long as they are available in English in one way or another.

Artbooks based on printed media are and should be fine but rare anime only exceptions as Gungrave and to a lesser degree Kidou Senshi Gundam UC - Prismatic Mobiles should leave to never return.

Our rare OEL´s haven´t been mentioned but clear Bande dessinée as Freaks' Squeele or regular American comics as Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise shouldn´t stay either but American manga (for a lack of a better term) as Twilight (KIM Young) or Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story make sense to me due to the form factor and the publishers involved.

@The admins: Webtoons need to be considered with the utmost of care as this is where the wind is blowing due to the slipping state of tghe printing market. Especially Korea has been a pioneer in a way few others countries are and first run manga or even collected volumes have increased exponentially on this front during the last few years.
holy`bell explained to me once that i should only submit webmanga that are backed by a popper web presence of a real publisher and thus refused the admittance of the self published The Penisman by ISHIDA Sui amongst others despite the responsible name.
That notion is logical and has my full support as it is very easy to set up a word document or excel sheet to keep count at home.

The site was and will lastly never be run by a majority vote and a functioning database can´t be. I also have and will have divergent opinions with the officials of MU and that is fine but this site is very well run overall and i thank everyone involved for their hard work and 100% believe that this trimming of fat and refocusing on the original goal of MU is a healthy way into the future and a plus for the manga scanlation scene. Thank you for your time.

I would also advise to keep webtoons, even if you create a category for them instead of adding them to manhwa. There are too many wonderful korean webtoons, that aren't published for some reason (being on Naver doesn't mean it's published. Which is sad), and it would be a great loss to lose track of them. I love MU for being able to keep track of my manga/manhua/manhwa (and webtoons included)!
Keep in mind that not everyone has money to invest in proper paper publishing nowadays and that doesn't make them less of an author.

I can't believe there are that many people discriminating manhwa and manhua just because they are not called manga. They are eastern comics, they share some traits and that's good enough for me to keep them here. If you don't like them, just don't read them... I hope you are being sarcastic, honestly.

Hey there,

I think that it would be detrimental to the community and the side in general to just delete everything besides manga. I myself am but a lurker and cannot understand how much work it is to manage everything but I, and the majority of people I know who visit this site read manga, novels and sometimes doujinshi. The current side allows diversity and allows everybody to find what they like. If you shut everything but manga down it will inconvenience very many users.

Instead of deleting I would like to see a good filter system which can be applied. This way, nothing will be lost, no one will be inconvenienced and instead of removing, a bonus feature will be created which makes people happy. Users who read everything can still see novels and doujinshi and will not be disappointed and for the ones who want to focus on manga they can simply select "manga only". It should also not be that much more work in comparison to deleting, because instead of deleting you just tag them as novels.

Thank you very much for considering our opinions.

Cheers
24/7

A poll with the options the admins are considering would probably solve this.

Just a warning, people. Now would be a GREAT time to save any lists you may have, since some series are threatened to be taken out.

Ok I just looked up the number of series listed on this site and it came up around 109,450. Now out of that only 734 are novels, 118 are art books, 18,072 are doujin, 87,986 are Manga, 7 are drama CD, 1,682 are Manhwa, 631 are Manhua, and 252 are OEL. from what I can see the biggest problem is doujinshi based off of numbers.

Also if you do go with getting rid of 21,496 series give us a heads up on the day it will be done so we can record the things we are reading and who is translating them. Thanks

Please keep novels (or at least spin off MU so there can be a dedicated site for novels) since this place is the only dependable aggregation of release news (as well as simple) that can be sorted by genre as well as picking up new novels based on whatever plot synopsis is provided.

Another suggestion would be to allow users to check off what releases they want to see on their User CP (Doujin, Manga, Manhua, Novels, Other, etc.) so that nobody has to step on anyone else's toes.

All I can say is that without MU, I wouldn't have been able to pick up even a fraction of the novels I currently read. Yes, this is a fresh account, but I don't feel comfortable using my actual account to make a post.

I'd like it if we could somehow keep both manga and novels and having a separate category for each different type of genre(manga, novel, manhua, etc) as it's become apparent that many people use the site now for both manga and novel.

As this site had existed for the purpose of informing the reader when the translator had updated a chapter for a manga, novel, etc series and because all translators use this site, no other site had been created for novels or any other form of media(as far as I know) for the convenience of informing when a series had been updated and a way to keep track of how far a reader was into a title.

Just adding my bit here. I completely agree with the proposed policy changes since this is an Asian comics site and novels, especially web ones that are not backed by publishers, don't really belong here in my opinion.

As for webtoon/comics, I agree with what residentgrigo and others have said about it. Comics, especially ones in South Korea, are moving more to the web and since I believe that site is first and foremost a site dedicated to Asian comics, allowing webtoons/comics that aren't self-published here would be the best way to go. Personally, I use I different site for self published webcomics.

you should keep the novels, it's very convenient to be able to search them. but on the other hand it's annoying to find them among other manga. so some way to keep them separate would be best i think.

isn't better to enhance the filtering and make it more user friendly (it's already good but some people don't really care about it yet because either they don't know or they'r too lazy to apply the filter mmm...

I would prefer that novels (LN and WN) were kept with an optional filter as not to offend the manga purists.

I don't really care about the doujins as exhentai is really the place you want to go to see if anything new is out.

That being said, it basically sounds like BU wants to go back to being niche instead of being a convenient one stop place to find information.

These changes don't make a whole lot of sense.

I understand why this needs to be done, since MU is primarily a manga site, but maybe there's a more elegant solution?

I still read manga, manhwa, manhua, and web comics, but I've also branched out into light novels and web novels.

It was great having one site for everything.

Ultimately, it's up to you guys and what you think is best for the site. If this change comes into effect, I'll simply have to find an update site for translated foreign novels.

It's not like I'll stop using MU. You guys still have one of the best search systems in place, after all.

I agree with the doujinshi. There has been a lot of heat from the pixiv community about people translating their stuff. It's not like we're taking stuff from big publishers, these are random peeps just drawing things for fun. It's pretty damn rude of scanlators to be snatching them.

As for Novels. I would like to keep those around. They are pretty closely related to manga and light novels tend to come with a fair share of comics and images.

regarding novels:
I like getting updates about them, and the only place I get that is here.
Clearly, novels and graphic-novels are 2 different things so I can understand why there might be a move to not have them on this site, however I really appreciate having them here.
If they are to be rejected in the future, would it be possible to have a subsection of the site dedicated to novels? like in the menu on the right beneath the manga search, possibly in the same style as the Baka-Updates tab.

Eh, I disagree with the second change. There is really no other site for compiling novels. Instead of going searching 15 different sites if I'm trying to find a novel, I just come here. Kinda sad that's changing. :/

(Note that this is not true for doujinshi.)

Have you thought about launching novelupdates.com?

I'm somewhat conflicted about the change to web/light novels.

While the change might encourage some replacement for tracking LN updates, A LOT of people are using B-U to track new releases and their favorite novels, and this change would pretty much destroy their main source for organization.

I know B-U has historically been about manga, but I just don't really see a reason why it can't incorporate web novels when it already has light novels in the database. No harm in adapting to the times that I can see.

But if the admins want some physical evidence that users dislike seeing novels mixed with manga updates, you could always put up a poll.

Keep novels but add filters so you can exclude them if you don't want it. Keep webtoons too cause I still feel it kinda falls into manwha.

In regards to the proposed policy changes, I'm strongly against the de-listing of novels, folks.

In the case of doujinshi, I don't read them so can't comment on them so much (a lot of them are hentai and should belong in their own genre section anyway, just like there's already separate web listings for releases of anime series that Baka-Updates also moderates - see link: http://www.baka-updates.com/releases.php ).*I love the anime listings, by the way: I'm glad baka-updates still reports on the latest anime releases, since after the SubWire folded, there's nothing else quite like it. (Another reason to put doujinshi, or at least hentai titles, in their own section: do you honestly want ordinary readers to come to baka-updates and see a disturbing hentai title like 'Private Rape School,' for example? It makes all the regular manga titles look bad just by association, at least to innocent public eyes. That's why I think this category needs its own [red-lit] space, heh. I recall that the old Lurk IRC channel did something similar, putting it behind a web portal link called 'Innocence Lost' or some such.)

With regard to novels, which I've become a fan of recently, I note that many manga in the past are derived from them anyway, so no one can say that novels don't have a relation here. Also, having novels listed is just as crucial to the fun and utility of this place as manga, manhwa and webtoons are. With regard to traditional content, I note that a lot of scanlation groups have gone bust in recent years and there are fewer and fewer quality titles available to be read now, even though the series may be left unfinished (there are too many of these to count already). I guess all the original scanlators have graduated school and gotten real jobs now, maybe that's why. Because of that, with the recent popular influx of more novels lately, maybe it seems like novels are drowning the rest out, but I think that's only because traditional manga titles are becoming fewer and fewer (or am I wrong?). It's sad and frustrating but I'm definitely seeing such a trend. I'm glad that webtoons (mostly Korean right now) are starting to make real inroads in this space as a partial replacement, and the quality of many of these titles are high (*see The Gamer, Song of the Cloud, Orange Marmalade, for examples of this). In my opinion both webtoons and novels are providing a welcome alternative for all the readers to enjoy even if there aren't as many traditional manga titles to read now. Thanks to webtoons and novels there's more life to the website than there would otherwise be, I think.

In the case of novels (my particular focus here), they definitely have their place and should be honored as such. How to filter out 'amateur novels' from the quality, professionally-supported novels is an issue, of course. I guess by researching/keeping track of pro novel publishers (both online and print organizations), that's the best way to do this so that the quality of the novels can remain good for everyone without also reporting the junk. (Just so long as great titles like the ones I've listed below in this post won't get left out and ignored, that would be far too tragic.)

With novels generally, if it annoys the traditional-minded minders of this website, they could simply create an alternative section (a sub-page) listing like there already is for anime, then we'll still be able to keep up with the newest releases of both manga and novels and no one can complain, can they? And a third for doujinshi too if you like. (The archive listings in baka-updates are also valuable for both manga and novels, that's why having baka-updates listing the novels here too is needed. No one else is providing such a service, right?)

The owners/moderators of this website should be trying to make this website more fun and useful to its fans, not less. Over the past five months, I've discovered the following great novel titles thanks to the baka-updates website: (K=Korean ; J=Japanese; C=Chinese)
- Ark (K-novel) *****
- Death March (J-novel) ****
- Konjiki no Wordmaster (J-novel) *****
- Douluo Dalu / Combat Continent (C-novel) ***
- Rakuin no Monshou (J-novel) ****
- Risou no Himo Seikatsu (J-novel) ****
- Knights and Magic (J-novel) ***
- Overlord (J-novel) ***
- Mushoku Tensei (J-novel) ****
- Zhan Long (C-novel) ***
- Altina the Sword Princess (J-novel) ***
- Log Horizon (J-novel) *** (also an anime already)
- Isekai Mahou wa Okureteru (J-novel) ****
- B Group no Shounen (J-novel) *** (so far)
- Kenja no Mago (J-novel) ***
- Magic, Mechanics, Shuraba (C-novel) *** (so far)
- Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei (J-novel) **** (also an awesome anime already)
- Close Combat Mage (C-novel) *** (so far)
- World Teacher (J-novel) **** (so far)
- Yuusha Party no Kawaii Ko ga Ita no de, Kokuhaku Shite (J-novel) ****
- Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (J-novel) ****
- Hachinan tte, Sore wa nai Deshou (J-novel) ***

All of these titles are pretty great in my opinion, even if the translations for some of them still suck a bit. Also, even though a lot of the newer novel titles seem to involve the same theme of someone being kidnapped/summoned/reincarnated into an alternative fantasy world (with RPG elements, heh), that doesn't mean the stories in question are boring. Far from it. A lot of them are engrossing and leaving you begging for more.

So don't make it hard for us readers to find these interesting titles, I implore you, that would make things a lot less fun for everyone. And a fun read is the whole point of having Baka-Updates here at all, isn't it? Otherwise why have we kept coming here every day for so many years? Just to admire the fonts?

UPDATE: In the case of doujinshi, as some commenters have just suggested to me, maybe I'm being too rude to them, but I'm nothing if not fair. Their own listings within baka-updates would also work (on a sub-page), even if I have no personal interest in them. (Their quality and scope is usually inferior to both manga and novels, however, so I see them as third tier titles at best. That's just my bias, however, so I shouldn't talk about them any more than this.)

I think you should give filtering manga/novels a try first before scrapping anything. There is indeed a huge increase in novels lately but that just shows that novels are getting more and more important and popular to readers. It would be a rash response to delete them just because the site is called "manga"updates. So yeah, I think it's time MU tries to integrate novels.

As for doujins, I have no idea so no comment.

Also, this would be a very good subject for a poll.

I agree with you about the need to change things to preserve a certain quality standard. And it's true, everyone and their mom can publish web novels and doujins of varying quality nowadays. In only allowing those officially published/sold on MU we can uphold these principles. But we can't deny the fact that specifically web novels are very popular in Japan/Korea/China, and that by listing them on MU so far we helped spread that popularity in the English speaking community. We shouldn't just abandon that by changing policies now; if anything, I'd prefer that we keep it the way it is. After all only here can you keep track of releases, aho-updates being only a fancy rss feed aggregator. It would be a big blow. Adding filter options would be preferable.

MU has been here for a long time to help us pursue (one of) our interests, but now its users and their interests have changed. This has always been a community site, and I hope it will continue to be. I know that this change would benefit the quality standards we set for ourselves, but at what cost? In my opinion, it's the difference between technology adapting to our needs and us adapting to our technology.

Just some food for thought: What if a novel without relation to manga/manhwa/manhua gained popularity and got a manga adaption, possibly even one we purged from MU? Wouldn't it have to be readded then? Would that be worth the hassle?

Seeing how baka-updates currently have 2 websites, one for anime and one for manga, how about making a third one for light novels and web novels seeing how popular they are getting.

This sounds terrible. I concur with making it a genre to filter.

please don't remove existing / reject upcoming novels, be it LN or WN...
I'm supporting the genre filter idea for these category

If you end up removing webnovels and keeping published LNs, what about when a WN gets published as an LN, but the translations we get in English are based on the WNs?

At least in that case you could let us keep the WNs, and add WNs with translations if they get an LN.

But I'd still prefer if you left all novels, webnovels and light novels alike. There is already a huge hurdle for both of them--that someone starts to translate them! There's so much overlap between WNs an LNs as it is that only difference from our perspective really is just whether you have deadtree version; both kinds get translated, after all.

I have to say... thank goodness! So tired of all the amount of backtracking done for these web novels people keep submitting for release. And I agree with everything. Pixiv is self-published, not officially, so those doujins should not be accepted. Same goes with WEB novels. Too many readers are jumping the gun about the novel bit because it's the only word they're focusing on: novel. MU is supposed to be manga-related and somewhere along the way we lost that through the ridiculous influx of novels over the last year. As for webtoons, we've been allowing that for years so I would treat them as we have the majority in the database: if they're hosted on the popular sites like Naver, etc then they should continue to be allowed.

Artbooks... depends. If they're related to previous work, they should be allowed since they ARE manga/manhua/manwha related.

People are understandably upset, but they need to be reasonable and understand: manga-related content is why this website was started in the first place. The web novel thing has just gotten out of hand. If it's not manga-related, it shouldn't be here. Simple as that.

How about keeping what is listed now and not accepting new stuff? That way the people who are tracking ln/wn on this site won't be screwed over by having it removed and the ones that want to go back to pure manga/manga related stuff will be happy since the number of non-manga related stuff will not increase. This is the best compromise that I can think up for the LN/WN as for the Doujinshi I will leave it up to someone else to try and think up a compromise since I don't read or understand it. As for web comics, based off of TKS's post they are not a problem.

This increase of novels in the "releases" section bothers me as well, since I'm not interested in them, but.... why not just filter them? Why not implement a "Type" filter? It would work for novels, manga, manhwa, manhua, webtoons, doujinshi, oneshots. This way the people that like them will keep following them, and the people that don't won't see them ever again. It's a win-win situation.

But I support the narrowing of doujinshi accepted to the site.

First, I would want to clarify few things.
1) Since you said that only derivative works are considered doujinshi here, does that mean that your proposed rules change will not affect so-called "original doujins"?

2) Announcement does not make it clear if proposed rules change will apply to all novels or only web novels. Do you intend to limit all novels or only a subtype of them?

3) Do you intend to remove any of the previously present information/entries from the database, or only reject the newly added ones?

But anyhow, I don't understand why you would want to remove/limit useful information when it is relevant to interests of significant part of your userbase. You would just lose part of your followers and gain nothing in return.
If it's an issues of not having enough people to sort and monitor new entries and change requests, then you should recruit additional staff from long-time Updaters, rather than narrow scope of the site.

All in all, I agree with this comment:

Is this up for debate? Is it worth the time to try and change your mind?

I would very much prefer if the novels stayed. I realize they increase the workload for our mods in the long run, especially with some translators dumping 4 to 5 chapters a day. However it's still manageable IMO. If at all necessary you could get more trustworthy mods. With the premise of otherwise removing novels there should be enough volunteers.

Doujinshi on the other hand.. It would be great it they stayed ofcourse. Frankly though, I don't see a need to track updates for them. They're basically standalone shorts. And thus are even more tedious to save and check in this database. If possible doujinshi should have a somewhat separate existence on this site. For example without creating new series entries and solely managed by updaters themselves.