The world of early manga translations was shaken this weekend when Japanese police confirmed the arrest of two people suspected to be leaking Shonen Jump online. Reputable Twitter manga commentator ...

Earlier in the week, scanlation website One Manga announced it would be removing all scanlated content from its pages due to increasing disapproval from manga publishers. Upon visiting the site — you ...

For decades, Asian comics, particularly Japanese manga, have been dogged by “scanlation,” where fans would scan and translate titles, then share them online for free on massive, professional-quality ...

The rampant growth of illegal "scanlation": of web comics overseas is causing growing financial and psychological damage to Korean creators. Scanlation, a portmanteau of scan and translation, is a fan ...

Manga pirates have operated in the internet’s shadows for decades, hiding from furious publishers whose translation efforts, pirates say, are shoddy, too slow or nonexistent. Now, as more pirates ...

The announcement of a joint coalition between American and Japanese publishers targeting illegal online manga “scanlations” has spurred a flurry of activity on two major aggregator sites. Since the ...

As the international publisher coalition against scanlations picks up steam, scanlation aggregators such as MangaFox are coming under increasing pressure to remove licensed series from their site. And ...

Six of Japan’s most prominent manga publishers were on hand at the San Diego Comic-con International to announce the launch of Jmanga.com, an online portal offering access to thousands of manga titles ...