Viz's New Shonen Jump Service Launches With 70+ Catalog Manga
Viz's New Shonen Jump Service Launches With 70+ Catalog Manga
25 series available for simultaneous publication
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Viz Media launched its new Shonen Jump website and subscription service on Monday. The following series are running as free online simultaneous publications:
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Blue Exorcist
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
Boys Over Flowers Season 2
Black Clover
Chainsaw Man
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Dragon Ball Super
Dr. Stone
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
Haikyu!!
Hell Warden Higuma (debuted on Monday)
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
Jujutsu Kaisen!!
My Hero Academia
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes
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One Piece
Platinum End
The Promised Neverland
RWBY The Official Manga
Seraph of the End
We Never Learn
World Trigger
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
In most cases, the first three chapters and the latest three chapters are available for free (if the series has more than six chapters). However, some titles newly added to the lineup, such as Haikyu!! and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, only have one recent chapter available for free, as Viz Media has not yet released the full series.
For paid subscribers, Viz Media is also offering backlog chapters for the above titles and the titles listed below. This usually means the full series is available, though in some cases (again, such as Haikyu!! and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) Viz has not yet caught up with the Japanese release. The available titles are:
All You Need Is Kill
Assassination Classroom
Bakuman.
Barrage
Black Cat
Black Torch
Bleach
Claymore
COWA!
Cross Manage
D.Gray-man
Death Note
Dr. Stone
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Full Color
Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha!
Dragon Ball Z
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The Emperor and I
Fire Punch
Gun Blaze West
Hikaru no Go
Jaco the Galactic Patrolman
Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
Kuroko's Basketball
Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation
Naruto
Naruto: Chibi Sasuke's Sharingan Legend
Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring
Nisekoi
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
Pretty Face
The Prince of Tennis
Psyren
Ral Ω Grad
Rosario + Vampire
Rosario + Vampire Season II
Rurouni Kenshin
Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration
Sand Land
School Judgment
Takama-ga-hara
Tegami Bachi
Time Killers
Twin Star Exorcists
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World
Yu-Gi-Oh! R
"Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game"
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
Zombie Powder
The service is also offering some chapters for Genkaku Picasso, Robot x Laserbeam, Love Rush!, and Red Sprite. Most titles have their first three chapters available for free.
New chapters of Weekly Shonen Jump manga will debut at 3:00 p.m. EST on Sundays, 22 hours earlier than the digital English edition of the magazine's current release time on Mondays. (The combined fourth and fifth issue will debut on a Saturday in Japan, so Viz will release the chapters on Friday, December 21.)
The free service and subscription plan are replacing the subscription-based English digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump. Viz was already publishing several manga for free as simultaneous publications. The final issue of the digital magazine debuted on Monday.
Shonen Jump subscribers will have their memberships transferred to the new plan, and annual subscribers will receive three months for free at the end of their current paid subscription period. The new membership costs US$1.99 per month and will also launch on December 17. A seven-day free trial will also be available. Subscribers will currently be limited to reading 100 chapters per day.
I've used the service for a while but I can't get used to reading digitally. I read scans while Naruto and Bleach were still on-going, but I can't read digitally. When I'm reading manga, that's one of the few times throughout my day where I'm not in front of a screen and I really enjoy that time away.