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Crunchyroll Manga to No Longer Offer Catalog Chapters of Kodansha Titles

Crunchyroll announced on Friday that Kodansha manga titles that have ended serialization will be removed from its manga section on February 28. After this time, the titles will only be available for purchase as eBooks from the Crunchyroll Manga store. The affected titles are as follows:

• A Silent Voice
• A Town Where You Live
• As the Gods Will: The Second Series
• Coppelion
• Fort of Apocalypse
• Inuyashiki
• Maga Tsuki
• My Wife is Wagatsuma-san
• Mysterious Girlfriend X
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P3
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P4
• Princess Jellyfish
• Unlimited Fafnir
• Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Crunchyroll previously offered simultaneous publication of all 14 titles.

In addition, Crunchyroll announced that it will no longer offer catalog chapters for most ongoing Kodansha titles beginning on March 1. The older chapters will be available through the eBook store only, but the newest chapters will still be available to Crunchyroll members. The following titles will be affected:

• Ajin
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan
• Attack on Titan
• Fuuka
• GTO: Paradise Lost
• Kiss Him, Not Me
• Space Brothers
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• Sweetness and Lightning
• UQ HOLDER!

Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail manga will be an exception; Crunchyroll will have 30 volumes available in its catalog for members to read on March 1.

Kiss Him, Not Me ended this week and Crunchyroll published the final chapter.

[Via WTK]