Azuki (manga publisher)

Azuki is a digital manga publishing and distribution service that aggregates English-translated manga legally from publishers such as Kodansha, Futabasha, Coamix, and Kaiten Books for reading online. Content is made available to read on the Azuki website, iOS app, or Android app through a single linked account, and readers may either subscribe monthly for access to thousands of chapters, or unlock manga volumes via individual purchases. Azuki also translates manga in-house and publishes series exclusive to its service such as Natsume & Natsume and Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer.

History
KiraKira Media Inc., the company behind Azuki, was established in California in early 2020. Three of the four founders are former Crunchyroll employees. The Azuki service officially launched to the public on June 28, 2021.

In March 2022, Azuki received a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator, and officially joined the Y Combinator W22 batch.

In May 2022, Azuki announced that the company would begin licensing and translating series directly from Japan, with the very first exclusive manga license being Hikaru in the Light! by Mai Matsuda. The first chapters of Hikaru in the Light! launched on the Azuki service in June 13, 2022, and serialized weekly until it ended at 4 volumes in December 2022. Later that year, Azuki licensed two new series, My Dear Detective: Mitsuko's Case Files and Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer.

In Jan 2023, Azuki announced that the service would no longer be publishing Kodansha's simulpubs in accordance with updated policy from Kodansha and that 13 simulpubs series from Kodansha would be removed from the Azuki catalog. The same simulpub series were removed from all other manga publishing platforms at the same time. Around the same time, Azuki acquired the license for I Fell for a Fujoshi, which began serializing in February.

In March 2023, Azuki began distributing downloadable, DRM-free ebooks of its exclusive series.

During the remainder of 2023, Azuki obtained four more exclusive licenses: Crescent Moon Marching, Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms, Our Aimless Nights, and You're So Sloppy, Hotta-sensei. Azuki also finalized deals with publishers MediaDo International and Medibang! to add over 150 new series to its catalog.

Published by Azuki

 * Crescent Moon Marching
 * Hikaru in the Light!
 * I Fell for a Fujoshi
 * Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms
 * My Dear Detective: Mitsuko's Case Files
 * Natsume & Natsume
 * Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer

Early Access on Azuki

 * Gacha Girls Corps
 * The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting

Licensed to read on Azuki

 * A Condition Called Love
 * A Kiss, For Real
 * A Silent Voice
 * A Springtime with Ninjas
 * Ace of the Diamond
 * Again!!
 * Aho-Girl: A Clueless Girl
 * Air Gear
 * Ajin: Demi-Human
 * Alicia's Diet Quest
 * ALIVE
 * All Out!!
 * All-Rounder Meguru
 * Ao-chan Can't Study!
 * Aoba-kun's Confessions
 * APOSIMZ
 * Are You Lost?
 * Arisa
 * ARK
 * As the Gods Will The Second Series
 * ASHIDAKA - The Iron Hero
 * Atsumori-kun's Bride-to-Be
 * Attack on Titan
 * Attack on Titan Anthology
 * Attack on Titan: Before the Fall
 * Attack on Titan: Junior High
 * Ayanashi
 * Basilisk
 * Battle Angel Alita
 * Battle Angel Alita Mars Chronicle
 * Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
 * Beauty Bunny
 * Beware the Kamiki Brothers!
 * Black Panther and Sweet 16
 * BLAME!
 * BLAME! Academy and So On
 * Blitz
 * Bloody Monday
 * Boarding School Juliet
 * Cagaster
 * Cage of Eden
 * Can I Kiss You Every Day?
 * Can You Just Die, My Darling?
 * Cells at Work!
 * Chi's Sweet Home
 * Chihayafuru
 * Children of Mu-Town
 * Clockwork Planet
 * Complex Age
 * Coppelion
 * Crueler Than Dead
 * DAYS
 * Deathtopia
 * Defying Kurosaki-kun
 * Descending Stories
 * Devils' Line
 * Domestic Girlfriend
 * Doomsday Cleaning
 * Drifting Net Cafe
 * Drowning Love
 * EDENS ZERO
 * Egwin & Friends
 * Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
 * En Chan’s House
 * Enchanted Racer
 * Fade-Away Bunny
 * Fairy Girls
 * Fairy Tail
 * Fairy Tail Blue Mistral
 * Fairy Tail Ice Trail
 * Fairy Tail S
 * Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest
 * Fairy Tail: City Hero
 * Farewell, My Dear Cramer
 * Fire Force
 * Flying Witch
 * Fort of Apocalypse
 * FukuFuku Kitten Tales
 * Fuuka
 * Gakuen Prince
 * Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
 * Giant Killing
 * Gleipnir
 * Golosseum
 * Goodbye! I'm Being Reincarnated!
 * GTO: Paradise Lost
 * Guardy Girls
 * Happiness
 * Hotaru's Way
 * House of the Sun
 * Hozuki's Coolheadedness
 * I Am Here!
 * I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die
 * I'm in Love and It's the End of the World
 * I'm Standing on a Million Lives
 * Ikyoudo
 * In/Spectre
 * Interviews with Monster Girls
 * Inuyashiki
 * Invisible Parade
 * Kakafukaka
 * Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition
 * Kamikamikaeshi
 * Karate Heat
 * Kasane
 * Kira-kun Today
 * Kiss Him, Not Me
 * Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight
 * Kitchen Princess
 * Knights of Sidonia
 * Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
 * Land of the Lustrous
 * L DK
 * Let's Dance a Waltz
 * Look Into My Eyes
 * Love and Lies
 * Love Hina
 * Love in Focus
 * Love Massage: Melting Beauty Treatment
 * Lush
 * Maga-Tsuki
 * Magical Sempai
 * Manga Dogs
 * Mardock Scramble
 * Missions of Love
 * Monthly Shoujo Sunday
 * My Boss's Kitten
 * My Boy in Blue
 * My Boyfriend in Orange
 * My Dad's the Queen of all VTubers?!
 * My Little Monster
 * My Sweet Girl
 * My Wife is Wagatsuma-san
 * Myosotis
 * Mysterious Girlfriend X
 * Negima!
 * Nekogahara
 * Nodame Cantabile
 * Noragami: Stray God
 * O Maidens in Your Savage Season
 * Our Fake Marriage
 * Our Precious Conversations
 * Parasyte
 * Peach Girl
 * Peach Heaven
 * Pitch-Black Ten
 * Pop Life
 * Princess Jellyfish
 * Princess Resurrection
 * Pumpkin Scissors
 * Rabbit Game
 * Rave Master
 * Real Account
 * Real Girl
 * Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice: False Stars
 * Ripples
 * Sankarea
 * Sawanabe Zombie
 * Say I Love You
 * Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei
 * School Rumble
 * Sherlock Bones
 * Shojo Fight
 * Shugo Chara Chan!
 * Shugo Chara!
 * Smile Down the Runway
 * Space Brothers
 * Spear
 * Spoof on Titan
 * Spring Storm
 * Starving Anonymous
 * Suzuka
 * Sweetness and Lightning
 * That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
 * That Wolf-Boy Is Mine!
 * The Blood Red Boy
 * The Flowers of Evil
 * The Full-Time Wife Escapist
 * The Knight Cartoonist and Her Orc Editor
 * The Most Tsundere Boss in History
 * The Prince in His Dark Days
 * The Quintessential Quintuplets
 * The Sunset of Silver
 * The Town You Live In
 * The Walls Between Us
 * The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
 * To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts
 * To Your Eternity
 * Toki
 * Tokyo Revengers
 * Tokyo Tarareba Girls
 * Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories
 * Tsuredure Children
 * Until Your Bones Rot
 * UQ Holder!
 * Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty
 * Watari-kun's ****** Is About to Collapse
 * Welcome to the Ballroom
 * When Pink Rain Falls
 * Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
 * Your Lie in April
 * Yozakura Quartet
 * ZAN
 * ''Zombie Makeout Club