3 arrested in Japan for illegally sharing Shonen Manga

What is Manga??

Japanese style comic,

Originally posted by pierrrre:

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Japanese style comic,

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Wow. I wouldn't bother uploading pictures of manga. If people wanted to look at them for free, couldn't they just look at a copy at the local bookstore?

"Manga is simply the Japanese word for comics. Literally, it means 'random or whimsical pictures.' Though the term has been used since the 19th century, not until World War II did manga begin gaining popularity in Japan."

-Anime Mangatism
Breakaway Magazine, January 2006

Well, many people do read naruto manga over the internet.

yea but read the article this is about manga that hasnt hit the bookstores yet so yea i can understand the reason for arresting the guys lol
naruto manga is one of the manga u have to wait tell thursday or friday to get depending on who is translating it becouse they are being paid for first then scanned then translated.

smeeZus

these scanned manga, known as "manga scan" :D

Ok this is not to evil,first off they where releasing stuff that was not out yet thats automatically bad then they where a group focused on releasing stuff....would rather have a disembodied group 2 people go out and buy it in 2 different locations and send it online to teh the ones that want to translate it.

Large consentrat4d groups are asking for "intervention" 0-o


Also note Manga is generally black and white and read in reverse of a US comic at least the not fully converted ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga


maybe I am a jaded p#ssy but I so loath the Americanizations they drown crap in,VIZ tried to damn hard to it with the naruto manga I got the first 2 volumes... Doubleganger instead of shadow clone.....pffffffff........ I ahte to tell them but dumping some/most of the Americanizations will make the comic more unique and interesting thus worth "money"......because the dim tween that will buy it will read it no matter how bad it is.....

It's funny how people can get arrested for things that seem minuscule compared to other crimes.