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MangaDex announced on its official website that NamiComi will take over the site’s management after approximately 7,000 manga titles were hit with DMCA takedown requests.
“NamiComi has accepted to take management of the site and its domain; no transaction was performed,” they stated.
Despite the significant impact, MangaDex assured users that it has no plans to shut down.
The recent shutdown of various manga aggregator sites has driven increased traffic to MangaDex, resulting in a sharp rise in takedown requests.
The platform explained that the increased takedown requests have exceeded its capacity to manage them independently, prompting the decision to partner with NamiComi, which has a legal framework better suited for handling such issues.
“The recent shutdown of various aggregators has driven an accelerated growth of MangaDex. While we have historically received low volumes of takedown requests, that number has increased to such a degree that we can no longer handle it ourselves. NamiComi has the necessary legal framework to move forward and ensure the long-term sustainability of MangaDex.“
They further confirmed that it will continue developing features to enhance the user experience, even as it navigates the challenges of increased legal scrutiny.
What it really means?
NamiComi is a platform which hosts self-published manga/webtoons. With this move, MangaDex is likely moving towards the ecosystem of content creation supporting creators in a bid to not have legal and copyright pitfalls.
The titles that have been taken down won’t probably be coming back to the website as MangaDex stated in their FAQ that they will comply with the DMCA takedown requests.
The popular titles that have been taken down were uploaded by various scanlation groups on the website, and unless they have a legal framework for publishing the series outside of their official release, they will remain missing.
Fans have also questioned the links between NamiComi and MangaDex, with some claiming that the admins might be looking to leverage popularity of MangaDex platform to give a boost to NamiComi.
This won’t be the first time a piracy site is pivoting towards legitimate comics distribution. In the past, Manga Rock shut down their services and launched INKR.
MangaDex had been subjected to a sweeping wave of DMCA takedown notices throughout May.
The takedowns are not the result of a single DMCA notice but rather a sustained series of requests over time. Data from Lumen, an open-source DMCA tracker, reportedly shows MangaDex receiving DMCA notices almost daily in May 2025, and several on May 14 itself.
Publishers involved are said to include prominent names such as Kodansha, Square Enix, Shogakukan, One Peace Books, Houbunsha, Lezin, Webtoons, Shinchosa, AlphaPolis, Mag Garden, and Bunkasha, with reports indicating over 100 notices filed in just a two-day period recently.
MangaDex operates as a non-profit platform hosting “scanlations” – manga chapters translated and edited by fan groups. For many international readers, it has served as a primary way to access titles not officially licensed or available in their regions or languages.
According to data from Similarweb, the website (mangadex.org) got 68.8 million views in the last month alone.
Source: MangaDex
