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.
