Good Online Manga Sites? (Legit ones)

crazyfirefly 10548 cr points Send Message: 31 / F / United States Offline	Permalink Reply Quote Posted 6/3/15 , edited 6/4/15 I love CR but our manga selection is slim pickings. I realize I could just buy manga online but as we know they are incredibly expensive and I only want to purchase ones I really enjoy. Is there a site that will allow me to pay a member fee for access to a large digital library of manga? Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide (I know there are free sites out there but I would like to try and avoid those because I don't want to cheat the publishers or artist out of money. I realize again some of them run adds but honestly that slows the reading process down and I'd rather just pay a flat fee and skip all that.) Any help would be welcome thanks. :)
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mnmike 22583 cr points Send Message: Offline	Permalink Reply Quote Posted 6/3/15 , edited 6/4/15 The only other one I've used is MangaBox. They aren't any better than CR, but it's different--although I've noticed that it tends to skew a little towards more mature manga.
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lorreen 123924 cr points Send Message: F / Boston-ish Offline	Permalink Reply Quote Posted 6/3/15 , edited 6/4/15 crazyfirefly wrote: I love CR but our manga selection is slim pickings. I realize I could just buy manga online but as we know they are incredibly expensive and I only want to purchase ones I really enjoy. Is there a site that will allow me to pay a member fee for access to a large digital library of manga? Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide (I know there are free sites out there but I would like to try and avoid those because I don't want to cheat the publishers or artist out of money. I realize again some of them run adds but honestly that slows the reading process down and I'd rather just pay a flat fee and skip all that.) Any help would be welcome thanks. I've moved this to the Advice, Info, Recommendation forum. I don't know of any legit places with a huge selection, even for a fee. Like mnmike I read MangaBox (which is free; published by Kodansha). I also subscribe to Viz's Weekly Shonen Jump, though currently I only read a couple of the titles there (it was just $15 for me to renew for the the year so still worth it since occasionally they add something new either a regular feature or one shots or things they are just trying out-- and I'm glad I had a chance to try them). Both of those, unlike CR, are anthologies, so you're just getting current chapters week by week (or month by month for some titles). With MangaBox the issues expire after 3 months (with Viz, your access to issues since your subscribe date doesn't expire). Oh, there is one other -- Comic Walker (free; published by Kadokawa). I thought everything I saw there was crap, and it's basically more of a sampler than a way to read a whole series at once (unless you outright buy it) . It looked to me like only some of the series it features are ones that they regularly update with new chapters to read, but I admit I haven't really explored it very thoroughly. kimchino wrote: discussing and posting about illegal scan sites are against the cr rules That's true, but she's asking for legit sources. I've updated the title to make that more obvious
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deadpanditto 80792 cr points Send Message: 54 / M / KC Offline	Permalink Reply Quote Posted 6/4/15 , edited 6/4/15 I use Comic Walker, though I agree with lorreen that it can be a mixed bag, especially if you can't read Japanese. The titles, and there are quite a few, that update the most are only in Japanese. This is where I keep up-to-date on Seki-kun. Unfortunately, a lot of the back issues aren't available unless you buy them. GEN Manga has a number of free issues. I haven't gone through it thoroughly. http://www.genmanga.com/issues/index.html Almost everything else is primarily paid, with just sampler issues.
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crazyfirefly 10548 cr points Send Message: 31 / F / United States Offline	Permalink Reply Quote Posted 6/5/15 , edited 6/5/15 lorreen wrote: crazyfirefly wrote: I love CR but our manga selection is slim pickings. I realize I could just buy manga online but as we know they are incredibly expensive and I only want to purchase ones I really enjoy. Is there a site that will allow me to pay a member fee for access to a large digital library of manga? Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide (I know there are free sites out there but I would like to try and avoid those because I don't want to cheat the publishers or artist out of money. I realize again some of them run adds but honestly that slows the reading process down and I'd rather just pay a flat fee and skip all that.) Any help would be welcome thanks. I've moved this to the Advice, Info, Recommendation forum. I don't know of any legit places with a huge selection, even for a fee. Like mnmike I read MangaBox (which is free; published by Kodansha). I also subscribe to Viz's Weekly Shonen Jump, though currently I only read a couple of the titles there (it was just $15 for me to renew for the the year so still worth it since occasionally they add something new either a regular feature or one shots or things they are just trying out-- and I'm glad I had a chance to try them). Both of those, unlike CR, are anthologies, so you're just getting current chapters week by week (or month by month for some titles). With MangaBox the issues expire after 3 months (with Viz, your access to issues since your subscribe date doesn't expire). Oh, there is one other -- Comic Walker (free; published by Kadokawa). I thought everything I saw there was crap, and it's basically more of a sampler than a way to read a whole series at once (unless you outright buy it) . It looked to me like only some of the series it features are ones that they regularly update with new chapters to read, but I admit I haven't really explored it very thoroughly. kimchino wrote: discussing and posting about illegal scan sites are against the cr rules That's true, but she's asking for legit sources. I've updated the title to make that more obvious Thanks for your help. Also I didn't realize that was against the rules...I should probably check up on those since the last time I read them was around eight years ago... deadpanditto wrote: I use Comic Walker, though I agree with lorreen that it can be a mixed bag, especially if you can't read Japanese. The titles, and there are quite a few, that update the most are only in Japanese. This is where I keep up-to-date on Seki-kun. Unfortunately, a lot of the back issues aren't available unless you buy them. GEN Manga has a number of free issues. I haven't gone through it thoroughly. http://www.genmanga.com/issues/index.html Almost everything else is primarily paid, with just sampler issues. Thank You! I'll definitely check it out.
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