Where Can I Read 'I'Ll Teach You To Kiss' Manhwa Online?

Unorganized as it is, this is how I do things. My bookmark page has over 15 different manhwa sites all neatly organized in folders. When searching for a specific series I normally open 3-4 of the sites in different tabs and compare the following: image quality, ad size (with ad blocker enabled of course), and how user friendly the site is to read. It adds about a minute to finding a series but 9 times out of 10 I’ll find a better version of the manhwa than what I would have found by clicking the first result in a Google search. I do this because it is basically digital window shopping for the best way to read a series. The “best” site to read a series can change from series to series, and even within a series from chapter to chapter, depending on how up to date the best mirror is.

Many older readers remember the time of scanlation groups who proudly placed their watermark on the first page of their releases. You used to search for certain groups that were known for their quality. With the growing number of official apps and aggregator sites, which strip their users of all credit for their work, that culture has largely disappeared. For Borderline, I haven’t seen any notable fan group give it a read. But it’s there, everywhere, anonymously. This removes the translator’s voice from the manga reading experience and the community surrounding a release. Even the official translation reads professionally but is anonymously given to us readers. We’ve become so useable that our loss of connection to the content we read is felt so little. My “where” would be nostalgic for these “fan groups” but for now my practical click is the Webtoon app where Borderline reliably appears.

Does anyone use Tachiyomi for Android? It lets you add dozens of sources, including scanlation groups and some official ones. For 'Trapped', for example, you can find it listed by various sources, including some that post the official free chapters on WEBTOON. Note that Tachiyomi is not an app you can find in app stores, it's a GitHub project that you sideload to your Android device. The setup is a bit of a kerfuffle, but once you've got it up and running, it's an utterly beautiful, ad-free reading experience. It even tracks your progress and notifies you of updates for dozens of series. The boundaries of ethics for reading on Tachiyomi depend heavily on the source extension(s) that you use to read. Some extensions simply pull official free chapters from the service in question. Others pull in fan translated chapters that have been locked down by the creator, which has its own set of moral implications. As for the app itself, it’s an excellent, flexible reader for Android that I highly recommend to people who are comfortable with a little tech setup to read all of their comics in one place. Just be sure to find out where the content is actually coming from.

Be aware that some of these “free” reading sites are very malicious. My friend recently got a nasty browser hijacker from one of these sites. It was a pain to clean up from, and it had a lot of pop-unders, fake download buttons, and even some redirects to phishing pages. This means you must use private browsing, and even then be extremely careful – better open up a special browser which you only use for these shady websites and never log into online banking, shop etc. Even with a repulsive ad blocker like uBlock Origin, reading on these “free” websites is simply too risky for me. It’s worth the few coins to support the digital book industry and download a high-quality reading app for your mobile device. The cost of an app is a small price to pay for the peace of mind and protection of your device and self.

I'm a r/manhwa lurker. A new chapter will be posted and then commented with the link to read it in the comments within minutes of the post. Then I click on the link, read it, and close the tab. This is the ultimate low-effort method for keeping up with my favorite manga. I don't even have to bookmark sites anymore since Reddit is my default homepage for reading manga. Also, discussions in the community help me distinguish between a bad translation and a bad site. It turns reading manga into a social experience instead of just searching for sites. The knowledge of the community is even more valuable than a list of "the best sites to read manga". It turns reading Manhwa into a social, communal activity and the crowd-sourced knowledge of a community is far more valuable than any ‘best site’ list.

Normally I can find all the titles I’m interested in on a few major platforms, but so far none of them have this one. Right now your best option for this story would be to look for the original Korean on KakaoPage or to buy the printed books. This story was so damn good for me and the artwork/mood was also so great.

Finding free manhwa is like searching for treasure. Sometimes you can find some, but other times the link is behind a paywall. So for Shark, I used the search function on Toonily and ManhwaTop. (Sometimes they update new titles so bookmark the site and come back later). I also came across a Twitter thread with an Imgur album per chapter, but the quality was very inconsistent. On forums like the Anime-Planet forums, users sometimes share content that they have themselves scanned and uploaded. Just keep in mind that by reading manhwa for free you’re not supporting the creators. If you can afford to, you should support them by buying the official manhwa when it comes out.

The two real options for getting to read ‘Ennead’ online are Webtoon and possibly Lezhin. Sure, there might be some sites that you can use to access Webtoon if it’s blocked in your region, but using a VPN and reading it on the official source is always going to be the better option. Every other way to read comics online is a parasite draining life from the rights holder, and the best way to experience a super-pretty comic like ‘Ennead’ is on the platform where it was uploaded by the creator in the highest quality possible.

I read Webtoon on their app, which is really designed for vertical scroll comics that are usually all full color. Lezhin on the other hand hosts more traditional page formatted comics like ‘Jinx’ and their app is optimized for that kind of artwork and panel flow. Trying to read a page based manhwa on an app designed for vertical scroll comics is really a clunky experience and a bad legal reading experience. The Lezhin app is the right tool for ‘Jinx’ as it makes your reading experience much more comfortable. Reading a page-based manhwa on an app geared for vertical scroll comics can be very frustrating. Accessing legal content is one thing, but having a quality reading experience is another. Lezhin’s app is specifically geared towards content such as ‘Jinx’ (a page-based manhwa in full color) and thus offers the best reading experience for its artwork and panel layout.

I read translation blogs via RSS. Many blogs that post on aggregators also have an RSS feed to their individual blog, which I can then add to my RSS reader (e.g. Feedly). In this way, new chapters of a long translation are delivered to me in a similar way to a podcast, without my having to visit the individual website of each translator. And if a translator moves from a Blogspot blog to a WordPress.com blog and then to his or her own domain name, all I have to do is update the URL for that feed in my reader. While RSS does not solve the source problem (i.e. why do translators stop updating a given blog?), it does make continued reading of a stable translator’s blog a serene activity, with no ads, no clicking, just text, a relic from an earlier internet that somehow works very well for this.