If you’re one of over 100 million people around the world who has had a delightful taste of the wonderful, magical world of Anime, you’d know it can be rather difficult to find legit media to satisfy our insatiable appetite for cute, cuddly characters with unrealistically large eyes.  This fact has been compounded with the legal clampdowns on previously reliable websites like AnimeSuki and Crunchyroll. As an avid otaku, yours truly has found some totally free ways to find manga (Japanese comics) for your reading pleasure.

1. How to Read Free Manga Online

The easiest way to get a hold of your favourite manga is to read it straight from the Web. There are tons of sites which host manga pages, but only a handful of them provide reliable loading times during rush hours and a diverse library of enjoyable reads. My personal favourite is OneManga.com, which has a simple interface for short loading times and boasts high quality scans. On the off chance that it somehow fails your expectations, you can try MangaFox.com too. These two sites should be more than enough.

2. How to Download Manga to your Computer

If you desire to store an entire collection of manga, and have the disk space to do so, then you can download manga straight into your computer. You’ll want to look for sites which don’t require a registration to download, as you may want to flick back and forth to determine which has the better quality scan. Some useful places to keep in mind are NarutoChuushin.com, MangaShare.com and Bleach7.com. Their interface may take some getting used to, but be patient, it’s worth it.

3. How to Read Untranslated Manga Scans

RAW scans are original manga scans which haven’t been translated yet. If you know Japanese, you can consider these scans as they have the advantage of appearing sooner than translated copies.  Some places you can find RAW manga scans are MangaShare.com and VeryManga.com. Bleach7.com offers RAWs too, but only for Bleach.

4. How to Read Manga in Different Languages

Not a native speaker of English? Don’t understand Japanese? Well, don’t worry, as there is manga in just about any language you can think of! I’ve seen Bleach and Naruto in Spanish, German, Chinese and even Bahasa Malaysia, and who knows how many other languages there might be out there! Click here to see for yourself!

5. How to Use Youtube to Read Manga

Who knew that Youtube could be used for reading manga? The tremendously popular video-sharing site has even evolved to accommodate us manga fans! The quality for most of the scans is readable, and the loading time is pretty fast too considering they’re static pages. If you can’t keep up with the playing speed, just pause the video and drag the play bar to whatever page you want to read. For some unknown reason, these scans can sometimes appear earlier than their counterparts on well-known manga sites! Go figure!  Here are a few good channels to start you off with.

This post was written by Aaron Pek.  Want to write for this blog?  Just contact me!

How do you get your manga fix?  Tell us in the comments!