Best Manhua Raw Sites in 2026: Where to Read Chinese Manhua Online

Most lists of manhua websites send you to aggregator sites with pop-up ads and missing chapters. You don’t need them. China’s biggest comic publishers put their catalogues online themselves, and you can read a lot of it with just an email address.

These are the official sites. Almost every raw manhua chapter you see reposted elsewhere started on one of them.

Kuaikan Manhua (kuaikanmanhua.com)

Kuaikan is the biggest modern manhua platform, with over 10 million monthly visitors and thousands of original series. It’s built for phones and vertical scrolling, and it’s strongest in romance and drama. Older chapters are mostly free and newer ones are paid. You can sign up with an email address. Our guide to Kuaikan from outside China covers sign-up, KK coins and wait-for-free.

Tencent Comics (ac.qq.com)

Tencent Comics has the largest catalogue in China, tens of thousands of series. It’s where most of the big action, fantasy and cultivation titles are, including many that later get donghua adaptations. It mixes free and paid chapters like Kuaikan. You can only log in with QQ or WeChat, so see our Tencent Comics guide for how to sign up from abroad and what chapters cost.

Bilibili Manhua (manga.bilibili.com)

Bilibili Manhua is Bilibili’s Chinese comic site, and it has the full library that its old English service drew from. The reader is clean and new chapters arrive quickly. Some series need a Chinese phone number to unlock, but many don’t.

Manke Zhan (mkzhan.com)

Manke Zhan is run by Zhiyin Manke, the publisher of one of China’s best-selling comic magazines. It’s smaller than the others but has a good range of action and fantasy series, with the same free-plus-paid model.

Do you need a Chinese phone number?

Usually not. Free chapters on Kuaikan and Tencent open without an account. Kuaikan lets you register with an email address. Tencent only accepts QQ or WeChat, and WeChat still accepts foreign phone numbers. A few locked titles do need a Chinese number, and there’s no good way around that.

The sites use Simplified Chinese. Comics published in Taiwan and Hong Kong use Traditional Chinese.

What happened to manhua in English

There are fewer legal English options than there used to be. Bilibili Comics, the biggest licensed manhua service in English, shut down its international app and website in February 2024, and its translations went offline with it. Today INKR has a rotating selection of licensed manhua, MangaToon has a manhua section, and WebComics and Tappytoon each carry a few titles.

If your series is on one of those, read it there. But most manhua, including long series with hundreds of chapters, will never get an official English version. We wrote more about this in our guide to reading Chinese manhua in English.

Reading Chinese chapters in English

The free way is to screenshot panels into Google Translate or point Google Lens at them. That works for a few bubbles but gets tedious over a full chapter. We also make a manga translator called Madomi, a browser extension and phone app that translates the speech bubbles on the page as you scroll. Our post on translating Chinese manhua to English covers both, plus how to keep character names and cultivation terms consistent.

If you also read Japanese or Korean comics, we have the same kind of list for Japanese manga sites and Korean webtoon sites.

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