Need Advice: Read Manga Online?

[BlueLine]

I have been trying to find a good source of sites or method for reading manga online, but no one place is really doing it for me. I am in that weird stage, where I am only able to understand a little amount of Japanese. So, I would prefer to not be clicking random and download in a language I am still learning, but on the other hand be able to read mass amount of Japanese would help with my studying. I have heard of this JPN/semi-translated Eng application that is a lot like p2p program, but I can't remember the name. Where do you guys find your raw manga at?

[Mulboyne]

Somewhat controversially, Chinese search engine Baidu has a "Library" section on the Japanese version of it's website and there is a manga category.

Many publishers are crying foul in the same way music and movie companies did when YouTube came on the scene. While those issues are being debated, there is a good deal of manga content on Baidu on the following link:

http://lib.baidu.jp/list/87

[Samurai_Jerk]

I have been trying to find a good source of sites or method for reading manga online, but no one place is really doing it for me. I am in that weird stage, where I am only able to understand a little amount of Japanese. So, I would prefer to not be clicking random and download in a language I am still learning, but on the other hand be able to read mass amount of Japanese would help with my studying. I have heard of this JPN/semi-translated Eng application that is a lot like p2p program, but I can't remember the name. Where do you guys find your raw manga at?

If you want to learn Japanese, try reading something besides manga.

[Fullback]

Manga may be the best way to learn to read Japanese because it usually has furigana for the kanji.

[Yokohammer]

I'm not a manga fan (at all), but that's part of how I initially learned to read, in addition to going through all the elementary school kanji drill books.

I found the Doraemon series to be ideal, because if you go through in order, the first book is almost all hiragana with just a few simple kanji (with furigana), and as you progress through the series the number of kanji increases and the furigana is dropped from characters that have appeared several times. Brilliant (if you can stomach the stories).

Didn't turn me into a manga fan though ... never touch the stuff.

[BlueLine]

Mulboyne,
Thanks, I am going through it right now.

For a while now, I have been reading through the news and watching their mini-videos, but I am getting bored, or not understanding most of it. The furigana does help quite a bit, but the copies of the manga I can find are lower quality and it can be quite hard to read.

[Osakadave]

I'm not a manga fan (at all), but that's part of how I initially learned to read, in addition to going through all the elementary school kanji drill books.

I found the Doraemon series to be ideal, because if you go through in order, the first book is almost all hiragana with just a few simple kanji (with furigana), and as you progress through the series the number of kanji increases and the furigana is dropped from characters that have appeared several times. Brilliant (if you can stomach the stories).

Didn't turn me into a manga fan though ... never touch the stuff.

I'll second the good old cat robot.