Manga Plus

Name	Manga Plus
Logo
Type	Digital manga
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Language	English, Spanish, Thai, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, French, Vietnamese, German
Owner	Shueisha
Editor	Shuhei Hosono
Launch Date	January 28, 2019
Current Status	Active
Website	https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp

Manga Plus (stylized as MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA) is an online manga platform and smartphone app owned by Shueisha that was launched on January 28, 2019. It is available worldwide except in Japan, China, and South Korea which already have their own services, including Shōnen Jump+, the original Japanese service. Manga Plus publishes translated versions of new chapters from currently serialized manga in Weekly Shōnen Jump, a big portion of manga from the Shōnen Jump+ app/website, and some manga from Jump Square, Weekly Young Jump, Tonari no Young Jump, and V Jump. Since the beginning of the app in 2019, all new Shōnen Jump manga in the magazine are simultaneously released in English, while since January 2023 all of the new Shōnen Jump+ manga are simultaneously released in English and since October 9, 2025, every new manga series launched in Weekly Young Jump receives a simultaneous worldwide release on Manga Plus.

The first three chapters and the three most recent chapters of all titles on the platform are available free, while all titles from Shōnen Jump+ have all of their chapters for free, except in the United States where some are also limited to first and last three chapters, due to the licensing of some manga.

A Spanish version of the service launched in February 2019, and was followed by several other languages in the next five years.

A subscription service called "Manga Plus MAX" was added to the app in October 2023.

History

Weekly Shōnen Jump reached a peak weekly circulation of 6.53 million copies in the 1990s, but the decline of print media has since been reducing readership. In response, publisher Shueisha turned towards digital distribution to attempt to reach out to a wider audience. Shuhei Hosono, the head editor for Shōnen Jump+ and Manga Plus, said that they were aware of the many manga readers overseas, and that they wanted to bring manga to more people around the world. They began talks about a possible global version of Shōnen Jump+ in 2017, and finally launched Manga Plus on January 28, 2019. The service was made available to every country except China, South Korea, and Japan, with the latter countries being excluded because they each already have their own separate services. The Shōnen Jump+ editorial department manages overseas distribution through Manga Plus in-house. Yūta Momiyama, a Shueisha editor who manages the Shōnen Jump+ and Manga Plus online services, said this is with the intent of making the creation of hit manga on a global scale "a core part of Weekly Shōnen Jumps editorial approach".

Until Manga Plus, Shueisha's titles were distributed throughout the world via local publishers or distribution lines. The launch was the first time that Shueisha had expanded direct service globally. 50 manga titles were available at launch. A portion of the revenue earned from advertisements goes directly to the original manga authors.

At launch, English was the only language available on Manga Plus. The Spanish version launched on February 25, 2019, albeit with a different lineup of manga titles. The Thai version launched in December 2019, only available in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. In February 2021, some titles became available in Indonesian. The Brazilian Portuguese version of the site launched in April 2021, only available in Brazil and Portugal. In August 2021, Manga Plus launched the Russian version and took away the region restrictions for all languages, making it possible to switch to other languages from the series page. The French version followed its launch in September 2021. In March 2024, some titles became available in German.

In October 2020, Manga Plus started its own official Discord server. In 2021, a redesigned web-app version of Manga Plus was announced to commemorate its second anniversary. At the end of June 2022, it was announced that starting in 2023, every new manga series launched on Shōnen Jump+ would receive a simultaneous English release on Manga Plus. In August 2022, Shueisha launched Manga Plus Creators, a website and app that publishes user-submitted manga from users inside and outside of Japan; the Shōnen Jump+ editorial department is running the service along with localization company MediBang.

In October 2023, a subscription service called "Manga Plus MAX" was added to the app. The service comes with two plans; The Standard Plan which consists of 80 currently serialized works totaling over 6000 chapters and costs $1.99 ($0.99 in Indonesia, India, the Philippines and other regions), and The Deluxe Plan which consists of over 190 titles, including completed series, totaling over 16,000 chapters and costs $4.99 ($3.99 in Indonesia, India, the Philippines and other regions). Alongside the new subscription plan, the website and app had an overhaul on its user interface and an introduction of content ratings ranging from all ages, teen and teen plus to refer to the manga in the app.

Since August 2024, all Shonen Jump+ One Shots are released simultaneously in English. On October 9, 2025, Shueisha announced that every new manga series launched in Weekly Young Jump would receive a simultaneous worldwide release on Manga Plus.

Format

Currently, in December 2023, the Manga Plus app has five sections:

Updates: Shows all chapters released on the app in the past seven days.
Hottest: Shows rankings of viewership in the app for series in three categories in its different language options: Hottest, Trending, and Completed.
Browse: Compiles all manga posted on Manga Plus which you are able to search by different genres. Additional features include promotional materials and Weekly Shonen Jump author comments. Series usually have the first and last few chapters available free.
Creators: The homepage for Manga Plus Creators. Users can read and comment on user-submitted manga - the top ten most read series are reviewed by Shueisha and Medibang, and every month they reward series they deem exceptional with a cash prize, as well as potential publication on Manga Plus proper.
My Shelf: Compiles series that the user has favorited, as well as options to change their username or avatar for comments, change manga languages, and other news and notices.

Titles

Current Weekly Shōnen Jump series: Akane-banashi; Black Clover (moved to Jump GIGA); Blue Box; Burn the Witch (on hiatus); Gonron Egg; Harukaze Mound; Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits; Hima-Ten!; Hunter × Hunter (on hiatus); Ichi the Witch; Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo; Kagurabachi; Me & Roboco; Nue's Exorcist; One Piece; Otr of the Flame; RuriDragon; Sakamoto Days; Shinobi Undercover; Someone Hertz; The Elusive Samurai; The Mage Next Door; Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi; Witch Watch

Finished series: Astro Royale; Act-Age (now removed); Agravity Boys; Aliens Area; Assassination Classroom; Ayashimon; Bakuman; Beast Children; Bleach; Bone Collection; Build King; Candy Flurry; Captain Tsubasa; Chainsaw Man (1st part); Cipher Academy; DC3 (one-shot); Dear Anemone; Death Note; Demon Slayer; Do Retry; Doron Dororon; Double Taisei; Dr. Stone; Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya; Dragon Ball; Earthchild; Ekiden Bros; Embers; Fabricant 100; Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma; Ginka & Glüna; Green Green Greens; Guardian of the Witch; Haikyu!!; Hakutaku; Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin; Hell Warden Higuma; High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku; Hinomaru Sumo; The Hunters Guild: Red Hood; I Tell C; Ice-Head Gill; Ichigoki's Under Control!!; The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins; JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1–Phantom Blood; JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 2–Battle Tendency; JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3–Stardust Crusaders; Jujutsu Kaisen; Kaedegami; Kill Blue; Kuroko's Basketball; Kyokuto Necromance; The Last Saiyuki; Magu-chan: God of Destruction; MamaYuyu; Martial Master Asumi; Mashle: Magic and Muscles; Mission: Yozakura Family; Mitama Security: Spirit Busters; Moriking; My Hero Academia; Naruto; Neolation; Neru: Way of the Martial Artist; Nine Dragons' Ball Parade; Nisekoi: False Love; Our Blood Oath; Phantom Seer; Ping-Pong Peril; PPPPPP; The Promised Neverland; Protect Me, Shugomaru!; Psych House; Reborn! (Spanish only); Rurouni Kenshin; Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru; Science vs. Magic (one-shot); Shadow Eliminators; Shokugeki no Sanji; Sirens Won't Sing For You; Star of Beethoven; Super Psychic Policeman Chojo; Super Smartphone; Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery; Teenage Renaissance! David; Tenmaku Cinema; Time Paradox Ghostwriter; Tokyo Demon Bride Story; Tokyo Shinobi Squad; Two on Ice; Undead Unluck; We Never Learn; Yokai Buster Murakami; Yugen's All-Ghouls Homeroom; Yui Kamio Lets Loose; Zipman!!

Current Jump+ series: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction; Aliens, Baseball, and Civilization; Asura's Verdict; The Bateren Tales; Blood Wing Hunter; Care for Something Sweet?; Centuria; Chainsaw Man (2nd part); Class of Brains; The Creepy and Freaky; Dandadan; Darkest Corners of the Heart; Drama Queen; Empyreal Cabinet; Eunuch of Empire; G.G.G.; Ghost Fixers; Ghost Reaper Girl (on hiatus); Girl Meets Rock!; The God Before Me; Hero Organization; Home at the Horizon; Hope You're Happy, Lemon; Kindergarten Wars; Kiruru Kill Me (Spanish only - on hiatus); Lunatic Terrapop; MAD; Magical Girl and Narco Wars; Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment; Make the Exorcist Fall in Love; Marriagetoxin; The Marshal King; Money Forest; Monochrome Days; My Marriage to Saneka; Night Light Hounds; No Gyaru in This Class; Oblivion Battery; Re/Member: The Last Night; Red Cat Ramen; Ryota Killed His Brother; Shiba Inu Rooms; Shinewbi; Spy × Family; Strikeout Pitch; Thermae Romae Redux; The Urban Legend Files; War of the Adults; Witchriv

Finished series: Abyss Rage; ANKOKU Delta; Arata Primal: The New Primitive; Ashi Dribbles Through; Astra Lost in Space; Astro Baby; At Summer's End; Ayakashi Triangle; Beat & Motion; Beast Orange; Blooming Love; Blue Flag; Blue Proustian Moment; ByeByeBye; Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions ~The Beginning~ (one-shot); Chuck Beans; Curtain's up, I'm off; Daddy and Buddy; The Dark Doctor Ikuru; Darling's Vanishing Act; Dear Sa-chan; Deep Raputa; Demon Lord Exchange!!; Diamond in the Rough; Diasporaiser; Don't Blush, Sekime-san!; Dricam!!; Drunk Bullet; East, Into The Night; Even If You Slit My Mouth; Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!; Existential Unplugged; Fool; The Game Devil; Get Away, Matsumoto！-100 days escape-; Ghostbuster Osamu; Gift of Poison; The God of Time; Goodbye, Eri (one-shot); Goze Hotaru; Handsome Must Die; Heart Gear; Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube PLUS; Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku (Re-Edition in Spanish only); Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku - Side Story: Forest of Misfortune (one-shot); Hina Change; History's Mentalist; Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!; I'm So Hungry I Could Eat Basashi; Insect Girl; Jiangshi X; Jinrui-Shoku: Blight of Man; Just Listen to the Song (one-shot); Kaiju No.8 (Monster #8); Kaiju No.8: B-Side; The Kajiki Chef: Divine Cuisine; KoLD8: King of the Living Dead; Kunigei - Okuni University Art Department Film Program; Land Lock; Look Back (one-shot); Love Is Overkill; Machi and Oboro; Magical Girl Tsubame: I Will (Not) Save The World!; Magilumiere Co. Ltd.; Magokoro Scramble! ~What Lies in Your Heart?~; Me and My Gangster Neighbour; Mikane and The Sea Woman; Moebana; Moon Land; My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!; My Girlfriend Is 8 Meters Tall (Thai only); My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Spanish only); Nano Hazard; Naruto: Konoha's Story—The Steam Ninja Scrolls: The Manga; Naruto: Sasuke's Story—The Uchiha and The Heavenly Stardust: The Manga; Navigatoria; No\Name; ONI: Road to be the Mightiest Oni Episode ZERO; Oversleeping Takahashi; The Pension Life Vampire; Romantic Killer; Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective; Rugby Rumble; Sachi's Records: Sachi's Book of Revelation; Service Wars; Set it and Forget it; Shibatarian; Shojo Null; The Sign of Abyss; Sirens Won't Sing For You; Skeleton Double; SMOTHER ME; Soloist in a Cage; The Soul Spewing Wielder; Spotless Love: This Love Cannot Be Any More Beautiful.; Stage S; Stan for Salvation; Stellar Friends; Suitô-to (Spanish only); Summer Time Rendering; Summer Time Rendering 2026: The Room that Dreams of Murder; Takopi's Original Sin; The World of SKK Girls; Tokyo Underworld; The Vertical World; 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess; Tsuruko Returns the Favor; Vibration Man; Wa no kage (Spanish only); Waiting for the Sunlight; Wild Strawberry; Witch Enforcer; World's End Harem: Britannia Lumiere; Yattara; You and I Are Polar Opposites; Yumeochi: Dreaming of Falling For You

Jump Square series: Blue Exorcist; Claymore (finished); Gokurakugai; Platinum End (finished); Rosario + Vampire (finished); Rosario + Vampire Season II (finished); Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign; Show-ha Shoten! (finished); Tegami Bachi (finished); Twin Star Exorcists (finished); World Trigger

V Jump series: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (finished); Boruto: Two Blue Vortex; Dragon Ball Super (on hiatus); Metaphor: ReFantazio; Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V (finished)

Weekly Young Jump series: Acting Out; Bungo: Unreal; Catenaccio; Dogsred; Genikasuri; KAMI KILL; Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible (finished); Märchen Crown; Oshi no Ko (finished); Punk Gun; Terra Formars (on hiatus); The Days of Diamond; The Nito Exorcists; Tokyo Ghoul (finished); Tokyo Ghoul:re (finished); We're J-Just Childhood Friends

Tonari no Young Jump series: Choujin X

Ultra Jump series: Bug Ego

Saikyō Jump series: I'm From Japan (finished)

Ubisoft x Jump+ one-shots: assassin's creed: cinders; HAPPY VAAS DAY; Inside; kuroneko yawa x UBISOFT; WRENCH MAKE SOME NOISE!

MAGIC International Manga Contest winners: Miriam of the Skulls; Bookhead

Dash X Comic series: The Plain Salary Man Turned Out to Be a Hero: He Was Invincible, Only to Be Exposed on His Niece's Dungeon Stream

''Manga Plus Creators''

Manga Plus Creators award winners: ALMA DE UN SOLO COLOR; Apple to Orange; BLANK CANVAS; BOLT; Boomerang Head; CAR BABY; CELESTE; Deaddie Du Dead; Dodsleie; ECLIPSE; El Perro del Gorro Atornillado al Cráneo; EL SEGUNDO HIJO; ERROR US; From The Hero In His Past; Gankira; GENDER X BORDER; GEO; Hard Metal Punch; Hollow Grimoire; How to heal from schizophrenia; I SOLD MY BODY TO A GOD; I Want To Go North; In the name of God; KKDKK; LOLEIN; METAL SOULS; METRA-K; No\Name; Ojos del Karma; Personaje; Phantom Limb; Pinned; Rusty Bullet; Ruthless Render; Saturn Cerberus; Scrap Circus; Sick Guts; SUBHUMAN/human; Sun in the Abyss; The Prince In The Garden; The World has Ended, Let's go Hiking!; Timeless; UNBLESSED; VERDUGO

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