Crunchyroll Manga App Launching In October

Crunchyroll Manga will be available on iOS and Android devices in both the United States and Canada starting on October 9. It will operate as a separate app from Crunchyroll’s main streaming service. Crunchyroll Ultimate Fan subscribers who already pay $15.99 per month will get the ad-free addition as a free bonus. No one has to worry about ads, though. Crunchyroll Manga “will offer unlimited ad-free reading across mobile and web, the ability to download chapters for offline viewing, light and dark mode settings, and the ability to build a personalized reading list with curated recommendations.”

The web reader version will launch a week later, on October 15. Users have two options:

• Crunchyroll Mega Fan + Manga – $15.49 USD / $17.49 CAD per month (includes Manga add-on at $3.50 USD / $5.00 CAD)
• Crunchyroll Fan + Manga – $11.99 USD / $15.49 CAD per month (includes Manga add-on at $4.00 USD / $5.50 CAD)

The app will immediately offer some big titles from major publishers who have joined as partners. That includes mangas from AlphaPolis, COMPASS, Square Enix, VIZ Media, and Yen Press, with additional partners like Shueisha and J-Novel Club to follow. Notable titles cited in the press release announcing the release date include: One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, My Dress-Up Darling, The Summer Hikaru Died, Lycoris Recoil, Delicious in Dungeon, Sasaki and Miyano, Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy, Maiden of the Dragon: Falling for the Demon’s Lies, and “many more, spanning multiple genres.”

If Crunchyroll Manga is as popular as we expect it to be, a lot more titles will follow. And when they do they’ll follow you everywhere you go.