Crunchyroll to Launch New Manga App Later This Year
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App to offer manga in English in U.S., Canada, with plans to roll out in other languages

From the article:

Crunchyroll announced during Sony’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference on Monday that it will launch a new manga app named Crunchyroll Manga later this year as a premium add-on to its subscription service. The app will launch first in English in the United States and Canada, but other language options and web browser integration are planned.

  • UnboxiousEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I use a Boox Page 7" ereader. All the big manga apps, including Shonen Jump and Manga Plus, work on it. None of them support the page-turn buttons except Mihon though. The Shonen Jump app is an especially bad experience because you need to swipe to turn pages; at least with Manga Plus tapping the edge of the screen works. Speaking of the screen, 7" is plenty big for reading in your native language, but I occasionally have to zoom in to make out certain kanji when reading in Japanese. It doesn’t sound like a big upgrade in size over phone screens but since it’s actually the right aspect ratio it’s a huge difference.

    As for color, I suspect that color e-ink screens aren’t gonna be a great time. You’re giving up effective resolution in exchange for it, and I think I’d prefer sharper black and white performance instead.