Optimized for mobile and tablet use only, the app has a minimal layout that prioritizes image over text, with just three tabs to click on: Explore, Browse and My Manga. The first thing you'll notice about Mangamo after downloading it is its sleek, bumblebee-themed packaging.
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But is the app worth adding to your monthly, entertainment subscription bill? Let's see what your $4.99 per month can get you, and how the service stacks up against its competition to find out.
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RELATED: Marvel Unlimited Announces Free Month Of Digital ComicsĪs Netflix and other streaming services have done for television and film, Mangamo hopes to remedy this economic drain by offering an all-you-can-eat platform of titles from multiple publishers and creators. On the sinister side of things, the lack of instant availability and affordability of manga has also driven consumers toward pirated content, the boom of which is estimated to have siphoned further billions - in yen - from both Japanese and American markets. This gaping hole has helped give rise to webcomics, dominated by the South Korean website, WEBTOON, attracting billions of readers (yes, billions) from around the world to its vertical-scrolling library of manhwa. While the digital revolution in traditional print publishing has forever changed the Western comic book world over the past decade, Japan's manga industry has been far slower to adapt. Mangamo, the first cross-publisher, mobile manga subscription service, wants to change the way otaku consume their favorite Japanese comics.