Crunchyroll is giving its manga push a bigger Shueisha boost, with several new series now added to the Crunchyroll Manga app.
Among the newly added titles are Blooming Love, Hinomaru Sumo, Diamond in the Rough, My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!, and Excuse me dentist, it's touching me!, with more titles also included in the update.
On top of that, Crunchyroll said readers can also find new chapters for ATOM: The Beginning, Cosmic Censorship, Kamen Rider Kuuga, Outsiders, Somali and the Forest Spirit, and Working for God in a Godless World.
That matters because Crunchyroll is clearly trying to make its manga app feel like more than a side feature. Instead of treating manga as an extra tab next to anime streaming, the company is building it as a separate, dedicated reading platform. The service is ad-free, runs separately from the main Crunchyroll streaming app, and supports mobile, tablet, and browser reading. It also includes offline downloads, light and dark mode, full-page spreads, and personalised reading lists with recommendations.
Right now, though, there is one big catch for readers in Malaysia and the rest of Southeast Asia: the current Crunchyroll Manga app rollout is still limited to the United States and Canada. The mobile app launched there on October 9, followed by the browser version on October 15.
So why should SEA fans care if they cannot officially use it yet? Simple. Catalog growth is usually the part worth watching first. When a platform starts landing recognisable publishers and steadily adding fresh chapters, it becomes easier to judge whether the service has long-term legs. For anime and manga fans here, especially those who already use Crunchyroll for streaming, this is the kind of move that could shape future regional demand. If the library keeps improving, Southeast Asian users will have a stronger reason to ask for wider availability later.
Crunchyroll says the service is powered by Link-U Group, the Japanese media company tied to platforms and businesses such as Comikey, Compass, Studio Moon6, and Romanz. Partner publishers on the app include AlphaPolis, Compass, Square Enix, Viz Media, Yen Press, Shueisha, J-Novel Club, and ThirdlineNEXT.
For subscribers, the pricing setup is split by tier. Existing Ultimate Fan members can access the manga service at no extra charge, while Fan and Mega Fan subscribers can add manga access for an extra fee.
This also is not Crunchyroll's first attempt at manga. The company previously launched an earlier Crunchyroll Manga service back in 2013, when it offered simulpub titles from Kodansha USA across more than 170 countries. That version slowly lost catalog strength over time, with multiple titles removed in 2018 and more Kodansha manga pulled in 2023. The first Crunchyroll Manga service eventually shut down in December 2023.
Because of that history, this latest expansion is worth tracking carefully. For Malaysian and SEA fans, the real question is not just what titles are available now, but whether Crunchyroll can keep this version healthy, consistent, and eventually relevant outside North America. If it can, this could become a much more serious legal manga option for the region down the line.
Source: Anime News Network