Looking for a manhua raw? Chinese manhua are published first on a few big official platforms, long before any English version shows up. This guide covers where those raws live, why the official sources beat the aggregator sites, and how to read a manhua raw in English, or your own language, once you've found the chapter.
Table of contents
- Why read raw manhua at all?
- Where to read raw manhua officially
- What about manhua raw aggregator sites?
- How do you find the right chapter on a Chinese site?
- How do you read a manhua raw in English?
- FAQ
Why read raw manhua at all?
Usually because you caught up. You read every translated chapter, hit the end, and the story is still going in Chinese. Or the series was never licensed in English, and the fan translation stopped years ago.
Fan translations of manhua are thin. Series run for hundreds of chapters, and most groups fall behind or drop them, so the raw is often the only way to keep reading.
Every chapter comes out first on the official Chinese platforms, so reading there puts you as close to the source as it gets.
Where to read raw manhua officially
These are the Chinese platforms where manhua raws are officially published.
Kuaikan Manhua
Kuaikan (kuaikanmanhua.com) is the largest manhua platform. You can read on the web or in the app, a lot of its series are exclusives, and it mixes free chapters with paid ones.
The OpenToon importer handles Kuaikan links directly. Paste the chapter URL and you get a clean translation back.
Tencent (ac.qq.com)
Tencent runs ac.qq.com, a big manhua library where many popular series begin. Expect to jump through some account and region hoops. Once you're in, you get a deep catalog that sits right next to the source.
Bilibili Comics
Bilibili, the Chinese video site, also runs a comics platform for manhua and manga, and it's worth checking when a series isn't on Kuaikan or Tencent.
Not sure which platform your series is on? Search the Chinese title on each of them.
What about manhua raw aggregator sites?
If you've googled "manhuaraw" or "manhua raw website", you've seen the aggregator sites. They re-host chapters from the official platforms without permission.
They're a bad bet, for two reasons:
- They go down all the time. Domains get pulled, and the mirror you end up on may not have the latest chapter.
- The creators don't get paid. The platform and the artist see nothing from those views.
The official platforms above are legal and they stay put. They also get every chapter first, which is why this guide sticks to them.
How do you find the right chapter on a Chinese site?
The Chinese sites are, of course, in Chinese. A few things make them easier to navigate:
- Use your browser's translate feature. On Chrome desktop, click the 3 dots in the top right corner, then "Translate...". That's enough to find the search bar and the chapter list.
- Search the Chinese title. English fan titles are often loose translations, so searching in English rarely works. Look up the original Chinese title first, for example on the series' fan wiki or the scanlation's credits page.
- Open the chapter you want. Go to the chapter after the last one you read in English. Chapter numbering may differ between the raw and fan releases, so check the first few panels against what you remember.
- Copy the chapter URL from the address bar. That's all you need to read it translated.
If a chapter is paid, unlock it on the platform first.
How do you read a manhua raw in English?
So you've got the chapter, and it's in Chinese. You can learn Chinese, point Google Translate's camera at every panel, or translate the whole chapter in one go.
OpenToon does the last one. It's a mobile app for iOS and Android.
- Open the chapter on the official platform. Kuaikan, Tencent ac.qq.com or Bilibili Comics.
- Copy the chapter URL and paste it into OpenToon. If you saved the images instead, you can upload those.
- Pick your language. English or any of 50+ others.
- Read. Most chapters finish translating in a couple of minutes.
Here's what happens to the chapter:
- OCR reads the Chinese text out of every speech bubble. It handles both simplified and traditional Chinese, including vertical lettering, and detects the source language for you.
- Comic-tuned AI translates each bubble in context, so names and tone hold up better than word-by-word machine translation.
- Inpainting cleans the panel, so the translated text sits on the art instead of over the old lettering.
- You read it in a vertical scroll reader, top to bottom in one long strip. Tap any bubble to see the original Chinese.
Nothing gets re-hosted or re-uploaded. OpenToon is a translation layer on a chapter you already have access to, and the creator still gets paid on the platform where you read it.
The full walkthrough, for manga and manhwa too, is in how to translate comics.
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FAQ
Where can I read manhua raws officially? The main official sources for manhua raws are Kuaikan Manhua, Tencent's ac.qq.com and Bilibili Comics. Kuaikan is the biggest, with free and paid chapters on web and app, and it's supported directly in the OpenToon importer.
Are manhua raw sites legal? Official platforms like Kuaikan, Tencent and Bilibili Comics are legal, because you read chapters straight from the publisher. Aggregator sites that re-host chapters don't pay creators and tend to disappear, which is why this guide sticks to official sources.
How do I read raw manhua in English? Open the chapter on the official platform, copy the chapter URL and paste it into OpenToon. It reads simplified and traditional Chinese, translates the full chapter into English or 50+ other languages, and gives it back in a vertical scroll reader.
Why is the English translation so far behind the Chinese raw? Manhua series often run for hundreds of chapters, and each English chapter has to be translated and lettered after the Chinese one comes out. Many series never get licensed at all, so the Chinese platform is always ahead.
To summarize
- Kuaikan Manhua. The largest platform, with lots of exclusives. Paste its chapter links straight into OpenToon.
- Tencent, ac.qq.com. Where many popular series start. Expect account and region checks.
- Bilibili Comics. Manhua and manga from the Chinese video site.
- Reading in English. Paste the chapter URL into OpenToon and pick your language.
Here's the full list of raw websites.