New Digital Manga Store MangaPlaza Promises Fans Value & Huge Catalogue
MangaPlaza is a new massive manga digital store with a localized and tailored reading experience focused on giving overseas fans the best experience.
MangaPlaza, a new, massive digital store is about to launch, promising to bring top-quality localized manga to fans worldwide. The market for manga continues to grow in America and Europe, with what was once considered a niche fandom spreading across pop culture and creating the conditions for varied services that answer a now significant demand.
MangaPlaza is the latest venture of NTT Solmare Corp, whose digital manga and e-book site Comic C'moA has been an industry leader in Japan and Greater Asia for 17 years. At its launch, MangaPlaza is already one of the largest digital manga content libraries in the US, featuring nearly 50,000 chapters and 2,000 titles from major publishers such as Kodansha and KADOKAWA, including fan favorites such as Attack on Titan, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and new titles that have not been previously released in English. MangaPlaza's core focus is on a localized, tailored, and reasonably priced service targeting an overseas audience, in order to provide the optimal reading experience.
Solmare promoted its new platform with a pre-registration campaign and through the collaboration with popular YouTube influencer Akidearest, who provided short reviews of many manga that will be available through MangaPlaza. New users will be offered a free 7-day trial, and those who register on launch day (March 1) will also be eligible to win a $10 Amazon gift card. The monthly subscription fee is $6.99, which gives unlimited access to around 13,000 chapters, or for a nominal fee ranging from $0.45 to $3.99, readers can purchase them individually without a subscription. The first chapter of most available titles in the library, including Attack on Titan, is also offered for free to registered users, with or without a subscription. MangaPlaza announced its services in a YouTube video, below.
The most-read manga during the campaign period was Obey Me! The Comic, based on the hit mobile simulation game, Obey Me!, released by Solmare in 2019, with over 6 million downloads worldwide. MangaPlaza's focus on a tailored experience aims to provide users with recommended content based on their interests, drawn from a wide variety of genres, including shōnen, shōjo, seinen, josei, and a range of romance.
All the titles on MangaPlaza are officially licensed from more than 30 publishers, with MangaPlaza stressing that the platform supports creators and their work. This is particularly important at a time when all the major manga publishers have rallied in an effort to fight online piracy. MangaPlaza's core tenets will be music to manga fans' ears as it launches, offering a huge range of titles with specific focus on giving the medium's overseas audience the conveniences they've spent years trying to find.
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