Shogakukan’s manga publications are often pirated in digital formats (PDF documents, for example) but they also get uploaded to YouTube. These take the form of videos, often set to music, featuring static views of the pages of each title, timed for easy reading.
I never knew this was a thing and I am perplexed that it's so obvious now that I didn't think of searching for it sooner
sounds super chill imo, usually an issue I have with Manga is that I read it too fast and miss a lot of the finer details because of it (I.E. JoJo)
I think I came across those kinds of videos a couple times but I always wrote it off as one of those obscure low-effort things. The thought of using videos to pirate manga hasn't even occured to me.
a new part of the YouTube underworld comes to light
It's like the channels that do it for comics too, but for those they mostly turn them into little audio books, acting out the characters and such. It's really popular with the star wars comics.
Yeah, this guy comes to mind when you mention those
https://www.youtube.com/user/comicstorian/about
As far as I know tho, he's reading those after the issues have been out for weeks and months beforehand and has permission to do so since he's kinda advertising them at the same time.
Uhh, well... There's that one with the stretchy arms, if that helps?
It's probably affecting more than just those sites, since they might have gone a bit too overzealous over doujin covers of popular IPs, if the lack of direct searches from various boorus from today mean anything. better go duckduckgo.
Actually, that appears to relate more to a company sending out DMCA takedown notices to multiple websites, including those aforementioned boorus.
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