Welcome to the Manga Resources Thread!
In this thread, you will be able to find the most helpful and widely used resources. To make reading manga an enjoyable and simple experience, we want to be able to provide you with the most trustful and up-to-date sites, and share with you, basic information about manga.
Manga Websites
Manga Terms
How to Read a Manga
Manga Recommendations
Popular Manga
| Manga Websites |
VIZ Manga
Viz manga, the official manga site for Viz Media, provides you with a library filled with digital and print copies of a variety of manga. Standing to be one of the largest Japanese entertainment companies to provide you with manga and anime, you are free to browse through the collection and purchase/download manga (including free previews). Weekly Shonen Jumps are available for purchase; however, every week they release a new copy for free, but for only that week alone, for all devices (you must have an account, though).
VIZ Manga App
Buy manga volumes from all your favorite series, read free previews or subscribe to Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, all from inside the VIZ Manga app. It's a good way to read digital manga for both hard-core collectors & new fans alike!
Manga Reader
Here you can read your favorite manga scans and scanlations. This website is free to use, daily updated and has a large database. Popular examples of the manga this website has to offer are Naruto, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Death Note, Steins;Gate, Kaichou wa Maid-sama, and Dengeki Daisy.
Manga Here
This website offers a large variety of manga to read with more than 10.000 titles to choose from. The site is daily updated and offers translations in both English and Spanish. Popular titles include One Piece, Beelzebub, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ao no Exorcist, Bakuman., The Breaker: New Waves, and Girl the Wild’s.
Read Manga
This website offers a large variety of manga for you to read in your leisure time. New content is added every some minutes. Popular manga you can find on this site are D. Gray-Man, The God of High School, King of Hell, Gintama, Air Gear, Full Metal Alchemist, and Noblesse.
Manga Updates
Manga updates offers the latest news to stay updated on the latest series and release information. It’s the place to check out daily when you want to stay up-to-date with your favorite manga series.
| Manga Terms |
In the following link, you can read the most commonly found and used terms in anime and manga.
Terminology
| How to Read a Manga |
"Unlike English, which is read from left to right, Japanese is read from right to left meaning that action, sound effects and word-balloon order are completely reversed - something which can make readers unfamiliar with Japanese feel pretty backwards for themselves. For this reason, manga or Japanese comics published in the U.S. in English have sometimes been published “flopped” - that is, printed in exact reverse order, as though seen from the other side of a mirror.
By flopping pages, U.S. publishers can avoid confusing readers, but the compromise is not without its downside. For one thing, a character in a flopped manga series who once wore in the original Japanese version a T-shirt emblazoned with “M A Y” (as in “the merry month of”) now wears one which reads “Y A M”! Additionally, many manga creators in Japan are themselves unhappy with the process, as some feel the mirror-imaging of their art changes their original intentions."
-EDITOR of Dragon Drive
| Manga Recommendations |
Now that you have gone through most of the helpful information in this thread and understand the basics about manga, and have browsed through a few of the resources available, you can use the following link to receive recommendations and also provide recommendations to other manga readers who may be interested in finding a few titles.
Manga Recommendations thread
| Popular Manga |
Naruto
Naruto is a ninja-in-training with an incorrigible knack for mischief. His wild antics amuse his teammates, but Naruto is completely serious about one thing: becoming the world's greatest ninja!
Twelve years ago the Village Hidden in the Leaves was attacked by a fearsome threat. A nine-tailed fox spirit claimed the life of the village leader, the Hokage, and many others. Today, the village is at peace, and a troublemaking kid named Naruto is struggling to graduate from Ninja Academy. His goal may be to become Hokage, but his true destiny will be much more complicated.
One Piece
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years, later, Luffy sets off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world...
Bleach
Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts--he was born with the gift. When his family is attacked by a Hollow--a malevolent lost soul--Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits themselves find peace.
Death Note
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer.
Fairy Tail
Lucy, a young Celestial Spirit Mage wants to join Fairy Tail, a guild that is legendary for their powerful wizards. On her travels she meets Natsu, a wizard that is famous for practicing the rare and powerful Dragon Slayer Magic, who also happens to be in Fairy Tail. After sharing an adventure together, Natsu helps Lucy to join the guild, where she befriends many other wizards and together they will face many an adversary, testing their strength, determination, and their bond.
Bakuman.
Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? Moritaka is hesitant to seriously consider Akito's proposal because he knows how difficult reaching the professional level can be. Still, encouragement from persistent Akito and motivation from his crush push Moritaka to test his limits!
Fullmetal Alchemist
Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders...even to kill. Except his powers aren't unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. And in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are...
D. Gray-Man
Set in a fictional end of the 19th century England, the story revolves around a teenage boy named Allen Walker who is cursed with a cross mark on his hand that turns his arm into an enormous weapon, which he uses to hunt down and kill akumas. An akuma, generated by a 1,000-year-old phantom, is implanted into a human's soul during a moment of devastation and despair. The phantom uses the demons to then carry out his goal: destroy all humankind.
Credit to Viz Media & Amazon for the descriptions.