Congratulations MangaUpdates! And thank you for all the time the admin and moderators puts into it!

Hopefully you take us on the road of fantastic manga series for another 15 years.

Edit: It's a bit painful but I can't use the gift card because I live in Europe. The transportation cost is higher than the gift card is worth. And Right Stuff International doesn't have any payment option with debit card ( or Paypal ?) And digital manga ( = free shipping) isn't available.
So, I don't want it.

Congratulations MU.

Aggregators may come and go, but I hope MU stays 😀 No need for the gift card here either.

Congratulations MangaUpdates!

I hope you continue running this amazing site for years to come! 😃 😃

Congrats MU! Happy 15th Birthday!

Thank you all MU staff for the past years!
I was 15 when I discovered MU, whoaa
Cheers for many years to come getting older together! 😎 😎 😎

Happy birthday, MU! I was just checking and I've been a member for around 5 years, and I cant imagine myself without this wonderful website. Or maybe I should call it "database" haha
Thanks to all the mods and everyone who makes it possible for us to visit and be a part of this community!

Congratulations and Happy birthday!
I hope the site will live for years to come.
I don't need the card, because I'm in Europe too.

Happy 15th birthday mangaupdates!! Here's to 15 more years!! 😀

Definite congratulations are in order. When I think back all the years ago to when I first started using this site I never thought it would be here still. It took me a couple years just to finally make an account. I have been officially registered for over 11 years and in that time I have only made 22 posts. At face value it would seem that I have barely even used the site, but I have come here almost every single day over all those years. With even the most rudimentary math I put my daily visits at over 5000. I can't express how much I have been impacted by this site. There have been many sites over the years that have attempted to provide similar services, but I believe they all lacked passion. Mangaupdates may seem bare bones (especially if you consider how outside links were purged quite a while ago) but I think the care that is put into what is behind the manga is meaningful. Not settling for simply being some aggregator, I have stuck here for the effort that has been put into mainting the information about authors, serializations, and publications. Dozens and dozens of series that have become some of my favorites were only uncovered because I was able to see authors and artists behind each manga. I can't say that there aren't a host of features I'd love to see come to the site, but there is something very comforting about my routine visits the release page even when nothing is relevant for me. While I'm somewhat ashamed of being such a lurker, I hope my gratitude can at least this once be conveyed. Thank you.

Congrats! to be honest i never really thought much of this site before i started doing scanlation myself but i've found it to be an invaluable resource since and i'm grateful it exists
(btw i can't use the gift card either since shipping to canada is 20 dollars 😔 maybe u want to pick something that offers digital purchases so shipping won't be an issue for future giveaways)

This thread is how I learned what Right Stuf International is! A random Youtube or podcast segment introduced me to them before but I failed to retain anything despite hearing it more than once. I now forever know what that site sells. Is that how waving free stuff works? You suddenly give a shit? Thank greedy lizard brain, I guess.

Wow, 15 years! To think that I've been a member for over 11 of those years!

MU has become such an indispensable part of my daily routine, I can't imagine what my hobby would be like without it. Let's hope for many more years of keeping us informed of the latest chapters to be released!

Congrats MU!
Thanks for all that you do!
My favorite section of this site is the poll. =)
Keep up the good work and the interesting topics!

Congrats on the 15 years! This website was pivotal to my manga obsession during my teen years, so thanks for always being here and being the reliable source of info we need. Man I've been around here for coming up to 11 years!

I'll pass on the voucher too however. Overseas and all that makes it more difficult. I wanted to say something anyway though as this website was a big part of my teenage years after all!

Here's to another 15 yeah? 😁

Can't believe MU's been here for 15 years. So many things have changed and grown in my personal life in the past 11+ years I've been on this site, but MU's been a constant throughout it. I don't read as much manga as I used to, but I always know I can pop in here to look for new series or to just stalk the forums.

Thanks Lamb, Manick, and all the dedicated staff for keeping MU alive and kicking for so long. I hope it stays for many more years to come.

Oh cool, I am here for the last 10 years, not posting much but really appreciate the website mmm...

The recent changes are pretty neat, but I kinda hope the banner will change a bit, most people don't even know who the characters in the banner anymore lol mmm...

Congrats MU on 15 years! Here's to the next 15 to come!

Congrats!! Loved using this site over the past few years--especially to get manga on less followed series. Keep up the good work. Many hearts.

I've only been a member of this place at least eight of those fifteen...time sure flies (unless I'm at work).

Here's to fifteen more. Or maybe fifteen squared more, who knows?

I can't believe this site has been for so long and all that has happened, remember the death of mega upload (made me remember the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc ) the DMCA when links to the chapters went away, glad the page has found ways to survive and I believe still grow.

I don't think I've been on MU nearly as long as many of the people here, and I definitely don't make many posts. Congratulations on 15 years! The card doesn't mean much to me, but I really wanted to show my appreciation for the dedication people have here. Checking sites manually was a huge pain, so I'm grateful that MU exists.

Here's to many more years to come!

congrats! I don't know what how I'd find new series and keep track of the untranslated ones without this site. So much appreciated!

Congratulations on your 15th anniversary. This site has undoubtedly helped me organise and discover thousands of manga, and has helped me a lot, overall.
Thank you.

Congrats on the 15 years! I'm glad that through all the ups and downs over the years that MU has survived. I don't know what I'd do without this site.

Thanks to all the staff for keeping MU alive all this time!

Congratulations MU! Happy 15th anniversary.

This site help me to find manga's information and also help me building my scans group! Thank you. Keep up the good work

Very cool, congratulations on the site's 15th anniversary 🙂

Congratulations! Much appreciation for all the hard work that goes into this site. It has always helped me find just the right manga to read or the information I needed. Thank you!

Happy 15th anniversary!
You've always been my fav manga site and I hope you keep doing a wonderful job.
Thank you for letting me add a lot of updates to the threads of my fav series regularly.
Hugs!

15 years already... congratulations and thank you very very much for your dedication to keep the site running all these years.

Congrats MU on the 15th anniversary!

Congrats MU! It feels shorter than 15 years to say the least. But then realizing I've been on here for nearly a decade myself; time really does fly 😲

Happy 15th MU! Thanks so much for keeping this going.

Happy 15th Anniversary MU!

I have been lurking here for a long time, and now feel bad for not contributing enough after having used this site at various levels for the last 14 years (started using this site some months after its initial launch). It's seems to be a little quieter here now than it was 8 - 10 years ago in terms of forum activity, but hey, I'm happy to see things still chugging along, and quiet ain't bad. This site is still indispensable when it comes to helping to guide manga reading, so I hope this site never dies. The reviews on this site (read a lot of barbapapa's reviews back in the day, hope he's doing alright), have helped me a lot.

Cheers to the team for maintaining this online sanctuary. I am so glad that places like MangaUpdates, Fandom Post, and the AnimeNewsNetwork forums still exist in an age that is dominated by spiritually empty social media. Cheers to a Happy 15th!

Omg congrats MU!!! I've been here since 2005 - wouldn't know what my 10 years would've been like without you 😄 Here's to 50 more!

It's nice that MU has stayed as a constant amid all the churn of legal wrangles and drama llamas picking off other manga-themed sites. Here's to another 15 years.

Amazing how few people actually read the news articles. This was 2 days ago and we only have 40 comments?

To be fair, I don't read them every day, but at least every so often.

Anyway, I do hope this site survives into eternity. The actual aggregators are nice but can just die at any time. So it's really nice to always have mangaupdates to fall back on for discovering which series have updates for me to read. If an aggregator dies, eventually I can see my favorite scanlators congregating to a new one 🙂

I can't believe that MU has already been around for 15 years and that I've been a user for 11. As much as that feels like a long time, it also feels short because I don't know what I'd do without MU in my life.

It's such a special place for me and I visit just as much as I did when I was a teen and had just started my account.

I just want to share my thanks for all the amazing work that has been put into maintaining this site for so long and say congratulations on 15 years! Here's to another 15 in the future!!!

Congratulations MangaUpdates!!! You have been my go-to place every time I open internet for the past 10 years. I hope you can make it to another 50 more!

Congratulations, MangaUpdates! And thank you to everyone who has put so much effort into this site. Extra big shout-out to Manick and Lambchopsil.

I do not frequent the forums as much anymore, but I do have tons of fond memories, from sharing series recommendations to competitively identifying manga series from images to finding the perfect picture for my profile.

Here's to another 15 years, when some of us will bring our children into the fold of the manga community. Haha!

I've considered leaving this site. Going someplace more ubiquitous like MAL. Even duplicated my lists from here to other places, but this really is the site I always come back to.

Happy anniversary, MU! I've had a similar history with this site as previous posters (been using it for manga info for years, don't use the forum, but can't imagine my growth as a fan without MU), so let me instead present a hastily-written, potential isekai in which this site didn't catch on with people like me who have too much time on their hands:


The year is 2019. Another Anime Expo has come and gone, and in its wake, another solemn groan of dissatisfaction rises from the dwindling US fandom. No one expects any news of interest, but some part of them clings to hope. They hold on to the fond memories of their gateway manga, yet remain fearful of new, possibly disappointing series.

Vizimation Press, sole survivor of the anime/manga Franchise Wars, continues to introduce new Japanese media to the ignorant masses, but to no avail. With no way of knowing whether a new show has its basis in manga, or whether international readers enjoyed it, fans cannot follow further adventures on the go, and thus find their interest dwindling ever further.

If only, they find themselves wishing deep within, if only there was a way to find a new manga similar to my favorite. How I wish it was as simple as finding other works by the mangaka, or searching for subjects like "Bespectacled Main Character" or "Female Dominance", or "Reflections on Human Existence". Such a tool would certainly respark the passionate flame I once felt for this medium. The context and reference it would provide for these new, mysterious series being announced would certainly help me to shatter the ambivalence I feel for new things. I could maybe even see how well-received these series have been, and crush the fear of disappointment within myself.

But of course, this remains a pipe dream. These "fans", if they can still be called as such, continue their empty existence. They will never know how close they came to having such a resource, before the administrators decided the complaints about formatting and image uploading weren't worth the hassle of maintaining such a database. Instead, these wayward wanderers will forget such fruitless dreams and find another form of media to consume, such as random cat videos or movie novelizations.

Avoid this isekai at all costs! Keep supporting your friendly neighborhood MU admins!

Hi MU!

My goodness! Reading through everyone else's messages has made me quite emotional. I too can't imagine my life without this website. I'm so sentimental about it I even have a screenshot of the layout saved on my computer!

I must've discovered MU around 2005? When I first started reading manga online. I probably come here hundreds of times per month! Until last year I didn't have an account, but recently I started scanlating and it feels so good to post my own releases on here. All these years MU has been a part of me and now finally I feel like I'm a part of MU!

Congratulations on so many years of service to the manga community. As others have said, other sites have come and gone, but MU has always been a constant! I hope MU will continue forever!

I don't think I will able to use the voucher either but that doesn't matter. I just wanted to come and congratulate you guys and express my gratitude for all you've done.

Also, I really enjoy the sidebar poll! It's fun! ^^

can't believe how long i've been on this site... can't believe i've been reading manga for this long either LEL

Wow, 15 years, congratulations MU! Can't believe it's been that long, and I've been tracking my manga here for 10 years now....

Don't think I could've kept up my manga addiction without this website xD.

Wow! 15 years! Congrats MU!

I've been using this site for 8 years now. I can't imagine using any other site for finding manga! Hope this site lasts at least 15 more years!

Happy anniversary MU! Thanks for keeping this up for 15 years. This site is indispensable for me. A great resource and awesome community. Cheers all around!

Congratulations on the 15th anniversary!

Keep it up 😎

This site is awesome. I don't log on to my account all that much--and I've never bothered updating my manga lists--but I browse this site CONSTANTLY in order to find stuff to read. Looking forward to a future in which I'll definitely continue using MangaUpdates (hehehe)! Happy fifteen years~~ 😀 😀 😀

Congratulations on 15 years!! 😲 😲 😲

Congratulations! 15 years is a lot.

Congratulations! That long already?

This is the only site that is user friendly for people who wants to look at manga updates (*ba dam tsk*). Still using it and will not leave or switch to another site anytime soon!

Congrats! I'm very grateful to have found this website two years ago as it's WAY better than my previous method of writing down every series I was reading and using a pencil to write/erase what chapter I was up to, heh.

Congratulations and thank you to all the lovely people running this website. I'll pass on the gift card. So I just wanted to thank everyone that has poured their heart and soul into MU. Love you guys, and I'll be waiting for the 20 year anniversary~

<3 <3 <3

Congratulations MU on 15 years!! Wow,,, I've been here for over 7 years already LOL

I remember young me hopping around trying to read manga, from onemanga to mangafox to kissmanga to batoto to currently, mangadex. Somewhere between mangafox and mangadex I stumbled on MU and was super confused because I couldn't? read anything? Gradually, I realized that this was a convenient listing site and finally made an account haha

Congrats again on the 15 years, and I hope for many more!! This site is super useful for finding old childhood jems or recs for people, so I really appreciate what you guys do!!

Congrats to 15 years!! I can't believe I've been on here 7 years.
Finding this site definitely led me down the rabbit hole of reading too much manga hahaha

Thanks and cheers to hopefully at least another 15 more years!

Can't believe MU has been around for 15 years. I assumed it was 5 older than it is, but hope it'll continue to be of service when the time comes around to celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Been a member here for two years, but have been using MU's services for a longer time.
I was uptight then about not signing up for an account because I didn't think it was necessary when I was keeping my own tabs on the manga I was reading. Low and behold, the records were lost.
And yet I still didn't sign up either then -- the sheer level of stubbornness I had back then.
Took me a long time to finally create an account and now I can barely fathom why I was so persistently set against one.
MU has helped me organize and keep track of all the manga I've kept in contact with and whatnot since then, so I'm immensely thankful for that. Also interesting to read reviews every now and then and see the ratings based on other users' experience. Can't say I've added too much of my own opinions on either, but when I do see my own, it's interesting to see how much of my opinion has changed and what hasn't.

Congratulations, it's a good site even if I don't come often poll are still funny to read. 😁

Congrats guys! A happy anniversary! I'm glad to be a member of this site and I'll definitely stay a member as long as possible, even if I spent most of my time lurking! 😁

Wow long time lost track how long I have visited this site. So great to use.

Congratulations for these 15 years, MU! It's a heck of a long time. I'm glad you guys are still around, and are still a fantastic database for us manga fans to use. And it's for free! Much love!

Congrats! Can't believe I've been here for over 8 years as well 😲

Congrats on the 15th Anniversary. Had to look when I became a user on the website, its been almost 10 years. Just wow memories of other manga reading websites shutting down coming back to me. Been using the website since and I hope to use it for many more years to come in the future.

Congrats on 15 years!! It's amazing how fast time flies. I've been using MU for all my manga needs, and I'll continue to do so in the future. Keep up the good work!

Congrats to MangaUpdates I'm so glad to have found about this site.

Thanks for the invaluable cataloging information this site has built over the years.

Congratulations! I have been here for 8 years ish. Back in high school when I first joined this site I would keep up with 20 or 30 manga at a time! I needed this site desperately. So thank you!

Now I come here every once in a while with fingers crossed for D. gray man releases. 😀

Congratulations on the 15 Years 😀
Thank you very much for all the efforts in continuing the site.
Mangaupdates is still the first site I browse when I open my laptop.

CONGRATS!

When I first found you about a decade ago, you kept my budding interest in manga alive. Back then there were so many manga, and their titles were so often given in Japanese only, that I wouldn't have been able to find anything good in the vast number of them without you!

Still true after all these years.

Congrats!!! And happy 15th birthday MangaUpdates!!!

I have only been a member for like two months, but MangaUpdates has long been a great part of my search for great mangas :>

Hoping for everyone's continued hardwork and support! Let's continue to spread the love for mangas all over the world 😉

Lots of love! :>

Late to the party - but wow can't believe this site has been running for 15 years. Hopefully many more to go!

Here is how the site looked in Dezember 2005:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051212064809/http://www.man gaupdates.com/

It´s like looking at a mirror.

The biggest difference between then and now (outside of the recent re-coding of the site) are the introduction categories and the removal of links to scanlation sites. Thank Zodd for that user script. The MU app is worthy of mentioning too... unless no one uses it but I never tried it due to not having a smartphone. Maybe next decade.

Now that we are talking about improvements. Is it possible to make the cover preview script an official part of the site? It´s really shiny and chrome and makes the site come alive. There is enough real estate on the right sidebar for links to user scripts (that aren´t about piracy).

Thank you guys for being there for us all these years 😀

What? It's been fifteen years?! Well I can't quite complain since I only joined five years ago, so that 10 years was already large difference to me already. But wow, time goes by really fast without you knowing. And I'm surprised this site is still booming with activity unlike other sites that can't even last longer than 10 years, its a shock that they were able to make it through but it just dies down afterwards. This site is amazing and have nice users that help you when you're in need of help. The staff is great too, well some I haven't seen in awhile but, yeah 15 years, my god. I wish everyone a wonderful start of MU's anniversary. 😀

Oh I didn't participate for the deadline, I'm just posting because I want to wish the group a wonderful anniversary ^^