Digital Manga Service Azuki Coming to Web, iOS, and Android on June 28
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Azuki is a new digital manga service offering hundreds of manga chapters soon after they hit stores in Japan, officially licensed and in high quality. The service will launch on June 28, 2021 on Web, iOS, and Android and will offer content for both free and subscription s. Free s will be able to access select chapters with ments, while those who pay a monthly subscription fee of $4.99 can read Azuki's expansive catalog with no ads. Comment threads are available on each chapter for ed s to discuss the stories with fellow fans.
At launch, Azuki will be available in English worldwide excluding Japan, so fans everywhere can read manga in their web browser or on their mobile devices.
Azuki has announced their first publisher partnership, with Love Hina. The full list of titles is included below.
“We started Azuki to create a place where fans like us can come together in our shared ion for manga,” said Abbas Jaffery, co-founder and CEO. “Our goal is to not only reach the manga fans of today but to expand readership of manga as a whole by making it easier for everyone to experience all the wonderfully inventive stories manga has to offer. Kodansha shares in our vision for the future and has been an important ally in bringing Azuki to fruition.”
“We're excited to be on the ground floor of this new digital manga service to help expand the worldwide reach of our amazing manga titles,” said Alvin Lu, President and CEO of Kodansha USA Publishing. “We are very much aligned with Azuki's mission of expanding manga readership, and are happy to help this launch with such fan-favorite series like Attack on Titan, Battle Angel Alita, EDENS ZERO, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and more! We're sure you'll find a new favorite series by diving into the Kodansha catalog on Azuki.”
Readers can sign up to be reminded when the service launches by visiting https://Azuki.co or following Azuki's social media s at https://twitter.com/ReadAzuki, https://facebook.com/ReadAzuki, and https://instagram.com/ReadAzuki.
About Azuki and KiraKira Media Inc.
Azuki is created by KiraKira Media Inc., a proudly worker-owned business dedicated to improving access to legally licensed manga, led by a small team of ionate manga fans and tech experts in San Francisco, CA. KiraKira Media Inc.'s founders are Adela Chang, Abbas Jaffery, Evan Minto, and Krystyn Neisess.
About Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
A subsidiary of Kodansha, Japan's largest publisher, Kodansha USA Publishing is the English-language publisher of some of the world's most recognizable manga properties, including Penguin Random House Publisher Services, and their digital manga and select digital books are available across a number of digital comics, manga, and book vendors. For more information visit Kodansha.us.
Full List of Titles Available on Azuki
A Sign of Affection
Ace of the Diamond
Again!!
Alicia's Diet Quest
ALIVE
Arisa
As Gods Will The Second Series
Ayanashi
Basilisk
Battle Angel Alita
Defying Kurosaki-kun
Descending Stories
FukuFuku: Kitten Tales
Full-Time Wife Escapist
Grand Blue Dreaming
Happiness
Heroic Legend of Arslan
Kira-kun Today
Kiss for Real
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Negima!
Pitch-Black Ten
Prince in His Dark DAYS
School Rumble
Seven Deadly Sins: Shugo Chara-chan!
Silent Voice
Spoof on Titan
Springtime with Ninjas
Starving Anonymous
Suzuka
That Wolf-Boy is Mine!
The Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty
Walls Between Us
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
Yamada-kun and Seven Witches
Yozakura Quartet
At launch, Azuki will be available in English worldwide excluding Japan, so fans everywhere can read manga in their web browser or on their mobile devices.
Azuki has announced their first publisher partnership, with Love Hina. The full list of titles is included below.
“We started Azuki to create a place where fans like us can come together in our shared ion for manga,” said Abbas Jaffery, co-founder and CEO. “Our goal is to not only reach the manga fans of today but to expand readership of manga as a whole by making it easier for everyone to experience all the wonderfully inventive stories manga has to offer. Kodansha shares in our vision for the future and has been an important ally in bringing Azuki to fruition.”
“We're excited to be on the ground floor of this new digital manga service to help expand the worldwide reach of our amazing manga titles,” said Alvin Lu, President and CEO of Kodansha USA Publishing. “We are very much aligned with Azuki's mission of expanding manga readership, and are happy to help this launch with such fan-favorite series like Attack on Titan, Battle Angel Alita, EDENS ZERO, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and more! We're sure you'll find a new favorite series by diving into the Kodansha catalog on Azuki.”
Readers can sign up to be reminded when the service launches by visiting https://Azuki.co or following Azuki's social media s at https://twitter.com/ReadAzuki, https://facebook.com/ReadAzuki, and https://instagram.com/ReadAzuki.
About Azuki and KiraKira Media Inc.
Azuki is created by KiraKira Media Inc., a proudly worker-owned business dedicated to improving access to legally licensed manga, led by a small team of ionate manga fans and tech experts in San Francisco, CA. KiraKira Media Inc.'s founders are Adela Chang, Abbas Jaffery, Evan Minto, and Krystyn Neisess.
About Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
A subsidiary of Kodansha, Japan's largest publisher, Kodansha USA Publishing is the English-language publisher of some of the world's most recognizable manga properties, including Penguin Random House Publisher Services, and their digital manga and select digital books are available across a number of digital comics, manga, and book vendors. For more information visit Kodansha.us.
Full List of Titles Available on Azuki
A Sign of Affection
Ace of the Diamond
Again!!
Alicia's Diet Quest
ALIVE
Arisa
As Gods Will The Second Series
Ayanashi
Basilisk
Battle Angel Alita
Defying Kurosaki-kun
Descending Stories
FukuFuku: Kitten Tales
Full-Time Wife Escapist
Grand Blue Dreaming
Happiness
Heroic Legend of Arslan
Kira-kun Today
Kiss for Real
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Negima!
Pitch-Black Ten
Prince in His Dark DAYS
School Rumble
Seven Deadly Sins: Shugo Chara-chan!
Silent Voice
Spoof on Titan
Springtime with Ninjas
Starving Anonymous
Suzuka
That Wolf-Boy is Mine!
The Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty
Walls Between Us
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
Yamada-kun and Seven Witches
Yozakura Quartet
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