Manga Library Z is launching a crowdfunding campaign to reopen after credit card payments were suspended on the site 

After suspending its services last November due to problems with international payment processors, Japanese digital manga archive Manga Library Z is looking towards the crowdfunding website Motion Gallery to resume operation. The crowdfunding campaign will run from February 5 to March 31, with the intent to resume Manga Library Z‘s services by April 2025. 

The Manga Library Z campaign page has yet to be launched on Motion Gallery, but the manga archive’s official X account states that it will update followers on the official URL and reward details once the crowdfunding event begins. True to their word, Manga Library Z’s administrators have found a potential way to revive the digital manga archive. 

Launched in 2011 by Ken Akamatsu, Manga Library Z hosted manga with permission from their authors and publishers for free (the site also had a premium subscription). A lot of the manga listed on the website were either dated, out-of-print, or have never been published in book form, hence Manga Library Z’s goal of preserving them digitally.