Friday, June 20, 2008

OneManga: Read all your manga online!

If you were like me a few years ago, you waited anxiously for the latest chapter of Naruto to be scanalated every Friday and download it from Narutofan or some other fansite that required a membership.

Scanalations are a term for virtual manga that has been scanned onto the computer from Japanese hard copies and translated by fans that are just looking to help distribute a good read to other fans. Manga is Japanese-style comics, read from right to left like the Japanese language and constantly features exaggerated actions and emotions like Japanese anime. Some popular and famous ones include Naruto (which is about ninjas), One Piece (pirates), and Dragon Ball Z. If I need to describe DBZ for you then you need to get out from under your rock.

Anyhow, this wonderful website -- OneManga -- features well over 200 of the most popular manga and it's all completely free, no registration required. And, my favorite part, you don't even need to spend any time downloading them; the comics are right on their servers and you can even shift through the pages using your left and right arrow keys.

If you need someplace to start, I recommend my favorites: Naruto, Shaman King, and OnePiece.

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