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MANGA Plus changed the game Part 1: The Age of Global JUMP

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The age of Global JUMP The start of a new age. On January 28th, 2019, Shueisha ,the company that publishes Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan and many other manga magazine, launched a new service called "MANGA Plus" you can learn more about the service here & here . But in short, it is a service available as a website and app on both Android and ios devices that allow you to read the latest chapters of all the Manga(except Yuuna) from the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump (and a few from Shueisha's other magazines) in English (Spanish coming soon ) for FREE and it is available GLOBALLY (minus Japan, China & South Korea), on the Same day as Japan. The backlogs are lacking right now, but a few are already there The site and apps are pretty bare bones at the moment (it has been out for less than a day as of writing) but the main takeaway is that they have the latest Shonen Jump chapters up and available including the previous few chapters. Not

Charting Jump, December 2018

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We are already over a week into 2019, but let go back in time a little and look at the monthly performance for the final batch of Jump Comics in 2018. ( yes I know I skipped November, I was busy) Without wasting more time, first up is the Monthly sales overview. Series Week 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Monthly One Piece 91 3935 1510524 287458 112446 79443 1993806 My Hero Academia 21 437 389393 112443 53407 37255 592935 Haikyuu!! 35 932 367896 103614 47635 33297 553374 World Trigger 19 356 238990 53268 22555 16738 331907 Shokugeki no Soma 32 198 161174 48409 21057 13957 244795 Jujutsu Kaisen 3 83100 19043 10138 8139 120420 We Never Learn 9 72305 19332 - - 108155¹