Forum - View topicNEWS: Shueisha Launches Free Global MANGA Plus Service
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Cardcaptor Takato
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#sukkar
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My understanding is that there's going to be some sort of second run serialization for many of their completed titles for free. So, essentially, the difference seems to be that Shonen Jump gets you the backlog for all those titles for $2 a month while MANGA gives you a handful of them for free over the course of time. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Adv193
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I'd rather stick with Viz. Outside the chapters I get with my subscription, I also purchase most series by volume digitally so I won't need it.
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LegitPancake
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Only the latest 3 and first 3 chapters for every series will be free to read. They expire after the newest third chapter come out, so you have to stay caught up otherwise you'll lose chapters. This also means this new service is useless for those that aren't current for any series. As for the "completed" titles, once again, they will be releasing chapters weekly, and my understanding is that they will expire when 3 chapters are released ahead as well, so Naruto, Death Note, Jojo, Dragon Ball, etc will all take years to read the whole thing, and at no time will an entire series be free to read. I will stick with Viz's Shonen Jump, as I'm not current with any series, but I am following several of them. |
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SWAnimefan
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Would've been nice if it worked with the Windows 10 Google Play. Though it's nice service.
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Drunk
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This makes me so happy, I'm actually tearing up a little. I remember Shueisha's CEO saying a few years back that they wanted to step in internationally but apart from the US nothing really happened. So effing glad that it's finally here.
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Agent355
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Just downloaded the new app. The biggest difference seems to be that Manga+ does not allow users to download any chapters on a device to read offline, whereas Viz does---unless you want to download "vault" previous chapters (between the first three and latest three) chapters onto a Kindle Fire tablet. They didn't make their new format supportable on Kindle Fire tablets.
Since I don't have an Android phone and primarily use my Kindle Fire to read manga, I'm a bit unhappy with both apps right now. But the Manga+ apps runs smoothly and has more variety than Viz. I'm glad it's available around the world! |
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population_tire
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Is this why the WSJ app went down in price from $3 to $2 a month?
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Narutofreak1412
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I really like this!
There is no official way to read latest chapters in most europe, other than waiting 1-2 years for the tankobon to come out. With this I can finally read all those weekly manga on my PC (I'm so glad they offer a website aswell, I don't have a smartphone, really dislike those) without having to use scanlations. And what's even more important to me: It even has some ongoing recent series, no one is fan-translating so far. I really hope they will add the majority of new jump series and even add some older not-so-popular-in-the west ones that were big hits in japan, like kochikame, harenchi gakuen, saint seiya and other kurumada titles, city hunter, hokuto no ken, rokudenashi blues, bobobo, slam dunk, hell teacher nube, eyeshield 21 and others. Really want to read all of those! I even wouldn't mind paying for a subscription or something similar in order to read all chapters, even the ones that get hidden after 3 weeks. I have waited for a service like this since a long time. I really really hope this project will be successful and many people all over the world will use it! |
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CallumKeyblade
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The Viz Shonen Jump revamp has been great for me - paying £1.99 a month to have access to the backlog of all series is great value. The lack of the backlog makes this service much less preferable for me but it is great for regions not served by Viz to be able to legally read the latest chapters.
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Artanis
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In the interview (animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2019-01-27/everything-you-need-to-know-about-manga-plus-by-shueisha/.142401) it says "You can also buy e-books of the tankobon versions of Jump titles" but I can't find any option to do so in the app nor in the website.
Is it region locked or I'm missing something? |
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1dbad
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The fact it offers a few series Viz doesn't is appealing, but I think I'll stick with Viz for everything else. But I am happy that all the countries locked out of Viz's release finally have access to a similar format!
Hopefully it'll be a big success and other manga publishers will start doing the same thing.
I'm guessing it's due to how stubborn mangakas are about digital releases. I know Slam Dunk's creator has gone on record about being against digital releases of his work, and that attempts to do digital releases of series like Sailor Moon, Hunter x Hunter, etc. also got rejected by their mangakas. |
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Narutofreak1412
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That question was about Shonen Jump+, not Manga Plus.
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