That's pretty cool. Makes it much more feasible and easy to read/reread a series.
In theory this takes away one of the bigger barriers which is having to catch people up to a series. And if it's successful they can hire more people to translate more series.
I feel like haikyuu actually has a decent chance now that the volume releases are closing in on the japanese volumes, and that they don't need to stick to whatever page count confinements they were sticking to with the digital magazine.
Its only Jump and Jump SQ manga at this moment...or at least manga that have been published by Viz with that logo, such as One Punch Man, which actually runs in a seinen web magazine in japan, but still runs in Viz Jump and has the Shonen Jump logo on its volume releases.
That's something to, same goes for Blue Exorcist and Seraph of the End, because while I don't read either of them, I think i remember hearing that Viz will hold those two back a week or two sometimes, so as to not have to many things in a issue at once.
do monthly manga OTs that are not Shingeki really maintain any sort of discussion though?
It's just Viz Jump as far as I'm aware. Kodansha offers many of their series through Crunchyroll though and Yen Press will put new chapters of some of their series like Black Butler up when they come out for like 2 bucks, but if you're looking for legit magazine format then its just Viz
Yeah, good point. There are only like three people here that talk about it anyway so it's probably not a good idea.
New chapters will be free for a while, it's only if you want the back catalog stuff that you have to pay just as an fyi
