Manga UP!

Now, I have all of the official manga apps and I’ve been using the SJ app since sometime in the early 2010’s. I’m not a covid poser fan acting like I have experiences to compare it to, I ACTUALLY do. All of my other apps, you either subscribe, or you pay per chapter. This app wants you to do BOTH. A subscription gets you completed, backlogged series. If you want to read anything new, you have to make micro transactions to buy items to redeem for chapters. So the $5 or whatever that I spent to subscribe was pointless, I couldn’t read any of the series that I came to this app for. If you’re reading this and thinking I’m nitpicking, think about it this way; do you have to buy new releases from Netflix or Hulu if you have a subscription? Nope. And you can’t bring Amazon into this conversation, because they don’t charge you for the stuff they actually own if you have Prime, you pay for media from their partners who sell on Amazon. Heck, as much as I hate Crunchyroll for all of their buyouts and monopolizing the anime industry, just to close down every company they buy and make it impossible to buy certain merchandise from anyone but them, I can at least say that they gave us free manga with our subscriptions. So yeah, this app is a straight ripoff. For the last 2 years, i wait a week or two to finally get enough items to read a free chapter. If it weren’t for that one slight benefit, I’d have deleted this trash. Don’t pay, just use it for free. Giving these conmen money only validates their scummy practices.

It keeps jumping back to the first chapter

Lots of titles but they want money right off the bat. If you are looking for a mostly free reader this isn’t it.