“This is a very expensive manga app that makes you play games full of micro transactions to read manga. As a contrast, the Viz App costs about three or four dollars a month and has virtually no limitations to what I can read. Kodansha has…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 416 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.4 ★15,853 ratings
1M+Downloads
17+Age rating
74 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
==K MANGA-Manga & Comics== Welcome to K MANGA - the official Kodansha manga app where you can dive into your favorite Kodansha titles every day. With K MANGA, you can immerse yourself in renowned titles such as 'Attack on Titan', 'Ghost in the Shell', 'Fairy Tail', 'Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting Spirits', 'Tokyo Revengers', and many more.
Enjoy reading popular manga, ongoing series available simultaneously in Japan and the US, or explore new original series on K MANGA right from your phone or tablet. Dive into a new story whenever you like. Show your support for your favorite authors by reading the titles through official releases.
Why K MANGA?…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.4.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.4.1, updated 2026-09-15.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 416 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Doesn't let you buy a subscription to read like shonen jump, makes you buy individual chapters, not a good system. it does give you a couple dozen chapters for free when you join but once those are up it makes you watch adds to get more…”
“full of ads and wants you to pay for every chapter”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.3.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$1.00
Highest$25.00
100Points$1.00
400Points$4.00
2500Points+80Bonus Points$25.00
800Points$8.00
800Points + 120Bonus Points$8.00
Show 5 more purchases
100Points+100Bonus Points$1.00
100Points + 50Bonus Points$1.00
2500Points+80Bonus Points(New)$25.00
1600Points$16.00
500Points + 20Bonus Points$5.00
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.