Kodansha K MANGA is a digital manga app that launched in 2023. It is available for both Android and iOS. It features 400 manga series such as Fairy Tail, Fire Force, Attack on Titan, To Your Eternity, The Quintessential Quintuplets, Your Lie in April, and many more. It also simultaneously releases manga as soon as it is available from Japan. The service has expanded into the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Mexico, and Brazil.
K Manga is different from most other services. It operates under a point-based system, where users buy points to unlock chapters. Most of the first few chapters are free, giving people a sense of the art style and whether the story is worth spending money on. This differs from most other companies operating under a subscription model. Many manga do not have the same point structure, and it’s sometimes hard to know how much it costs.
I also like how the latest chapters of popular ongoing series such as EDENS ZERO, Blue Lock, Rent-A-Girlfriend, and Four Knights of the Apocalypse are available in the app, before anywhere else. This is because Kodansha is one of the largest manga publishers in the world.
With the most recent expansion of K Manga, the service is also available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
