MangaHelpers to Cease Offering Scanlations, Announces OpenManga Online Publishing Platform

Humberto Saabedra

In the wake of this week’s landmark coalition announcement between US manga publishers and Japan’s Digital Comic Association to fight online manga aggregators and scanlations, the MangaHelpers portal has announced that it will remove all public access to scanlations and raw manga titles voluntarily as of today.

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In related news, the portal has also announced its newest project in the forthcoming launch of the OpenManga online publishing platform for artists and interested publishers to sell their work online while also being able to create a service around providing multiple translations for a worldwide audience.

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Journalist since 2006, initially covering the retail wireless sector before pivoting to anime and manga trade reporting in 2008. Founder and publisher of AnimeNews.biz (2008–2017), followed by a 13-year tenure at Crunchyroll News (2011–2024) and launching K-Comics Beat with Comics Beat in 2024. Now stripping away consumer noise to build independent, data-backed intelligence desks focused on cross-border licensing telemetry, production committee balance sheets, and industrial supply-chain forensics.

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