

I'd like to purchase the original Japanese manga in digital form but prefer in
PDF format as I don't want to be tied down to using a particular website or
even losing my purchased manga (I remember buying a digital manga a couple
years ago but when I logged into my account recently it was no longer there.)


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Where can I buy raw manga in PDF format?


As far as I know, there are _no_ raw, digital manga being sold in PDF format.
You can convert them, however, using applications found in the Internet. Here
are some sites I found that sell raw, digital manga (and there are more
mentioned in the forum links I posted below):

  1. <https://booklive.jp>
  2. <https://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/>
  3. <https://www.cmoa.jp>
  4. <https://books.rakuten.co.jp/e-book/>
  5. <https://sokuyomi.jp>
  6. <https://bookwalker.jp>
  7. <https://honto.jp>
  8. <https://www.amazon.co.jp>

Where I found those sites above:

  1. <https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/3ekjyj/sites_to_buy_raw_manga_from/>
  2. <https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/212get/is_there_a_way_to_buy_legal_digital_copies_of/>
  3. <https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/7hg7i6/best_legal_japanese_ebook_sites_for_raw_manga/>


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**Japanese DLsite** provides few Japanese manga in DRM-free PDF formats. The
files can be downloaded and opened freely without any additional restriction.

The following search is for ["Safe-For-Work" (as per their definition)
manga](https://www.dlsite.com/home/fsr/=/language/jp/ana_flg/off/age_category%5B0%5D/general/work_category%5B0%5D/books/genre_and_or/or/options_and_or/or/exclude_protect/1/file_type%5B0%5D/PDF/file_type_name%5B0%5D/PDF/per_page/30/show_type/3/without_order/1/page/1/order/price_d);
this excludes doujinshi and R-18 works but includes tankobon (単行本),
magazine/anthology (雑誌/アンソロ), short story (短編), per-chapter (単話), and free-
reading trial/demo (無料お試し版).


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