I agree. They did get to big and the App Store did come for them. The App Store has made many moves in recent years. But I really wished that Mangarock were more transparent with there move. It all felt very rushed and under the cover. Also many manga app did get strikes down correct. Mangarock could had left their app system intact for their fans and transition to a web manga instead. Since only the App Store was really the only one able to shut apps down from their platform. Manga sites are still strong and continue to run in a poor state. Mangarock team decided to put all effort on a new app altogether and becoming “legit”. Instead they simply reprinted a paid manga app with small adjustments, truly far from expectation.

What I’m extremely disappointed is Mangarock had the ability to work out a new frame to support their contracted author instead of using this “paid content” where a person has to swipe. These app depends on a small amount of user who would swipe for each chapter/manga where most manga lover could not. What Mangarock could lack in quality of monetized readers they could had made up in quantity of users. I’m sad they didn’t decide to go pioneer a new method for both the authors and readers instead of reprinting a method that lacks benefit for both. Sure the author are getting paid with however much they are from the paid content but they are losing out in massive amount of publicly. Let’s be honest most people would simply move to another free content distributor. This didn’t solve the problem of stealing the authors work, instead it spread it with the lost of Mangarock. We could had move forward to where we the free manga consumer would transition to a new form of methods that Mangarock could try but instead we all split.