Unfair to both the authors and the illustrators – Manga Rock Review

While I understand that there are many titles that aren’t readily available for publication outside of Japan, the fact that this app and the devs behind that have no intention of reimbursing or paying the original creators their due is not only detrimental to the creators’ work and effort, but also to their livelihood. It’s bad enough that many of them are struggling with wages just barely below the living standard, but at a work environment where “crunch time” virtually rules their lives. The developers of this app and their website respectively do not share those same tribulations and are profiting at the creators’ expense. @Apple This is both a critique of the application in question (MangaRock) and it’s developers (Not a Basement Studio JSC) and also a formal request to remove MangaRock from your AppStore. There is much confusion that this app and its developers are with official standing with the creators when in actuality they are not. There are those who are willing to help facilitate official publications and distributions of the creators’ works in question, but many are discouraged from doing so because of the influence of pirate sites in the current age. Please help us take a step in the right direction in being able to shift the distribution from piracy to official publications who are willing to get these wonderful works out there to the readers as soon and readily as possible. Thank you.
Review by NathanMarrings on Manga Rock.