emaqi - Read Manga & Comics

You guys can add a delete button to remove story’s that you don’t want to read but accidently clicked on

It’s cheaper to buy manga from Japan and machine translate it myself. This service creates a middleman who makes profit with no added value. Not to mention how woefully inept ai is at jp to en translation. The technology is simply not advanced enough and may never be due to the nature of the Japanese language and it’s grammar. Ai translation spells a downfall for the English manga publishing industry. This is an industry disruptor and that’s not a good thing. Ai will take over this hobby with less effective translations until there is no quality translations left to read. I fear this will drive the fandom back to doing their own translations for each other to preserve the humanity in the art of translation, sending less money back to the artists in Japan in the long run.

Individual volumes cost $10 each, which is honestly preposterous for a manga reading app. At that point you could buy the physical copies for slightly more or even the ebooks on kindle or something for cheaper. That makes much more financial sense than spending $10 on in-app currency. Heck, you can even read most of the titles in free or dirt cheap subscription apps like Viz Manga, Manga Plus, Shounen Jump, or Azuki. The actual app doesn’t work unless you’re connected to wi-fi, so I had a hard time navigating it when my job’s with-go was spotty. The interface was confusing as well. Like one of the buttons was a randomizer???? And the originals are all “translated” by AI in low quality. You can literally MTL the manga yourself and buy the raws for cheaper. What’s the point of spending $10 for a few chapters of AI garbage that looks ugly and makes no sense. Please don’t use this app and seek out better and cheaper alternatives.