Easy to use image viewer that places special emphasis on reading manga style comics
Easy to use image viewer that places special emphasis on reading manga style comics
Vote: (111 votes)
Program license: Free
Developer: Manga Underground
Version: 2.4
Works under: Windows
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Program license
(111 votes)
Free
Developer
Version
Manga Underground
2.4
Works under:
Windows
Pros
- Portable app that doesn't require installation
- Very simple mouse controls
- Features a number of handy keyboard shortcuts
Cons
- Can't work with PNG comic book pages
- No support for 7z archives
MangaMeeya is a lightweight and fast comic book reading application that emphasizes its support for Japanese manga. It gives users the freedom to read books printed in either direction, which makes it ideal for otaku who want to read authentic manga that's printed in a traditional right-to-left fashion. Users can select whether they want a single or double-page layout, which should help to alleviate orientation problems when reading international comics.
This makes it a great option for those who have collections of Korean manhwa as well, especially considering that it works with both CBR and CBZ files. If you have a group of images, then you can simply place them into one of these archive types and change the extension. The app will then proceed to read them as though they were a comic book.
Artists might want to take advantage of this fact so that they can organize their own comics and check them out before distributing them online. In fact, it supports a number of other common document formats that comic book collectors are likely to come into contact with.
If you have compressed folders full of images, then MangaMeeya will read them as a comic book collection as long as they're in ZIP or RAR format. As far as the pictures themselves go, it can load any page in GIF, JPG or BMP format. This is rather impressive because Windows Bitmaps aren't normally covered by comic book readers.
Since MangaMeeya treats all comic book pages as static images, you won't have to worry about whether or not you have the right typefaces installed to read them. It'll show Thai, Japanese and Korean language comics correctly on English-language PCs.
Pros
- Portable app that doesn't require installation
- Very simple mouse controls
- Features a number of handy keyboard shortcuts
Cons
- Can't work with PNG comic book pages
- No support for 7z archives
