Kissmanga

Kissmanga is an online manga reading site that illegally hosts English-translated manga. The chapters on the site are often either taken from scanlation groups or scanned from officially licensed releases. Because the site doesn't own a license to distribute any of the manga that it hosts, it is widely considered be a manga pirate site. It was one of many domains targeted in the 2014 Japanese government crackdown on piracy sites.

The site was among the first to display chapter page images in a vertical stack so that can be scrolled through, rather than displaying one image per page, as was commonly the case previously.

Users comment in a Discourse (software) comment section at the bottom of manga and chapter pages.

In June 2020 the Japanese parliament proposed a revised copyright law to punish those who knowingly download illegally uploaded or pirated manga, magazines, and academic works. The law was later passed and was set to into effect in January 2021 where those who knowingly downloading any illegally acquired or uploaded anime/manga from pirating websites could be charged and prosecuted for said illegal streaming. On August 15th, 2020 KissAnime put out a statement that said that they would be shutting down forever. With exact message posted on their Discord server reading as follows: Our beta servers have been taken down, this could lead to the close of the website. We will make more announcement after we have the decision." Followed shortly later by "All files are taken down by copyright owners. KissManga and KissAnime will be closed forever. Thank you for your supports. :( Thank you for those years." As of late no official Kissmanga website has been reinstated through some clones of the website have been known to pop up from time to time.

Memes

• Truck-kun
• The Wise Old Man
• Reuploads
• Out of order chapters
• Other dimension
• NTR
• Harem
• Trap
• The author/translator died