Shueisha has made roughly 400 manga titles available free of charge in more than 100 languages, in what the publisher describes as the largest translation project it has undertaken.
The platform, MANGA MILLION, launched on 6 August to mark the company’s centenary. It requires no account or payment and runs worldwide until the end of December 2027.
What is on it?
More than 150 of the titles are shojo manga, among them Nana and Kimi ni Todoke. Nearly 300 series are being translated for the first time, and 50 have been rendered into multiple languages for the project. One Piece is offered in 107 languages.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Launched | 6 August 2026 |
| Titles | About 400 |
| Pages | More than 1 million |
| Languages | More than 100 |
| Runs until | December 2027 |
What is MANGA MILLION?
MANGA MILLION is a free digital manga platform launched by the Japanese publisher Shueisha on 6 August 2026 to mark its hundredth anniversary. It provides access to approximately 400 manga titles, comprising more than one million pages, translated into over 100 languages including English, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, French, Turkish, Tagalog, Korean and Polish. No registration or payment is required, and the service is scheduled to run worldwide until December 2027. Nearly 300 of the titles are receiving their first translation into any language, and more than 150 are shojo manga. From mid-August the platform adds near-simultaneous distribution for around 30 ongoing series, with chapters appearing two to three weeks after Japanese publication. Shueisha has stated that no artificial intelligence was used in the translations, which were produced by professional translators.
Why the language count matters
The supported languages include Hindi, Tagalog, Turkish and Polish alongside the commercially obvious ones. Shuhei Hosono, editor-in-chief of MANGA Plus, who initiated the project, said it began with the question of what translating one million pages into 100 languages would look like, and grew into an effort to remove the language barriers that still keep readers in many regions from official manga.
The publisher has also framed the initiative as a response to piracy, which flourishes where no legal translation exists in a reader’s language.
No AI translation
Hosono confirmed that no machine-generated translation was used. Every title was handled by professional translators through the publisher’s existing framework.
That is a deliberate position at a point when automated localisation has become common across the industry and cheaper than commissioning human work at this scale.
What happens after 2027?
The platform is time-limited by design, but Hosono has said arrangements are being considered so that many titles remain readable after it closes, with a subscription model among the options.
Availability inside Japan is deliberately restricted, since the service is built for readers abroad. Japanese users can access selected material including the first twelve volumes of One Piece in all 107 languages.
Shueisha was founded in 1926 and publishes Weekly Shonen Jump. Hideaki Hayashi, its president, said connecting creators with readers is among a publisher’s central responsibilities.
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