Ready to start the #AzukiAnimeNYC panel, @ReadAzuki’s first live industry panel at a con!
Introducing Azuki and hosts @VamptVo & CEO Abbas Jeffery! They’ve got a lot of new additions to their catalog to announce today!
Where you can find the Azuki fan community!
Simulpubs available on Azuki! A Sign of Affection just came back from hiatus! Other highlights include Grand Blue Dreaming and Space Brothers. Hopefully more Josei simulpubs on the way!
Azuki’s catalog boasts over 160 series from Kodansha, Kaiten Books, Glacier Bay Books, and Star Fruit Books. Glacier and Star’s catalog is only available exclusively on Azuki!
Azuki is available globally outside of Japan and has premium memberships as well as chapters of select series free for all to read. There’ll be a Black Friday sale on the premium membership this weekend!
Service Updates!
Feature roadmap!
Azuki’s identity and ethos as a company. An employee owned business that started from 0, every bit of fan support helps them grow! Want to be an alternative to manga piracy, providing fans easy access to manga while supporting the artists.
New license announcements AND a new publisher partnership!!
@sozocomics simulpubs join the Azuki catalog TODAY! More new chapters will be available soon!
More @sozocomics catalog additions to Azuki! Complete series available now!
Even more @sozocomics additions to Azuki! These two are definitely for fans of touch ladies with secret sweet sides!
When Pink Rain Falls, a BL slice-of-life one-shot from @starfruitbooks, joins the Azuki catalog as their first ever BL title!
@haaschimoto sent me a copy of this recently and I would highly recommend it, it’s really sweet and the art is really pretty! 🌸💖
Last new announcement, Rabbit Game from @glacierbaybooks joins the Azuki catalog!
Thanks to these new additions, there are now over 190 series available on the Azuki catalog! Start reading today!
Short Azuki backstory: Evan and Abbas would talk over lunch while they were both working at Crunchyroll about their frustrations with manga availability and their desire to create a better service themselves to host a broader variety of titles!
Royalties to authors are based on page reads! The more views they get, the more they make!
Azuki is currently only focused on manga - not thinking about light novels at the moment.
Can anybody put manga on Azuki? Azuki is open to taking series directly from artists, you can contact them through their contact forms if you’re interested.
Azuki distinguished themselves from other services because as software developers they feel they’ve create the best reading experience out of any app out there.
Azuki is looking into better cache systems to make pre-loading even better.
Offline reading is being worked on but no solid plans yet.
Interesting tidbit: If you don’t read ANY manga on Azuki as a monthly premium member no authors will get a share and all of your subscription dues go to Azuki. But they want you to read a lot of manga on Azuki, so please do!
That’s the panel! There were lots of great questions and everyone who asked got a free book or subscription! Though I missed out on a book as the last question asker, I still got this sweet EZ pin with a message I quite like! Let’s all be friends and read a lot of manga on Azuki!
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