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

If you’re searching for manhua raw sites, here’s the short answer: the best places to read raw manhua are the official Chinese platforms themselves. They’re free, they’re legal, and they have every chapter the day it comes out. The only barrier is the language, and that part is solvable.

Most lists of “manhua websites” send you to sketchy aggregators full of pop-up ads and missing chapters. You don’t need them. China’s biggest publishers put their entire catalogues online, and you can read most of it with nothing more than an email address.

This guide covers the official manhua raw sites worth using, what happened to the English options, and how to actually read Chinese chapters without knowing Chinese.

The best official manhua raw sites

These are the sources. Every raw chapter you’ve seen reposted somewhere else started on one of these platforms.

1. Kuaikan Manhua (kuaikanmanhua.com)

The biggest modern manhua platform, with over 10 million monthly visitors and thousands of original titles. Mobile-first, vertical scroll, strong in romance, shoujo, and drama. Lots of free chapters, with newer chapters on a paid unlock system. You can sign up with an email.

2. Tencent Comics / AC.QQ (ac.qq.com)

The largest catalogue in China, measured in tens of thousands of series. This is where the big action and fantasy names live, including a lot of the cultivation and xianxia epics that get donghua adaptations. Free chapters plus paid, same as Kuaikan.

3. Bilibili Manhua (manga.bilibili.com)

Bilibili’s Chinese-language comic platform, and the full library behind what used to be their English service. Clean reader, big catalogue, active on new releases. Some titles need a Chinese phone number to unlock, but plenty don’t.

4. U17 (u17.com)

One of the older original-comics platforms, running since 2006. Smaller than the giants but home to long-running originals you won’t find anywhere else.

5. DMZJ and Manhuagui

Aggregator-style sites rather than publishers. Useful for older or obscure titles that have dropped off the main platforms, but treat them as a last resort, not a first stop. The official sites above are safer and support the authors.

What happened to reading manhua in English?

Here’s the uncomfortable part. The legal English options got smaller, not bigger.

Bilibili Comics, which used to be the biggest licensed manhua platform in English, shut down its international app and website in February 2024. The titles it had translated went offline with it. What’s left is a patchwork: INKR hosts a rotating selection of licensed manhua, MangaToon has a decent manhua section mixed into its broader catalogue, and WebComics and Tappytoon carry a handful of titles each.

If your series is on one of those, great. Read it there and support the official release.

But the math hasn’t changed. China publishes more comic chapters per week than any English publisher can license, translate, and letter. The overwhelming majority of manhua, including huge titles with hundreds of chapters, will never get an official English version. We went deeper into why in our guide to reading Chinese manhua in English.

Which brings us back to the raws.

How to read raw manhua in English

You have the raw chapter open on Kuaikan or Tencent. You can see the art. You can’t read a word. The old fix was screenshotting every panel into Google Translate, which works for one bubble and falls apart at chapter scale.

The current fix is to translate the page in place. Madomi is a manga translator that works as a browser extension on Chrome and Firefox, and as a native app on Android and iOS. Open any raw manhua chapter, activate Madomi, and it reads the Chinese text inside every speech bubble using OCR built for comic fonts, then overlays the translation in your language as you scroll. Both Simplified and Traditional Chinese are supported, and it handles Japanese manga and Korean manhwa the same way, so one tool covers everything you read.

It sits at 4.8 out of 5 from 270+ Chrome Web Store ratings with 10,000+ active users, which makes it the highest-rated manga translator extension. The free plan gives you free credits every month, at 1 credit per translated image. Madomi Premium removes the limit if you’re binging a 600-chapter backlog.

Quick start guide

1. Pick a series and find it on one of the official sites above (Kuaikan and Tencent have search, and pasting the Chinese title from a wiki or MyAnimeList entry works well).
2. Sign up with an email if the site asks for an account.
3. Install Madomi from the Chrome Web Store (or Firefox, Android, iOS).
4. Open a chapter, click the Madomi icon, and read. Translations appear over the bubbles as you scroll.

The whole loop takes about two minutes to set up, and after that reading a raw chapter feels the same as reading a translated one.

FAQ

Is it legal to read manhua raw on these sites? Yes. Kuaikan, Tencent, Bilibili Manhua, and U17 are the official publishers. You’re reading the source, exactly like a Chinese reader does. Running a translator on top is the same as using Google Translate on a Chinese news site.

Do I need a Chinese phone number? Usually not. Most titles on Kuaikan and Tencent open with an email signup. Some locked titles do require a Chinese number, and there’s no clean workaround for those.

Are manhua raw sites free? Largely, yes. The standard model is free back-catalogue chapters with the newest chapters behind a small per-chapter unlock. It’s cheap compared to buying volumes.

Simplified or Traditional Chinese? Mainland platforms use Simplified. Taiwan and Hong Kong releases use Traditional. Madomi translates both, so you don’t need to care which one you’re looking at.

What about Korean manhwa raws? Same idea, different sites (Naver Webtoon and Kakaopage). We wrote a separate guide: how to read Korean manhwa without knowing a single word of Korean.

Stop waiting for a license that isn’t coming

The series you dropped because the translation died is still updating every week on Kuaikan or Tencent. The chapters are sitting there, free and legal. Go read them.

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