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NEWS: Crunchyroll to Launch New Manga App Later This Year




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pi8you



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:34 pm Reply with quote
Are they gonna take it seriously this time?
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Яeverse



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:40 pm Reply with quote
Please get relevant new manga, and don't be like K-manga or Renta monetization.
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milkyy



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:45 pm Reply with quote
This is not going to end well. No more crunchyroll. Never again.
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el_morris



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:59 pm Reply with quote
I wonder which titles will it have (we all know, right?).
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Kiwi93



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:01 pm Reply with quote
Яeverse wrote:
Please get relevant new manga, and don't be like K-manga or Renta monetization.


Yea if they make this similar to the viz/shonen jump app I think it has a good chance of being successful (and of course this is assuming they’ll also have good mangas in the library).
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kpossibles
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:13 pm Reply with quote
Interesting... the former CR Manga team ended up creating Azuki which has pretty good offerings and a very small amount of Azuki-only licensed series.
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SinisterOracle



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 11:35 pm Reply with quote
I have just one thing to say: You bettah work bitch. Now, sashay away.

Seriously, who wants to pay for something we used to get for free as part of our subscription? No thanks.
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DerekL1963
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:15 am Reply with quote
And let's not forget how awful their old manga service was. The website and app were buggy and broken for the entire lifespan of the service. More often than not, "simulpub" manga didn't appear on Crunchy's site for anything from a day or two to as much as a week behind releases elsewhere. (And the randomness of the delay lends credence to the theory it was incompetence rather than licensing.)

There was even a "Crunchyroll Original" - where for something like seventeen chapters updates announcing the release of a new chapter were faithfully published to social media... But site/app was never updated past Ch 2. Then it abruptly stopped entirely, and from the contents of the promotional material... in mid run.

I have little faith that Crunchy has suddenly acquired competence.
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