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/r/manga: manga, on reddit.·/u/DomoB90·3 days ago
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I've been reading manga and watching anime since I was 10. I'm 35 now with over 1800 volumes that keep growing by 2-3 a week. I ran into something this week that's been bugging me for some time but just scratched the back of my brain more than ever this time around, and I want to know if y'all deal with this ethical dilemma too. Bit of background first. As a kid I pirated a lot, mostly because the medium wasn't readily available in the U.S. and I couldn't afford the hobby to the extent I wanted to. Torrented fansubbed Naruto, read manga off JPEGs people dumped on PhotoBucket. I even helped fansub one episode of GeGeGe no Kitaro as the timer at 16 (my apologies Toei!) That was just how it was pre-2010. As I grew older it sank in that piracy actually hurts the people making this stuff, so I started paying for everything. I've spent thousands on physical volumes, DVDs (blurays weren't a thing, god I'm old), and streaming since.…

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