No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is mangadex.org legit or a scam?
Established manga aggregator with clean security scans, eight-year domain age, and mostly positive independent reviews.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a manga reader with standard navigation and content layout. Strongest trust signal is the 3021-day domain age combined with zero abuse reports on the hosting IP and clean blocklist results. Supporting evidence includes a UK company registration, Wikipedia presence, and third-party assessments rating it as legitimate. A 2021 data breach is noted but does not indicate current malicious activity. Minor complaints focus on recent UI changes rather than scams or malware.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
Page shows a clean, fully-rendered manga reader interface with standard navigation and content layout. No scam indicators or suspicious elements visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for mangadex.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Domain mangadex.org has Wikipedia entry describing it as not-for-profit manga scanlation aggregator founded 2018
- - Suffered data breach March 2021 exposing ~3 million users' emails, IPs, usernames, bcrypt-hashed passwords (HaveIBeenPwned)
- - Registered as MANGADEX UK LTD (company #16623153) in UK August 2025, active; privacy policy lists UK address
- - Scamadviser rates as 'Very Likely Safe' / 'legit and safe for consumers'
- - Multiple Reddit threads discuss site safety and confirm mangadex.org as official URL
- - Site blocked in countries including Italy, Russia, Indonesia due to copyright; recent large DMCA takedowns removed thousands of titles
- - Trustpilot has 4 reviews (mostly negative on recent UI/changes); no widespread malware/scam reports in searches
- Trustpilotopen
"The worst manga site... This site is a barely functional shell of it's former self. It desperately needs a replacement..."
MANGADEX UK LTD, company number 16623153, incorporated 1 August 2025, active private limited company at 82a James Carter Road, Mildenhall, IP28 7DE
Our research found one negative independent review aggregator review focused on recent site changes. Reddit threads and independent review sites describe mangadex.org as the official, safe URL. Wikipedia confirms it as a not-for-profit manga aggregator founded in 2018. A 2021 data breach is documented but no current malware or scam activity appears in results. An active UK company registration matches the domain.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://mangadex.org/
- 2200https://mangadex.org/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on mangadex.org and not a lookalike like m-angadex.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on mangadex.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- mangadex.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. mangadex.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 25 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- mangadex.org is 8.3 years old, registered on 2/22/2018 through easyDNS Technologies Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. mangadex.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- mangadex.org resolves to an IP operated by iCDN.si in ID (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
User reviews & comments(0)
Share your experience — "Lost $200 on a fake checkout" is more useful than "Scam". Your review helps others avoid traps.