Best Manga Raw Sites in 2026: Where to Read Raw Japanese Manga Online

If you search for manga raws, most of the results are aggregator sites with pop-up ads, missing chapters and redirects. The chapters on them usually come from the Japanese publishers’ own websites anyway.

Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan and KADOKAWA all run free web platforms. They post chapters on the day they come out in Japan, and the websites work from most countries. These are the ones worth knowing.

Shonen Jump+ (shonenjumpplus.com)

Shonen Jump+ is Shueisha’s web magazine and the best place to start. Its own original series are free to read in full, and new chapters go up as soon as they’re published in Japan. Weekly Shonen Jump series work differently: they use points. You get some when you register for free, and you earn more by reading.

Magazine Pocket (pocket.shonenmagazine.com)

Magazine Pocket is Kodansha’s site for Weekly Shonen Magazine and a large catalogue of web originals. It gives you a few free tickets every day, and each ticket unlocks a chapter, so you can read older chapters for free if you don’t mind going slowly.

Comic DAYS (comic-days.com)

Comic DAYS is Kodansha’s site for its seinen magazines: Morning, Afternoon and Evening. Part of it is free, and a subscription unlocks the full magazines.

Sunday Webry (sunday-webry.com)

Sunday Webry is Shogakukan’s site, with Weekly Shonen Sunday series and many web originals. It uses the same free-ticket system as Magazine Pocket.

KadoComi (comic-walker.com)

KadoComi is KADOKAWA’s site, and many people still know it by its old name, ComicWalker. It has a lot of light-novel adaptations, which often take years to get an English release, if they get one at all.

Two more: Tonari no Young Jump has Young Jump titles, and BookWalker Global sells Japanese volumes if you’d rather buy them. BookWalker Global accepts international cards, which most Japanese stores don’t.

Piccoma isn’t on this list. It’s Japan’s top-grossing manga app, but it only works inside Japan. We wrote a separate post on Piccoma from outside Japan and where else its series can be read.

Using these sites from outside Japan

The websites work from most countries, and you don’t need a VPN to read free chapters. The phone apps are a different story: they’re only listed in the Japanese App Store and Google Play, so they may not show up in yours. Use the browser instead. You’ll need a free account for the ticket and point systems, and paying can be difficult without a Japanese payment method, which is where BookWalker Global helps.

Why so few of these are in English

The official English options are good, and if your series is on one of them, read it there. MANGA Plus has a selection of Shueisha titles at the same time as Japan, for free. VIZ’s Shonen Jump subscription costs a few dollars a month. K MANGA has Kodansha’s catalogue, but only in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Together they still only cover a small part of what’s published in Japan. Thousands of series, especially web originals and light-novel adaptations, have no English publisher and probably never will. For those, the Japanese version is the only one there is.

Reading Japanese chapters in English

The simplest free option is a phone camera translator like Google Lens, which works fine for a page or two but gets slow over a whole 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 Japanese manga to English goes through both approaches step by step.

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

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