Japanese government may soon ask internet providers to block illegal manga sites

Apr 2, 2018

After announcing their plans to thwart online piracy, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) has revealed its Manga-Anime Guardians project which will actively work to remove illegally uploaded anime and manga.

The committee consists of top anime and manga studios and distributors including Aniplex, Kadokawa, Good Smile Company, Kodansha, Sunrise, Shueisha, Shogakukan, ShoPro, Studio Ghibli, Tezuka Productions, Toei Animation, TMS Entertainment, Bandai Namco Games, Pierrot, and Bushiroad. Together, they will be targeting 580 sources of illegal content worldwide over the span of the next 5 months. The operation has launched a new website to guide fans to legitimate sites that offer popular titles at a cost of no more than several hundred yen.

According to the METI, over half of anime and manga fans based in the United States watch and read pirated works. The estimated cost of damage from online piracy is as much as billion worldwide. In fact, a popular site used for piracy is ranked 156 in Japan, amongst the very same companies it steals from. This is a huge problem that is growing more and more every year.

In recent years, the “pirates” that use these sites have begun earning revenue, through advertisements, URL shortners that pay according to hits, affiliations with E-commerce sites, and by selling Apps. “They are exploiting Manga and Anime just for the sake of money,” the Manga-Anime Guardians project claims.

Publishers have tried to submit DMCA notices to the sites that host them for years, but it takes time to process and validate their requests but the uploader can just continue to publish the same materials under a new name. Now they are banding together so their efforts aren’t in vain.

Here is just a small portion of which sites they will be targeting first.

Manga Hosts

mangareader
Mangahere
Mangafox.me
Manga panda
submanga.com
DM5
Mangastream
Dongmanzhijia
Aimanhua
kissmanga
batoto
Ten manga
Mangakuweb.id
MangaTraders
Animextremist
Manga24h
Mangabb
mangainn
99manga
manmankan
goodmanga
Mangafc.com
Manga Share
MangaPlusTV
9lala.com
Mangayes
Mein Manga
Mangakong
Manga Volume
7k7k.manhua

Anime Hosts

Youtube
FC2
Dailymotion
Youku
Niconico
Vimeo
Pandora
Tuduo
bilibili
iQIYI
Metacafe
Sina Video
myspace
letv
Rutube
V.QQ.COM
Animefreak.tv
Anitube
VBOX7
Xuite
56.com
himado.in
Video.mail.ru
Say Move! (FC2)
Anime44.com
AcFun
Nosub
Myvideo
PPS
TU.tv
Ku6
Veoh
nate
AnimeUltimate.tv
pptv
Inda video
Wat.tv
B9DM
音悦Tai
UOL Mais
Animeplus.tv
Dalealplay.com
Myvi
Pinoychannel
XemPhimSo
AnimeUltime
StageVU
Mgoon
6.cn
sapo video
Videolog
anime1.com
Chia-anime
Baomihua
RuTV
Veevr
123video.nl
TruyenTranh8.com
Megavideo
AUengine
Anime On Hand
Videobb
Mevlo
DAUM
MoxTV

File Hosts

Mediafire
4share
Zippyshare.com
Rapidgator
tubobit
Freakshare.com
Depositfiles
Letibit
Hotfile
Rapidshare
Ryushare
NovaMov
videoweed
2Shared.com
Uploading.com
Share-Online.biz
Fileserve
Megashares
Megaupload
Filesonic
Uploadstation
Hispashare.com
Wupload
zShare

Torrent Trackers

The pirate bay
Kissass.to
Torrentz.eu
RuTracker.org
Nyaa
Extratorrent.com
1337X.org
torrenthound
TorrentReactor
torrentdownloads.me
Torrentcrazy
Torrents.net
limetorrents
yourbittorent
D-addicts
torrentfunk.com
BT.KTXD.COM
torrentアニメ館
東京図書館
Mininova
Akiba-online
torrent.cd
Torrage
Vertor.com
Mp4Upload
Xunlei.com
duckload
isoHunt
Kickmirror
Btloft.com
Crazy’s Manga
baymirror.com
Torrentzapproxy