13 Best Free Manga Reading Sites BooksWide (2023)

With the ever-growing popularity of manga, more and more people want to read them, but not everyone can afford to buy them especially young people who don’t have a source of income. Plus, many manga titles don’t get serialized in certain countries where the demand is low.

So, the best option for such people is to read manga online. There are tons of sites where you can read manga for free but a bunch of them are subpar. They might not have the manga you want and even if they do, the image quality might not be satisfying.

So, what you need is a list of manga reading sites with the best user interface, good image qualities, and all the manga you want. Well, In this article, I’m going to share with you exactly that. Here are the 13 Best free manga reading sites.

Small advice, most of the sites in this list fall into the gray area between legal and illegal as they upload these mangas without the permission of the copyright holder publishers. So, I would recommend using legal sites to read manga which also financially helps the author. Here are the 11 Best Legal Sites For Manga And Manhwa.

1. MangaDex – If you hate ads

MangaDex is one of the best manga-reading sites out there with over 14 million visitors a month. It hosts all the popular old & new manga titles in multiple languages.

The best thing about this site is that it shows no ads which means an ad-free reading experience which is rare on manga sites.

The site has a great advanced search option in which you can filter through the manga by genre, upload date, status, tags, etc, and find the best manga in your favorite genres. You can add manga to the library and also chat with your fellow otakus in the Mangadex community by logging in.

2. Asura Scans – For Latest Manhwa Releases

Unlike many other sites on this list that take their manga/manhwa from other sites, Asura Scans only hosts the manhwa that they themselves have translated.

As the name suggests, the group behind Asura Scans is a scanslation group that buys the manhwa chapters from the official sites, translates them to English, and uploads them on their site with great-quality images.

The library of manhwa they offer is a bit limited as scanslations take time and they pick only the best manhwa to translate.

3. MangaKatana – To Download Manga

MangaKatana is another great manga reading site that you must check out. It has a huge library of not just manga but manhwa, manhua, and webtoons as well.

MangaKatana has a big advantage over the other websites on this list as it has a download option using which you can download the manga as zip files to read them later. You can simply convert the downloaded file to some other format like Pdf or CBZ and read them on your device.

When you open the manga you want to read, you will see the button “Read Offline”. After clicking the button, choose the chapter numbers you want to download and click on them. After clearing a captcha, the site will give you a link to the download file.

If you want to download manga and read them even when you’re offline, check out the 6 Best Sites To Download Manga For Free.

4. Webtoons.com – For Some Original Comics

Webtoons are simply Korean webcomics created as long strips that you can read by scrolling down, unlike manga or comics which are read page by page. Webtoons.com is one of the biggest online webtoon platforms with thousands of comics in multiple languages.

On this site, you can read highly popular manhwa & webtoons for free. You can also filter by genre and popularity.

If you’re new to the world of webtoons, I recommend you start with Tower Of God or God of the Highschool.

5. ManhwaSco.net

ManhwaSco is another great site for reading manga and manhwa. It has a huge number of manga and especially manhwa titles with good image qualities.

They upload new chapters as soon as they get released in English. The loading speed is good so you wouldn’t have to wait as the manga images load. The manga are also categorized into over 200 genres you can filter through to find new manga to read.

6. Nhentai For Cultured Weebs

If you’re new to the manga world, Hentai are simply adult manga and anime. These are 18+ manga with pornographic content.

If you want to read hentai then Nhentai is the best site for it. It has a huge collection of hentai manga that is regularly updated. You can filter by genre, upload date, etc. I didn’t add an image because I can’t show the contents on the site but you get the idea.

7. ManhuaUS has all the Manhua you need

Japan has manga, Korea has webtoons & manhwa, similarly, China has manhua. Manhua are simply Chinese comics that, unlike manga, are colored & are read right to left. Today, manhua are more popular than ever because of its highly engaging storylines and consistently improving art styles.

ManhuaUS is the best site for reading Manhua online. It has all the latest manhua with great quality scans. You can also log in and bookmark the mangas to read them later.

My personal favorite manhua are Martial Universe and Tales of Demons and Gods. If you’re new to manhua, then I would recommend you start with Tales of Demons And Gods which is one of the most popular manhua.

8. ComicExtra is the best comics site

We’ve been focusing a lot on manga & manhwa, so let’s talk about comics for a second. We all love Marvel and DC because of comic characters like Batman and Spider-Man. If you like reading comics, then ComicExtra should be your go-to site.

It has all the popular comics, not just Marvel or DC, for example, Invincible, The Walking Dead, The Boys, etc. New comic issues are uploaded as soon as possible with great quality.

9. ComicK.app – Best UI

ComicK has one of the best user interfaces among manga reading sites. Plus, they’re always improving their site and the manga filter, etc. It also has a Web app you can download.

You can log in to create a manga list and connect to the community. It also offers a huge library of manga in different languages. You can choose between light and dark themes.

Good thing for Apple users, ComicK also has an iOS version of the web app you can download.

10. MangaNelo

Though the user interface of MangaNelo is not the best out there, their manga library is, with thousands of old & latest manga, manhwa, & manhua.

The image loading speed is good along with the image quality. The site also has an Advanced Search option using which you can choose the genres you want to include and the ones you want to exclude.

11. Manhwahentai – For 18+ Manhwa

Koreans also have their versions of Hentai manga. They’re similar to any regular manhwa but have 18+ content in them.

Manhwahentai is one of the best sites for adult manhwa readers as it has all the popular titles and uploads new chapters every day in great quality.

12. MangaSee

With a simple UI, MangaSee is another great manga site with all the popular manga updated regularly. And not just manga, it has manhwa and manhua as well. You can also change the site’s theme.

All the manga sites in this list are good and you can choose whichever one fits your preference.

13. MangaOwl

Last, but not least, MangaOwl is also a great site to read manga online. Like other sites, this one also has the Advanced Search Option you can use to filter the mangas.

The site’s user interface is exactly the same as ManhuaUS and the manga library is also about the same.