K MANGA 17+

I can’t believe they’re using some kind of bizarre point system to read chapters. Maybe that works in other parts of world but this business model does not work in the west. At least if the newest chapters were free it would be ok. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t create subscription service instead of basically charging $1 for each chapter that you read. Whoever decided that this point system was ok isn’t familiar with business practices in other parts of the world. If K manga had some subscription service I was already ready to pay a monthly fee. What makes this look even worse is Viz just released a $2 a month subscription that I didn’t know was coming out the day before this mess! I signed up for Viz immediately. Even if K Manga charged $5 per month it would be acceptable since they offer a lot more new content. One possible solution for the time being is lowering their points to read a chapter from 99 points to 5 points. Having simultaneously translated work is amazing but they need to create a better way to charge for it. They can’t stop piracy if they don’t make it affordable.

For an app that is a basic ebook reader and ebook shop, the method and service the app uses is so unpleasant it makes me simply not want to read the series published. The app lets you buy a volume of manga for essentially the same price as any other digital retailer except you use points instead of money and you have to buy each chapter individually.
The points are simple enough as 99 points = 99 cents but the tickets are the real disaster. For one ticket each day you can read one chapter of a series. This is not only a nightmare for binge reading but so off putting that I’d rather either go somewhere else and read the volume of manga in its entirety or skip the series all together.
The other problem with the tickets is that only a certain number of chapters are free to read with the tickets so if you weren’t planning on buying a later volume of a series you have either wait months or a year for those chapters to enter their “free period” or go somewhere else which would not only be faster but you could read it much sooner.
The service is so needlessly strange I’d rather buy the same product from someone else instead of dealing with this nonsense.

Ignoring the actual quality of the comics, The business model is just strange. You get one free chapter per day, per comic, not including whatever chapters are free. Ok, cool. Except the most recent chapters are PAID only. And while this isn’t unheard of (I.e, webtoons fast pass system) this is limited to 3-5 chapters at most. Some of these comics are pay locked behind the last 20 chapters or more. Coming out to nearly a dollar per chapter, with very little ways to generate enough free points, unless you read absolutely INSANE amounts of manga it’s barely any cheaper than buying physical copies. Compare this to SJs 3$ a month for their entire vault? Not worth it. I’m not even saying that they shouldn’t charge more for their manga. I think the app could maybe be worth it as high as 10$ a month if it had SJs model. But paying nearly physical price for digital comics, without being able to read up to date comics for free? No thanks. I wouldn’t mind ads, paying a little bit, etc. But this is an egregious amount just for the right to simulpub.
Plus apparently they’ll even split up some chapters in to two parts so you have to pay twice as much for longer chapters? Insane.