Manga by Crunchyroll Reviews

by VJustin1

I got Manga for AoT and to my surprise, the this app does start at Chapter 1 but skips Chapters 2-114 and begins again at Chapter 115-end. Needless to say, I immediately deleted Manga .

Apart from the 100 missing chapters, I was legitimately surprised and a bit taken back when I saw how outdated and horrendous the user interface was. Compared to the regular Crunchyroll app that everyone has come to love, this sorry excuse of an iPhone app was nothing less of an abomination. Manga was updated last in 2020 (as of the time of this review) but it looks like Manga’s existence hasn’t been acknowledged since 2010. Manga straight up looks like something you would have on your iPhone 5, maybe even on your flip phone. From the terrible resolution to the ancient iPhone keyboard layout Manga makes you use to type in the name of your anime, Manga was nothing less of an atrocity.

Only gave it a one star because you can’t give apps a zero star. What a shame.

by Drew11187

The regular Crunchyroll app for anime works fairly well. The this app app, however, works NEVER. It fails in a variety of different ways: 1. It will not sign me in, even though it is the exact same login as the anime app; it tells me my credentials are wrong. 2. When I’m able to even begin signing in, Manga will freeze while trying to load and there’s no way to do any sort of refresh. 3. It won’t even pretend to humor me about working. It immediately prompts the error message “cannot connect to server”. Lies.
What infuriates me the most about this is that Crunchyroll is NOT a free service. I am PAYING for a subscription to access shows and books that I CANNOT access from my phone. Sure, I suppose I could cart around a laptop with me everywhere I go, but that defeats the purpose of having a smartphone, and a computer doesn’t give you LTE options.
Conclusion: exponentially subpar.

by Matic01

Manga is by far the worst this app reader I’ve used, it’s been in service for a while now and after crunchyroll’s slow roll in taking over or shuttering other anime services all we’re left with is an app that even after close to ten years it still has the same issues and bugs that it has today. No matter how many times I am on a stable wifi connection or just on data it’ll log me out after each chapter. So I’ll have to be forced to kill Manga , restart it and expected to log back into Manga if I want to continue. For. Each. Chapter. I. Read.

I seriously don’t understand how this can continue to be an issue when it’s very clearly how Manga was built and what CR’s servers feed to Manga

I was forced to move to this platform due to their merger but honestly if this is how bad they’re going to treat any customers especially paying ones; I’d be better off spending a year off and just digging around the internet for the whole physical set than I am paying for a service that won’t spend the money to by their workers to make the serve better

by Fro1881

Can you fix this please? When I first got Manga it's was awesome! I've never read a seen an app where it could read comics that by individual blocks. I loved that it makes you tunnel vision on the story. Make it more far more interesting, IMO. Don't remember when or what update caused this authentication problem, but it was a few years ago. I get the authentication screen and never goes to the home screen of Manga . I have to delete Manga , reinstall it, then it works for some time, but then it does it all over again. Really annoying!!! Please fix!!!

The new problem Manga is having, is not being able to turn the phone sideways (landscape) and having the screen follow it. It used to do I don't understand why mess with Manga when it was awesome! Please fix this! Not being able to do that makes reading plain, boring and always having to zoom in and out! Please fix asap!

3 years and still no news about a fix! Stopped using it and went over to Tappytoon! Solo leveling is a great read FYI! The people giving Manga a 5 star review must be joking, IMO!

by Supersaiyangoku196

If you’ve been reading the reviews then you already know the issue. This authenticating/Infinite loading glitch has been happening well over a year now. I have also emailed them constantly, they continue to say they are aware of the issue and working on a fix and blah blah thanks for being a premium member. It’s pretty obvious they do not care. I’m currently on my second phone, my iPhone X and this problem started on my old 6S and it persisted into my new. It also doesn’t help that their regular anime watching app is also broken beyond belief on my X. They refuse to actually pay and get proper programmers to fix the problem with these consistent loading issues that is plaguing their apps. I’ve had it with crunchyroll I’m switching over to VRV as well subscribing to Comixology because as far as I’m concerned they have a wide selection of not only Japanese this app but regular American comics. Could probably cost a little more than crunchyroll subscription but at least I am getting quality for the money I am paying for and not some dumb PR email that’s copy and pasted every time crunchyroll gets a support problem.

by Syncreater

So, I was prompted to rate Manga when I opened it up today, and I was very eager to share my opinions on it. However, even as I attempted to write my review, the apps constant bugging and server issues prevented me from doing so. This happens most of the time I open Manga; it has some sort of connectivity issue and won’t open.

Even if it did open, there are still many issues that could be fixed. I hate having to scroll all the way down from the most recent chapter to get to the ones I’m actually reading. Manga does a poor job of tracking my place in the this app I am reading, and often loses track of it. You have to start from the beginning of a chapter each time you begin reading. And half the time I try to open up the next chapter, I run into that same server issue I mentioned earlier.

Please fix Manga Crunchyroll! So many great series are trapped here, never to be read by those seeking to avoid the frustrations of this hellish this app reader.

by Hmongace

I genuinely hate Manga cause it locks up or errors out so often and throws out an error that implies it’s on the user but in reality it’s Manga getting stuck. It will often get into a connection error loop and the only way on iOS to get out is to delete and reload Manga again. There are little ways to avoid this sometimes but it doesn’t always work either. And the solution of having to log out every time is just something unheard of these days in app development. I would use the website but the reader in their is so outdated that it’s quicker to endure the ridiculous steps of having to delete Manga , find it Manga Store cause iOS app history decided to be stupid, redownload and sign back in again. Seriously I love Crunchyroll content but man, you guys gotta fix your site and apps. It great no one really cares about it besides the content but it’s sad that the owners feel the same way. Such pride in their product...

by ALonerGuy995

Since I was already a Crunchyroll subscriber was starting to see hope when I seen Manga. Already have so many subscriptions as is that’s why I was hoping this had One Piece, My Hero, Boruto, Dragon Ball Super, Kaguya Love is War & Girlfriend Girlfriend this app, lol no it had none of them. It had Attack On Titan this app but only Chapters 1 to 13 is available might as well watch the anime also Eden Zero there surprisingly it had all the chapters and Fairy Tail was there to but only a couple of chapters. This was a big epic Failed Manga was my last hope since I already have a Crunchyroll Subscription now idk where else to look & I’m not gonna get another subscription for Viz or Shonen Jump this app already at my limit of subscriptions I can afford. Also forgot to mention Manga look like it hasn’t been updated for a long time Crunchy roll refuses to touch Manga anymore. It had potential if Crunchy Roll put in the time on Manga but it seems like they don’t bother with it anymore.

by Paul753

For those that don’t read this whole review: Translations are top notch but Manga is crap.

Crunchyroll does spectacular anime and this app translation. It’s why I’m willing to cough up money for what I could get free with patience (anime) and good timing (this app). If I’m spending money, though, I’d love it if I could actually access the this app app on a regular basis with out it sitting at the “authenticating” screen, no matter what I do. On top of that, The category sorting is atrocious. I have no trouble sorting and searching their anime, so why the difficulty with the this app? If you can program one app well, it makes little sense as to why the other is so clunky and problematic. The last complaint is the least, namely that their this app catalogue is pitiful compared to their anime selection and often series are missing huge swathes. I respect that they might simply have not had the rights to series or portions there of, but it’s still a little frustrating by comparison to their anime. C’mon Crunchyroll. Let’s polish Manga a bit.

by ConManDude

I have used Crunchyroll this app for over three years at this point, and while I love the different series and enjoy reading within Manga , the actual app itself has a ton of problems, and feels like it has not changed or improved in three years. The largest issue is the large number of times that bugs in Manga have required me to delete and redownload Manga to get it to function again.

Other little things, such as updating to use the full screen on iPhone X and above, and having a notification or way to see from your list which series have updates without clicking on to each of them individually.

Long story short, I use Manga to be able to read the this app legitimately and make sure the creators are getting paid to make their content, but it often times feels like I am being punished for doing so, as pretty much every this app pirating app has a better overall experience. I hope Crunchyroll at some point decides to put more resources into Manga so it can compete with the free options out there.

by Folltol

What can I say about crunchy roll this app besides it has amazing content, while the library is not as huge as say Shonen jump the library of this app Manga does have is fantastic from attack on titan to the very popular To your eternity Manga has a lot of popular titles and fan favorites, but Manga is honestly not the best, the layout is not very good and Manga looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while and is in need of an update. If your on a more recent device Manga doesn’t take up the whole screen and Manga does crash a lot and I have experienced a problem where Manga doesn’t connect to the internet. You can’t download this app so if your on a plane or anywhere with bad service your basically screwed if your on a very good part of your favorite this app. Overall, Crunchyroll is in need of a update, Manga isn’t very good but if you have Crunchyroll premium service it’s worth a try, it has a great library of content to choose from my favorite is attack on titan which is for sure worth checking out.

by Joshttale

Manga has a nice selection of reads, relatively good formatting too. I've found a couple of gems on here.
It's huge downside however is the amount of times I get an incessant message about it not being able to connect to the server and to check my internet connection. it's very much NOT my connection as adjusting that, be it to a different wifi network or LTE data as that makes no difference. This has been an issue since even my last iPhone, which was years ago and no other app in my experience has this problem. The only solution is deleting and reinstalling Manga , and that's only good until the message comes back a few weeks later.
All in all, I want to like it but this is near irredeemable an issue. Would be one star if not for the fact that it's a good inclusion with my crunchyroll subscription.

by Brolexia

Manga used to be better and I could read for long periods of time with no issues. But now literally all it does is let me ready six chapters. Then I get a 404 error and it won’t load the next chapter or even the ones I already read. Then I’ll close and reopen and all of a sudden it gives me an error saying it can’t connect to the internet/find the server and just won’t load anything at all. After that I have to delete and reinstall. Just so I can read 6 more chapters and start the process again. I get most of their profit is in the anime but this is still also a service they offer with the subscription and they should at least put some care into having a working app. As someone who has found and read a lot of fun titles on Manga it’s super frustrating this is happening now. Please fix it.

by Kitty West Side

I have loved using the CR this app app for a few years now with a lot—and I mean a LOT—of patience. I understand Manga has a ways to go in improvements but honestly issues just kept getting worse and worse over time rather than improving. The amount of times Manga would stay stuck on “Authenticating” forcing me to delete and reinstall is ridiculous. I’ve been forced kicked out of my account while I was reading this app because it suddenly didn’t recognize my account. Now it gets stuck saying there is no server activity. I should not have to be uninstalling and reinstalling Manga this many times just to get caught up with my fave this app so far. Oof and don’t even get me started on the meager collection of this app available. It has some popular this app but come on, where are the bigger major titles of the season? Maybe we’ll get a bone thrown at us here and there but this is just making me want to just give up on Manga altogether. I hope there can be some better improvements for the iOS version but so far, two stars is all it’ll get from me. :/

by McShrinkins

Manga is a good concept, but has some major flaws. First of all, the free content. There simply isn't enough to be worth your time at only one chapter per series being free. Second of all the selection. There is a noticeable lack of popular and classic this app series that are much more accessible and free on other sources outside of Manga. Lastly, the required membership. If you plan on getting more than one chapter available(sometimes none) be prepared to sign up for a membership to get any sort of fulfilling experience out of Manga. As for suggestions, employ a similar formula here that you did for crunchy roll. Make Manga free to use at the expense of some adds and pop ups. Have the paid membership get rid of adds and many through in early access or even original Japanese versions of this app. It would also be helpful, in my opinion, to include some older this app such as the dragon ball series to pull in more people out of nostalgia. Hope my thoughts were helpful, thanks.

by デービットAka David

Huge crunchyroll fan, but Manga has a couple quality issues that made me voice my complaint. First, a connection error makes it impossible to use, and the only solution that works for me is reinstalling it. Not a huge issue if it were once in a while cause it literally takes one second to reinstall, but just now after reinstalling it to read the latest chapter to grand blue dreaming, it caused an error. That’s less than 5 minutes, how does that happen? Next issue is the inability to read the earlier chapters to certain books. Probably a license issue, but I can’t stress how annoying it is to find a series I want to read only to be able to read chapter 1, and then 50-recent chapters. I’d rather they only offered 1-40, and advertised later ones than unable to get into the story.

by Anderjak

As a supplementary service offered au gratis with your Crunchyroll subscription, their this app service is pretty great. You get a no-nonsense UI with basic bookmarking and favoriting to keep up with your favorite series, and an interface that works well.

As a proprietary service, it feels anemic. While there are notable works made available, like A-Jin, Seven Deadly Sins, and Arakawa Under The Bridge, the library is overall pretty small — especially when compared to the substantial collection on Crunchyroll’s primary anime and j-drama service.

It also doesn’t have a particularly good storefront as a result. Since the library is so small, there’s no need for discoverability or genre classification — which, in and of itself, is a problem worth addressing should they ever expand its collection. However, new series don’t pop up on here often enough to inspire confidence.

It’s great as a free offering to Crunchyroll, which is already a pretty hefty service, and you won’t run into low-quality art or amateurish translations like in free services, but it’s still got a ways to go in a market desperately in need of strong competition, and it starts with the library.

by Joeboy420

Tbh I really love Manga it’s the only one that has the official translation for the this app I love to read but I’m really having problems with it right now for starters the fact that it just closes off Manga and doesn’t let me read anything really gets me mad and having to delete and reinstall Manga is annoying I hope the developers read this and work on the this app app more then the streaming app I mean I’m paying for both and only getting half of what I’m paying not cool and the fact that I can’t read anything past certain chapters like the ones before the newest ones please make this a better app then it already is because I’m not happy right now VIZ midia app doesn’t have any of these issues so how come u guys do 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

by Nelsvic The Weeb

This is a great app!!! Although we don’t always get the newest of this app. I hope the devs or people in charge can read this, but can y’all work on the authentication loop that happens to plague Manga?!! I’m not the only one I’ve seen this on other comments, I just hope you release an update an app to solve this problem. I also hope you would focus on Manga more, than just the video streaming one, because Manga has great potential, imagine having a this app app they released the Managua translated the day of the Japanese version!!! Manga would be wayyy more successful, anyways I love both of the apps so props on that! Thank you for your time and I hope you can fix the infinite authentication loop, I’m just trying to read some anime here :). —sincerely Me

by Shiro-Kei

Been using Manga for a long while, loved it, so easy to use, I could make a queue, it would save my spot and when I moved to a new chapter it wouldn’t leave big screen.
Then sudden Manga stopped working, i let it go thinking it was glitching that day, came back a week later and still doing it, couple months later I finally emailed Crunchyroll about it and they said it was a known issue and they were working on a fix... that was almost a year ago now and still no fix.
I am frustrated and annoyed that they don’t seem to be putting any effort into fixing their this app app, which was such a great app before this happened.
Come on Crunchyroll, get your act together!

by Durra Gaaz

I have several series I’ve been following using the this app app, as I found the experience of reading this app much better on the go rather than chained to my PC at home. Manga is constantly getting in the way of that however, as it is frequently losing connection, failing to load new chapters, or getting stuck in an “Authenticating” hang that is so bad hat I have to delete and reinstall Manga to make it work, more recently this has been happening so much that I can’t even get it to work once after a reinstall. Sad to only give it one star but Manga is literally unusable the majority of the time.
This was the last feature that is keeping me on a premium subscription instead of just using my partners VRV account for anime, and subbing to funimation instead to bring us more variety.
Be nice to see bug fixes more than once a year or so...

by 0vel0rd

Manga is nice and all that, but I wish you could read more. Maybe have a system where you could read one chapter per week or day and start with five chapters per this app to kickstart everything. To make this easier to understand for others who may read this I mean that you start with five chapters in a this app and after a week you unlock another this app. I really feel that reading one chapter isn’t enough to let you get the feel of the this app that you’re reading. Also I’m having problems where I can’t load up Manga , which is weird because I have really good wifi just about all the time, I even tried switching to mobile data. Also your update was a year ago and you need a major makeover for mobile the authentication loop is STILL HERE I’ve had this in my apps folder for so long now and I honestly just have up on it....

by ObsidianTeapot

The standard state of Manga is broken, which is a shame. It works pretty well when I can log in and if you have a subscription there are some fun things to read.

The problem is the bugs. There is a pretty common failure mode where it tells you its authenticating forever. Currently, the failure mode is server not found. Another time if you deleted Manga and reinstalled every time you wanted to use it, you could get it to work. Another time the free users could use it, but the people with subscriptions couldn’t log in.

When it’s broken there is no communication that the devs know about the break and no communication about an ETA for a fix. Sometimes its just broken for a day or two, sometimes the breaks last weeks, and the longest one I’ve seen (the one where it only worked for free users) was about 8 months.

by Head-desk

I’ve seen Manga work and while the selection is sparse, I found some titles that are phenomenal. Outside of the selection there is also an issue where a couple of long running titles have a large chunk missing. You might see chapter 1 and then only the 60 (I didn’t actually count) most recent chapters.

But even this would be workable if it’d let me get past “authenticating”. I’ve checked the forums and tried the solutions and while I’ve gotten this to work from time to time, it is so infrequent that I question my rationality every time I decide to go here for this app.

This problem has been around for years and CR’s anime app doesn’t have this problem (at least for me) so I have to assume that this will isn’t getting fixed because it isn’t their bread & butter. No one signs up to CR just for this app access. This feature/app exist primarily to build out the list of features available at some membership tiers.

by Irratated Person

I use Manga to read a this app, close it, open it a few days later to read something else, now it’s stuck authenticating, restart app, nothing, restart phone, nothing, uninstall and reinstall, logs in fine, rinse and repeat for 3 months... okay maybe it hasn’t been updated in a while....... two years pass. Same issue...... fast forward to today. I left it logged off to keep from having to uninstall again and GUESS WHAT IT GETS STUCK AUTHENTICATING AFTER I LOGGED IN!!! This is RIDICULOUS how long has it been since an update??? I have been through three different phones and Manga seems to have never been updated even for the X which means it’s at least a YEAR AND A HALF out of date. Will this ever update and allow me to read the this app I pay a subscription for on ANY device other than my computer? Or is there any plan to change the reader from REQUIRING adobe flash which is NOT ON iDEVICES?

by Gorzagh

I was having a nice day reading some Edens Zero when I came to a splash page (a page with panels that go across both pages spread out in front of you when you have the comic/this app in front of you). The reader being used in portrait mode, naturally, only showed one half of the page so I turned my phone to the side to view the whole splash page at once just like I would on any other comic reader. Instead of showing both sides of the splash page like any decent reading app would it showed the top part of one half of it. This is an extremely basic feature for any this app or comic reading app and it’s truly pathetic that one by as prestigious a service as Crunchyroll is missing it.

by Abrams2227

I am really fond of Manga and I have had it for a while now. Is easy to use and is updated frequently. But lately I have had this recurring Issue of it authenticating my account. But it will sit there and do this for ever if I let it. I’ll have signal or even with WiFi It still does it. But it will let me on one day then it won’t the next few. The next issue is I’d have down time and this is what I’d like do. It was great, and I read a lot of titles that interested me. But I don’t feel like it has enough honestly and some titles that were complete they aren't anymore and there’s been a few new titles here and there but as much as you would think with an app with premium member ship. But I still like Manga, and if I’d give it 5 stars if not for these to issues.

by Words-To-Liv-By

I love reading this app and watching anime. The anime app is amazing, but the this app leaves something to be desired. The quality is perfect and even has a scene by scene guide instead just the while page. However, there is not very much this app on Manga and you need to be a premium member to access most of it. It has a few of my favorite this app (including Fairy Tail and UQ holder) and I love reading them on my phone. As a premium member myself I thoroughly enjoy Manga and I give it 4 stars, but if you aren’t a premium member you should go for a different app.

by JoaquínSwishers

I’m sad to say this but I’m never able to use Manga I’m trying hardest to get the attention of the people who can fix Manga for I love Crunchyroll I’m a super fan premium member and I love being one all the other apps work tremendously well and I would recommend this subscription or any they offer to everyone wether you’re just getting into anime which is why it pains me to say this but Manga never works I’m never able to login or get past the infinite Authentication screen which is a shame since there is so many well worth this app and exclusive this app on here to enjoy if someone out there sees this please try and fix Manga it has so much potential