Essential Apps for the Everyday Otaku

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Hello AAA community, this is Folium helping to bring your anime addiction with you on the go. So this summer I got my first IPod Touch, and being the otaku as I am I went about trying to find the best apps to help my addiction grow stronger. So here I am to bring you up to date with my favorite apps.

First of all we will start with the app I use the most, Manga Storm. You can download the app for free and then pay $2.99 U.S.D. to unlock it, but even if you don’t want to pay download this app. This is the only way I read manga now, besides the classic print versions. Manga Storm provides you with three online sources from which you can draw your manga from, Manga Fox, Manga Reader, and Manga Eden, and they will hopefully be adding more soon. Now from these three sources you can favorite manga and download manga. For the free version you can download ten chapters at a time and I believe favorite five manga. Now here is where things become beautiful. Even when online Manga Storm marks the chapters of a manga you have read and also marks the current chapter you are on along with new manga chapters added. After a manga is set to favorite you can set Manga Storm to automatically download chapters of your favorite manga so you can read them at your leisure without Wi-Fi. When downloading manga you can select certain chapters or just select download all and Manga Storm will download all of it for you in the background, and will store as much manga as you have space for on your IPod. When reading it has a portrait or landscape view, slides to next page, loads chapters completely so no breaks when reading one chapter, can be locked for screen, and when zooming in it will reset the screen size to standard on the next page. I love this app.

The next app for the modern otaku would be Netflix, and you would normally have this anyways but I might as well mention it if you like dubs, find yourself in a masochistic state of mind, or are having to review a bad anime. Don’t waste space on Crunchy Role or Anime Network unless you like to watch anime legally, instead use anime4iphone.com, a friend of aaapodcast and the best place to watch anime on your iPhone. If you want to watch dubbed for any of the above reasons though Netflix is the best way to go.

For anime music definitely go with Japan-Radio. While it offers many radio stations from Japan it also offers three of my favorite anime music radio stations, 91.8 The Fan, Armitage’s Dimension, and Kawaii Radio along with a few other J pop and anime radio stations. Also has free recording of any songs playing, and best of all, free of charge.

For anime images head over to Anime Box, a gelbooru client that allows you to search for anime images using tags and allows for favoriting, saving, and sharing online. Great quality HD for beautiful images.

And that is my app collection for my otaku lifestyle. For information I say don’t waste space and go for animenewsnetwork.com, and everything else I can find online. So fill up that ipod and get even more addicted to anime.

Sincerely,

~Folium

This is a list of all the apps I mentioned. Manga Storm (free version and $2.99 unlock), Netflix (Free as long as subscribed to actual Netflix), Japan- Radio, and Anime Box. If you have any other apps then please email their names to me at msnbliss@gmail.com and I will review them and mention them if I deem them decent to take up my limited 8 GB space (sniffle).