Crunchyroll Manga brings hundreds of series to subscribers as web reader opens

October 15 brings manga reading to the web

Crunchyroll Manga is extending its new subscription service to desktop and laptop readers on October 15, 2025, six days after launching on iOS and Android in the United States and Canada. The separate app brings hundreds of Japanese comic series together, including One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, The Apothecary Diaries and Delicious in Dungeon, with access included for Ultimate Fan members or available through a paid addition to other membership tiers.

Crunchyroll has built the service with Link-U, a Japanese company that provides technology for digital manga platforms. Its publishing partners include VIZ Media, Yen Press, Square Enix, AlphaPolis and COMPASS. Readers get unlimited access to included series without advertising, along with downloads for reading offline.

The launch expands Crunchyroll beyond anime streaming while connecting the two activities through the same account and profile system. Manga reading takes place in its own interface rather than inside the video app. For subscribers, the arrangement brings the convenience of a single sign in and one bill while keeping a reading experience designed specifically for comics.

Crunchyroll is also returning to a business it left in 2023, when its previous manga app closed. The rebuilt service arrives with a larger group of publishing partners, offline reading and a pricing structure tied to its existing subscription tiers. Its immediate reach is limited to English readers in the United States and Canada, with more languages planned as the service grows.

How the rollout reached today's web launch

Crunchyroll introduced the manga app as part of its wider entertainment plans at Sony's CES 2025 press conference in Las Vegas. Company president Rahul Purini described a service that would sit alongside anime, games and merchandise within the Crunchyroll membership.

The launch has unfolded across several dates, with mobile access arriving before the web reader:

• 2023: Crunchyroll's previous manga app closed.
• CES 2025: Rahul Purini outlined the new manga service during Sony's press conference in Las Vegas.
• October 9, 2025: Crunchyroll Manga launched on iOS and Android in the United States and Canada.
• October 15, 2025: The web reader opens, extending access to desktop and laptop users.

The separate reading app complements the streaming membership rather than replacing it. Fans can use the same account for both services, whether they want to read beyond an anime's current story arc or revisit a favorite scene in its original comic form.

Which publishers and series are included?

VIZ Media, Yen Press, Square Enix, AlphaPolis and COMPASS give the service a library drawn from several publishers rather than a single company's catalog. Crunchyroll says hundreds of series will span established hits, newer titles attracting attention and works debuting digitally.

The selection covers shonen, seinen, shojo and josei, publishing categories broadly associated with boys, men, girls and women. Bringing those categories together allows readers with different tastes to browse the same service instead of moving between apps or websites devoted to individual publishers.

Launch communications and event demonstrations have highlighted the following titles:

• One Piece
• Jujutsu Kaisen
• Delicious in Dungeon
• The Apothecary Diaries
• My Dress Up Darling
• The Summer Hikaru Died
• Daemons of the Shadow Realm
• Lycoris Recoil
• Sasaki and Miyano
• Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy
• Maiden of the Dragon: Falling for the Demons Lies
• Spy x Family
• Black Clover
• Bleach
• Naruto
• Dr. Stone
• Haikyu!!
• Kaiju No. 8
• Spice and Wolf
• The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
• Bungo Stray Dogs
• Konosuba: Gods Blessing on This Wonderful World!
• Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
• Re:Monster
• Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Many of these series already have anime adaptations on Crunchyroll. Their presence creates a direct connection between watching a show and finding its manga, while the company says further titles and publishing partners will expand the library after launch. The exact selection can change as licenses are added or expire.

What readers can do inside the app

Crunchyroll Manga offers unlimited reading of included series without advertising. Readers can download chapters to use offline, making it possible to continue a story without an internet connection.

Light and dark modes give readers a choice of screen appearance. Pages can appear as single panels or full spreads covering two pages, preserving the layout of large reveals and action scenes that extend across an open book.

Personalized lists and the ability to follow series help readers keep track of their choices. Recommendations suggest other manga based on their tastes, while genre filters and series tags help narrow a broad library to something more manageable. Each series page displays the available chapters and volumes.

The interface uses design cues familiar from Crunchyroll's video app but keeps its focus on reading. Together, these features support both short sessions to catch up on a chapter and longer stretches spent working through a series.

What each subscription costs

Ultimate Fan members, whose subscription costs $15.99 per month, receive Crunchyroll Manga at no extra charge. Subscribers on the Fan and Mega Fan tiers can pay for bundles that add the manga service to their existing anime access.

• Fan plus Manga costs $11.99 per month, including a $4 manga addition to the Fan tier.
• Mega Fan plus Manga costs $15.49 per month, including a $3.50 manga addition to the Mega Fan tier.
• Ultimate Fan costs $15.99 per month and includes manga access without an additional payment.

The manga addition costs 50 cents less per month for Mega Fan members than for Fan members. The total price of Ultimate Fan is also 50 cents more than Mega Fan plus Manga, based on the listed monthly prices of $15.99 and $15.49.

All paid tiers that include manga provide unlimited reading without advertising on phones and tablets, with web access beginning October 15. The same account and billing arrangement connect the reading subscription to Crunchyroll's anime service, even though the two use separate interfaces.

The launch is in English in the United States and Canada. As with anime streaming, access to individual titles can vary by region over time because publishers license distribution rights for particular places.

Why putting publishers together matters

Legal manga reading has often required fans to navigate several publishers' apps, websites, logins and payment plans. Crunchyroll's approach puts catalogs from multiple companies under one subscription, reducing the work involved in finding and following series from different publishers.

Illegal scan sites offer another route to manga but take money away from creators and rights holders. Crunchyroll is betting that easier access and a clearer subscription package will make legal reading more attractive. Its stated aim is to make Japanese comics easier to find on devices fans already use.

Anime and manga also serve different parts of the same reading and viewing routine. A viewer may read ahead to discover what happens after an animated story arc, while another fan may return to the manga after an episode to experience the author's pacing and fuller treatment of the story.

Crunchyroll's combination of a large anime catalog and a neighboring manga service makes that movement easier. The practical change is that a reader can discover a series through animation, then look for the comic using an account already connected to their entertainment subscription.

What Crunchyroll's leaders say

Asa Suehira, Crunchyroll's chief content officer, described the app as an effort to simplify legal reading across publishers and genres. He also identified Link-U's technology experience as part of the service's development:

With the launch of Crunchyroll Manga, our goal is to deliver a seamless, all-in-one reading experience for fans. Developed in collaboration with Link-U, a leader in the Japanese digital manga space, the app brings top titles from multiple major publishers together in one place. It offers an intuitive interface, offline reading, and a growing, curated library of manga to explore. This is another step toward making Japanese storytelling more accessible to fans everywhere.

Rahul Purini, Crunchyroll's president, set out the app's role in the broader membership during Sony's CES 2025 press conference in Las Vegas. He linked the manga catalog to the stories behind anime and to the company's games and retail business:

Crunchyroll Manga will be a premiere online manga app that carries catalogs from renowned publishers, offering fans unparalleled access to the visionary works that inspire the anime we love. As we strengthen partnerships in this exciting new venture, we aim to add even more value to the Crunchyroll membership, complementing our vast anime library, Crunchyroll Game Vault, and extensive selection of products in the Crunchyroll Store.

Both statements place the app within Crunchyroll's existing membership business. Suehira focused on the reading experience and publisher access, while Purini described how manga would sit alongside video, Game Vault and products sold through the Crunchyroll Store.

A fan organizer sees room for more discovery

Victoria L. Johnson, known as Sailor Victoria, sees the combined library as a way to help readers discover categories that can be harder to find in print in the United States. Johnson founded Moonies Club, which produces the Sailor Moon Fan Club podcast and organizes Magical Girls Festival, a large event organized by fans in the United States.

Johnson welcomed the mix of publishers and pointed to demand for shojo and josei manga. She described a conversation at New York Comic Con about the NANA x Vivienne Westwood collaboration:

I'm super excited for Crunchyroll Manga, especially because they're pulling in manga from so many publishers. I'm especially happy that people will get more access to discover more shojo and josei manga, which doesn't always get printed in the U.S. I was at the VIZ Media booth at New York Comic Con, and they told me that the manga for the NANA x Vivienne Westwood collaboration sold out in 45 minutes. So the demand is clearly there.

Johnson also said the subscription price could make sense for people who read several volumes each month across different publishers. Her examples connected specific series from Square Enix, Yen Press and VIZ Media:

Being able to catch up on My Happy Marriage and The Apothecary Diaries from Square Enix, The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All from Yen Press, and Dr. Stone from VIZ Media in one place will be so convenient. I'm surprised at the price point, too. Most manga volumes are $10 to $15 each, so if you're an avid manga reader who doesn't mind reading digitally, it's a pretty good deal right now.

Her comparison puts the monthly charge beside the cost of buying individual volumes. For someone comfortable reading digitally and interested in several included series, the subscription offers a different way to budget for regular manga reading.

What expansion is planned?

Crunchyroll says the library will continue growing through additional titles and publishing partners. It also plans to add languages beyond English and keep refining the reading experience.

No dates have been detailed for additional languages or a rollout beyond the United States and Canada. Manga rights can differ by title and territory, and publishers often arrange availability in stages. Future expansion will depend on those agreements and the practical work of making the service available elsewhere.

October 15 is the next step already on the launch schedule, bringing the reader to the web. With mobile access established on October 9, the service now extends its planned reading options from phones and tablets to computers while retaining its separate app and connection to Crunchyroll membership tiers.

Key Points

• Crunchyroll Manga launched on iOS and Android in the United States and Canada on October 9, 2025, with web access opening October 15.
• The English launch brings hundreds of series from publishers including VIZ Media, Yen Press, Square Enix, AlphaPolis and COMPASS.
• Featured titles include One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, The Apothecary Diaries, Delicious in Dungeon, My Dress Up Darling and The Summer Hikaru Died.
• Reading features include unlimited access without advertising, offline downloads, light and dark modes, and spreads covering two pages.
• Fan plus Manga costs $11.99 monthly, Mega Fan plus Manga costs $15.49, and Ultimate Fan includes manga at its $15.99 monthly price.
• The separate manga app shares Crunchyroll's account and profile system, connecting reading and anime subscriptions through one sign in and bill.
• Crunchyroll plans more titles, publishing partners and languages, with no detailed timetable for expansion beyond the launch countries.
• The service aims to make legal manga more convenient by bringing several publishers together and reducing the appeal of piracy.