Piccoma ( ja, ピッコマ, Pikkoma) is a Japanese

webtoon Webtoons (), are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones. While webtoons were mostly unknown outside of Korea during their inception, there has been a surge in popularity internationally ...

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that is available on

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, tablets, and

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. It was developed and released by Kakao piccoma Corp., the Japanese subsidiary of

Kakao Kakao ( ko, 카카오) is a South Korean internet company that was established in 2010. It formed as a result of a merger between Daum (web portal), Daum Communications and the original Kakao Inc. In 2014, the company was renamed Daum Kakao. Th ...

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When the service was first launched, it offered a regular model of buying each individual manga and volume similar to other online shops but it has since moved to adopt the

model where a user can purchase individual chapters and wait 24 hours to read some for free. Korean webtoons that are offered on Kakao's services (Daum Webtoon & KakaoPage) are offered through Piccoma in Japanese.

Kakao Japan Kakao ( ko, 카카오) is a South Korean internet company that was established in 2010. It formed as a result of a merger between Daum Communications and the original Kakao Inc. In 2014, the company was renamed Daum Kakao. The company rebrande ...

announced that it will start offering original Japanese, Korean, and Chinese webtoons for Piccoma in the summer of 2018. Kakao Japan changed its name to Kakao Piccoma Corporation in Nov. 2021 in 2018 they founded the manga award "Piccoma AWARD" in November 2021, it announced its expansion in Europe and North America, and in September of the same year , it also revealed that it had established a local subsidiary in France . On March 17 2021, Kakao launched its French language service of Piccoma which includes translated webtoons as well as translated manga.

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* {{Kakao Kakao Manga hosting services

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