Top 8 Best Manga Readers For Android
One of the best aspects of going the digital route for your manga needs is the ability to keep them, rather than throwing them away. Physical manga books are made to be read and then discarded, digital allows you to keep them forever. The main benefit of reading on your tablet or smartphone is being able to buy the next issue immediately. Today, we look at the Top 5 Best Manga reading apps for Android that you can use to read, buy or load in your own.
Viz Manga(Paid) – Viz is certainly a force to be reckoned with when it comes to manga production. They have lots of really great retro stuff such as Random 1/2, Berzerk and Bleach. The free VIZ Manga App continues to be the top application for reading digital manga and features a massive library of 2,000 volumes across nearly 200 different series.
You can read manga in both portrait (where it appears as a single page) and landscape (where it appears as a two page spread) orientations. Portrait gives you a larger page, which is very nice, but landscape feels a bit more natural to me. They’re both quality ways to read manga, and it’s easy to adjust your reading experience to your preferred orientation.
Viz’s pricing is pretty good. It seems like it’s divided up according to page count, with exceptions for certain titles. Most manga, such as the popular Shonen Jump or Shojo Beat titles, will run you $4.99. These books run in the neighborhood of two hundred pages, give or take a couple dozen pages. For $5.99, you can purchase longer works, from 200 to over 300 pages. This includes many of Viz’s SIGIKKI books, several of which we’ve talked about before. These books tend to be aimed at a more mature audience than Naruto or other shonen titles.
Crunchyroll Manga(Paid) – Crunchyroll is best known for their television and streaming manga video app. They have dedicated apps basically for every single platform out there, including Android, Apple and Xbox. Last year they launched their impressive Android Manga Reader app and the big selling point is it has new manga chapters the same day they are released in Japan.
Crunchyroll is different from almost all other manga services in one important respect: It is a streaming service. The user cannot download the manga. Given a choice between free streaming manga or download-to-own manga at a price, a substantial part of the manga audience has opted for the free service. There is no shortage of users that can use the service either, its available in almost 180 different countries.
So how does the app actually perform? Crunchyroll Manga comes with a sleek, minimalistic interface and responsive swiping and zooming-in gestures, which make the reading quick and enjoyable. Also, the content, itself, looks great on a good screen. The guide mode shows you mangas, panel by panel, allowing you to focus on the drawings and observe even the smallest details. This is a great feature that no other manga apps we know of have. There is also a huge number of free chapters are available for sampling, making it easy for you to discover interesting titles.
Manga Rock – Manga Rock is a brilliant app to read manga, not only has it one of the best reading UIs out there, but it’s also extremely easy to get hold of manga as well. Manga Rock has already 2 millions users on iOS before it hit Android, coincidence? I don’t think so.
The Android app supports up to 7 languages (English, Italian, Vietnamese, German, French, Spanish and Chinese). There are several manga sources for each language (15 total) with over 100,000 titles. Select all the sources or the ones you like most. Manga Rock automatically lists all the manga according to your established filters. There are other filters though: you can sort by genres, status, alphabetical order or ranking. Likewise, Manga Rock allows you to search any manga by title or author, from its top search bar.
You can get manga in portrait and landscape reading mode, as well as left to right and right to left reading directions. As if that wasn’t enough, you can pinch for zooming in/out, adjust brightness and lock orientation and “favorite” manga to access them quickly and, most importantly, to receive notifications on new releases.
Comicrack – This is a great app to read comics on if you like to load in your own. It has tremendous support for CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT, PDF, DJVU formats. ComicRack has one of the nicest-looking reading experiences while you’re in the book. On a tablet, it’s optimized to take advantage of every pixel available. It also supports pinch-to-zoom which makes navigating individual panels on small devices fairly easy. You can set bookmarks anywhere in any comic for future reference.
For the hardcore readers, ComicRack also includes color and brightness adjustments so you can tailor your device’s display to your preferred reading experience. The app also includes search functions to track down whatever you’re looking for in your huge library. This app is best used with the companion Windows app, which lets you sync content right to your phone or tablet from your PC, which negates having to manually sideload it.
Manga Box(Fremium) – Manga Box will allow users to read the 12 most recent issues of manga for free, and the users can also read the first 100 pages of the first volume of each series at all times.
The titles include a mix of all-ages and more mature content (think more PG-13 than R, with mostly crude gestures, violence and some sexual content) and features a fairly rudimentary interface that lacks some of the bells and whistles of other comic readers. Those used to navigating Tumblr, Pinterest and other social media sites shouldn’t have much trouble reading through content or alternating between titles, though. Currently this app has the least amount of content, but has over ten million downloads within a year of launching.
8Manga(Free) – 8Manga app - is a global English mobile comic app that catered for android and iOS users.One of the most outstanding features is the million units of various types of real-time serial comic theme with speedy update and high stability. With those features readers can enjoy an excellent experience at all time. It also provides a good technical support if you found some bugs.
You can browse through this app from your Mobile instantly either reading it online or download the comics. And the most important thing is, this app is completely free" A must-try app, especially for manga’s lovers" Comics Volume contains: 14,707+ comics, a total of 2,465,479+ chapters, 358,033,784+, Pictures etc. list.
Latest comics such as -
Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, D Gray Junior, D-Grayman, Death Note, The Prince Of Tennis, Devil small golden, Detective Conan, NANA, Hunter X Hunter and so on.
Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, D Gray Junior, D-Grayman, Death Note, The Prince Of Tennis, Devil small golden, Detective Conan, NANA, Hunter X Hunter and so on.
ZingBox(Free) – Zingbox is a well-designed application that features manga from all sorts of publishers and from all over the world. With manga available in English, Spanish, French and Vietnamese there’s something for almost anyone when it comes to Manga. With a Holo-designed app, Zingbox is easy to use and good-looking. For those looking to get a hold of some new reading material, Zingbox can help thanks to its vast library of titles.
The app itself is easy to use and it doesn’t take long to get to grips with the interface. With manga in a whole host of languages there’s a lot of manga on offer and there’s some really good titles available to download and read for free. Of course, this depends on which region in you’re in.
The app itself is easy to use and it doesn’t take long to get to grips with the interface. With manga in a whole host of languages there’s a lot of manga on offer and there’s some really good titles available to download and read for free. Of course, this depends on which region in you’re in.
Zingbox is set in an intuitive interface that allows a quick access to the different sections that make up the app. Navigation is intuitive and responsive and the design is minimalist and stylish. If you love manga, this is going to rock your mobile phone. One of the best manga app out there.
Mango(Free) - Mango is a free manga (Japanese comics) reader app for Android and BlackBerry. Mango lets you read any title from the huge library of over 9,000 (no, really) fan-translated manga scanlations right through your phone's 3G or WiFi internet connection. Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Vampire Knight, D.Gray-man, Air Gear, and many, many more titles can be read from anywhere -- at school, on the bus, in a waiting room, or even on a plane!
Mango is free to download and is packed with tons of nifty features to make reading manga on smaller screens more enjoyable, including page auto-resizing, preloading, multitouch zoom, touchscreen/keyboard controls, a robust bookmarking system, and lots more, making the Mango manga reader app the best way to read manga on your smartphone.
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