diff --git a/docs/supportedsites.md b/docs/supportedsites.md
index 651d50ca..f5e652f4 100644
--- a/docs/supportedsites.md
+++ b/docs/supportedsites.md
@@ -415,12 +415,6 @@ Consider all sites to be NSFW unless otherwise known.
     <td>Chapters, Manga</td>
     <td></td>
 </tr>
-<tr>
-    <td>Mangareader</td>
-    <td>https://www.mangareader.net/</td>
-    <td>Chapters, Manga</td>
-    <td></td>
-</tr>
 <tr>
     <td>Mangoxo</td>
     <td>https://www.mangoxo.com/</td>
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index aeea7187..16dd4fd4 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ modules = [
     "mangahere",
     "mangakakalot",
     "mangapark",
-    "mangareader",
     "mangastream",
     "mangoxo",
     "myhentaigallery",
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/mangareader.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/mangareader.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 30b8ce30..00000000
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/mangareader.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright 2015-2020 Mike Fährmann
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation.
-
-"""Extractors for https://www.mangareader.net/"""
-
-from .common import ChapterExtractor, MangaExtractor
-from .. import text
-from ..cache import memcache
-import json
-
-
-class MangareaderBase():
-    """Base class for mangareader extractors"""
-    category = "mangareader"
-    root = "https://www.mangareader.net"
-
-    @memcache(keyarg=1)
-    def _manga_info(self, path, page=None):
-        if not page:
-            page = self.request(self.root + path).text
-        extr = text.extract_from(page)
-        data = {
-            "manga"   : text.unescape(extr('class="name">', '<')),
-            "release" : text.unescape(extr('Year of Release :</td><td>', '<')),
-            "author"  : text.unescape(text.unescape(extr(
-                'Author :</td><td>', '<'))),
-            "artist"  : text.unescape(text.unescape(extr(
-                'Artist :</td><td>', '<'))),
-            "lang"    : "en",
-            "language": "English",
-        }
-
-        extr('<table', '>')
-        chapters = []
-        while True:
-            url = extr('</i> <a href="', '"')
-            if not url:
-                return chapters
-            chapter = {
-                "chapter": text.parse_int(url.rpartition("/")[2]),
-                "title"  : text.unescape(extr("</a> : ", "<")),
-                "date"   : extr("<td>", "<"),
-            }
-            chapter.update(data)
-            chapters.append((self.root + url, chapter))
-
-
-class MangareaderChapterExtractor(MangareaderBase, ChapterExtractor):
-    """Extractor for manga-chapters from mangareader.net"""
-    archive_fmt = "{manga}_{chapter}_{page}"
-    pattern = r"(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?mangareader\.net((/[^/?#]+)/(\d+))"
-    test = (("https://www.mangareader.net"
-             "/karate-shoukoushi-kohinata-minoru/11"), {
-        "url": "45ece5668d1e9f65cf2225237d78de58660b54e4",
-        "keyword": "133e3e2f7c0529a35bbb16149e34c40546f8dfd6",
-    })
-
-    def __init__(self, match):
-        ChapterExtractor.__init__(self, match)
-        _, self.path, self.chapter = match.groups()
-
-    def metadata(self, page):
-        chapter = text.parse_int(self.chapter)
-        return self._manga_info(self.path)[chapter-1][1]
-
-    def images(self, page):
-        data = json.loads(text.extract(
-            page, 'document["mj"]=', '</script>')[0])
-        return [
-            (text.ensure_http_scheme(img["u"]), {
-                "width" : text.parse_int(img["w"]),
-                "height": text.parse_int(img["h"]),
-            })
-            for img in data["im"]
-        ]
-
-
-class MangareaderMangaExtractor(MangareaderBase, MangaExtractor):
-    """Extractor for manga from mangareader.net"""
-    chapterclass = MangareaderChapterExtractor
-    reverse = False
-    pattern = r"(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?mangareader\.net(/[^/?#]+)/?$"
-    test = ("https://www.mangareader.net/mushishi", {
-        "url": "bc203b858b4ad76e5d77e39118a7be0350e357da",
-        "keyword": "031b3ea085921c552de017ecbb9b906e462229c9",
-    })
-
-    def chapters(self, page):
-        path = self.manga_url[len(self.root):]
-        return self._manga_info(path, page)