Where to get manga :O

OK, so for those who are just too lazy to find stuff, here’s a great tutorial. (I still can’t believe I’m doing this).

1. Buy it! The people at Tokyopop, Del Ray, Viz media etc. have worked their butts off getting manga into English LEGALLY, by obtaining licenses to reproduce the manga. So this should really be your first choice. You may go to your local bookstore.

For those who complain “Well, they don’t have them in my country”… well order them online. Yes, it gets expensive, but think of it as a price to pay for your manga addiction.

Look up the following things on Google to find online carriers of manga:

Amazon
Chapters/Indigo/Coles
Barnes and Noble

2. So you want to read it online. Here’s some places where you can view manga online:

onemanga.com
mangavolume.com
the anip server. google it.
mangatemple.com
thespectrum.net

3. For direct downloads (well at least, most of the time):

stoptazmo.com
Evil Empire manga (google it).
mangahelpers.com
mangatemple.com
the anip server

4. If none of the following work, here’s a great way to find tons of manga.

1. Go to mangaupdates.com
2. Use that handy little search box on the right and look for the manga and click on the result you want. the results are sorted by releases, manga titles, authors and scanlation groups.
3. You should appear at a nice helpful page that has a synopsis on the manga loads of other cool stuff. Now, on the left column, you’ll see a column that says “Latest Release(s)”. Click where it says “Search for all releases of this series”.
4. If you’re lucky, you’ll find releases of the series that have been scanlated into English, and there will be a DL link in the DL column, which you can just click on, and let the downloading begin.

most of the time, this is not the case. DL links of more popular/licensed are sometimes removed at request of the publishers. This is not the end of the world. click on the group name of the scanlator. you should be led to the group’s description. There are three ways to contact the group, or get to their releases: Forum URL, IRC channel, and a website link. Click on any of these links and follow through the site/channel to the download.

HELP! I can’t click on the name!
This release was probably scanlated by a mangahelpers.com member. go to their site and look around. If not, then, you’re out of luck.

HELP! There’s no contact info! (such is the case with Null)
well… sucks to be you. The group probably doesn’t want too many leechers. If you can find out where they are, good job. but if you can, you’re probably not reading this.

IRC Channels:
1. First, if you want to access an IRC channel, download a client like mIRC (google it for  a free download).
2. Once you have it, open it and connect to the server you want. also, pick a valid nick by typing it in the box inside the dialog that pops up. for example, the address for mangashare’s irc channel is #mangashare@irc.irchighway.net . the bolded part is the server.
3. after, join a channel by typing in the command prompt (using previous example) “/join #mangashare” .  after, look at the topic you will see a whole bunch of useful stuff.

Anything that starts with a ! is a trigger. for example, if you join the #manga_hosterz channel, and you type in !pge, you can get the latest wallflower download. More often, you may need to type in !list. this will give you a list of fservs and bots you can download stuff from. every bot and fserv comes with instructions on what command prompt to type in if you want to do something.

HELP! It’s a torrent file!

You need a bittorrent client. Azureus is usually a good pick. download that(this usually happens instantaneously), and then when you download a torrent file, you open it using your client (which takes a lot longer). I don’t really want to explain what it does… cuz I’m too lazy andyou don’t really need to know how it works, but if you’re curious, ask your local computer nerd.

Now, you have no excuse to ask me where to find it.

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