Kadokawa, Shueisha, Shogakukan Sue Mangamura Pirate Site for 1.9 Billion Yen

Japanese publishers Kadokawa, Shueisha, and Shogakukan filed a lawsuit against Japanese-language manga piracy site Mangamura for 1.9 billion yen (about US$14.2 million) at the Tokyo District Court on Thursday.

The latter is based on the 62 million yen in revenue that Hoshino earned from the site and deposited to a foreign bank account.

According to Japan’s Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), between September 2017 and February 2018, users accessed Mangamura about 620 million times.