The Japanese government officially asked Internet service providers in Japan to block access to three pirated manga websites including Mangamura in April 2018.
According to Japan’s Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), between September 2017 and February, users accessed Mangamura about 620 million times.
According to the newspaper’s source from a service provider, Mangamura was voluntarily shut down by its administrators.
Philippine news service ABS-CBN reported on Tuesday that the Philippine Bureau of Immigration arrested a 28-year-old male named Romi Hoshino, a.k.a.