MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA
reviews and complaints

I love this! The only problem I have with it is for some manga it doesn’t have all chapters so it’s Like u have to be there before to read it.. but there’s only like 10 of those out of thousands

This is a terrible manga service. It has quite a few good manga titles, however you literally can’t read past chapter 3 unless you want to read the literal last 3 chapters. You can’t have a manga service where you can’t read the manga that’s not how it works. And the worst part is there’s no way around it either you actually just straight up can never read those chapters (from my knowledge) and basically all of the mangas on here are like that. This is a waste of time and a waste of storage. Don’t get this app

This app is a really great place to read your favorite mangas but I just wish that there weren’t ginormous gaps between chapters in certain mangas. Other than that the layout is nice and once you click on a manga you want to read it gives you directions on what page to turn to next or which panel to read first and I think that is really great for new manga readers who need help adjusting to the right to left reading of japanese literature. In all the app is great but again the chapters gaps can be very infuriating at times.

A good app that allows people to keep up with the latest chapters for free. Very ambitious. There are a few non-invasive ads. Wish they’d fix double spreads. The Viz Shonen Jump app is slightly higher in quality and quantity when it comes to what’s available, but this app has better presentation as a magazine turned digital type of feel. I’m worried about the addition of comments sections tho, but it works for Crunchyroll, so as long as they keep on top of moderation, it’s an ok app.

Please support creators by using this app.

This is an overall good app! You can read it clearly, It has a wide selection of mangas I’ve always wanted to read..but...What it doesn’t tell you is that you can basically only read 3 chapters before you can only read what’s actually recent..I was super excited to get the app! I finally found an app that lets me read manga for free, and then suddenly I realized I can’t even read more than three chapters! I am extremely disappointed, Please don’t download this app if your looking forward to read a full on manga! It’s just a scam

How is it that every update, you say you made some changes for the better, but is it better really when you click on chapter that you can’t view it again I mean come on would if I didn’t mean to click that chapter then when I want to read it I can’t read it again, if you really want to make changes on the app for the better make it so we can view it anytime we want, like seriously if you’re going to make Changes on the app for the better actually make it for the better if you want people to continue coming to your app that is!

Loving the app thus far! It’s a great way to read the latest chapters of your favorite Shonen Jump series, and I love the layout of the app and the fact you can leave comments for each chapter! One criticism I have is that the spread pages are broken up, compared to the VIZ Media and Shonen Jump apps, where I can turn my phone horizontally to see the entire spread, in full HD quality, and don’t have to scroll to see it split into pages, which is what I have to do with this app. Otherwise, it’s an excellent product! Thanks Shueisha!

If you are a person looking for a good app to read manga do not get this app. If I could star lower I would. There are more popular manga like demon slayer or my hero academia on this app that go up to chapter 3 (or lower) and then skip to 206 or 368 and it makes me incredibly angry. I got this about 5 months ago but deleted it when I saw it does this, I thought they might have updated it so that it doesn’t do that anymore but I come back and guess what? It does this. I dislike how it does this and I have read other reviews saying how it does this. This app makes me extremely disappointed.

Honestly, I’ve had a hard time finding a good manga reading app since manga rock had permanently shut down. I used a couple but they had their flaws that turned me off to them really fast. It felt like nothing was going to compare, until I found this app.

While I don’t believe it’s currently at the same level Manga Rock was, it really has the potential to be as good, if not better. It’s selection is great as far as quality, a lot of big name series available to read, but it’s still lacking in overall content availability. I hope it gains popularity and starts adding more for people to choose from.

I love One Piece, so I decided to read the manga to catch up on the series, as I have not read the anime much at all. So upon starting to read chapter 4, I realized that it said free only for the first time. At first, I didn’t really care at all. But when I accidentally hit the button to get off of reading chapter 5, I completely lost my mind. And even worse, when I deleted and reinstalled the app, it saved my progress, a bug in some apps which need to be PERMANENTLY fixed! If you make the entire manga series free, then I will finally be satisfied. If not, then I will sue you for life. You don’t want that to happen, don’t you.

I marginally appreciated that they’ve made reading manga releases slightly more official- the execution of this app is pathetic. The biggest issue with the simplest fix is that Manga Plus utterly murders your reading experience. They are murderers. Every time you’ve turned to an epic double-page spread that shocked you and made your jaw-drop? Not happening. These developers lack the common sense to string double-pages together so that the art makes sense and is as powerful as it’s original medium. If you read the One Piece unofficial release: imagine that double-page scene with the 9 Red Scabbards marching... download this app just to see the injustice they did to that scene and then uninstall with me.

Yeah so a couple months ago they made it so that pretty much everything is free, upon first read, then you have to buy. This applies to 90% of everything on the app, and everything else is going through “re-releases” where you can read old stuff week to week as if it were coming out fresh, which is interesting in of itself if you don’t mind not binging already existing material. Point is the old reviews are obsolete now, you can read everything for free one time only, but one time is enough for you to experience the story, Which is a really smart way to actually encourage people to buy volumes/buy subscription since Why would you buy a volume of something you don’t know you like, but if you know you like it, then you’re more likely to buy it to support it and have a physical copy of it.

Okay, I don’t mind the large, no, MASSIVE chapter gaps. We can just read them elsewhere. For the titles that I do read here, I’ve noticed that I haven’t been getting the notifications. I also can’t say I’m a fan of the “First Time Read” concept, it’s kind of dumb that we don’t have the option to go back and reread. You could have something similar to Webtoon’s DailyPass. Instead of the 14-day availability, we could watch an ad at the start to “unlock” the chapter as well as the ad that you already have at the end of each chapter. Then we could watch an ad for each time we reread that chapter or just permanently “unlock” the chapter after watching x number of ads. An additional way of doing this would be similar to the point system on Zedge: watch ads -> claim points -> stockpile however many points the chapter you want to read costs -> permanently(?) unlock the chapter. This would also be appreciated for the titles that have a relatively large gap between chapters.

Just to clarify, this app is not intended to allow one to read all of a series (with some exceptions) all for free. The purpose of this app is provide a legal platform for new Jump chapters to be free and available worldwide in English/Spanish simultaneously with the Japanese release.

Previously, only certain English-speaking countries had access through Viz’s Shonen Jump digital magazine subscription. Now, however, the latest 3 chapters (and newer series have moved to latest 6 chapters) are free to read simultaneously the same time chapters release in Japan.

If you’re looking to read an entire Jump series such as My Hero Academia or Black Clover, this is not the app you’re looking for. The Shonen Jump and/or Viz app may be worth checking out (if it’s available in your country), as they offer a $2 subscription so you can read all backlog chapters. If those apps aren’t available from your country, then unfortunately you have less options, such as importing the English paperback volumes (some online stores such as Book Depository or Blackwells have worldwide free shipping), VPNs, or the unfortunate necessity to pirate. If that is you, then I implore you to email/support ticket Viz to offer their subscription in more countries, and to ask MangaPlus/Shueisha to create a payment option in the app to be able to purchase chapters or have a subscription similar to Viz.

As for the MangaPlus app itself, I have a couple requests, such as stitching double spreads together when reading on iPad vertically, as well as a way to log into an account across multiple devices. The addition of series that are on Viz but not here such as My Hero Academia Vigilantes and One Punch Man would be appreciated as well.

They only allow you to read the first three chapters of the manga and the last three chapters. Usually, people read the whole series, what’s the point of only reading a few chapters?

The "you can only read this chapter once, and when its closed you'll never be able to view it again" rule you got was enough to convince me to pay to use any manga app at this point.

I can’t be the only one having issues with this app not loading. I’ve uninstalled it like 10x already and it still loads all black. Even updated the iOS and same result. Please fix.

I tried using this app a lot, but when I read anything they only have the first few chapters and the last three! So I can’t the the hundreds of middle chapters that the manga has!

Um I guess it was pretty good a year ago.. but not anymore… it would let u get past the “agree to terms” it would just loop u with the language u want to read and the agree to there terms part.

For starters the manga plus only have 3 to 5
Chapter’s. Only the newest or recent chapter’s come out unless it not that known. You can still get it but only when your up and caught up with the chapters.

For several weeks the app shows the latest chapters but the most recent manga chapters aren’t able to be viewed on this app for titles such as “my hero” & “one piece” can you fix this it’s actually frustrating

I got it to read one piece cause they have luffy on the cover and don’t even have one piece as an option and other reviews are saying they don’t even give full manga just a 1/10th of it horrible app don’t waste your time

Content is great, but as for the app itself, it needs work. Especially the reading view. Any screen rotation messes up how the pages appear onscreen. Really needs to be fixed so a landscape view properly shows two pages.

Even reloading images is not loading For most manga is it my internet? nope. Other free manga app or site is working smoothly.. Remember we dealing with a simple image here in 2020 the official site has more bugs than the fan made. What that tells you?

As a iPad user manga must be read to my liking. That includes actually showing 2 pages at once on horizontal view. You must change this or people will resort to illegal sources as showing one page at a time with black borders is a terrible method to enjoy manga.

This app seems to heat up my phone very very much. I've tried booting my phone up from being off completely and only running this app. Within 5 minutes it makes the back of my phone feel very hot. Way hotter than running a 3D game like genshin. Something is not right with this app.

As of two days ago, the app crashes immediately after trying to open it on a 4s-6. It’s impossible to use until this is fixed, which is a shame because it’s a useful app to read new chapters of Shonen Jump manga.

Please fix this soon, as chapters don’t stay up for long before they become unavailable.

I tried reading the manga for black clover but...
3/4 of the manga is missing.This app was very good and had potential but it lacks parts of the manga and there’s no point In downloading an app if all the manga is missing.If you can fix this issue I will 100% love this app but for meanwhile I’ll just be going to shady websites to read the manga.

This is trash. I can’t even explain how happy I was when I saw it was free manga, I don’t have much money and can’t afford the actual things. I opened the app, tried to find the Naruto volume I left off with, found it, and the volume I needed wasn’t even there. I turned to BNHA, and same thing. I went to The Promised Neverland, only 3 volumes. If you want people to keep your app, actually try and do good on your app. Once again, this is trash. Do better.