Otaku Crave

MangaNovel’s User-Translated Manga Service Expands

Publishers Weekly’s Comic Week cover the first month of MangaNovel, the unique online service which displays licensed manga with translations provided by both end users and in-house staffers. Since its October launch, MangaNovel has added two more authors, three exclusive online titles, and translations in several languages. While the service still requires a Windows operating system, Executive Director Atsushi Kunimatsu said the service is planning to accommodate PDAs and the iPhone/iPod Touch portable devices, which are based on Mac OS X.