On March 21, Kodansha announced plans to launch its own official manga distribution service. Now that service, K MANGA, is live on iOS and Android devices today, with the browser version planned to launch “within days.”
Kodansha has announced that approximately 400 manga titles, with a total of 61 titles also being simulpubbed (see K MANGA Simulpub launch lineup; The March announcement had 70 planned simulpubs at launch), are now available on the service (scroll below for the list of manga added). The service will have readers use a combination of points and tickets for K MANGA titles.
For Tickets:
- Normal Tickets are issued once a day for each title and can be used only for that title.
- Premium Tickets can be used for all chapters of all titles for which Tickets are eligible. Users can receive three to four tickets per day with login bonuses or by viewing advertisements.
For Points:
- $1 is equivalent to 100 Points that can unlock manga chapters, which vary in cost depending on their length.
- Points required also vary depending on whether the chapter is older or more recent. (Example, a serialized manga released in 20-page installments requires 69 points for older chapters, while 99 points would be required for the latest chapter — the amount of points will vary by title.) Once a reader has traded Points to unlock a chapter, they can access it indefinitely through their account.
Kodansha confirmed the first few chapters of the approximately 400 available titles on K MANGA can be read for free.
“We are a publisher that serves as a link between manga artists and readers. We will continue to strengthen our efforts to protect manga artists from piracy and other forms of copyright infringement, including traceability of translations.” said project leader Yuta Hiraoka regarding today’s launch of K MANGA. “We are starting with US only for now. However, we know that there are Kodansha manga readers all over the world who want to try K MANGA and read the latest simulpub chapters. We hear you and we are doing our best to make K MANGA available in your countries as soon as we can.”
Here’s the list of new titles Kodansha’s publishing in English:
Kouji Megumi’s ACMA: GAME
Hikaru Katsuki’s Baby Steps
Yusuke Osawa’s GREEN WORLDZ (Was formerly published on MangaBox)
Kouhei Nagashii’s The Two Faces of Misaki Hoshino.
Masahito Soda’s Capeta
Mitabi Irohara’s Yokuoni: Ogres of Greed
Negi Haruba’s The Quintessential Quintuplets: Full-Color Version
Kou Wanatsu & Kei Aomi’s Why The Bell Tolls at Dusk
Nahoko Uehashi’s The Beast Player
Morinari Miyagi & Satou’s The Ultimate Fire Sorcerer’s Return: Through Hellfire and Back!
Tsukasa Monma & Shikako’s Manchuria Opium Squad
Chisato Abe & Natsumi Matsuzaki’s A Raven for All Seasons
Asuka Konishi’s Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (This title is also being published by Seven Seas)
Kitsuneko’s Asami Kuroki’s on A(nother) Bender!
Asahi & Aiue Okaki’s The Russian Transfer and the Polyglot
Wakatsuki Hikaru’s Fujisaki-kun’s Prey-ful Life
Yuri Shibamura & Daisuke Kimura’s Marginal Operation (This title is also being published by J-Novel Club)
Hajime Inoryuu & Takahiro Oba’s A Psycho’s World
Hifumi’s The 47 Great Wars
Konpai Hirou & Natsuka Tachibana’s The Ultimate Healer Restores All
Here’s Kodansha catalog titles — either completed or ongoing — that can be read on K MANGA:
As the Gods Will The Second Series
Ace of the Diamond Act II
The Seven Deadly Sins
Domestic Girlfriend
UQ HOLDER!
Days
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Fuuka
Real Account
Love and Lies
Aho-Girl: A Clueless Girl
Ace of the Diamond
A Silent Voice
My Wife is Wagatsuma-san
Fairy Tail: Twin Dragons of Saber Tooth
Fairy Tail
Bloody Monday
GE: Good Ending
Fire Force
Boarding School Juliet
Attack on Titan: Junior High
Air Gear
Fairy Tail: Rhodonite
Fairy Girls
Suzuka
Attack on Titan
To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts
Happiness
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall
Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
Flying Witch
Nekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai
The Flowers of Evil
Sankarea
Fairy Tail: Lightning Gods
Mardock Scramble
Rave Master
Again!!
Magical Sempai
Until Your Bones Rot
School Rumble
O Maidens In Your Savage Season
Dolly Kill Kill
Tokyo Revengers
Fairy Tail Zero
Will It Be the World or Her?
Fairy Tail S
Smile Down the Runway
The Quintessential Quintuplets
Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice
Blissful Land
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
Welcome to the Ballroom
Your Lie in April
Sherlock Bones
Love Hina
Negima!
BAKEMONOGATARI
Museum
Princess Resurrection
Princess Resurrection Nightmare
Farewell, My Dear Cramer
She’s Adopted a High School Boy!
Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence
InitialD
Battle Angel Alita
Dr. Ramune -Mysterious Disease Specialist-
BECK
What I Love About You
Fairy Tail: City Hero
Can You Just Die, My Darling?
Altair: A Record of Battles
Those Snow White Notes
Kakushigoto: My Dad’s Secret Ambition
Pumpkin Scissors
Goodbye! I’m Being Reincarnated!
In/Spectre
Cells at Work!
Cells NOT at Work!
APOSIMZ
Giant Killing
Starving Anonymous
Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
Die Wergelder
Knights of Sidonia
Cells at Work: Bacteria!
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK
Cells at Work and Friends!
Ao-chan Can’t Study!
Shaman King
Missions of Love
I Guess I Became the Mother of the Great Demon King’s 10 Children in Another World
Cells at Work: Platelets!
Seven Deadly Sins Seven Days
Fort of Apocalypse
Inuyashiki
Vinland Saga
Blade of the Immortal
ARE YOU lost？
Wave, Listen To Me
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Trinity in Tempest
The Invincible Reincarnated Ponkotsu
Devils’ Line
Kounodori: Dr. Stork
Forest of Piano
1122: For a Happy Marriage
Burn the House Down
The Dawn of the Witch
Cells at Work! White Brigade
All-Rounder Meguru
BLAME!
Sachi’s Monstrous Appetite
Chihayafuru
Mashima HERO’S
Star⇄Crossed!!
My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought
Whisper Me a Love Song
The Shadows of Who We Once Were
Cells at Work: Baby!
My Roomie Is a Dino
My Maid, Miss Kishi
MagaTsuki
Rent-A-(Really Shy!)-Girlfriend
The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage
Sweat and Soap
Kasane
Moteki
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness
We’re New at This
Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
The Best of Attack on Titan: In Color
Quality Assurance in Another World
HERO PLATOON: The Taciturn Hero Will Not Be Persuaded!
Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
The God-Tier Guardian and the Love of Six Princesses
Parasyte
Ajin Demi Human
Magus of the Library
I Want To Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die
Parasyte Reversi
ALIVE
Police in a Pod
Say I Love You
Medalist
Dragon Head
The Ghost in the Shell
Something’s Wrong With Us
LDK
Defying Kurosaki-kun
Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex
Nina the Starry Bride
My Boy in Blue
Basilisk
The Prince’s Black Poison
Kiss Him Not Me
Nodame Cantabile
A Girl & Her Guard Dog
Perfect World
Ran the Peerless Beauty
Gakuen Prince
Waiting for Spring
A Condition Called Love
Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight
Living-Room Matsunaga-san
Kakafukaka
Kira-kun Today
Real Girl
Lovesick Ellie
My Little Monster
Love’s Reach
My Sweet Girl
Beware the Kamiki Brothers!
Asahi-sempai’s Favorite
Liar X Liar
My Boyfriend in Orange
The Walls Between Us
Witchcraft Works
Peach girl
We Must Never Fall in Love!
MARS
You Got Me, Sempai!
Shaman King: Zero
Can I Kiss You Every Day?
My Boss’s Kitten
You’re My Pet
A Kiss, For Real
Ya Boy Kongming!
Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Love Massage Melting Beauty Treatment
My Best (♀) Butler
The Tale of Genji Dreams at Dawn
House of the sun
Our Precious Conversations
Those Not-So-Sweet Boys
World’s End and Apricot Jam
What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Guilty
Land of the Lustrous
Gleipnir
Mushishi
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Hotaru’s Way
Saint Young Men
Drowning Love
Watari-kun’s Is about to Collapse
COPPELION
Unlimited Fafnir
Sweetness and Lightning
Interviews With Monster Girls
Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live
Back Street Girls
All-Out!!
Kokkoku Moment by Moment
CITY
I Fell in Love After School
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Boss Wife
The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
10 Dance
Momo’s Iron Will
Imperfect Girl
The Witch and the Beast
Boys Run the Riot
Men’s Life -Her Secret Life in The Boys’ Dormitory-
Undead Girl Murder Farce
DEATHTOPIA
Clockwork Planet
Amefurashi
Shojo Fight
She’s My Knight
The Springtime of My Life Began with You
The Golden Sheep
I’m in Love and It’s the End of the World
With a Dog and a Cat, Every Day is Fun
Cosplay Animal
Princess Jellyfish
No. 6
My Brother the Shut In
Maid in Honey
Beauty Bunny
Peach Heaven
Ex-Enthusiasts: MotoKare Mania
The Gods Lie
Chi’s Sweet Home
NOiSE
Ayanashi
Pitch – Black ten
Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You.
A School Frozen in Time
BLAME! The Electrofishers’ Escape
Noragami Stray Stories
Toppu GP
Paradise Residence
BLAME! academy and so on
Danza
Livingstone
The Ghost and the Lady (The Black Museum)
The Writer and His Housekeeper
Queen Bee
When We Shout for Love
My Pink is Overflowing
Practice Makes Perfect
Atsumori-kun’s Bride-to-Be
Araki Won’t Be Tamed
Wake Up Sleeping Beauty
Four Kisses, in Secret
How Do You Do, Koharu?
Heroine for Hire
Peach Mermaid
Let’s Kiss in Secret Tomorrow
The Dorm of Love and Secrets
Arisa
Fairy Tail Blue Mistral
Kamikamikaeshi
Kitchen Princess
I Am Here!
With the Sheikh in His Harem
Monster Soul
YUZU the Pet Vet
Let’s Dance a Waltz
The Prince’s Romance Gambit
A Springtime with Ninjas
Black Panther and Sweet 16
Aoba-kun’s Confessions
I’ll Win You Over, Sempai!
Stellar Witch LIP☆S
Manga Dogs
Those Summer Days
MabuSasa
The Prince in His Dark Days
Attack on Titan No Regrets
Attack on Titan: No Regrets Complete Color Edition
The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire
The Wizard and His Fairy
Good Dog, Cerberus!
Love in Focus
Fairy Tail Ice Trail
Spoof on Titan
Tokyo Tarareba Girls RETURNS
To Write Your Words
The Story of Our Unlikely Love
Keeping His Whims In Check
Peach Girl NEXT
Knight of the Ice
Key Ring Lock
Frau Faust
FukuFuku Kitten Tales
Sue & Tai-Chan
Complex Age
Ichi-F
Crocodile Baron