Hey everybody, I was wondering if anybody knows of a site where I can download manga in Japanese.… - Feed Post by sgeg
Hey everybody, I was wondering if anybody knows of a site where I can download manga in Japanese. Thankful for answer :)
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Do u know an easier manga or site with an beginner to intermediate level for those of us not yet adept at reading kanji?- @mozeni2, A lot of manga have furigana shown for every kanji. Back last year I tested 88 of the manga series I was interested in on that site for whether or not they used furigana fully...
54 of those have furigana: Naruto, One Punch Man, Attact on Titan, No Game No Life, Dragon Ball, One Piece, Bleach, Great Teacher Onizuka, Evangelion, Death Note, Mirai Nikki, Nichijou, ...
34 of those didn't use furigana, other than for special conditions such as names: Parasyte, Sword Art Online, Steins;Gate, Initial D, Maison Ikkoku, Hetalia, Gokusen, Lucky Star, ...
So if it's just kanji that's the problem, the ones with furigana should be fine. Or did you mean how the website itself is written? - I see. I was having trouble navigating the site. R the manga free or do u have to pay?
- It's a proper company based in Tokyo. They distribute the manga legally. So, since they aren't pirating and breaking copyrights, you do have to pay for the stuff on there.
However, you can preview virtually every volume on the site for free. The previews, at least for the first volume of a series, are often allow you to read as many as the first 50 pages or more. And these previews can be downloaded and kept forever to read on their mobile/desktop reader app.
立ち読み / 立読 (たちよみ) buttons basically mean "free preview" (pick up off the shelf and 'read while standing' in the bookshop).
There is also quite a bit of completely free stuff on there. 無料 (むりょう) means "free".
http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/freebooks/
If you go on this 無料 part of the site, you can find all the whole volumes that are free for a limited time. They change the stuff on there every week, so need to keep checking regularly.
The ブラウザ無料 section is the stuff you can read online but can't download.
However, the ダウンロード無料 section is for complete volumes that you can dowload and keep forever. This means you can own these volumes legally completely for free. I check every week and select nearly all the volumes in the 男性 (だんせい) and 少年 (しょうねん) genres. I now own 900 volumes through doing this (though I've barely read any of them...). ^^
And I've also bought some manga on there. They allow people outside Japan who don't have Japanese bank accounts to purchase stuff. I bought some Crayon Shin-chan volumes as they are relatively easy to read and are funny. I didn't have any trouble at all paying from the UK with a UK debit card. :)
I definitely recommend putting the effort into learning to navigate and understand the menus on that site. Definitely worth it. - ああ。すばらしい。
- Wow. Wasn't sure at first. But it ended up being a really good site. I'm actually able to read some of this. Thanks for bearing with me there.
- @mozeni2, Glad you like it. ^^
It gets a lot better if you can manage to register an account, so that you'll be able to use the 本棚 (ほんだな) "bookshelf" which keeps the stuff on your own personalised cloud space and remembers which pages you are on and stuff.
Their app for Android/iPad/iPhone/PC/Mac is one of the best parts though, if you can figure out how to use it with the complicated Japanese user interface. You can browse and download anything from your online 本棚, and then carry on reading offline. And it syncs which page you are on between devices. Can get the app for each of those devices here:
http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/guide/about_reader.asp
