Scam behavior and theft.
I have discovered a huge scam related to the latest takedown of Bato. Many of the mangas there was recently posted on mangaplaza right as bato was taken down. And in true scammy fashion, MangaPlaza divided the chapters to either 3 or 8(!) separate chapters to earn more money, and advertised them heavily on instagram. Most of these cost more than it would've for a paperback copy, or the raw ones from a Japanese raw Manga site.
Its also a lie that they "give back" to the manga creators. I've seen several indie Japanese mangakas on Twitter the past year complain about a English based mangasite stealing and selling their manga for a higher price. When I translated some of their Twitter posts, it said the site was called "plaza."
Don't give your money to this site or the crooks running it. If you want to support the mangaka, buy the Japanese version from the sites they share on either pixiv or Twitter.







