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One day Honda lists his ideal type of woman to his friend, and then the next day, his delinquent classmate has come to class with her blond hair dyed black and is acting just as he described! What could this possibly mean? Continue reading...

Daichi and Akira are childhood friends who have been dating for years, but when Daichi attends Akira's school festival, he discovers a whole new side to his beloved girlfriend. Continue reading...

Most places offer other ways to verify, like Steam I think you can do it with a credit card or feed them a facial scan or ID or something else

That makes sense, with every country bringing in or looking to bring in those kinds of laws it's in their best interest to do that now vs later.

Not surprised; I've thought since they started that they'd ruin afoul of the payment processors in time. I guess restricting new subscriptions in certain regions was in an attempt to prevent such.

That author is really bad for putting things on pause. I'm still waiting for 'em to go back to Altina the Sword Princess...

Shimura Takako's acclaimed Wandering Son series finally makes its way back to the English market with these new editions from Takumigraphics. Continue reading...

We actually have coverage ourselves from the time, looks like I was right that they just rolled it in a couple of years later. https://animeuknews.net/2015/01/crunchyroll-manga-now-free-for-all-premium-members/

You had to have the all-access tier or manga members sub. Back then they had options for Anime, Free Membership, Drama (which I didn't remember existed until looking now), and the all-access which combined Anime, Drama and Manga (when it launched) into one...

I don't think it was in the standard subscription; I remember I used to pay more for it when it first launched in its previous form. They may have rolled it in down the line, but it was definitely additional cost at some point.

It's another case of being in a separate tier, so it kind of is an increase if you want access but isn't affecting the base CR subs. Also afaik there's nothing exclusive here, rather than licensing things like the old CR manga did, everything is sublicensed from someone else.

Kizumonogatari returns with a compilation film to cut down the original trilogy, but does it do justice to the beloved Monogatari franchise? Continue reading...

With its anime adaptation drawing to a close, we return to Nachi Aono's original manga. Continue reading...

Square Enix Manga brings us a new fantasy romance, but with a twist! A prince who dreams of being doted on and a boisterous noble lady who wants to shower her husband-to-be with affection. Continue reading...

It's hard to justify a long run when it's something readily available on streaming, that unfortunately does lose a lot of your audience.