As people said, the site was “DMCA purged” and lost part of its gallery, which, unfortunately, makes it one of the worst manga sites to read online nowadays, which is a shame I always visited it, but now all that’s left is just a hollow body of what it once was.
Mangadex got a DMCA notice recently, which resulted in a huge takedown. Something like 25% of their chapters I read somewhere.
There is a lot of legal troubles for manga piracy recently. Lots of manga and chapters got taken down. So this is probably the reason (but maybe not).
This is a free webcomic, it shouldn’t have been removed.
Copyright also applies to freely viewable material
Like a short while ago that website was hit by practically every company in the comic publishing buisness with, I think, a cease & desist letter threatening to hold then legally liable for distributing those companies commodities without a license to do so or some shit.
Or something along those lines. Long story short they got fucked by corporations.
This comic is self punished though, I doubt the original author care about copyright. This is basically a rough draft for the published one that he publishes for free.
Tell that to the Hitotsubashi Group.
It’s ultimately not remotely worth the time, money, or effort by whoever has ownership over mangadex to legally contest something that may be free in contrast to the rest of their library that they’ve been legally threatened to take down.
The question is why did they leave two chapters?
I’d guess that’s like some kind of publisher standard of “sampling size” to see if the comic’s qualities fit the tastes of the buyer.
