Major manga scanlation site MangaDex has been hit with a large-scale series of DMCA takedown notices from companies enforcing their copyrights, resulting in an estimated 700+ series removed in select languages. These companies have also filed DMCA takedowns with Google to reduce visibility. This is available publicly and, in just the last two days, includes Kakao, Naver, Lezhin, Suiseisha, Kodansha, Houbunsha, WEBTOON, One Peace Books, Toomics, NTT Solmare, Square Enix, Ridi Corp.’s Manta, Alphapolis, Shinchosha, Toyou’s Dream, Shogakukan, WWWave Corporation, Mag Garden, and Bunkasha.
You can check out the list of titles removed in select languages as it updates (via Reddit). Notable titles include My Dress-Up Darling, Oshi no Ko, The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Apothecary Diaries (both versions), Black Lagoon, Bleach, Blue Box, Dragon Ball, Golden Kamuy, Heavenly Delusion, Solo Leveling, Tensura, and The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity. The above titles are all licensed and readily accessible in some languages, including English. Many have reported that unlicensed titles are also part of the takedowns.
notably i believe hajime no ippo had its ~1.4k chapter translation nuked with the official release only translating up to 170ish chapters. many licensed manga with incomplete translations are stuck in a similar boat. fucking hell we really can’t have nice things or allow the proliferation of art.
Luckily the currently scanlator group has their own site. But they’ve only got the last 160 or so chapters.
https://hni-scantrad.net/comics/hajime-no-ippo
as a “high” note this is going to motivate me to learn japanese even more now, cuz the official tls are too slow and stuff is way more expensive in english