Following the release of Weekly Young Jump’s 45th 2025 issue on October 9 JST, Shueisha has announced that all of the seinen publication’s future new serializations will receive simultaneous English releases on its MANGA Plus service.
Shueisha says that it’s expanding the number of simulpub titles from some to all to expand its overseas reach and hits.
At the moment, the latest Young Jump title to debut at the same time on MANGA Plus is issue 45’s Bungo-Unreal- kirjoittanut yuji ninomiya . The baseball manga is a continuation of Ninomiya’s BUNGO and follows characters Bungo Ishihama and Yukio Noda during their high school days.
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MANGA Plus was launched in 2019 and features Sarjaat ja yksi laukaus julkaisuista ja alustoista, kuten viikoittain Shonen Jump ja Shonen Jump+. A notable Young Jump manga that was released on the platform is Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari‘s OSHI NO KO.
MANGA Plus titles are available worldwide excluding Japan, China, and South Korea.
Elsewhere in the realm of digital manga platforms with English releases, Crunchyroll’s Link-U Group-powered add-on service Crunchyroll Manga (for US and Canada) is having its iOS and Android launch on October 9, with a web launch set for October 15. The successor to Crunchyroll’s previous manga app promises an ad-free service with “hundreds of titles from leading publishers, including AlphaPolis, COMPASS, Square Enix, VIZ Media, and Yen Press, with additional partners like Shueisha, J-Novel Club, ThirdlineNEXT, highstone and more to follow in the tulevaisuus. ”
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