Manga Traders

Posted by zraith on 06/26/2009 7:43 am

This week, our manga spotlight has shined on Dengeki Daisy & Yotsubato!! If you are unfamiliar with these manga be sure to check them out!

Dengeki Daisy

Series Summary:
Teru, who lost her only remaining relative, her older brother, is cheered on by a mail from an enigmatic person, DAISY, who she can contact via the cellphone her brother gave her. One day, through an unexpected incident, Teru ends up working as a servant for the delinquent school janitor, Kurosaki. But this scoundrel, Kurosaki is really…!?



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Yotsubato!

Series Summary:
Yotsubato! is centered on Yotsuba Koiwai, a five-year-old adopted girl who is energetic, cheerful, curious, strange, and quirky—so strange and quirky, in fact, that even her own father calls her a weirdo. She is also initially ignorant about many things a child her age would be expected to know, among them doorbells, escalators, air conditioners, and even playground swings. This naiveté is the premise of humorous stories where she learns about, and frequently misunderstands, everyday things.

Posted by Yukimura on 04/02/2009 1:05 am

It has come to my attention that some of you had some trouble digesting my previous post which contained an atypical garnish of lies to add flavor to yet another hearty portion of my typical straight shooting.  To clarify what is or is not the case I am making this special post to explain the events of the last week or so with respect to Mangatraders.com without making up random facts meant to entertain and/or mislead unwary minds.

NOTE: It has also come to my attention that I wrote a bit of code to cut off these posts so they wouldn't show up as such long bricks of text on the front page, I kept forgetting to make use of it...until now!

Click the link to see the full post and have your mind cleansed of the bitter taste of falsehood.

Posted by Yukimura on 02/23/2009 10:58 am

It's a short month but costs are the same and donations are low once again as we enter the final week of the month.  As many of you should know by now I really hate having to make these sorts of posts.  I feel that those who can and wish to donate would have already done so.  If I have to keep reminding people it seems like a sign that the site isn't valuable enough to the community support itself.  In any case, I've gotten word from the top that if we don't meet our donation goal this month then everything will probably be shut down as it's a lot of hassle to keep MT running especially while taking care of a family.  If the community can't keep the site afloat then that's just the way it is.  It's mildly ironic that during the month of February we introduced several new and I believe useful features with even more planned yet this seems to be one of the worst months for donations in terms of % of goal reached / % of days left in month.  I have no evidence that these two events are related, but it's still worth a sad chuckle to know that the more we did the less people we able or willing to give.  I'll save the whole reflections on the site speech for if the site really does have to shut down but hopefully it won't come to that.  I haven't looked that hard into the status of the scanslation community recently but from what I have seen and heard post count requirements and other forms of scanslations for false friendship policies seem to be more prevalent now than they were a few years ago.  I guess I should be thankful I've spent so much time working on this site that I don't have time to read much manga.  But, there are still 6 days left till the end  of the month and you all have managed to save the site before, can you do it again?

tl;dr We need to make $330US in 6 days or the site shuts down!

EDIT: Apparently we received over $350 in about 5 hours.  Our thanks to all those who donated both before and after this post.  But please remember I'll be right back here with another alarmist posts near the end of next month if the same sort of behavior persists...

Posted by Deadfire on 09/21/2008 1:00 am

Some of you may have noticed that the theme of the forums have changed.(Some of you are also still on the front page mindlessly leaching and not caring what I typed here as well).

However in any case I'm going to hear about it. so I'm going to make this post telling you that it was done and so all the haters of this change have someone to target with their angry messages and movements that I can't see. I'll also have this topic up so that people can give feedback to the new theme.

With that being said flame away.

A secondary note is that if anyone would like to assist with the making of some images for the forum and prehaps the main page in the future I'll be welcome to you post so and/or give me a PM. I am asking for some experience for this venture, so your naruto fanart you made in MS paint isn't going to cut it.


That is all for me, I come back to F*** up your stuff, and insult you another time (said in a french accent all the while)

Posted by Yukimura on 01/08/2008 1:19 pm

EDIT: On Wednesday January 9th, Approximately 48 hours after receiving a request to remove files licensed to Digitam Manga Publishing, Mangatraders.com received an official takedown request from Tokyopop Inc.  The list of series we've been asked to remove is approximately 4 pages long and it was not sent in a format conducive to copying so I can't post them all here.  Check this list to get an idea of what is probably going to have to be taken down.  From analyzing the list we can tell it was definitely created on or around January 6th, 2008.


This is a Link! --->[size=12pt">Do Not Upload These Series <--- This is a Link!

[size=14pt">Tokyopop List 230 Titles
A list of the series we were asked to remove by Tokyopop can be found here. 
This is a Link! --->[size=12pt">Tokyopop Removal Requests <--- This is a Link!



On Monday January 7th, Mangatraders received an email from the General Manager I.T. & Business Management of Digital Manga Publishing.

Requesting that we remove any links to files relating to the following series.  Unfortunately a (crappy) court decision also set a precedent that prevents us from linking to any alternative locations specifically for the purpose of downloading these files, but know that I would if I could because I care about you people that much. 

In any case the following series have been taken down.
[size=14pt">DMP List
Akuma no Himitsu
Alcohol Shirt and Kiss
Ano Kado Wo Magatta Tokoro
Berserk
Black Sun
Bokudake no Ousama
BondZ
Cafe Kichijoji
Desire
Enchanter
Family Complex
G Senjou no Neko
Gorgeous Carat
Harem de Hitori
Hellsing
Hero Heel
Ikoku Irokoi Romantan
Junk Boy
Koi wa Istumo Arashi no You ni
Little Butterfly
Lost Boys
Loveholic
Only the Ring Finger Knows
Our Kingdom
Passion
Pathos
Princess Princess
Secret Diplomacy
Sensitive Pornograph
Sky Over My Spectacles
Spell
Tenka Muso
The Day of Revolution
The Ring
Toumei Shounen
Trigun
Trigun Maximum
Trouble Double Face
Waru
White Brand
Worst
Yellow