Viz Media has launched a new app and subscription service, allow fans to read their favorite manga digitally.
Viz Manga will cost $1.99 a month, and the service will give fans access to over 10,000 chapters of manga from genres such as action, horror, slice-of-life, and fantasy. The service includes such well-known manga as Junji Ito’s GYO Uzumaki, as well as Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma 1/2 and Inyuyasha.
When combined with a Shonen Jump subscription, manga readers will have access to over 25,000 chapters of manga with “further expansion in the works,” according to Viz Media. The release of Viz Manga will now serve as direct competition to Crunchyroll’s manga service, which was released back in 2013.
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More interestingly, the service will release English chapters of ongoing manga the same day it releases in Japan. This will likely help curb the ongoing manga industry’s issue of piracy, as unauthorized translations tend to appear hours after a new manga chapter is published in Japan.
“With this new development, VIZ Media builds on its history of innovation and experimentation,” Viz Media CEO Ken Sasaki said. “We want our world-class creators to reach as wide an audience as possible while reinforcing that manga should be read from the official source.”
Viz Manga is available on the App Store and Google Play.
Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
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