Forum - View topicNEWS: Mangamo Manga Subscription App Launches on iOS
|
Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Swiftyy
 Posts: 190 Location: Florida, USA. |
|
||
|
No desktop viewing nor an Android release is a little baffling. Any chance ANN could attempt to get a comment on why those platforms are not included yet?
|
|||
|
|||
LegitPancake
 Posts: 1311 Location: Texas, USA |
|
||
|
So I compared the previous official translation of Arte (free on MyAnimeList) to what is available on this app, and it's a totally different translation. How can that be possible? Also Somali manga is currently being sold as ebook in English as "Somari and the Guardian of the Forest," but this app has adopted the anime title as localized by Crunchyroll. I just checked the translation and Somali manga is also completely different translation compared to what is being sold on Amazon Kindle. All stuff from Kodansha (Attack on Titan, Fire Force, etc) seem to have the same translation as the officials, so it's weird some are getting a new translation and some aren't.
Also the iOS app is hot garbage. The series page is in random order and there's no way to set it to alphabetical order. There is no option to search by series title, only pre-selected genre tags. Extremely laggy and glitchy, downloaded on my iPad and have to continually press "restore in-app purchases" in order for it to recognize that I have a free trial, but even that doesn't work most of the time. I've also heard from some people in Australia that the app wasn't available in the store, so that makes me question if this is truly worldwide. As for titles, they've started to add some Kodansha titles (Attack on Titan and Fire Force only have 4-5 chapters available, so don't expect to catch up with Japan any time soon with this app), but other than Arte, Somali, and Dropkick, I don't recognize any of the other 100+ series. Most of which only have a single chapter, though there are a few with more than a dozen chapters. Honestly, I'm not convinced if this will be worth the $5 a month once the 60 day trial is up. Not being current with AoT and Fire Force is a major drawback. I have found a couple charming titles, including "How I Lost my Large Intestine," which is a grisly but hilarious tale of a young Okinawan woman who suffers from ulcerative colitis with a bumbling doctor who has no idea what he's doing. I believe it's a true story, which makes me eager for more chapters. |
|||
|
|||
ZeetherKID77
 Posts: 983 |
|
||
|
No Android release on launch? Dead on arrival. Not covering both platforms for a mobile app on launch is suicide.
Last edited by ZeetherKID77 on Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:04 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|||
|
|||
harminia
 Posts: 2064 Location: australia |
|
||
|
I just wanted to see the list of titles available but the website doesn't say... I guess I'd have to download it but based on LegitPancake's comment and the fact I'm in Australia it sounds like it may not be worth it.
|
|||
|
|||
|
ZestyLime
Posts: 23 |
|
||
|
This launch is a dumpster fire. No Android/Desktop AND you can't view the catalog anywhere without downloading the app? Hard pass, mangamo.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Dark.exe
Posts: 73 |
|
||
https://twitter.com/mangamoapp/status/1250458598661996546?s=19 |
|||
|
|||
|
skemono
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 77 |
|
||
Their website has apparently added a list of titles (in alphabetical order, even!) since the last time I looked at it, but this site did them one better by getting how many chapters of each title are on the app right now. Oh, and there's the site's Copyright page, which lists all of the series and their Japanese copyright holders. I recognize a few of those as shorts or one-shots available on MANGA.CLUB. |
|||
|
|||
|
skemono
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 77 |
|
||
|
Series I can find some information on:
29-Year-Old in the Service Industry A Classroom Bereft of Angels A Transparent Fever A Wish A.D.A Ai in the AI (I think) Another Side of You Arte Astrological Story Attack on Titan Battle Angel Alita Bikings Broken Planet Chika's Forest Different Nation Dragon Eye Dreams Take Flight Dropkick on My Devil Ekikoi: The Young Miss Falls for the Station Attendant Equites Fallens Fire Force Float City Garuda Gourmet Glutton a.k.a. Kuishinbo Great Ming Detectives Gut's (also on Manga.Club, Comixology) Hinako's My Wife?! It All Ends in Summer Keshin Kitty's Diaries Kurozakuro (I think) Leave It to Sero! Leaving Our Truths to the Shooting Stars Life-Saver Jailbreak: Doctor Enma Love Portrait Madmen Maison Q Maria x Maria Masuda's Got A Hold on Shibata Matching Our Answers Miasma Theory My Little, Stray Cat Oblation On Shattered Ground Open Sesame Pacified Storm Parallel Lanes Patricia Pen Love Purple Flower Under the Moonlight Repeating Your End Together Ring a Bell Shokudama Sinner Somali and the Forest Spirit SUMMERLESS Super Food Bowl aka Ōgui Kōshien Swallowed by the Kotatsu Sweet Pain Sweet Seduction: Under the Same Roof with the Guy I Hate The Happiness Street in District Zero The Kindness of Death (I think) The Peculiar Room The Shinsengumi The Vampires Next Door Tsukumogami Karuta: Cards of the 99 Gods Vestige Welcome to Dietroit Who Wants to Play? Witch Sister You Haven't Seen the Best of Me! Zanmu A lot of the others are from the Ganma! free manga website. |
|||
|
|||
|
rikku45
Posts: 109 |
|
||
|
Lol people saying it’s dead because of no android support smh
|
|||
|
|||
|
Dian Z
|
|
||
|
So it's supposed to be available globally with the exception of Japan, China, and Korea. I think it's got potential once it acquires more titles with more varied genre, and perhaps available on Android too.
|
|||
|
Ermat_46
Posts: 744 Location: Philippines |
|
||
|
Who would butcher a launch like that?
Oh. That explains everything. |
|||
|
|||
Cardcaptor Takato
 Posts: 5253 |
|
||
|
I was excited about the idea of a manga subscription site covering titles from multiple publishers but I already lost interest in the lack of major titles. The other apparent issues with the app makes me even less interested to check it out.
|
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group