NTT Solmare Corp introduced on December 14 that it’s going to launch MangaPlaza, a digital contents library for manga and Japanese publications in the US, in spring 2022. MangaPlaza will supply titles from Kodansha and unique titles which have but to get English releases.

The MangaPlaza trial web page will launch a pre-registration marketing campaign on January 24. Readers can entry 72 manga titles freed from cost in the course of the pre-registration marketing campaign.

The MangaPlaza retailer will supply a month-to-month subscription mannequin granting entry to a library of 10,000 “content material” (the press launch didn’t specify if this content material means 10,000 titles, chapters, or pages). MangaPlaza may also supply particular person purchases of digital content material. The content material will embrace in style titles akin to Assault on Titan, Tokyo Revengers, Chihayafuru, and That Time I Obtained Reincarnated as a Slime. The service’s library will span genres akin to “action-adventure, romance, comedy, drama, sci-fi/fantasy, and LGBTQA+.”

NTT Solmare Corp’s eBook Division Supervisor Shinya Sumida acknowledged regarding the launch, “As a member of the contents trade, now we have an necessary function to play in stopping the circulation of pirated content material, with the launch of MangaPlaza, we hope to assist result in change inside this trade.”

NTT Solmare is a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Phone West Company.

Supply: Cision PR Net