Nettruyen Today

This became the new normal. Every few months:

Between 2021 and 2024, over 15 Nettruyen domains were shut down. Yet traffic remained in the millions.

Sort of. The original team behind the site reportedly disbanded. However, copycats and "successor" sites (with names like NetTruyen Plus, NetTruyen ID, NetTruyenZZ) popped up within days. But none replicated the original’s database quality or community feel. nettruyen

As of late 2025, the original Nettruyen—the one you remember—is effectively dead. What remains are clones with aggressive pop-up ads, missing chapters, and broken comment sections.

Let’s be honest with ourselves.

The argument against Nettruyen:
It’s piracy. Scanlators spend hours translating, typesetting, and cleaning manga for free, and aggregators like Nettruyen profit from ad revenue without paying creators. A single lost sale of a One Piece volume in Vietnam might not matter, but multiply that by millions—and it hurts the industry’s ability to license more titles legally.

The argument for Nettruyen:
Before Nettruyen, Vietnamese manga readers had almost zero legal options. Today, apps like K Manga (official) and Bilibili Comics exist, but they are clunky, region-restricted, or require microtransactions. Nettruyen democratized access. Many fans say they later bought physical copies because they discovered a series on Nettruyen first. This became the new normal

There is no clean answer. What’s undeniable is that Nettruyen exposed a market gap that official distributors have been too slow to fill.