Hey everyone, we’re the Crystal Hunters team, and we’re making a manga in really easy Mandarin Chinese. Four weeks ago we [released our manga](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/xkv69h/were_making_a_manga_in_really_easy_chinese_that/) for free in Traditional Hanzi, and due to overwhelming demand, we rushed to make a Simplified version as well! Sorry it took so long, but here it is!
About our manga:
You only need to know 79 Chinese words and 89 Hanzi to read all of the Chinese words in our 100+ page manga of monsters and magic, and there is also a free guide (in both Simplified and Traditional) to help you read the manga from knowing zero Chinese. Both the manga and the guide are free to read.
The manga:
[Crystal Hunters (Simplified)](https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/102020636) & [Crystal Hunters (Traditional)](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/101322375)
The guides:
[Chinese Guide (Simplified)](https://crystalhuntersmanga.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/simplified-chinese-guide-book-1-v4.pdf) & [Chinese Guide (Traditional)](https://crystalhuntersmanga.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/traditional-chinese-guide-book-1-v1.pdf)
There are also free natural Chinese versions, and excel files with their scripts for easy Hanzi lookup:
[natural Chinese (Simplified)](https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/102021424) & [natural Chinese (Traditional)](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/101322509)
[script (Simplified)](https://crystalhuntersmanga.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/simplified-chinese-guide-book-1-v1.pdf) & [script (Traditional)](https://crystalhuntersmanga.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/natural-chinese-reading-guide-book-1-v2.xlsx)
There’s also a free [easy English version](https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/78232226) you can use for translation.
Crystal Hunters is made by a team of two language teachers, one translator, and a pro manga artist. Please let us know what you think.
Note: If you’d like to learn more about Crystal Hunters or receive updates about our books, please check our [website](https://crystalhuntersmanga.com/).
Amazing effort guys, I can’t wait to have learned enough to read through this. Its a nice little goal for me now. 🙂
I think this is a fantastic way to promote learning to read a different language. I’m struggling to maintain motivation, especially with the HSK levels, but this has got me genuinely wanting to learn more now.
This is exactly the kind of stuff I am looking for. If I have to read about Long Da much more I am going to scream.
Love this. I am working harder now to learn. Thank you
Great work guys.
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I can’t tell you how excited I am by this! Top stuff guys.
谢谢 🙂
This is so awesome! Thank you for making such a great resource; I hope to read the easy version and then see how I do with the natural Chinese version. I’m wondering if it would be possible to make a downloadable PDF version? I would love to be able to open this on my iPad and annotate it as I read! Thanks again for your effort~
Dude that’s literally amazing. I’ll definitely read it later!!
Now just make it possible for someone in China to support and purchase!
SIMPLIFIED
This is an incredible amount of work! Thank you so much! This makes it much more enjoyable!
ya’ll rock. I commented last time and that’s still the case now. keep doing what you’re doing! I would be willing to subscribe for a membership to get more reading material like yours as well.
Man I’m so happy to see this! I never thought you’d get the simplified version out this quick. Thanks a ton!
This is incredible
Great job!
Really Awesome!!! Thanks. Just read Chapter 1!
I’ve been looking for more things to read in Chinese. This was helpful and quite interesting to read 🙂
In terms of content, what age and up would this be appropriate for?
This is really great! The natural Chinese one still seems a bit repetitive, but I’m not native so I can’t really judge. It’s a very pleasant read, I hope you make more!
Amazing
Very nice!
What does it mean that there’s a natural Chinese version?
This is awesome, thank you for sharing
Thanks so much! I learned a couple words from reading this. Great work! 谢谢您们！
Yay great news that it’s available in both versions now.
非常好 谢谢你！那本书是一个大的帮助学习汉语.