A brand new Crunchyroll manga cellular app arrives later this 12 months

Sony had loads of leisure information to share throughout its CES 2025 press convention, particularly when it got here to movies and shows based mostly on PlayStation properties. The corporate can also be increasing its anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, with a new manga app.

The standalone Crunchyroll Manga app is coming to iOS and Android later this 12 months. It’s going to debut within the US and Canada. It is going to solely be out there in English at first and help for extra languages will arrive down the road. You may have to pay additional to make use of the app, nevertheless, because it’s slated to be a premium add-on for Crunchyroll. The service hasn’t divulged which titles you can learn within the app — it’s going to announce particulars about that and writer involvement at a later date. Internet browser help is coming sooner or later as properly.

Phrase of the Crunchyroll Manga app comes quickly after Sony was in talks to buy Kadokawa, the father or mother firm of Elden Ring developer FromSoftware and (extra pertinently on this case) a serious writer of anime and manga. The businesses as a substitute agreed for Sony to take a bigger stake in Kadokawa and become its biggest shareholder. As such, it might be fairly a shock if Kadokawa’s library of manga was by some means not featured within the upcoming app.

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