September 19th, 2008

Manga Meeya (Manga Reading Tool)

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Manga Meeya Two Pages Mode

Manga Meeya Two Pages Mode

Manga Meeya

For years I’ve used CDisplay, but when I meeted Manga Meeya at the mydailymanga a month ago. I now use Mangameeya comic reader, manga reading tool instead. I now explain why, in this very short review.

Extreme fast even while browsing into archives. The pictures are decoded seamless. Additionally you can specify, optionally, a cache for instead load. Instant I said and instant it is. The cache is very small. I think it’s only round 5% max of the total size of images listenend. You may specify a custom path for the cache and delete the cache whenever you like with or without mangameeya.

  • No installation required
  • Customize anything, menu’s, short-cuts, view …
  • Thumbnails mode
    You can even zoom, to adjust the size.
  • Japanese Support (Right to Left reading)
  • Explore mode having thumbnails
  • Animation flip (optional)
  • Caches archives in rar and optionally cache to HDD
  • NO Yellow reduction
  • Reads rar, zip, cbz, cbr
    Recursively, which means it reads a zip into a zip, a rar into a zip or whatever …

I recommend this program to anyone reading comics on their PC having Windows. It’s so extreme fast, I didn’t even know it could be that fast. It’s also small and clean.

Original the program is Japanese, however they translated and re-made the program into English. The English version might be a bit less featured than the Japanese version does, so if you prefer like the Japanese, please do. For those having Linux or Mac use Comical Reader.

Download
MangaMeeya 2.4 English mirror (730.02 KB)
MangaMeeya 7.4 Japanese + 2.4 English* mirror (4.7 MB)
(*If you have trouble to open, please remove the Japanese characters)
Prefer the main link instead the mirrors, thank you.

Screenshots

Manga Meeya Explore Mode

Manga Meeya Explore Mode

Manga Meeya Thumbnail Mode

Manga Meeya Thumbnail Mode



* Manga Meeya is a Manga Reading Tool. This post is a part of my Top 5 Manga Reading Tools post.
Having Manga Meeya at position 1. Absolute the fastest and customized manga reading tool at the moment.

Why you need extensions cbz, cbr and cb7?

A bit offtopic, but people started to question what the need of these extensions are. CB stands for “Comic Book”. The last character tells the enconding. ‘Z’ of Zip, ‘R’ of Rar and ‘7′ of 7zip.
Without problems you can rename the extensions. However, in most cases you want to open zip, rar and 7zip with an archive program such as 7zip, WinZip or WinRar. Comic Books instead should open having a Comic Reader.

Conclusion making a difference in naming the extensions is practically to divide content.

Posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am
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8 Responses to “Manga Meeya (Manga Reading Tool)”

1

Been using this tool for a long time now, just wondering if there’s been any updates to it beyond sunfizz little fix a while back. Do you know anything? =)

2

Nope, I’m sorry no updates about Manga Meeya. I never found a homepage or any source of the original distributer. Sunfizz little fix? … :S

4

He’s just tweaking the program, it’s not a developper. I don’t think MangaMeeya was an open-source program, otherwise you might ask the guy to continue production. I’m don’t know him or her, but tweaking and programming isn’t the same. Editing an ini file is much like reading a book. Programming is much like a nerd*.
* For those thinking I’m scolding, actually I’m a programmer. Being nerd is what I do, I’m proud to be one.^^

5

I never said he was a dev ;P

Anyways, seems this whole thing was sent to the bottom of the sea due to a GPL violation; “some PDF code was “borrowed” from XPDF”.

Anyways again, the speed of this program makes it one of the best, if not the best, I’ve ever come across. I wish development could be continued in some fasion, since anything else I’ve tried (which is a lot of them) are terribly sub-par.

Morghuss last blog post..Neil Gaiman - Why defend freedom of icky speech?

6

There might be a bug in Manga Meeya, can anyone replicate it to prove it?;
Basically what happened(in v2.4);
‘if you open a file and close the program before it is done scanning or WTF ever it does, the file is gone, deleted…’
(more details from http://forums.boxtorrents.com/index.php?topic=15488.0)

7

Actually the MangaMeeya 7.4 Japanese version you provided is traditional Chinese version. Nevertheless it does no matter as you would never wanna use either Japanese or traditional Chinese version.

8

@Heterodox, well, in that case my source (mydailymanga) was wrong. I can’t read Japanese nor understand a single word, so I couldn’t correct it. Thx for the notice at any case.
@Blanchimont I’m NOT the developer, I just reviewed the program, so wouldn’t know. Still, I guess scraping attention from sites to one source is okay ;).

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