Thanks to eagle-eyes readers, the new pricing and subscription model for the favored MANGA Plus Max subscription service have been revealed.
In late September, the MANGA Plus digital manga service introduced that they’d be making adjustments to their subscription service. Needless to say, this information involved many manga followers, as will increase in the price of companies and/or disruption of companies could be very inconvenient. These fears have been solely additional exasperated when it was revealed that Manga Plus had contracted an AI Lettering firm, Orange Inc., to letter their new simulpub collection, Rugby Rumble.
Fortunately, it seems that these fears at the moment are considerably resolved as photographs exhibiting Manga Plus’ new subscription model and their pricing have surfaced, due to eagle-eyed X person SWVXY. This information and the associated photographs have been then additional reported on by Manga Alerts
Here’s the total particulars of the upcoming MangaPlus Subscription
• Thanks @swvxy for the heads up!
Standard Plan
• $1.99 per Month
• You can learn all chapters of present serialized titles (Total of 80)
• Titles embrace however not restricted too: Chainsaw Man, Oshi no Ko, Jujutsu… pic.twitter.com/o9CBrVuWfs— 🧭Manga Alerts & Restocks #uw7s🌊 (@MangaAlerts) October 4, 2023
Shortly afterwards, Shueisha then formally revealed the new service as a partial rebrand to MANGA Plus MAX with a launch trailer that includes a short message from Weekly Shonen Jump journal Editor-In-Chief, Hiroyuki Nakano.
Our new subscription service for English titles has launched! ✨Download MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA and begin studying right this moment!📖 #MANGAPlusMAX
Download right here：https://t.co/l5Hu0cO39t pic.twitter.com/zPp0UoC1x3— MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA (@mangaplus_o) October 4, 2023
Jump Plus / MANGA Plus Editor-in-Chief Shuehei Hosono additionally posted this video on YouTube, explaining this announcement.
New Pricing
As for the pricing of the new service, let’s break it down, as there at the moment are three tiers to the service:
- The first tier retains the app free to learn with adverts, and customers having the ability to learn 6000 chapters from present and ongoing collection.
- The second tier prices $1.99 USD/month, and primarily simply removes the adverts from the service.
- The third tier prices $4.99 USD/month, nevertheless it now grants readers entry to the MANGA Plus MAX’s complete catalog of 15000 chapters from accomplished or archived collection, in addition to all collection and chapters from the earlier tier.
Besides all that, the primary three chapters and final three chapters of all collection nonetheless stay free to learn on MANGAPlus, because it has all the time been since launch. More particulars concerning the plans are posted on the MANGAPlus Plans web page.
Personally, I believe the shift to gating solely ad-free content material, in addition to the catalog of accomplished collection behind a paywall was a fairly good transfer because it looks as if nearly all of readers favor to make use of the app primarily to remain up-to-date with their favourite ongoing collection.
So what are your ideas on the replace to what’s now MANGAPlus MAX? Feel free to depart them within the feedback!
MANGAPlus by Shueisha is on the market on the internet or by their apps for iOS on the Apple App Store, and for Android on Google Play.
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