Hi friends welcome back to my channel! Today I am filming a review of an app
hear me out. I kind of mentioned on one of my very first videos that I use
primarily the Shounen Jump app and subscription to read my manga just
because in general Shonen is like my favorite genre of manga and it is I think
such an affordable way of accessing a lot of different mangas. Yeah, I think if
you're new to manga I think it is a really great way to kind of get a taste
of different mangas. There's a lot of like fan favorites on here as well so I
really wanted to kind of just do a quick flip through and show you guys what I
liked about it what I don't like about it the pros and cons. I think all in all
overall if you want my like quick thoughts, for two dollars - and you heard
that right - it's two dollars a month USD. For two dollars a month you really can't
go wrong. There are some limitations so you can only access 100 chapters a day
which for me is totally fine like 1- 100 chapters is a lot um yeah it's not
it's not an insignificant number. Unless you're sitting there - I think I remember
when I was like first - when I first got the app and I was like reading Bleach
all day every day like literally hours and hours and hours a day I ran out but
that was the only time, like on a regular basis I never run out of the hundred
also when you download you can only download 100 chapters at a time which i
think is a fair limitation. You do get a 7-day free trial if you want to give it
a go and also the other thing that's free - it's like every series the first couple
of chapters are typically free and the most recent chapter is usually free as
well so if you're already up to date you can probably get away with not paying
anything for it. I do use it on my iPad - I have an iPad Mini a really old one but I
I do use it on my iPad. I use the app so I did want to review it and I'm pretty
sure they have like a desktop version as well which operates like most - any sort
of like manga viewing desktop website where you just click through so
I'm not going to do like a walkthrough of that but I did want to walk through
the app because I feel like the app experience
I can make or break a reading experience especially for manga, so I did
want to show you that. And yeah without further ado let's jump right into it
Okay so here we are in the Shounen Jump app, hopefully this recording works, as
you can see there's kind of like four tabs on the bottom here and the homepage
looks like this you have latest free chapters up top, you have your continue
reading section, and then they kind of highlight a free manga every week that
you get a little bit more than just the regular like a couple of chapters and
they kind of like - these recommendation things - just a quick note though that not
all of the series that they advertise here, for example these volumes, not all
these are included in the free - in the subscription, sorry. Some of these are
purchased so for example Spy x Family you can see you have to purchase it. If
I'm to be honest all of this is like noise to me, all I really want is this
continue reading section which you can also expand like this. If you download
any chapters they will show - or purchase anything - they will show up here. You can
see that I haven't downloaded anything because I pretty
much am just home all the time so I don't really need to download anything
but if I go into the Browse section, if I pop over to the top, you can see some of
the - some of the mangas have volumes and chapters. Chapters are the ones that are
included in your subscription and volumes are available for purchase but
to be honest for me, if you have the subscription you don't really need the
volumes so you can see there's like quite a lot of options here a lot of like
popular ones obviously Bleach is like my go-to. Blue Exorcist is another really
popular one and then you can also see there's some....
Oh Claymore sorry this is now becoming like a "ooh what do I want to read next"
but Claymore is a really good one I read like the first few volumes. If you like
Stormlight Archive I feel like you'd really like Claymore just yeah as an
aside. Yeah you can kind of see there's a lot of older manga and I will say that
it is - there - it is a back catalog a lot of these.. there are newer ones like
Haikyu is still obviously ongoing and it'll tell you new chapter coming in
four days which I really appreciate because then you can kind of like keep
tabs. Hunter x Hunter for example you can see there's no chapters just the
volumes which means that you cannot read it on your subscription unfortunately
but yeah I'll just kind of scroll through this you can kind of see what's
available...My Hero Academia I know is super super popular right now and I
think it's really great that it is included in the subscription because
that means that you can essentially read it for like $2 a month which is again, I
just want to stress this is like the most affordable way to get manga, I think
in my opinion. Yeah, One Piece, all like nine hundred and whatever chapters,
Prince of Tennis, though they don't have New Prince of Tennis which kinda is.. kind
of is annoying but the Promised Neverland which I just started. Yeah so there's a
lot of options here. The only thing I will say I don't like about the app and
it's probably my biggest con for the app is that there's no option to kind of
create a favorites list or like my- my list kind of situation like with Netflix
or whatever. Yeah there's only the continue reading and your download
section and that's pretty much it. But my thing isn't like I don't want to
download it so what I end up doing is I literally just will open up the first
chapter of whatever manga I'm planning on reading or that I want to add to my
quote-unquote list. So say if I want to... I don't even know, let me pick one that I
actually would want to read... let's say Blue Exorcist
I'll literally - and you can you can click on the chapters to flip it so that it's
descending or ascending instead of descending - I'll just open up the first
chapter and yeah and then you can also kind of see the the experience as well
oh and this is this is my favorite part of the app. The way that it stitches
together like a two-page spread is incredible. Incredible. Like look at this.
Obviously if you turn your device to landscape mode it'll just show two-page
spreads by default but I think this is stunning like can we just? I will never
get tired of this. Anyway. um so yeah this is the reading experience, there's not
really any settings, so you can't like change it to read from left to right
instead of right to left. I know some other apps that I've used in the past
have - you've been able to so that might be a con for you if that's something you
like but for me that doesn't bother me because I am just used to reading manga
like this so yeah I think that's pretty much it but yeah once I do that, if I
go back to home it'll show up in my continue reading ,which means this then
becomes kind of my watch list so to speak. But it is kind of annoying that I
can't just like favorite it, you know what I mean? So that's really my only con
for the app and all this like extra stuff on the front page and this is kind
of the app in a nutshell and hopefully that was helpful
So that concludes my review of the app. If you couldn't guess already, I'm a big
fan. I will continue to be subscribing for the near foreseeable future, pretty
much. I have so many mangas that I want to get through. Let me know if you have
ever tried the app, if you've ever tried the subscription and if you enjoyed it
or not and hopefully this video has piqued your interest if you've seen - if
you saw any of like the mangas you're interested in, I recommend checking it
out you can also like go on their website and see which ones are available
pretty much any manga that has chapters as instead volumes are
available through the subscription and I believe they do also have like a full
published list of all the mangas that are available. Try the free version out
for 7 days and see how you like it. Highly highly recommend it. I am always
ready for more people to discover and love manga so this is my little plea for
everyone to start. I don't hear a lot of people talking about it and I just think
it's such an affordable way to try it out so aside from you know of course the
library which is free but it can be sometimes hard to get a good selection
of manga from the library I feel, so yeah anyway, that was a really
long-winded little wrap-up but yeah thank you so much for watching and I
will see you guys next time!