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    Manga fans, and more particularly #Shonen Jump fans have a reason to rejoice since an official app, called "Manga Plus" has officially been released that publishes their ongoing manga basically as soon as they are released in Japan. This includes Weekly Shonen Jump, Jump SQ and Jump Plus manga. Besides their roughly 30 ongoing manga they also have a bunch of completed manga, from Jump, on the website as well. The app is free to use and read, with ads, of course, but the actual authors gain part of the money and they'll use this to see what manga have interest outside of Japan, and since Jump has been known for cancelling manga quite often, this is good news all around.
    There's a couple of "ifs" of course, not every chapter is available for free. You have the first three and the last six, anything else you got to pay. And in terms of completed manga right now you only have the first three with them releasing new chapters on a regular schedule, but after having released 9 chapters it seems that it goes with the format of first 3 and last 6 released. Anything else you can buy them by volume batch.
    It's not a perfect system, but if you're following an ongoing Jump manga I think this app/site will be a good alternative.
    https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/updates
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      Editing … That's pretty huge.
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      Editing … Shonen Jump was how I first discovered manga. I still have nearly every issue from 2004-07. I learned about a lot of different titles including a few of my favorites both from the ones published in the magazine and directly published in paperback. I'll definitely be checking this out.
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      Editing … I think my next objective is catch up to all of their ongoing manga on Weekly Shonen Jump. Thankfully I've been following One Piece weekly for the last 10 years already.
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      Editing … I guess I'm an outlier but One Piece was one of the manga that never really grabbed me. I mean I read it along with all the other ones in the magazine but I was never as invested in it as I was with most of the others.
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      Editing … I could probably write a giant text abou why I think One Piece is great, but I won't do it.
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      Editing … Honestly I think I was just never as interested in the setting as I was with some other manga, and the art style was never my favorite either. It's good. I like it. It just never grabbed my attention the way Shaman King or Hikaru no Go or Millennium World did when reading those issues.
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      Editing … I guess Naruto was kind of the same way, but I enjoyed that more than One Piece.
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      Editing … Never even heard of Milennium World. I really liked the other two tho, specially Shaman King. I think One Piece's world building is it's strong point, I never read a manga where the world in the background evolved so much. Like, the characters can be stuck in an island fighting some baddie and when they finish we discover that a bunch of side characters moved places, evolved, gained new allies or enemies, the politics changed, the world evolved. It's pretty amazing, most fictional worlds only evolve due to their main cast actions, but it's not the case with One Piece.
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      Editing … I think Naruto got kinda boring after the time-skip
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      Editing … Millennium World is the final arc/incarnation of the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga partially taking place in Ancient Egypt.
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      Editing … Ah, gotcha. I do want to grab Yugioh's manga from start to finish, I used to like the anime a lot when I was a kid
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      Editing … Well like I said I stopped reading them around 2007, so with One Piece I think they were just entering the Grand Line and were dealing with Baroque Works and in Naruto the Third Hokage had just died. Those were two manga I never bought the trades for (besides One Piece vol. 1) so I never really followed them after that. I know the broad stokes of some of the stuff that happened in both because of TV Tropes and not really caring about spoilers, but while I'm sure I'll get to them both again at some point they're not really priorities.
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      Editing … Actually after that my manga reading/collecting slowed to a trickle mostly in favor of Western comics until relatively recently so I'm not really up to date on manga at all. I know very little about the manga scene after like 2010, and only a little more about anime because of Netflix. There's a lot of stuff I need to get to.
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      Editing … Yeah I always felt the Yu-Gi-Oh manga was better than the anime, especially the stuff that takes place before and after the main anime stuff like Duelist Kingdom and Battle City.
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      Editing … I've been focused on reading completed manga, so I haven't been "on the scene" either. I've been reading the newest on-going manga from Jump in the past couple of days and they do have some manga with good potential, like Chainsaw Man and Teenage Reinessance David though.
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      Editing … Yeah between 2010-11 and last year the only manga volumes I bought were most of the rest of Hikaru no Go and a few volumes of Attack on Titan and Love Hina. The past several months I've actually been using ebay lots to fill gaps in the collection and buying some new stuff which is nice.
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      Editing … Yeah, I... also totally buy manga... I swear :x
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      Editing … Hey, I've got nothing against piracy or reading online; sometimes I do it myself. I just really like having a physical book collection.
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