Crunchyroll is bringing digital manga to its anime viewers.
The streaming platform introduced Thursday that Crunchyroll Manga, an add-on service that can make lots of of manga titles from throughout a number of publishers obtainable to subscribers, will launch as an app on Oct. 9.
Among the many titles anticipated to be obtainable on the digital manga platform are “One Piece,” “Jujutsu Kaisen,” “Daemons of the Shadow Realm,” “My Costume-Up Darling,” “The Summer season Hikaru Died,” “Lycoris Recoil,” “Scrumptious in Dungeon,” “Sasaki and Miyano,” “Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy” and “Maiden of the Dragon: Falling for the Demon’s Lies.” The library will proceed to broaden after launch.
For the uninitiated, manga is the Japanese phrase for comics and graphic novels — which means it’s a medium and never a style. Those that write and illustrate manga are referred to as mangaka.
A few of the most well-known anime sequence are manga diversifications, together with “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,” “Dragon Ball,” “Sailor Moon,” “Assault on Titan,” “Inuyasha,” “Fruits Basket,” “Haikyu!” and extra. (And like American comics, manga works are additionally tailored into each animated and live-action TV and flicks.)
Crunchyroll Manga shall be launched as a separate studying app from the streaming video platform. Crunchyroll customers at present subscribed to the Final Fan tier ($15.99 per 30 days) will have the ability to entry Crunchyroll Manga at no extra price. For these subscribed to the Fan or Mega Fan tiers, entry to the manga platform shall be obtainable for a further month-to-month price of $4 or $3.50, respectively.
The app may also enable customers to obtain chapters for offline studying. After the app launch, the online model of Crunchyroll Manga shall be obtainable beginning Oct. 15.