Manga Reader ㅤ

I’ve been using this app for a while now and for the most part it has been a pretty good app. However recently the app seems to have a few serious issues, the most recent manga I was reading on the app was “Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru” or “My Dress-up Darling” and I experienced many problems with the app. For example, often manga pages would not load or show a loading screen but never load causing me to have to restart the app to view the manga, or the manga pages would not load properly at the end of the chapter so I would have to manually go to the next chapter rather than pressing the convenient “Read Next Chapter” button at the end of the chapter. Now that I have finished Bisque Doll I wanted to search for “Hori-San to Miyamura-Kun” or “Horimiya” but for whatever reason the search button has disappeared and many of the app’s functions seem to be broken as well, I tried deleting the app and downloading it again but that just got rid of the other mangas I was reading and the app is still broken. Overall this app was great when I first downloaded it and read through “Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-San(Don’t Toy With me, Miss Nagatoro)” and “Citrus” but, after a few months and reading through Bisque Doll, it’s like the app fell apart. I am personally very disappointed, every day I look forward to getting home and reading manga. I hope that these bugs get patched because I would like to continue using this app.

Please read if you want an honest and true review: I started using this app a year ago. I like that there aren’t any ads and I can read manga comfortably for the most part. However, I forgot to cancel my one week(or however long it was)trial and got charged $30 for a year. Obviously that was my fault, so I don’t blame anyone but myself. Here are my thoughts after a year: there is limited manga(ie. there a quite a few manga I couldn’t find on here), the search button would disappear about a third of the time I used the app(it’s gone again which is why i’m writing this review)?, almost all of the manga on this app do not have updated chapters(if you check other apps or websites this app is very far behind), the only manga that are primarily shown are manga’s are already popular so no way to find new stuff without already having a title. If I could give this app and 2.5 stars, I would. I think with some updates and tweaks it could definitely be at least 4 stars, but it’s definitely not worth $30 a year as it is now.

I love the massive library of manga and the categories they are divided into- but not being able to search for a specific manga is a real turn-off for this app. I don’t like having to sift through a whole category just to find the one manga in there that I’d like to read. Plus, the categories offered are somewhat vague and don’t always give you a good idea of the manga they contain. For example- Full Metal Alchemist is in the “philosophical” category with no mention whatsoever in any other category- EVEN if the description for that manga says that it is available in other categories. If you’re going that route and refuse to put in a search function, the very least you could do is categorize the manga by type, like shonen, isekai, etc… THEN subdivide them into the categories that are currently available. The first and foremost filter for finding a manga on this app should be the manga-type in my opinion.