### Dekai Manga Archive - Fall 2020 This is the first release of the Dekai Manga Archive [DMA] containing over 29k mangas. It includes every (as of 23/09/2020) manga on MangaDex.org that has been translated into english + some mangas from other sources, such as bato.to, mangareader.net and others. ------------------------ #### !! Make sure to buy the official mangas if/when they become available to support the authors and the manga industry !! #### ------------------------ #### May 2026 - Status Update Work is slowly progressing. We observed some unfortunate discrepancies in the Mangadex database which we're trying to clean up. While not complicated, it takes a fair bit amount of time. Attempts to merge the 2020 and 2026 release is also continuing with mixed success. **What comes next?** We'll finish the DB cleanup & merge (to the best of our abilities). We'll then create a test torrent for you all to download and check if the naming convention is acceptable and if there are any issues we might have overlooked. Once this is done, we'll start the process of creating the full archive, which will probably take 1-2 months time since we're using spinning rust for storage (SSD would be too expensive). However, we can give you some preliminary numbers (pre-merge) of the 2026 release: | Type | Quantity | --- | --- | --- | Mangas | 53k+ | | Chapters | 1M+| | Images | 24M+ | | Covers | 120k+ | | Size | 16TB+ | The cutoff date will probably be May 10th 2026. But we do a refresh before release. We'll see. **Mangadex Restrictions** There have been some rumors that we are responsible for the MangaDex crew clamping down on scrapers. That is highly unlikely. We have assembled the new 2026 archive over the span of 18 months and have always adhered to the API limitations as referenced in the MD API documentation. In the last few months, we've only ever scraped newly uploaded chapters, which uses minimal resources as compared to the regular viewership MD has. The new restrictions will also not hinder our work to continue with this project, at least for now. #### ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Statistics** + Mangas_____: 29'143 + Chapters___: 491'557 + Images_____: 11'209'077 + Size_______: 5.1TiB / 5.5TB + Size compr.: 4.9TiB / 5.4TB + Language___: English only + Last scrape: 23/09/2020 to 31/10/2020 + Last update: 02/11/2020 to 05/11/2020* * partial update of latest chapters & mangas ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Info:** - If you want to check the contents of the archive, just download the "--- README ---" folder. The following files are included: * Index.html - Website containing a list of all mangas (includes search & sort function) * Index.json - Same info as in the html file but formatted as json for easy parsing via scripts * File & Hashlist.txt - A list of every image, including MD5 hashes. Don't open this file if you don't now what you're doing, unless you want to set your PC on fire. We recommend to use the HTML website. Opening the HTML site will take 3-5 minutes because of it's size, during loading you may not see the sorting & search bar. Once loaded, you'll see a list of all manga titles, folders, chapters, last update timestamp, disk space and amount of files, and you can sort by any of them. (though sorting by size is a bit bugged) - If you are looking for specific chapters of a manga and you want to check whether they are included in the archive, then just download the Info.txt file of the desired manga before downloading the zip archive. It contains a list of every chapter and every image included in the compressed zip file. - This torrent may not work with all torrent clients. We do not recommend to use rtorrent because it can crash. You may want to use a separate client just for this torrent because it may impact the performance of other torrents. ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Scripts:** - Dekai Manga Sorter (https://github.com/Painketsu/DekaiMangaSorter) - Script to organize manga into tidy folders per-volume since it's separated into chapters by default (created by Painketsu) [compatible with "Fall 2020" (DMA-v1) release] ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Caveats:** - Mangas with unnecessary long titles (which are more of a sentence than a title...) have been shortened to something not ridiculous. Keep that in mind when searching for a manga. This was done because of filesystem limitations. - Characters in manga titles or group names that are invalid in either Windows, macOS or Linux, have been replaced with other characters. " was replaced with apostrophe ' and the characters <, >, :, \, /, |, ? and * have been replaced with an underscore _ or hyphen - . Leading dots have been encased in square brackets, i.e. [.]. So, ".hack//G.U.+" has become "[.]hack--G.U.+". This looks awkward but was necessary to ensure that folder names don't break anything. - Occasionally, some chapters may have a volume identifier (i.e. "v1 c001") while others have not (i.e. "c002"). This makes sorting a bit weird. This stems from inconsistent information in the source material. ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Known Issues:** - A list of known issues can be found in the README folder "--- README ---/Known Issues.txt" - Solo Leveling: Unfortunately there are some duplicate chapters. It seems there was an issue with the renaming script. You can delete chapter folders that end with the number 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Some additional Infos:** + 11 scrapers worked 24/7 for ~43 days to scrape all the mangas from MangaDex using their public API + Heavily customized versions of the mangadex-dl (https://github.com/frozenpandaman/mangadex-dl) python script from frozenpandaman was used to scrape MD + 270 Mangadex@Home servers were queried during scraping. + We have donated approx. $360 to MangaDex as this Archive was made possible thanks to them ** Contact us: dekaimangaarchive@protonmail.com