Manga in japanese

Does any of you know of any good places where you can read manga in japanese online? I’d really like to try some untranslated ones.

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I think bookwalker sells emanga in Japanese to Western markets. (I’ve not tried it myself.) How to Purchase Books on BOOK☆WALKER JP Store|BOOK☆WALKER - Digital Manga & Light Novels

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you can try this one - http://www.cmoa.jp/
it also has an app so its very convenient

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Try these:

http://renta.papy.co.jp/

They both have samples for everything, as well as quite a bit of free stuff. You can read straight in your browser (great for some quick 立ち読み) or in an app, and they sell to any market as far as I can tell, no finagling like via Japanese Kindle.

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Amazon.co.jp sells manga at super reasonable prices and you can read them on your kindle! I buy manga and novels and read like crazy from there!

Yup. Gimme a sec. Okay so I accidentally got resources other than manga, but I’m going to list them all because I already have them open.

  1. Shonen Jump Plus (some free)
  2. Comic It
  3. Comico
  4. Japanese Children’s Stories (with pictures)
  5. Not a manga, but a story (untranslated) with pictures!
  6. A Dozen or So Traditional Japanese Children’s Stories (no pictures?)
  7. List of Free Audiobooks (link is old)
  8. Satori Reader (free and paid - different types of articles, news, stories)

Sorry only the first three meet what you wanted, but maybe others might find the rest of list helpful, hopefully…

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You searched ‘raw manga’ already?

I downloaded their Windows app (specifically Windows 10) and ordered a free manga. But when I try to download the manga I get an error. What version of their app (on which OS) are you using that works?

These are wunnerful!!

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Do you have to pay extra if you pay in US dollars?

No. They also do the currency conversion for you.

Thank you!

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Except yes, because they overcharge you with their conversion rate. It’s always cheaper to pay in yen and let your bank do the conversion, even with the 3% foreign transaction fee that many banks charge.

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Okay, yes, you have to pay a conversion rate. I assumed they meant “extra” as in they made the base product price higher. As to the second point, I just ran the numbers and Well Fargo’s conversion rate right now is ~103.05 Yen to the Dollar and Amazon offers ~104.53 Yen to the Dollar. So for me, it’s cheaper to use Amazon not my bank. Not that that makes much of a difference because the difference is around 1.5%. For the ~118,000 yen order I just placed the difference was less than 15 bucks on an over $1,100 order.

:grimacing:

And I thought my $150 orders were a lot!

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What’s sad is that’s not even my most expensive Amazon Japan order.!:sweat_smile:

I hope this thread is still alive.

Could I pay with my international credit card in this site directly? I want to attempt to read Gantz in japanese and I cant find an easier site:

Generally speaking, credit cards will work on any site. (At least for cards issued in the US; I can’t speak to cards issued in other countries.) I’d recommend checking with the bank that issued your credit card or just trying and seeing if it works.

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I use Honto.jp. No restrictions on foreign credit cards (like the JP Kindle store :cry:), and you can read most of their manga in the browser.

They also have a ton of free stuff that updates every week (be careful, some of the covers can be risque). Some examples:

In addition to all the free stuff they frequently have coupons for 20% off your whole order. Can’t recommend them more highly.

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Hmm? I’ve used multiple U.S. credit cards on the Japanese Kindle store. What kind of restrictions have you encountered?