{"id":73422,"date":"2023-11-13T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=73422"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T07:19:30","slug":"crunchyroll-shuts-down-digital-manga-service-on-december-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/11\/13\/crunchyroll-shuts-down-digital-manga-service-on-december-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll Shuts Down Digital Manga Service on December 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/11\/06\/crunchyroll-partners-with-walmart-for-holiday-season-merchandise-sales-at-u-s-retail-stores\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> announced earlier last weekend that it will be shutting down its digital manga service starting December 11, 2023, for both web and mobile applications. The company encouraged users to visit the Crunchyroll Store to purchase manga series in stock.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The company previously sent out an email to Crunchyroll users stating that digital manga will no longer be available on the service beginning November 7, 2023. The service is still currently active as of today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Crunchyroll Manga service was first launched in October 2013 and simultaneously published titles from Kodansha USA in over 170 countries. Fourteen simulpub titles and 10 catalog titles were removed from the service in February 2018 and in March 2018. Kodansha USA then announced that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/01\/14\/kodansha-ends-simulpub-manga-distribution-on-azuki\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">several of its manga titles would be removed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on January 31, 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kodansha later launched its own <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/kodansha-announces-new-k-manga-platform-for-u-s-fans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">K MANGA digital manga app<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> exclusively in the U.S. earlier this May.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/help.crunchyroll.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/20755825417364-Crunchyroll-Manga-to-be-discontinued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll Help Page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-11-11\/crunchyroll-ends-digital-manga-app-on-mobile-web-on-december-11\/.204339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anime News Network<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crunchyroll announced earlier last weekend that it will be shutting down its digital manga service starting December 11, 2023, for both web and mobile applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":73424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[78,6606,4886,122],"class_list":["post-73422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-crunchyroll","tag-k-manga","tag-kodansha-usa","tag-manga"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/crunchyroll-logo-e1699921432133.jpg?fit=900%2C507&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-j6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73423,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422\/revisions\/73423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}