The first 1-shot in MUGISUKE's new initiative is now available
Shueisha's MANGA Plus service announced on Sunday that starting in September, it will release all one-shots from its Shonen Jump+ service in English simultaneously. The one-shots will be available to read for free for the first 90 days and will be available thereafter as part of the MANGA Plus MAX Deluxe subscription plan.
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The first simultaneous release under this new initiative is MUGISUKE's “The Deep Sea of Words” now available on MANGA Plus.
MANGA Plus has noted that there may be some exceptions to one-shots depending on the author's wishes or editorial judgment.
One-shots are self-contained, one-chapter stories that are often used to introduce new and upcoming talent. Some one-shots have eventually been turned into full series. Shonen Jump+ has released over 200 one-shots per year in recent years, such as Tatsuki Fujimoto's award-winning manga Look Back, which was recently adapted into an anime.
Shueisha says that there is no set schedule for new short stories, but additional readers can expect new short stories every week.
The Shonen Jump+ app launched in September 2014 as a digital publication offering free manga. Shueisha launched the MANGA Plus service worldwide in January 2019.
The service publishes new chapters of currently serialized manga from Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, Jump Square magazine, and the Shonen Jump+ service as they are released in Japan, in English and other languages. While MANGA Plus is free to download and use, users can also purchase compiled book volumes for specific manga. The first and latest chapters of currently published manga are also free. A portion of the revenue from pages on the site goes directly to the manga creators.
Shueisha will begin publishing all new serialized manga (as opposed to one-shots) from Shonen Jump+ simultaneously in English on MANGA Plus from 2023 onwards.
Source: Press release
