Site Poll - Chat Box 143 - Online Manga Readers

14 years ago
Posts: 79
Quote from mu2020
how could it make reading manga easier?? with physical manga you can read it while on the toilet. and you don't need to be online..
Well if you have a mobile device like me you'll never be without your precious manga especially on the toilet.
Things I enjoy:
- Badassery. I love being, doing, and living it. I also enjoy seeing it as it usually makes me cry man tears.
- Badassness.
- Badasses.
- Badass mofos.
- Manly badasses.
Things that I hate:
- Wimpy protagonists.
- Girly protagonists (if they're men).
- Douchie protagonists.
- Idiotic protagonists.
- Over-the-line rude protagonists.
14 years ago
Posts: 227
I voted "Not worth lower quality", that is why the only online reader I used was mangatoshokan, until they removed their Japanese titles. I am a quality freak when it comes to manga, so I can't stand what the majority of online readers does. :/ Some are especially bad and totally butcher releases, converting from png to lower resolution low quality jpg.
Another point in favour of that site was that they usually had multiple releases of a chapter on the site. So you could follow a certain group if you preferred it. Having both the HQ and LQ releases there is nice, many other sites just grab whichever release was first and don't update with the better one. A good example of this is the series Sheryl - Kiss in the Galaxy, the first group that released is on the majority of online reader sites, the quality is half as good, if even that.

14 years ago
Posts: 479
Quote from mu2020
how could it make reading manga easier?? with physical manga you can read it while on the toilet. and you don't need to be online..
just as for scanlation teams, Online manga readers only help popularize the manga... but for publisher, they are both a gift and a curse ^_^
Mango app for Android.
Read all manga from my smartphone.
I can read any manga I want on the toilet. And I dont need to have loads of manga wasting space in my room.

14 years ago
Posts: 27
I use them quite a lot. I read most of my manga online, but i buy my share of volumes too. I like to re-read manga in my native languange and it´s nice to know that i support mangaka and publisher by doing so.
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14 years ago
Posts: 10892
Poll's over
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14 years ago
Posts: 215
Quote from mu2020
how could it make reading manga easier?? with physical manga you can read it while on the toilet. and you don't need to be online..
just as for scanlation teams, Online manga readers only help popularize the manga... but for publisher, they are both a gift and a curse ^_^
Well for one not every series is translated and not everyone that reads them can read the originals in the first place. Many of my favourite series are not licensed in English and I can't read Japanese. Second a volume of mange needs to wait for each chapter to come out and then be compiled so you are weeks behind the story while the internet allows you to keep up with the most popular ones as they are released in their serialization Oh and they don't cost twelve bucks a book. for series like Bleach and Naruto that reaching over 600 bucks just to have physical copies of that series.
i know that without mange readers I would not have even heard of many of my most favorite mangas like Ares and MX0.
14 years ago
Posts: 298
Quote from switchgear
Quote from mu2020
how could it make reading manga easier?? with physical manga you can read it while on the toilet. and you don't need to be online..
just as for scanlation teams, Online manga readers only help popularize the manga... but for publisher, they are both a gift and a curse ^_^
Well for one not every series is translated and not everyone that reads them can read the originals in the first place. Many of my favourite series are not licensed in English and I can't read Japanese. Second a volume of mange needs to wait for each chapter to come out and then be compiled so you are weeks behind the story while the internet allows you to keep up with the most popular ones as they are released in their serialization Oh and they don't cost twelve bucks a book. for series like Bleach and Naruto that reaching over 600 bucks just to have physical copies of that series.
i know that without mange readers I would not have even heard of many of my most favorite mangas like Ares and MX0.
This was all possible loooooong before online manga readers even existed.
Manga Readers making manga 'more accessible' is a non-argument, sure they might make it easier to sample before buying/downloading, but we're talking about 15MB per chapter on average here... It's faster to simply download and look at them to use those annoying readers.
P.S. Another mayor annoyance is that most readers (actually pretty much all of them) don't support full-screen reading all that well (i.e. fill screen)... Something that has been possible natively on computers since the dawn of graphics.