Same-day raw releases for Shueisha series (Jujutsu Kaisen, Spy×Family, Sakamoto Days). First 3 chapters and latest free; back catalog paid in coins.
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If you're tired of waiting weeks for fan translations, here's where to find raw chapters in the original Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Curated, vetted, and grouped by reader type. Use Manga Translator Z to read any of them in your language with one keypress.
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Buy raw, support the artist. Most need a Japanese billing address or a workaround like Buyee — see notes per site.
Same-day raw releases for Shueisha series (Jujutsu Kaisen, Spy×Family, Sakamoto Days). First 3 chapters and latest free; back catalog paid in coins.
Kadokawa's official platform. Many series have free first volumes. Strong isekai / light-novel adaptation lineup.
Futabasha's official portal. Many seinen titles (Kingdom side stories, Crayon Shin-chan one-offs) free without account.
Kadokawa's e-book store, also accessible internationally with English UI. Largest legal manga catalog overall. Coin sales every weekend.
Yahoo Japan's manga store. Often the deepest catalog for older series and BL titles. PayPay rebates make it the cheapest option for heavy buyers.
Kakao's Japanese app. "Wait-for-free" model: read 1 chapter / 23h per series. Every modern hit eventually lands here.
Indie + small-publisher Japanese comics. Many BL, GL, and slice-of-life titles read free without account.
Web-novel adapter: many of the "reincarnated as a slime" / "Konjiki" web-novel-to-manga adaptations land here free first.
Shogakukan's Spirits / Big Comic free portal. Shows recent chapters of Mob Psycho 100, Onepunch Man (ONE side), 20th Century Boys re-runs.
Mag Garden's official portal: Aria, Comic Garden, ZERO-SUM. Steady drip of latest chapters free.
Square Enix's free portal: Frieren, Soul Eater Not!, Pandora Hearts. Cycle: 1 chapter/2 weeks per series.
Official Kodansha portal: Attack on Titan re-runs, Vinland Saga back issues. Most content paywalled but trial chapters free.
Shogakukan's Sunday portal: Detective Conan, Frieren backups, Yaiba 2. First 3 + latest free.
NTT-backed manga store with the second-largest Japanese catalog after BookWalker. Frequent 50% point-back campaigns.
Square Enix's mobile app: free daily coins, big 'Soul Eater' / 'Death March' library. App-only on iOS/Android.
For raw Korean: Naver / Kakao have everything. Lezhin / TappyToon for adult titles.
The biggest webtoon portal in Korea. Free with ads; "fast pass" for next-3-chapters. Where Solo Leveling, Tower of God, etc. originated.
Kakao's flagship comics platform. Premium webtoons (3-cents-a-chapter) and isekai novel adaptations.
Adult-focused (BL/GL, romance, mature). Korean original site has many more titles than the English mirror.
Romance + BL specialist. Korean version, native UI, frequent free-trial campaigns.
RIDI's comics catalog. Works as a bookstore (buy chapters/volumes). Often the only place older manhwa is legally archived.
Adult comics, romance + horror specialty. Korean originals, free intro chapters.
Hybrid: officially licensed Korean originals + English. Use the JP/KR locales to read raw.
Daum (Kakao subsidiary). Largely overlapping with KakaoPage but a few exclusives (Itaewon Class).
Bilibili and Kuaikan dominate. Most need a mainland phone number; Tencent has a HK/TW edition that doesn't.
B-站 漫画. Largest Chinese manhua platform — Tales of Demons and Gods, The Beginning After the End raw original Chinese versions.
快看漫画. Mobile-first manhua platform. Strong on web-comic style (parallel to Korean webtoons).
腾讯动漫. Tencent's official manhua + anime portal. Usually the day-of release for Tencent-published series.
动漫漫画. Naver Webtoons' Chinese mainland edition. Korean webtoons translated into Mandarin, plus original CN works.
网易漫画. Big horror / xianxia / mecha lineup. App geofenced to mainland but the web version works globally.
Most have raw scans plus fan translations. Read raw with MTZ, switch to fan TLs only if the raw is unreadable. ⚠️ Legal grey zone in many countries.
Largest Japanese-manga aggregator. No ads. Filter by language → "Japanese" to read raw. MTZ tested heaviest here.
Successor to the original Batoto. Hosts raw + community translations. Reader fits MTZ canvas overlay perfectly.
Aggregator focused on Korean manhwa. Filter: "language: Korean" — raw chapters with MTZ-friendly canvas.
High-availability Japanese-raw aggregator. Long history, simple reader, uptime is excellent.
Specialty raw Japanese site — no fan TLs, just untouched scans. Goldmine for series the West skips.
Raw Japanese aggregator with strong seinen / josei catalogs (Berserk, 20th Century Boys).
Japanese raws hosted as image folders. MTZ works on the inline reader; the .zip download isn't needed.
Long-running raw archive. Older series catalog is the deepest of any free site.
Mobile-friendly raw reader. Vertical scroll fits MTZ overlays cleanly.
High-quality Korean manhwa scans (translated and raw). Good for big-name action manhwa.
Specializes in fast-release Korean fantasy manhwa. Raw uploads frequent for new series.
Despite the name, hosts both Chinese manhua and Korean manhwa. Source language varies — check tags before reading.
Long-running aggregator. Has Chinese manhua section often missing on bigger sites.
Japanese aggregator with tagged raw releases. Reader is canvas-clean, MTZ-friendly.
Bigger than its older siblings. Mix of raw + translated. Vertical infinite scroll mode plays nicely with MTZ.
Smaller niche site with rare Chinese manhua not found elsewhere. Raw uploads steady.
Long-running BitTorrent index. If you want full-volume Japanese raw archives (not just web), this is where they're seeded.
Yuri / GL specialty scanlation site. Raw + translated in one reader.
For when you'd rather read on your phone. Use MTZ on the desktop reader of any of these where available.
Tachiyomi successor. Pluggable source extensions cover virtually every site on this list. Android only.
iOS equivalent: Tachiyomi-style sources, free, sideload-only.
Kodansha's official mobile app for Shōnen Magazine titles (Blue Lock, Edens Zero). Free chapter rotation.
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