Kodansha Launches K Manga Distribution Platform in the US

Publishing company Kodansha announced the launch of K Manga—a new manga distribution service—on Tuesday. The platform will be available exclusively as a smartphone app in the United States on May 10, with a website version to follow at a later date.

K Manga will launch with approximately 400 titles, including 70 ongoing series such as Edens Zero, Blue Lock, Kanojo, Okarishimasu (Rent-A-Girlfriend), Mokushiroku no Yonkishi (The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse), and Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san (Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro).

The catalog will also offer popular titles like Nanatsu no Taizai (The Seven Deadly Sins), Enen no Shouboutai (Fire Force), and Chihayafuru. The service will provide free manga chapters, with the amount of free manga that can be read per day being limited and varying by manga.

"The K Manga team is committed to continually creating content within the K Manga platform, bringing many brand new stories to US readers as they are simultaneously distributed in Japan," says project leader Yuta Hiroaka. "We hope that our audience will enjoy K Manga through encountering many never-before-seen stories, becoming a fan of those stories, and then watching the journey of how those stories become popular."

Official site: https://teaser.kmanga.kodansha.com/
Official Twitter: @KMANGA_KODANSHA

Source: Press Release

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