MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA

I really want to love the Manga Plus app. It boasts an impressive library of manga that I'm eager to dive into, and I've even committed to a paid subscription to support the creators and access all the content. However, my experience on my iPad Pro has been consistently frustrating, to the point where I'm seriously considering canceling my subscription. The biggest issue by far is the excruciatingly slow loading times. Whether it's the very first page or a subsequent one, I'm frequently met with a black screen and forced to wait long periods before the manga page finally loads. This breaks the immersion and makes reading a chore rather than a pleasure. For a premium service on a powerful device like the iPad Pro, this performance is simply unacceptable. It's a shame, as the content itself is fantastic. But if I can't reliably and smoothly read the manga I'm paying for, the value proposition quickly diminishes. I sincerely hope the developers address these performance issues soon, as it's currently holding back what could otherwise be a truly excellent manga reading experience.

Okay, I don’t mind the large, no, MASSIVE chapter gaps. We can just read them elsewhere. For the titles that I do read here, I’ve noticed that I haven’t been getting the notifications. I also can’t say I’m a fan of the “First Time Read” concept, it’s kind of dumb that we don’t have the option to go back and reread. You could have something similar to Webtoon’s DailyPass. Instead of the 14-day availability, we could watch an ad at the start to “unlock” the chapter as well as the ad that you already have at the end of each chapter. Then we could watch an ad for each time we reread that chapter or just permanently “unlock” the chapter after watching x number of ads. An additional way of doing this would be similar to the point system on Zedge: watch ads -> claim points -> stockpile however many points the chapter you want to read costs -> permanently(?) unlock the chapter. This would also be appreciated for the titles that have a relatively large gap between chapters.

This app has great potential to being one of the best manga reading app but the problem with the app is that the only available manga is that of the ones you mainly find in Shonen Jump. Also there are a few manga with a huge gap of chapters missing making hard to truly get into the manga. So a way for this app to reach its full potential would to start adding a lot more manga from different publishers/ distributors so there could be a larger variety of manga which would draw more people into using the app. Also for the mangas that are missing a large chunk of their chapters should have them slowly become available so people could really get invested in the manga. Until then I will only recommend this app to people who are reading pacific manga and if all the chapters are available for the manga as well.