MangaMeeya belongs to one of the most popular tools among manga readers. The newest version of MangaMeeya has appeared yesterday on a news site.
I uploaded Manga Meeya (silv recommended to me). The newest version 7.4 is Japanese, but there is also a new English adaption. If you can’t understand Japanese, you can go with this version. Its similar to CDisplay but this version lets you view archives within archives! So it is much more comfortable! If you are still stucked with CDisplay, you should definitely give this tool a chance!
Features:
-New: Supports imprecated archives (archives within archives)
-Read Image albums ( Mangas, Comics, or any picture/photo album) in RAR (CBR) or ZIP (CBZ) formats, including password protected ZIP or RAR archives
-Read all common picture formats ( BMP, PNG, GIF, JPG), and can be used a standalone picture viewer
-No installation required
-Extract ZIP and RAR archives
Ebi
“CDisplay is good, but MangaMeeya is so much better!”
silv
MangaMeeya 2.4 English
Thanks to Jach for the suggestion. - silv
UPDATE: Added a few more manga reading tools
Update2: Here is a list of all Japanese comic readers
Popularity: 28% [?]
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June 21st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I haven’t heard of this tool before. I actually use CDisplay myself. It’s in english. Once you get the settings the way you want, you’re good to go. *shrugs* Just suggesting
June 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
This is nice, but how does one set a folder that’s to be opened immediately each time the program runs? Or can it even do that at all?
Thanks.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Cdisplay is nice, but as a former CDisaplay user, I can tell you this is a much nicer tool. Being able to open a .rar within a .rar is the most convenient thing, and one thing I’ve learned is to never underestimate convenience.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I was stucked on the old Manga Meeya version. This version is much better! I totally recommend switching from CDisplay to Manga Meeya.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
ever try “ComicsViewer”? i feel it’s got all the essential functions, but without the excess kind of stuff. i used to use hikaru viewer from toriyamaworld, but switched to comicsviewer when i found it on this japanese winny forum.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Why is the english version 2.4 while the japanese version is 7.4 and is there any difference between the two?
June 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
7.4 is another branch and equals 2.4 for windows.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Is there a dev site for the english version, cause the scroll function seems to be broken.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Yeah, here is the source code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/44016961/MMCE_July20.zip.html
June 21st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Comix under linux is much better. But if u have windows its a nice tool.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:21 pm
@Ebichiyu
You can do that with CDisplay too…….
June 21st, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Great program. Lots of smart settings and stuff.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Audrey, the version i was using would never do it for me, admittedly though, I hadn’t upgraded it since last fall… So it may be a newer feature. I still prefer Mangameya now that I am using it.
If CDisplay works for you the way you like it, who am I to tell you to dump it for something else(DO EEEET!!).
June 21st, 2008 at 8:57 pm
It looks nice. Since it is open source, is anyone trying to port it to linux?
Btw can anybody tell me which manga is this from?
http://www.mydailymanga.com/wp-content/gallery/mangau-archive/077zk6.jpg
Thx in advance…
June 21st, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I thought that the source link, was the source code but it isn’t. So nvm what I said…
June 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Unbalance X 2
June 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
i know the comment isn’t to the topic but from which manga are the showing patches? (in the screenshot)
I’m sorry for my english…
greetings
Buu00
June 21st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
The manga is C.A.T
I highly recommend it, awesome read.
And I’m gonna try to use this one. Using CDisplay for forever.
June 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
thank you very much
June 21st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Thanks a whole bunch for working on this. It’s the best manga reader bar none (long time CDisplay user here) Unlike CDisplay it is blazing fast, even on 100MB+ rar files. And it does Lancoz resizing so everything looks razor sharp. Also has a bunch of features that no other reader does (AFAIK) like mouse gestures, an explorer that displays all the manga in a folder in the form of thumbnails and let’s you change almost every single hotkey and mouse button to whatever you want.
Switching to it for all my comic and manga reading now
June 21st, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I like it so far. A lot of extra feature which I probably won’t use but very nice.
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 am
I am still using ACDSee for 8-9 (?) Years lol… well I don’t like CDisplay and MangaMeeya is quite good..e xD
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
I have a question regarding MangaMeeya, a year ago when i went from ACDSee to CDisplayEX i changed all my manga files into .cbr, can this reader open them automatically like CDisplayEX can, cause if it can i ain’t changing 43.8 gig’s of manga files back in .rar format [and when i say automaticaly i mean i press the icon and it opens in MangaMeeya]
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:28 am
Ofc course it can .CBR are nothing but renamed .RAR files.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:35 am
errr…. silv sorry, i didn’t mean if it can open cbr files, and too bad you already posted, i just remembered that i can do what i wanted from windows [to change the program i open a .cbr file from cdisplay to mangameeya] - really sorry for posting
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
Yeah ofc. That’s a windows feature:
Hold SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK any CBR file. Choose from the panel “Open with” and set MangaMeeya as your default reader.
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Some info about Comic Book Archive files.
It is a type of archive file for the purpose of sequential viewing of images, especially comic books. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay image viewer.
The Comic Book Archive format is a compressed archive which uses one of several popular compression file formats. The files may be opened using the appropriate compression programme simply by changing the file extension, depending on the file format:
* .cbr →.rar
* .cbz →.zip
* .cbt →.tar
* .cba →.ace
//wikipedia
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
For linux, it’s worth to have a look at QComicBook: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=19509
Since 0.4.0 it also supports nested archives
KDE4’s Okular http://okular.kde.org/ has also comic book archives support, but it’s still in beta state.
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I’m using picwalker. It have some issues with rar archives, but works fine with most of releases.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 am
Can someone tell me how do you readmanga on it?. I have this problem which the program that the downloaded mangas get sent to cannot use that program so i can’t read that downloaded manga on my computer. How do you change this program to another program to read the downloaded manga. I could appericate the help please.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 am
Another question, how do you set up Mangameeya on your computer anyway to read the manga? It saved on mine as a compressed folder and i don’t know how to start to read mangas on it. Also i notice a .RAR manga files is not playing on CDisplay, it just says the file is not there, why is that?. Sorry for posting so many questions.
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 am
Ok, I think what you’re asking is how to open the .rar’s or whatever other format is used with the mangameeya.
First off extract the mangameeya archive you downloaded into a folder somewhere on your PC.
From there right click on one of the manga’s you want to read, and clich “Open with…”, if you don’t see mangameeya listed, then down at the bottom there is a “browse” button. Click on browse, navigate to the folder you extracted mangameeya to, and open the program from there.
You can either save it as the default program to open files like that, or just have it in your “Open with…” menu from then on. Its up to you how you do it from there. If you have any other problems, or if I didn’t explain that well enough, feel free to ask.
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 am
For OSX manga reader
http://bitcartel.com/comicbooklover/index.html
its really good
(but shame its not free but you can crack it ;))
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 am
alright, lemme say this:
mangameeya is not a nerdy, manga archivating script.
1) It’s trimmed for mobility and performance. it runs on every windows WITHOUT INSTALLTION or any programming framework. You can put it on an USB stick and read your manga anytime, anywhere!
2) It’s only 800 KB and it’s ultra fast loading. the pages are resized in high quality. you get no line noise with PNG (unlike CDisplay). There different portrait formats: like fullscreen, double page, double layout (it automatically recognize if an image is a double page or not). It even supports mouse gestures. You can even customize MangaMeeya to use different setting profiles. So if you got a laptop and have to change the keys, you can simply load your keysettings for the laptop or your computer. All this in only 800 KB, that’s a damn lot.
so if you always wanted a fast loading, quality manga reader, you should use MangaMeeya. If you want a manga management tool, try out comicrack (win) or comix (linux). In my opinion those heavy tools require a lot more of your ressources for extra features, that personally I don’t give a damn, cuz i dont archive every manga I download. especially owners of older computers might find the loading time of comicrack annoying. if you are an CDisplay owner, then really should think about changing. CDisplay’s performance is CRAPPY compared to the fast loading, light MangaMeeya.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
mangameeya may be fast for some but on my system it was pretty buggy and loaded big files like s*** [at least the mmece [both en and jp versions], as for cdisplay, i renounces using it as soon as i got it and went for cdisplayex and now tx to you silv i’m going to comicrack, it may take an eternity to load but it’s worth it, i have like all the options i can use [and since i do archive all comics that aren't pdf - that means all the manga i have on my pc - it is really useful tx again silv]
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
never experienced problems with big files. what was the error?
I just tested it with a 300 MB archive containt multiple volume.zip archives. It loaded in 1 second
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
Well, error was:
], and i had the same error in both the en and the jp version, as for the time i waited for the file to load ~ approx 5 min and no result just a black screen [it did give me a small box that showed the files loading but when it was finished and normally you would get an image i get just the black background]
“WaitForSingleObject TimeOut!
LoadCacheLineClear Delete”
and it only appears in mmece, not in mmecht [note: mmecht opened my sanctuary part 5 of 218.027 kb in about 2secs or less - sorry for not having dl your edition yet
note: mangameeyaCE is the 2.4 version the one translated, in jp there is also a 7.4 version - that works fine [just that i don't know jp ^_^]
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
The archives are either corrupted or the filepath / filename is too long.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Thanks to Ebichiyu for the help, it wored like a charm.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Not sure what you’re talking about CDisplay as being crappy, but I guess that makes sense when it comes to loading huge files like Akira volumes. Anyway, I fixed the scrolling problem by transferring the english MMCE to the jap version folder and edited the ini file so that the menus are in english. I’ll be upping it to the net sometime this week and giving this site props for mentioning such a great program.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Hey, thanks sunfizz, can’t wait to get it
June 25th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
In the next release can you support opening last archive/page read on startup. Also using the wheel to scroll through pages is broken. I can scroll back pages but not forward.
Other than that, this so far is my favorite reader to use. I used to use CDisplay then ComicRack.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
@silverado
where u get the new version of mangameeyaCE?
June 26th, 2008 at 3:41 am
@123: here i think, if i’m not mistaking the program is no longer being actively developed so chances are any new development will happen here tx to suck great guys like silv
June 26th, 2008 at 5:05 am
News about ComicRack, as of version 0.9.82 it introduced .7z zip support, and as far as i know is the first program to actually have inbuilt support for the .cb7 file name, yes you’ve heard correctly a new comic book file name, that technically is readable with any comic viewer and archiving tool that can work with .7z archives but that currently is supported from the install only by ComicRack, as for adoption from other programs, it will probably only happen if the format becomes popular enough, and that only time can say
June 26th, 2008 at 5:49 am
who needs that??? it’s as useful as adding a third cupboard in your smart. you can live without!
June 26th, 2008 at 8:29 am
well, true for something like 75% of all manga that are scanlated and saved in jpeg but for the other formats that use png, gif, and even tif, the better the archiving tool, the more free space, the more free space, well - the more manga to take it’s place ^_^ [and yes for dose kind of files 7z is a little more efficient then rar
June 26th, 2008 at 8:32 am
7z is a cpu hook. it destroys your reading experience.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
As someone who has always used Windows Picture and Fax View Slideshow to read manga I definitely prefer what i’ve been using over everything else
June 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I used that for years, then CDisplay for a year, then MangaMeeyaCe for another year, and now I just switched to the new version, which is way faster and more stable.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Thanks for the recommendation on this program, I love it! I’ve been using ACDSee for over 5 years, but was amazed what MangaMeeya can do as well as how efficient and fast it was.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:48 am
thanks for the recommendation but I still prefer using picwalker since it has an explorer sidebar wherein you can explorer your different folders for fast browsing sadly the author discontinued the project oh well perhaps when this tool has an explorer bar then it will be a good replacement to picwalker
June 27th, 2008 at 4:21 am
mangameeya also has a sidebrowser -_-
stop making comments if you aren’t aware of the features!
June 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Here is an updated version by Sunfizz:
Manga Meeya v2.4 Beta Update
http://www.badongo.com/file/10048188
It fixes some scrolling issues. Good job!
June 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Cool and thanks for the program! I’ve been using Gonvisor but it can get a little unresponsive after a while and tends to cut off the side of the pages, so this program is far better.
P.S. Btw, what image is that manga from? It looks kinda cool and interesting.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Btw, here’re some things I noticed:
a) When I click on “Show 100%”, the image instead resizes to what it’d be like if I’d selected “Adjust to Window Size”. If I need to revert to “Show 100%”, I need to select the option twice.
b) The program doesn’t allow more than 1 instance of it to run at the same time. I often read a few manga at the same time, so it’s a bit of a clincher.
June 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am
It remembers the last page of each volume, so you can close it without any problem and continue it later, even if you opened another manga title before.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:16 am
“Simple Comic” is the best for Macintosh.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Can someone help me with this problem?!? Some of my manga reading tools such as mangameeya or picwalker don’t show some .RAR file manga and i don’t kno why, can someone tell me the cause, and what can u do to make your manga reading tool(s) to make them read all manga or what other tool is there which can read all manga???
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 am
I’ve been using this version 2.4 beta since last year, where’s the new one that everyone’s talking about?! Anyway MangaMeeya is still the best. None can beat its speed! And don’t mention CDisplay or it’s later variants here, I hated your grandpa’s comic reader with a passion.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:07 am
I want to know where the new version is too. I thought 2.4 was it?
Anyway, I’ve tried numerous image viewers and comic book readers. The only one that comes close to MangaMeeya is Compupic, but unfortunately that tool only supports ZIP and hasn’t been updated in ages. No unicode either, afaik.
MM has it all. Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed! Multiple archive support and minimal system requirements AND unicode. I use it not only for reading comics, but browsing all my pictures in general. It’s simply that convenient.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:28 am
The new version? It IS the new version, kinda like 2.4.1
August 4th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Is there a way to make Meeya display the page number like cdisplay does?
August 20th, 2008 at 7:31 am
I don’t know what people see in programs like this.
With a single command, ye can have every page open up in a new firefox tab and read without ever touching a mouse. Now _that_ is comfy. And multi-platform.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am
“Look! It’s a ‘Moron’ from Bitch-island!”