Alpha Manga: Isekai Manga App

I love the manga they provide in this app, love how it’s set up. Sadly I wished they had a flat rate set up to read unlimited for a certain price. I wouldn’t mind paying $5 per month if I can ready unlimited. But $1 per chapter? That’s a bit much. And the wait and read is hard because I would have to wait three days just to read one chapter of many of my favorite manga. Wouldn’t know which one to read.

I’m so glad I looked up an article about this app before I spent money on it. At no point do they explain how this app works. They want you to dump money on it and then you get an unpleasant surprise. So this has some great series on it. BUT say there are 20 chapters of a series you want to read. The first and last 3 are free to read (great!) that leaves 14 chapters you need to 10 tickets to unlock. You get one ticket a day to just log in that’s a 140 day waiting game. Or about $12 if you are paying. Or watching 1400 commercials if you are not paying. That’s right you get pp not tickets for every commercial you unlock. I watched 2 realized I wasn’t getting “tickets” and went trawling for fine print. Here is the kicker. The unlocking is for a week! That’s right you are not buying anything here. You are renting them for ONLY A WEEK. this is the worst business model I’ve every seen. It’s a blatant money grab that only works because this company owns the original license. My suggestion is: read what’s free and forget the rest. I would have dropped $100+ dollars on buying these (or even a membership!) but the return on spending is a big fat zero.

It is a dream for many to finally have a platform/app for manga like there is for webtoons, but this is coming pretty close to it. It is easy to navigate, but the pricing structure could use some help, mostly due to it be almost half price as a standard manga per chapter, but you can only rent the chapters where with webtoons at least you own them. I hope it can continue to grow and become something every wants, an easy way to access manga and support the artist who create them.