I am just wondering what would be the policy for comics that are updated in multiple places?
For example, recently LINE Webtoon released a new series Safely Endangered and is on MU's release list, however this series is also hosted on Tapastic and not to mention it has it's own website (I don't think I'm allowed to link it though, but it should show up if you Google the series name).

I must also note that they may not have a 1:1 release, as it seems the Tapastic version has a lot less than the "official" site and they only have title names with no actual chapter numbering, making it even more confusing.

This also leads to my next question which is what is the policy for keeping series information/releases information of comics of English origin on MU? (since this is also the case here, I think the author is just trying to expand his audience)

Considering the fact that there's no need to "scanlate" them should MU keep track of English series?

Last edited by Nekomikoto at 1:58 pm, Dec 1 2014

Since it's a web comic, I see no need to add it to MU. There are lots of sites dedicated to that already. Plus the manga community tends to clash with the web comic community... =/

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Just to clarify, by web comic do you mean English comics only or also Korean Webtoons (or any other foreign web comics)? Because if it's the latter...well...we already do keep track of LINE Webtoon do you mean you would want those removed as well

If it was the former then please excuse my misunderstanding, as I use webtoon/webcomic interchangeably, although I don't know if they are actually different.

Last edited by Nekomikoto at 1:56 pm, Dec 1 2014

From what I understand, webtoon=Korean/serialized on a mass site, webcomic=English/indie has it's own site.

Most webcomic authors are hurt by their series getting on these site since online readers like mangafox will snatch them and put them on their sites. Webcomic authors only make money from site traffic thus when we read them elsewhere they don't get anything.

If the series is on Tapastic, it's an indie comic and we should probably leave those alone. But that's just how I stand.

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For English-origin comics, (I would say) no. This site is mainly information for manga/manhua/manhua (series, doujinshi, novels, and oneshots).

Last edited by holy`bell at 3:41 pm, Dec 1 2014

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@dodgy thanks for the explanation!

@holy'bell Although with LINE Webtoon wouldn't this become increasingly difficult for people who update LINE on MU to filter out the English from the Korean series, especially because they give so little info about the author? And now with their new Challenge League there's bound to be more English originated series (I already see a couple challenge series that were also English originated and on Tapastic such as Buni, the Danemen, Doodle for Food, Sarah's Scribbles and probably lots more)

A possible suggestion? (if MU goes the "no English originated comic" route): Webtoons should provide a link to Korean/Chinese/Japanese raw in the description (Like with many of the Daum/Naver series info already on MU)

EDIT: After looking around a bit, wouldn't denying comics of English origin on MU conflict with the fact that we have OEL as a possible choice for series type? Or am I misunderstanding what constitutes as OEL?

Last edited by Nekomikoto at 4:39 pm, Dec 1 2014