Hi everyone. As the title says, I’m looking for a method to download manga on smartphone and then read it with a proper offline reader (any suggestion is appreciated).

Example: I’ve been reading comics (downloading them on the smartphone and then reading them with “Perfect Viewer” app) for years and I would start to read manga also with a similar solution.

I prefer to download them on the smartphone (and don’t read it online) because I don’t have always a decent Internet connection, and when I can access to that I use that to download as many comics I can.

Thanks in advance for all your help

EDIT: Thanks for your help, I’ll try Mihon and Kotatsu

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Look up mihon. Android only

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Second Mihon. It’s an all-in-one downloader and reader, and supports reading offline.

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I can third Mihon. Just make sure you download the Keyoushi extensions to go with it

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I’m so confused because there’s like tachij2k, mihon, aniyomi, kotatsu etc… How tf do ik what one is “the best”

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Most are forks of the OG tachiyomi that got copyright struck. So they’re capabilities are pretty similar, just slight UI changes. Just pick one and don’t worry about having the best one.

Aniyomi is for anime, not manga.

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Aniyomi is for anime, not manga.

Aniyomi is for both. It handles Manga just as well as Tachiyomi did. It just can also play anime

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Am I okay just sticking with tachiyomij2k?

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Not a pirate method, but a library card and the app Libby are great for this.

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No manga at all at mine

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Bummer, the collections available depend on your library. Mine was bountiful. At one point I signed up for like 4 different library cards in major cities without ever living there. They might have made it more difficult to do that now.

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I’ve never used these, but I’ve come across them while scrolling through F-Droid and they seem to fit this use case:

Kotatsu
Kinoko

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I’ve used Kotatsu. It’s pretty good for all kinds of comics (not just Japanese manga).

You can download chapters while on WiFi and read without using data.

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+1 for Kotatsu. It’s a bit easy on the NSFW offerings, so, be careful with that in case this is important to the OP.

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+1 for kotatsu, it’s a fork of tachiomi.

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I am still currently using Tachiyomi (Android only) bc it still works, but the dev dropped developing it bc of lawsuits. There are forks of it as well

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You can backup and import everything into mihon very easily. Including sources.

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Mihon

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