Crunchyroll and Kodansha team up for digital manga service

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Joshawott

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Today, anime streaming website Crunchyroll announced that they have formed a partnership with the Japanese manga publisher Kodansha, expansing their website from just anime and drama simulcasts to manga with Crunchyroll Manga - a service launching next week on 30th October that will allow customers to read new chapters in twelve of Kodansha's hottest properties the day they are released in Japan to over 170 countries, including the United Kingdom. The current list of titles is:

- A Town Where You Live

- As The Gods Will - The Second Series

- Attack On Titan

- Coppelion!

- Fairy Tail

- Fort of Apocalypse

- My Wife is Wagatsuma-san

- Mysterious Girlfriend X

- Space Brothers

- The Seven Deadly Sins

- UQ Holder!

- Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Users with a Crunchyroll Premium Account will be able to read new chapters as well as catalogue chapters, whereas free users will only be able to read newly released chapters during the week they are released. This service will be available on both laptop/desktops, as well as Crunchyroll's iOS and Android apps.
 
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This'll be smarter >.> you beat me to it by like 1 minute XD Still, this is pretty big news, an excuse to keep hold of the subscription now too
 
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Arbalest said:
This'll be smarter >.> you beat me to it by like 1 minute XD Still, this is pretty big news, an excuse to keep hold of the subscription now too
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*Evil cackle*

I noticed that Crunchyroll didn't state whether this will work with their console applications. Small detail, but interesting.
 
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Can I be the first to say it's about frigging time someone did this? There's nothing on the list that I'm jumping up and down to read, but this is exactly how I would like digital manga to be made available and I'm very pleased to see CR doing it.
 
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This sounds very promising. Looking forward to reading Mysterious Girlfriend X and checking out Attack on Titan too.
 
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but but....... Crunchy censor anime......

Fairy tail is just going to be big black bars with chat boxes the way the manga is atm :D
 
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Ryo Chan said:
but but....... Crunchy censor anime......

Fairy tail is just going to be big black bars with chat boxes the way the manga is atm :D
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they don't really, otherwise valvrave would be nothing but stills and steam.
 
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In those instances, isn't it that Crunchyroll simply receives the broadcast versions of some anime?
 
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not a clue, fate kaleid liner prisma illya and strike witches season 2 were pretty censored though,

although i suppose they have very good reasons for those 2 :D

will be interesting to see how who'll get the chapters out first, fan-subbers or crunchyroll
 
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Such great news! Hopefully this will encourage more publishers to get involved and more Manga will get released outside of Japan! :)
 
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Lawrence said:
But Strike Witches was censored on TV as well. That's how they sell the DVDs, because they contain all the unedited material.
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then why does funi censor is this a zombie? yet crunchie didn't
 
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Ryo Chan said:
Lawrence said:
But Strike Witches was censored on TV as well. That's how they sell the DVDs, because they contain all the unedited material.
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then why does funi censor is this a zombie? yet crunchie didn't
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I think it all depends on which version of the show the Japanese give licensing companies. Maybe they have Crunchyroll and uncensored version, while they gave FUNimation censored materials?
 
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So only 'All Access' members can read the full catalogue of manga volumes, anime members only get the latest chapters, the same as free members...
 
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Ok, so the service is up and running now, and they have all chapters available. the catch is, despite responses to the matter, The manga section DOES NOT come included in the anime subscription, despite the fact crunchyroll suggested it does. Instead, you can change to a full premium membership which costs £8.99 which covers the manga section. You can still read the newest chapters available, but that's it, and they are behind adverts.

I kind of knew this would happen overall, however i feel that crunchyroll may have misled some people into thinking it wouldn't cost anything more. I guess it could be worse though, £8.99 for everything on their site isn't too bad
 
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kuuderes_shadow said:
despite the fact crunchyroll suggested it does
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Where did they suggest this?
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It was over twitter, a fan had asked if being part of the anime subscription would get them access to the manga stuff, and they did. it was a fairly vague answer for them so it could have been easily interpreted as meaning the sub wouldn't change/or have a new sub variant.

Here's the tweet i'm referring to https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/status/ ... 9167625216
 
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I'm pretty sure their original announcement page said that premium members would get access to all the manga, whereas free members would just get the latest chapters. Now the page has changed to state that anime members don't get manga unless they upgrade to a full subscription.
 
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That's unfortunate. I understand the logic, but it would have been nice if they'd been clearer about that from start. As is, I wouldn't consider shelling out any extra before their selection becomes substantially larger.
 
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The other "major" thing that may keep people away is that, while officially they are up to date, scanlators generally get early copies of the volumes, so you'd find that scanlators are always going to be one chapter ahead of what crunchyroll has to offer. This may put people off because of their impatience to continue, while it may not affect others who are just finally catching up using crunchys new full access(though Space brothers isn't actually following the weekly releases at all, it's about 6 volumes behind).

I had a feeling this would happen, but as to how everyone deals with it i couldn't say.
 
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Another letdown appears to be that not all chapters will be included for series that have print releases in English (e.g. Attack on Titan) as to not harm the sales of the physical manga. It's definitely not worth upgrading my subscription at this point, no matter how much I want to read the Mysterious Girlfriend X manga... :S
 
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