Crunchyroll has already conquered anime, and now it's setting its sights on manga…again

A new manga reading app is coming to town, this time from the anime juggernaut that is Crunchyroll.

This week at CES 2025, during at Sony press conference that brought all kinds of revelations, Crunchyroll announced that it has a new app on the way, this time one that lets you read manga. according to Crunchyroll's own websitethe app “will join the service as a core add-on, slated to launch later in 2025,” and that it will “launch on its own, called Crunchyroll Manga, on iOS and Android with web browser support planned for the future. “Currently there are only plans to launch it in English in the US and Canada, with other languages ​​to come at some point, but there was no word on when it would come to other territories.

Not only that, there wasn't even any proof as to what you can even read on it. Viz, one of the main manga publishers, has its own app, with titles like Inuyasha and Uzumaki available to read, and there is also the Shonen Jump app, where you can almost all weekly Shonen Jump titles can be read as Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen. Crunchyroll could obviously join other, smaller publishers, but some of the most popular titles around are already covered. And then, there's the matter of Crunchyroll itself.

Initially, he had a manga service up until last monthbut he didn't particularly like it, nor was there much to read about it. Beyond that, there are users and subscribers always expressing frustration with the anime app because of its simplicity and lack of features, so there is little reason to be confident in a new app. It's no surprise that Crunchyroll wants to move into manga as well, but we'll have to see if the app is any good.