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K Manga Expands into Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore
posted on by Anita Tai
Kodansha's K Manga service announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday that the platform is now available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. The company also stated it hoped to expand into more territories soon.
Kodansha Ltd. launched its manga distribution service K Manga for Android, iOS and browsers exclusively in the U.S. in May 2023. It launched the app with approximately 400 titles including 60 simulpub titles, with their chapters debuting on K Manga before on other platforms. The first few chapters of most titles are available for free.
Kodansha USA Publishing ended distribution of simulpub chapters of its manga titles on KiraKira Media Inc.'s digital manga service Azuki in January 2023. The company removed previous simulpub chapters from Azuki in January 2022. Early non-simulpub chapters of some of the series removed, as well as several of Kodansha's non-simulpub series remain unaffected on the platform.
The company then removed a number of its manga titles from Crunchyroll in January 2023. Kodansha had issued a statement to Crunchyroll, saying that its suspension of simulub updates was due to "changes" in its simulpub distribution program.
