Shonen Jump Manga & Comics 12+

When I first started reading manga, I despised purchasing the manga. However once I started reading again a few months ago, I’ve loved it. I’d purchase the physical copies, but that became to expensive. This app made it so cheap and accessible for beginners like myself. The UI is easy to navigate and for 1.99$ a month, you get such a wide variety of good series! I’m super happy about my purchase and will more than likely continue after my free trial ends!

The one problem I do have is that when searching for manga to read, it becomes misleading when searching on the browser website versus the app. On the website, it will show manga that you can read chapter by chapter and ones that only showcase the volumes. It becomes confusing when you find something on the browser, then find out you can’t read it on the app and you would need to purchase the volume separately. I understand it is a database for all their series, but I would like to favorite all my series in the app not just the chapter by chapter ones. But other than that, it is very convenient. 👍🏼

The content of this app is great, but it’s lacking so many basic UI features that hold it back. For one, if you’re reading in landscape mode at the end of the chapter it force rotates back to portrait to hit the next chapter button. After hitting the next chapter button you have to physically rotate back to portrait and then back to landscape to go back into reading it 2 pages at a time. Additionally, the next chapter button gets really annoying when you’re binging a series. Why can’t it just flow into the next chapter or auto go to the next chapter if you swipe while on the last page? It gets frustrating having to click the next chapter button especially on larger phones. Lastly, the 100 chapter limit for downloaded manga is fine, but it would be nice to have a “bulk delete” or an option to automatically remove a download after reading it. As is I have to click on each check mark and click confirm for every single chapter I want to remove to make room for new chapters. If those features aren’t available then maybe at least allowing the user to change the 7 day time period to be less time would be helpful as a sort of work around to bulk deleting downloaded manga. Additionally, the website allows for following manga but the app has no place to show which manga you follow. Why is that? Overall I think this app has potential and I will keep using it because the content is good. But the UX could be significantly better. Hence 3/5

If you love manga and want to support mangaka by reading officially, this app is great. It contains the best of shonen along with some other titles in Viz’s catalogue. The price is the best part as a subscription is pretty cheap. The flaws come down to the app itself. In ways it is very barebones. Granted it runs smoothly and accomplishes the bare minimum but fails to go beyond that. One of my biggest issues is the fact that the app does not sync the chapters you are on or have already read across all your devices. Meaning if you started to read a series on your phone but wanted to continue on your tablet or laptop, it would only save on your phone even if you are logged into your account on all devices. In terms of the catalogue itself, some manga are restricted to the desktop version (the viz website). These being the more mature titles. It’s a strange decision and I would prefer every series be accessible through the app, and maybe just have an age verification if that’s the problem? That’s about it. It’s good value but don’t expect much from the interfaces and such. It really just is an app that is only slightly better than your run of the mill pirated manga app. (But official). Little changes have been made since the apps debut and I would like to see far more.