Shonen Jump Manga & Comics

I love this app and spend hours upon hours every day reading from the broad selection of manga. The only downside is that while bingeing, I always have to hit read next and wait for the screen to flip. If the producers of this app could make it so that you could binge more easily without as long of a, or no, pause. Whenever I have to go to the next chapter I have to press “read next” which makes sense but the screen always glitches and flips which makes it so that I have to wait longer to keep reading. My other problem with this app is fact that there isn’t a screen lock so that whatever your screen angle is at, you can maintain one angle. I often read while laying down and like to put my screen to the side but am constantly hafting to put my screen back into a different position and when you use the phones “Lock Screen” feature, it positions the screen in portrait (horizontal) position and I prefer landscape (lateral) position. If in the menu pop up that appears when you click the screen once the was a little lock button where you could lock the screen regardless of what position your actual device was in, then that would make late night reading much more convenient for a side layer like myself. Like I said earlier, this is a great app and I love the low subscription price, but I would really like it if you could consider my suggestions.

I only recently started watching anime in 2022, so I came across of new recent shows that still needed a few years to be finished. Lots of the shows I watched were Shonen Jump adaptations like Jujutsu Kaisen, Tokyo Ghoul, Spy x Family, and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. I was bombarded by manga readers giving little hints towards the anime-onlys and I didn’t want to get spoiled myself, so why not just read the manga? The problem was, I couldn’t find a good app to have the correct selection of manga I wanted. However, this app made my life so much easier. It had all the manga I wanted to read and even for the monthly pay, which is only like $2.99, it’s so worth it. Reading it is super easy, there’s no ads, and a huge amount of manga to choose from. Some stories I’ve never even heard of I ended up reading it. I like how this app is super straight-forward. You can either buy the volume or just binge read the chapters. It also gives you recommendations and fan-favorites. Another thing I really like is how it has the dates of the newly-released chapters, and I don’t have to log it every time I read a new chapter. This has become a real life-saver for me and I will continue reading!

The content of this app is great, but it’s lacking so many basic UI features that hold it back. For one, if you’re reading in landscape mode at the end of the chapter it force rotates back to portrait to hit the next chapter button. After hitting the next chapter button you have to physically rotate back to portrait and then back to landscape to go back into reading it 2 pages at a time. Additionally, the next chapter button gets really annoying when you’re binging a series. Why can’t it just flow into the next chapter or auto go to the next chapter if you swipe while on the last page? It gets frustrating having to click the next chapter button especially on larger phones. Lastly, the 100 chapter limit for downloaded manga is fine, but it would be nice to have a “bulk delete” or an option to automatically remove a download after reading it. As is I have to click on each check mark and click confirm for every single chapter I want to remove to make room for new chapters. If those features aren’t available then maybe at least allowing the user to change the 7 day time period to be less time would be helpful as a sort of work around to bulk deleting downloaded manga. Additionally, the website allows for following manga but the app has no place to show which manga you follow. Why is that? Overall I think this app has potential and I will keep using it because the content is good. But the UX could be significantly better. Hence 3/5