LF: Android manga reader that includes image upscaling/noise reduction

I read manga on the Hisense Touch which has a somewhat small screen, making it very hard to read some manga. At first, I thought the Touch just had really bad display sharpness but then I realized most scans are just too low-res.

For some manga, I need to hold my phone like 2 inches away from my eyes which is horrible and very damaging for my eyesight, so I was wondering if there's a manga reader app out there that upscales manga/reduces noise as you read (using something like waifu2x)

I found this feature request for Tachiyomi but it was quickly turned down and as such my expectations are quite low, but I figured I'd ask anyway

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Idk if it'd even be possible to create a mobile app capable of real-time/on-the-fly upscaling using neural networks, especially when manga pages tend to be quite large. If you want something free, best bet would be to use something like chainner on a reasonably good PC and bulk upscale chapters before loading them into your phone.
- Alright, I see, thanks.

This makes me remember Mangarock, man that app was the best

Nyaa.si does have direct downloads for manga. It might be a pain but doing that then getting a comic reader app might be better. I use SideBooks on iOS
- I use Nyaa.si to download manga volumes which I then transfer to my Kobo Libra 2 e-reader, but downloading individual chapters weekly is too much work, so I prefer to read currently publishing manga on my Hisense Touch (android e-reader) from online sources through a reader app like tachiyomi
  
  Are you happy with your Hisense?

What do you use as your source in tachiyomi? I'm using mangadex and most things turn out fine for me.
- mangasee123, mangapark, and mangadex mangapark tends to have the most high-res scans from what I heard (or at the very least doesn't do any compression iirc)
  
  I've had really good results with mangadex and most scanlation groups just upload there with most other sources (including the old manga rock) just stealing from there.
  I haven't tried mangapark though and I only really use tachi as a mangadex reader (I know neko exists, but I also like to use a certain other source and having both in a single app works neatly for me)

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