The anime streaming service Crunchyroll will launch a new subscription manga service, Crunchyroll Manga, which will debut on October 9, 2025, for iOS and Android and October 15 for the web. The new platform will include titles from VIZ Media, Yen Press, and Square Enix, as well as two digital-only Japanese publishers, AlphaPolis and COMPASS. More publishers, including Shueisha, J-Novel Club, ThirdlineNEXT, and highstone are expected to sign on as well. The initial lineup includes such anime-driven best-sellers as One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, My Dress-Up Darling, The Summer Hikaru Died, Lycoris Recoil, Delicious in Dungeon, and The Apothecary Diaries.
The service offers unlimited, ad-free reading on mobile devices as well as the web, and readers can download chapters to read offline.
Crunchyroll Manga will be available as a separate app from the Crunchyroll anime service but appears to be available only as an add-on to existing Crunchyroll subscriptions, which come in three tiers: Ultimate Fan subscribers will get the manga service for no additional charge, while Mega Fan subscribers can add it for $3.50 per month and Fan subscribers for $4.00.
“Anime and manga have always been two sides of the same coin, and Crunchyroll is uniquely positioned to bring them together for fans everywhere,” said Asa Suehira, Chief Content Officer at Crunchyroll, in a statement accompanying the announcement. “With this launch, we’re not just creating another reading app, we’re expanding the ultimate anime lifestyle experience, uniting stories on the screen with those on the page.”
Crunchyroll launched an earlier manga service in 2013 (see “Crunchyroll Sold”) but shut it down in 2023. That service had a much smaller range of titles, most of them from Kodansha. They announced the new digital manga app in January 2025 (see “Crunchyroll to Launch Digital Manga Service”).
Source: ICv2
