Crunchyroll Manga Goes Live in India, UK, Australia with 250+ Titles
Crunchyroll now bundles manga reading and anime streaming in markets where it previously offered only streaming, and the India pricing of INR 299 monthly sits below the standalone manga app subscriptions the region's readers have used until now.
Key Facts
- Crunchyroll Manga launched on October 7, 2026 in India, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
- The service carries more than 250 localized English manga titles from J-Novel Club, Square Enix, and Yen Press at launch.
- Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini announced the launch during the inaugural Crunchyroll Anime Future Forum in New York City.
- In India, Crunchyroll Manga requires an Ultimate Fan membership priced at INR 299 per month or INR 999 annually.
- The overall Crunchyroll Manga library has grown to more than 450 titles since its October 2025 debut in the United States and Canada.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime UK News, Animehunch.
Crunchyroll Manga launched in India, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka on October 7, 2026, according to a company press release. The service carries more than 250 localized English manga titles from J-Novel Club, Square Enix, and Yen Press, with launch titles including The Apothecary Diaries, My Dress-Up Darling, Bocchi the Rock!, Bungo Stray Dogs, Delicious in Dungeon, Lycoris Recoil, Sasaki and Miyano, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, and KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!. Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini announced the expansion during closing remarks at the company's inaugural Crunchyroll Anime Future Forum in New York City. The service works on iOS, Android, and web, with offline reading, full two-page spreads, and reading lists. Access is a premium add-on to Crunchyroll's streaming service or included with an Ultimate Fan membership in select countries; in India it requires an Ultimate Fan membership, priced at INR 299 per month or INR 999 annually. The service is powered by Link-U Group.
The launch builds on a service that first went live in the United States and Canada in October 2025, and whose overall library has since grown past 450 titles from AlphaPolis, COMPASS, J-Novel Club, Kodansha, MobileBook.jp, Shueisha, Square Enix, Titan Manga, VIZ Media, and Yen Press.
Crunchyroll Chief Content Officer Asa Suehira tied the expansion to reader demand. "For years, fans have asked us to bring manga closer to their Crunchyroll experience, and we are excited to make that a reality for more fans around the world," Suehira said. He added that anime and manga are deeply connected, and that bringing them together gives fans more ways "to discover the stories, characters and worlds they love."
The company also released readership data behind the push. Across 11 markets, 69 percent of anime viewers surveyed read digital manga monthly or more, and Crunchyroll users were 1.4 times more likely than non-users to read digital manga weekly. In India, 81 percent of surveyed anime fans read digital manga at least monthly and 56 percent read it weekly.
More titles and publishers are planned, including action series from VIZ Media.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.