Top 5 Legal Platforms to Read Comics Besides Mangaku

Top 5 Legal Platforms to Read Comics Besides Mangaku

Mangaku site provides various manga titles with translation Indonesian with an exciting story.

Despite its large collection, Mangaku is also easily accessible to digital comic fans.

However, it is very important to know its legality because this site does not have an official license.

Therefore, you need to know about Mangaku and recommendations for legal replacement platforms for reading digital comics.

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Getting to Know What Mangaku Is

Mangaku is an online platform known as a place to read comics such as Japanese comics (Manga), Korean comics (Manhwa) and Chinese comics (Manhua) with Indonesian translations.

The uniqueness of Mangaku is that it has a diverse collection of manga and has Indonesian translations to make it easier for local readers to understand.

However, unfortunately, there are annoying ads on the site or while reading, there are dangerous redirecting links, low-quality images and inconsistent translations.

The Mangaku site is often blocked, so it often changes domains and becomes difficult to access, because all the comics on the platform are not copyrighted.

List of Legal Comic Reading Platforms

Below are some recommendations for reading comics other than Mangaku:

LINE WEBTOON

LINE WEBTOON is an official digital comic reading platform that has a large collection of Webtoon, Manhwa, Manga and comic titles from local Creators.

Its function is as a means to read digital comics online and a place for creators to publish their work.

On WEBTOON CANVAS, independent creators can publish their work without signing up with a publisher. Meanwhile, on WEBTOON ORIGINAL, creators are contracted and assisted by an official editor to create their stories for publication.

The genres are very diverse and each episode will be released regularly, for the ORIGINAL WEBTOON there are frequent updates to the story.

WEBTOON provides reading recommendations that readers might like, the presence of a comment feature to interact in the story, can read WEBTOON ORIGINAL and CANVAS and Fast, Daily Pass and Ad Pass features on certain titles.

Fast Pass allows you to unlock episodes early using Coins, while Daily Pass or Ad Pass allows you to unlock episodes that are still locked or unlocked by watching ads.

The type of LINE WEBTOON is freemium because there are episodes and titles that can be read for free and also using Coins.

The advantage is that many episodes can be read for free, but there are also those that are unlocked by using Coins to read earlier or stories/content that are locked through Fast Pass.

Unfortunately, not all story episodes can be read for free because you have to use Coins to read earlier or unlock the full episode.

MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA

MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA is a digital manga reading platform that provides various popular manga as well as reading manga in certain languages or titles.

Its features include simultaneous chapter updates with Japan (Simulpub), a list of favorite manga, title recommendations, and a First Read Free feature to read certain chapters for free once.

This platform has a freemium model, with some early and recent chapters available for free. However, to reread or read the complete collection, you must subscribe to MANGA Plus MAX for certain titles.

What's unique is that you can get access to popular manga and chapter updates that can be released via simulpub.

However, the drawback is that you can read it for free over and over again, choose different languages for each title, and old or finished manga require a subscription.

KakaoPage

KakaoPage is a platform that provides digital comics or webtoons, manhwa, web novels and e-books from South Korea.

This platform makes it easy to read comics and web novels online, equipped with reading recommendation features, daily chapter updates, exclusive collections, daily rewards and the Wait Until Free (WUF) feature to unlock certain chapters for free after waiting for a certain period.

KakaoPage has a freemium model, where some chapters can be read for free, but there are some chapters that require using Cash or paid tickets.

The uniqueness of KakaoPage is that it has Manhwa and original Korean Web Novels with a Wait Until Free (WUF) system to read certain chapters for free.

Unfortunately, some of the content is in Korean, so the global language and content are still very lacking.

Apart from that, the User Interface (UI) of the application itself is still very confusing, often experiences technical problems and cannot be accessed by international users.

BookWalker

BookWalker is a legal and licensed E-Book Shop platform that provides Manga, Manhwa, Web Novel/Light Novel and other E-Books.

Its features include E-Book Library, brightness, User Interface (UI) display, Bookmarks, collection synchronization and downloading E-Books that have been purchased or read offline. 

In addition, there are promotions, discounts and exclusive digital bonuses such as extra illustrations for certain titles.

BookWalker is a freemium model, where it can be used for free, some titles or chapters can be read for free and manga and web novels must be purchased.

The unique thing about BookWalker is that if you subscribe you can read various licensed titles and get exclusive bonuses from certain titles and can manage your book collection in the library.

However, the drawbacks are that the E-Book catalog and language can vary depending on the country and the application update version, not all comics can be read for free, there are additional costs if you want to read many series and titles are only available in Japanese and English.

Kadokomi (ComicWalker)

The legal platform to read the latest comics as a replacement for Mangaku is “Kadokomi or ComicWalker” which was developed and published by Kadokawa Corporation on March 22, 2014 for Android, iOS, PC and Website.

You can read comics online from an app or website with features like free reading of certain chapters, manga updates, searching by genre, and reading popular and original titles.

This platform is a freemium model for reading certain chapters and some content has terms and conditions.

Its uniqueness is that it has many official manga titles from KADOKAWA that can be read for free for several chapters.

The downside is that it uses Japanese so it is less practical for international users and some of the titles and chapters that can be read for free vary.

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These are the recommended legal platforms for reading comics as a replacement for Mangaku that you can use right now!

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