ZonaTMO Shuts Down: How One of the Biggest Manga Piracy Sites Was Neutralized

The manga piracy website TuMangaOnline, commonly known as ZonaTMO, is permanently shut down. ZonaTMO hosted thousands of unauthorized translations of manga and manhwa for Spanish-speaking fans. The platform received millions of visits monthly before it went offline. Rightsholders from multiple countries coordinated their efforts to ensure the website could not return.

This particular shutdown is part of a bigger ongoing effort against piracy, as in some countries, one could face a prison sentence as well. The shutdown leaves millions of readers without their primary source of unauthorized comic content. Let’s dive into everything that we know.

Webtoon And Kakao Entertainment Target ZonaTMO

The permanent shutdown was the direct result of the efforts of the Copyright Overseas Promotion Association (COA). The COA is an anti-piracy organization that primarily represents South Korean publishers, including Kakao Entertainment and Webtoon. Both companies have lost significant revenue due to the illegal distribution of manhwas.

COA collaborated with IP-House and investigated ZonaTMO and its extensive network of alternate domains. This network included websites such as Lectormanga, Lectortmo, Visormanga, and Visortmo. After gathering enough evidence, the COA submitted its findings to local authorities in Almeria, Spain. This legal pressure forced the site operators to shut down the primary website (as reported by TorrentFreak).

ZonaTMO initially went dark in March 2026. The website displayed a maintenance notice, leading users to assume it was a temporary server outage. However, recently it was confirmed that the shutdown is permanent.

Data indicates that the TuMangaOnline network generated over 50 million user visits in March 2026 alone (as per SimilarWeb). The majority of this traffic originated from Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Spain. Public registry details linked the domain to a company named Nakamas Web.

Every Manga Piracy Site Shut Down In 2026

The closure of ZonaTMO is part of a broader, industry-wide crackdown on unauthorized distribution in 2026. Japanese and Korean publishers have aggressively targeted the largest platforms in the piracy world, resulting in multiple shutdowns.

In January 2026, the piracy site Bato.to was permanently closed. Bato.to was considered one of the largest manga piracy website in the world at the time, recording an estimated 350 million visits in May 2025 (as per CODA report). The website hosted works translated into more than 50 languages and relied heavily on user-uploaded scans.

Other major manga platforms faced similar legal actions throughout the year. Mangajikan was taken offline and remains involved in a legal dispute with the Japanese publisher Shueisha. MangaDex, another major website, was also targeted during this wave of strict enforcement by copyright holders.

The crackdown extended into anime streaming as well. In March 2026, HiAnime, one of the internet’s largest anime piracy websites, went offline. The site had over 150 million monthly users. Following its shutdown, an anti-piracy firm representing Crunchyroll and Viz Media filed copyright complaints with GitHub. The complaints resulted in the removal of over 900 open-source projects.

These GitHub repos contained code that bypassed paywalls and extracted video links from HiAnime, allowing third-party applications to stream the content. With the main site and the external tools gone, hundreds of smaller streaming applications became useless.

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