The Manga Plus app is celebrating its 5th anniversary with a quirky limited-time event that allows fans to discuss manga freely from around the world.
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Summary
Manga Plus Universe is a new initiative by Shueisha that provides a global community platform to discuss manga. The forum uses AI translation to allow fans to chat in nine languages until May 13. New initiative tests Manga Plus' ability to enhance in-app comments section
Jump ShonenFamous comic's app Manga Plus just launched a global community platform on the app's 5th anniversary, and it might just be the one the strangest expansion of an application that readers have ever seen. As part of a new limited-time event, Manga Plus Universe now allows fans from all over the world to discuss manga freely.
Launching on April 12, Manga Plus Universe is one new global community platform launched by Shueisha allows readers to create and participate in discussion topics. The platform will be accessible until May 13 and uses AI translation to facilitate smooth discussions between fans from around the world in nine different languages.
Communication allows discussion of the 15 different listed titles available on the app, including Chainsaw Man, Oshi no Ko, Kaiju No. 8, Spy x Family, Dandandan and many more, and also includes a general manga channel for any other posts. It also requires no installation or registration of any kind and is accessible for free through any web browser.
Manga Plus Universe is a bold new experiment for Shonen Jump
Shueisha launches new online discussion forum
In addition to the comments section below each chapter, readers can Now feel free to discuss the new chapters, create their own posts, respond to comments, post images, and even vote in polls on select titles. While unprecedented, the initiative is clearly a product of the global explosion in manga readership over the past few years.
In addition to celebrating the 5th anniversary of the widely successful app, this new community platform could be an experiment to test whether Shueisha can improve the in-app comments section or implement a discussion forum feature similar or not.
Source: PR Newswire