Board Thread:Manga/@comment-37803995-20181218102417

As of today, December 17th 2018, the English version of Shonen Jump has radically altered its business plan. New chapters of major ongoing series are accessible from the main website free of charge and for 1.99 USD per month, members can read up to 100 chapters per day of series from Shueisha's back catalogues from both web browser and IOS/Android app with the ability to also download and read these chapters offline.

I cannot even begin to express how happy I am to see the industry FINALLY start taking steps to make legal manga more accessible to a wide audience, and as an absolutely unrepentant pirate who has read thousands upon thousands of volumes worth of good ol' chinese comics without paying a red cent for them, I sincerely hope that this much more consumer friendly model works out well for them.

That being said, actually signing up for a membership was a baffling ordeal, and it shocks me how obtuse it was to actually pay them money for said membership... thus, this post. 