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The scale of this takedown is pretty staggering:

1. What happened?

MangaDex received a takedown request that affected approximately 7,000 titles.

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 (?).

[Update]

A reddit user compiled a sorted spreadsheet without duplicates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vxvAHxmLLgAEEq-jWbDw5fxHMdz1N_PNWe3OPXtrin0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

“Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu” ended in this week's issue of Shonen Sunday, 2025 No.9. This is the cover of the issue featuring its main character.

The final volume (37) will come out on March 18th.

From the article:

Best Selling (either LN or manga):

1. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation vol. 26 (light novel)
2. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 vol. 7 (light novel)
3. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 17 (light novel)
4. The Eminence in Shadow vol. 5 (light novel)
5. Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs vol. 11 (light novel)
6. Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro vol. 16 (manga)
7. The Apothecary Diaries vol. 1 (light novel)
8. Reincarnated as a Sword vol. 14 (light novel)
9. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? vol. 18 (light novel)
10. Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! vol. 8 (light novel)

Best Selling Manga:

1. Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro vol. 16
2. Gushing Over Magical Girls vol. 9
3. Chained Soldier vol. 6
4. This Is Screwed Up, but I Was Reincarnated as a GIRL in Another World! vol. 9
5. To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You chapter 3
6. Oshi no Ko vol. 4
7. How to Treat

This occurred in Brevard, FL. The complaint was lodged by a member of the community. From the article:

A person in the district challenged the book's inclusion in the schools' libraries on the grounds that "sexual orientation should not be encouraged, suggested, or implanted" in the youth.

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The complaint also included concerns children would be "exposed to age-inappropriate, obscene, explicit content" and that there was "no value in making homosexual books available at school." The book is rated for T for Teens.

The most insane part of this to me is that the chair of the school board also took aim at the right to left reading direction of the series (you know, like every other manga in existence) as well as it including a romantic relationship (like the vast majority of fiction):

Board Chair Megan Wright objected to the book's content due to its focus on a romantic relationship, as well as the Japanese reading format of reading the book from right-to-left.

In a major announcement made during Shueisha’s Jump Press livestream on Aug 19, 2024, it was revealed that Yoshihiro Togashi’s Hunter x Hunter manga will be returning to the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in this year’s 45th issue, set for release on Oct 7, 2024.

This marks the first new chapter in nearly two years since Hunter x Hunter went on a hiatus following the release of chapter 400 in December 2022.

Also see this English post about the Japanese Senator visit.

Context: In the past year there were pressure from VISA and Mastercard on shops selling content that can be considered adult; several sites tried to appease them by imposing restrictions on creators, but ultimately VISA and Mastercard stopped doing business with them (or vice versa), thus stopping those shops' ability to accept those forms of payment.

DL.Getchu.com is a Japanese shopping site for doujin manga, and was one of the shops that stopped (or was forced to stop) taking VISA and Mastercard. (Others shops include Toranoana, DLsite, FANZA doujin etc.)

People were concerned about these issues' impact on the freedom of expression. Several days ago, Japanese Senator Yamada Taro went to VISA HQ and confronted executives there. According to him, he was told (machine translation from the news article) "VISA headquarters does not make value judgments on the content ha

Need to try the migration from J2K to this on my spare phone before committing. 😅