11 Answers2026-06-23
The site is still shut down which I'm very bitter about. It had a really unique layout and even though the comments were somewhat dysfunctional on occasion, reading through the comments for every episode was half the fun of watching the show. All the replacement sites for the show are pretty soulless compared. The "legitimate" sites have very basic, uninterested designs and the "pirate" sites are all just video streams of TV shows with big "DOWNLOAD NOW" buttons all over them. I'm forced to watch the show on one site and then go to Reddit or the show's Discord channel to discuss the show with others. The experience of watching TV shows has been severely split.
8 Answers2026-06-21
Manga Reader (the one with the blue book icon) has a lot of new users lately. Manga Reader is available on the Play Store, which is great for me since I’m on Android. It supports a large library of Manga sites and aggregators. It’s very easy to read with plenty of customisation for things like viewer type and brightness. There are ads in the free version of the app, but the premium unlock is a one-off purchase, not a subscription, which I like. Manga source updates can sometimes take a while to roll out when a site’s layout changes. It doesn’t have the same level of tracking for reading completion that some of the other apps do, but that’s about it. If you want a no-fuss, download-from-the-Store app that works most of the time, Manga Reader is a very strong contender.
8 Answers2025-11-03
A social graph to discover more of what your friends are reading would be amazing to have integrated into an app, similar to how the official Webtoon app has friends that you can follow. Most manga reading is a solo activity, so an app that combined an amazing reader with a very light social aspect to connect with friends and get them to read a book that you think they would enjoy would be the best.
Algorithms can suggest content, but personal recommendations are so much better. That’s why I think the best book recommendations come from friends and family, and I would love an app that has a good reader integrated with a social layer of minimal intrusion that allows users to easily follow friends and send each other recommendations.
4 Answers2026-07-06
When looking for alternative sources of sexual content I surprisingly found a lot of good quality, boundary pushing artists on Behance (a website for creative artists to showcase their work) as well as on NSFW ‘secret’ blogs on Tumblr (a blogging website that still has a lot of adult content up – if you know where to look). NewTumbl is an attempt to recreate Tumblr, but it’s very much a ghost town at the moment. PornHub also have a ‘Model Hub’ section which is largely commercial and not really what I’m looking for. Each of these sites has their own quirks and ways of working (Tumblr’s tagging system is a complete mess, for example, while Behance is very strictly moderated).
10 Answers2025-11-05
Seriously though, does anyone else just use Google to find their Manga to read? I don't really have a home page or anything, so when I want to read something, I just search for the title of the Manga and the chapter number I'm on, then click the first result that isn't a list of ads. Sometimes it's Mangadex, sometimes it's Mangasee, other times it's some other site or even some aggregator that I've never heard of before. It's pretty chaotic, but hey, it works for me. Since I'm not really invested in any particular platform or site, this method of reading Manga online accepts the chaos for what it is and continues to work even when a site is down. It's the path of least resistance, really.
4 Answers2026-08-06
I’ve found that most sites that advertise ‘no ads’ are either dishonest, will be inundated with ads in the near future, or even host stolen content. I try to stick with the publisher’s own app and clearly stated model for revenue generation. For example, free chapters of current titles are uploaded daily to my Shonen Jump app, and the reading experience is consistently excellent – high-res pages etc. Archive.org does have a huge text collection of older completed titles, but it is a real pain to navigate. That said, it is an amazing resource for public domain and even independently published works. For someone who reads a huge amount of manga, however, saving up for a Viz book or subscribing to Kindle Unlimited is the best way to go.
8 Answers2026-06-09
My own experience with webcomics is not nearly broad enough to make a definitive list like that. As I said, I read a couple of long-running webcomics many years ago from the authors’ own sites. Since then, the rest of the webcomic scene has exploded and moved to a host of new platforms. Maybe I’ll check some of them out.
6 Answers2026-07-27
Trading is probably the most underappreciated method of getting e-books. I'm part of a few book groups where we swap files with each other. One person buys a book, removes the DRM (which is legal in certain circumstances to use personally), and then shares it with the group. The next person buys a different book and removes the DRM from that, sharing that with the group. The system is small, reliant on trust, but very cheap and very fair - it's like sharing physical books with friends. Not really suitable for wider distribution, but it's a very nice way of sharing books with a group of friends who read similar things to you and are also technically-minded enough to deal with whatever software is needed to share the files.
7 Answers2026-01-30
I just wanted to say that I miss Batoto so much when it was the best. All manga and novels were in one place. The interface was very simple and comfortable to use. I have not found any other application or website that can give me the same feeling as I have now. I am trying to manage to read my novels by putting bookmarks on a few of my favorite web pages in my bookmark folders. But sometimes I get so frustrated that I wish to give up reading novels all together because the effort of searching for chapters that have been translated properly into English is just not worth it. I know this is a bit dramatic but this is how I feel right now.
4 Answers2025-11-06
Here’s a brief rundown on the different anime streaming services from a practical perspective. Choose the ones that contain the type of mature anime that you’re looking for. For current season anime (pretty much all raw with a large amount of sub-only premieres), I’d recommend starting with Crunchyroll. For more cinematic and auteur-driven works, including many anime films, Netflix is a great choice and contains a lot of boundary-pushing anime that really delve into style and theme in a deep way, similar to works like Perfect Blue.
I also use HIDIVE to find the classic anime, fully uncensored anime, and all of the really obscure cult style titles that aren’t available on the other services. Often times a title will be available on HIDIVE that isn’t available on the other services. I also like to switch services by season to try to get the most bang for my buck and to keep my watchlist varied and exciting. There is really a lot of great dark and thought provoking anime out there for us to watch.