medibang.com

What It Is

MediBang is a set of services built around illustration and manga creation. The core items mentioned include the ART street posting community, MediBang Paint, JUMP PAINT, MangaName, MediBang Colors, assets, and Premium subscriptions. It is not a single drawing app, but a creator ecosystem covering creation, cloud saving, posting and showcasing work, contests, rankings, asset downloads, and the sale of digital manga/books.

Core Features

ART street supports submissions of illustrations, manga, and tutorial-style works, offering interaction mechanisms such as timelines, communities, contests, rankings, recommendations, favorites, comments, and “trace comments.” Submission formats are fairly broad: illustrations support JPG, PNG, PSD, and MDP, while manga supports PDF, JPG, PNG, and MDP. MediBang Paint/JUMP PAINT provide cloud saving, team creation, and version management; with Premium, users can expand cloud storage, remove limits on the number of friend teams they can join, and extend version management from the most recent 3 versions to unlimited versions. For assets, the text mentions free assets, Premium assets, brushes, cloud fonts, and more, but does not disclose the total quantity.

Pricing and Transactions

Registration, posting, publishing, and reading public works are free; reading paid manga or books requires payment. Premium is available in three tiers: 20GB, 100GB, and 300GB, priced at 2,480/3,980/7,980 yen per year, or 300/500/1,000 yen per month. Creators can sell their works at prices ranging from 50 to 3,000 yen. Withdrawal requests can be made once sales reach 1,000 yen, and bank or PayPal fees are borne by the user.

Pros and Cons

The advantages are its low free-entry barrier and a complete workflow spanning creation tools, community, contests, assets, and sales; it also supports multi-format uploads and account benefits across multiple devices. The limitations are that professional cloud features depend on a subscription, exceeding storage capacity may affect opening and saving cloud works, withdrawals are more convenient for Japanese bank accounts, and overseas creators mainly rely on PayPal. Some contest entries cannot be freely edited or deleted after the submission period, and submitted works also cannot be directly replaced.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is suitable for manga artists, illustrators, doujin creators, art learners, and creators who want to gain exposure through contests and rankings. The text does not state the access situation from China, so it is considered unknown.