If the online legal manga reading website was the only manga site in existence, AND if it had good quality and a large selection, I'd pay a few dollars monthly for it. Probably not more, because I'll be regularly buying the actual books as well.

However, it also has to deal with the concerns of scanlators, plenty of whom adamantly work "by the fans, for the fans." And I doubt the site will be able to function without the work of all these many volunteers. It would be wonderful if they could get paid, even a little, to keep the balance. And if they're getting paid, that also means the scans would have to be high quality.

And scanlators should get free access to the site if they don't want to get paid, heehee.

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I'm learning Japanese, but I don't think I will ever be able to read Japanese manga properly. Is that even possible for a non-Japanese?!

Yep, it's possible. 🙂 I'm not Japanese at all, and I have never even taken official Japanese lessons, but I can get by with reading manga in Japanese.

I recommend watching lots of subbed anime and getting a feel for the language and its words, and learn hiragana and katakana. If you want to read manga directed towards adults, you'll likely have to learn kanji as well.

if it's legal, if it has a large selection, if it's not only turning around shonen-junp and popular manga...i might pay..it would be nice for manga that I can't buy in my country..

but since when I read a manga that I like i buy, or plan to buy (of course when you have 3 series in mind don't try to buy it all at once) I think I would just buy the manga..

we can never be sure if the mangaka would get as much as selling his manga, i prefer buying to the source than paying a radom site for manga

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I recommend watching lots of subbed anime and getting a feel for the language and its words, and learn hiragana and katakana. If you want to read manga directed towards adults, you'll likely have to learn kanji as well.

Yeah, that's true. I already watch subbed anime a lot and I'm pretty fast in language learning, so that's no problem at all. I can even read hiragana a little ... but kanji ... 😔 that's still a problem. ^^ Hahaha. That will be quite a challenge. Unfortunately all the manga I like are written with kanji, so ...

But I'm really happy you said that you're able to read Japanese manga although you're not Japanese! That gives me hope! 😃

Man, I would be happy to pay the author/artist of certain manga my hard earned cash, they created something I enjoy. However....for publishers to threaten to use legal matters is some old bullshit. This is just a global equivelent of a nerdy friend with alot of manga that we all borrow from, or a library if you follow.

What spineless cowards, what is the average joe going to do about unlicensed manga? I can't go to my comic shop and pick up Shamo...crap even Kimi no Iru Machi is unlicensed. The point is they are trying to bully us all into submission and I am not going to stand for it.

So here.....FUCK MANGA, FUCK ANIME! Publishers want to be little desk rats and hide behind laws that are only protecting big business interests, fine go ahead, but I'm out.

I've been reading manga for a long time now, but this is crap.

Stand up for your rights not to be threatened with lawsuits and criminal offenses for doing nothing wrong.

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No way i would pay for online manga. I prefer to buy the manga book itself. I still have the first manga series i own from years ago, i have around 120 manga titles in my bookshelf right now. If i read a good manga online and i like it and they sell it here i will buy the books, i want to have a large collection of books i like. Paying an online manga site wouldnt do me any satisfaction. I can't keep it as long as i want, i can't reading it in a car, in a cafe, or beauty salon, so my answer is no way, i only buy something i can touch.

Also an online manga paysite, have they condiering the consequences? Once the make an online manga paysite they shouldnt expect much from the book sales. Wouldnt it be a problem for the book publishers outside Japan? =p

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I recommend watching lots of subbed anime and getting a feel for the language and its words, and learn hiragana and katakana. If you want to read manga directed towards adults, you'll likely have to learn kanji as well.

Yeah, that's true. I already watch subbed anime a lot and I'm pretty fast in language learning, so that's no problem at all. I can even read hiragana a little ... but kanji ... 😔 that's still a problem. ^^ Hahaha. That will be quite a challenge. Unfortunately all the manga I like are written with kanji, so ...

But I'm really happy you said that you're able to read Japanese manga although you're not Japanese! That gives me hope! 😃

same thing goes for me.....i can understand japanese coz i see a lot of anime and japan drama...
but reading is a really difficult especially those kanji character, i can't make sense the difference ..mayb i should try harder.... 😃 😃