VIZ Manga Reviews

Last year I decided to subscribe to Shonen Jump to keep up with a series that wasn’t getting new episodes for a while. I was pleased with how much content I got for $20, and VIZManga worked just fine.
I was very excited for the new changes coming to Shonen Jump, since I’d be able to start some new series and save a lot of money instead of buying physical copies. After the update however, VIZManga has turned into a buggy mess, especially on an iPad Air 2. It takes forever to load the home page, and often lags for a couple minutes when you first open it. Available chapters for subscribers load pretty slow, and sometimes require reloading VIZManga .
On top of all the bugs, there are still several VERY basic features missing. You should be able to see all of the chapters you’ve already read, even if you haven’t downloaded them. It’s annoying having to guess where you left off, especially in series upwards of 100 chapters. Having a list of manga you’re currently reading would be a great addition as well.
The new Shonen Jump subscription is a great idea and an extremely good deal. This service has allowed me to start many new series that I now read regularly. These bugs and issues have put me off from spending more money in VIZManga on manga volumes since it’s more annoying to use VIZManga than buy a physical copy. I hope that the problems mentioned can be fixed soon, as I do love the content offered.

TBH I don’t have much free time of my own (in my adult life) these days, not enough to even watch much TV either. Well, one day I was spending time with wifey and as she dozed off mid-day, the TV was on Adult Swim running a My Hero Academia marathon. As fate would have it, episode 1 started and I found my inner childhood dreams resurface. Reminiscent of when I too used to read and collect comics and early manga of Astroboy, wishing so hard to be able to fly and have an ability that would set me apart from everyone else. I would get lost in those paper pages. But to be able to obtain my literary fuel came at great costs as a child. Not just monetarily but also limitations to physically getting to the one comic store in town. Having then to overcome those two obstacles just to walk in and find, your issue is SOLD OUT!!! NOW ushering into the present day of 2018 and discovering the VIZ APP using my iPod... manga comics are larger than life! Every type of genre available and all at my fingertips. Resolution is crisp, no lag and best of all I’ve not been bombarded by any intrusive, annoying ads. Thank you VIZ! Thank you for making me dream again!

This is both my oldest subscription and the only one I’ve never EVER been tempted to cancel. That said, I wouldn’t mind access to more than Jump. I’m a girl, I grew up on bad shoujo manga that are now out of print! And it’s hard to get into new shoujo or josei without reading it first—the synopsis is almost never an indication of quality. I’m more likely to buy any manga if I know it’s good—that’s how I started with Spy X Family and Promised Neverland (which I turned down at Barnes and Noble because of the art). But hey, I like that this subscription costs less than good coffee.
On the downside, your reader is annoying. Instead of loading one chapter at a time, I'd rather flip from the last page of ch 2 to the first page of ch 3. Or better yet, read the whole volume without being interrupted. Those stops between chapters are fine for story-driven stuff with long chapters like Spy X Family or Promised Neverland, but fight-oriented manga chapters are short and often end mid-combat. Especially as they approach their end. It becomes incredibly painful to keep stopping!

I decided to get VIZManga because it had a lot of my favorite series. I was especially happy that all of the chapters are the official translations rather than the scanlations that a lot of other apps and websites offer. After my trial ended, I decided to purchase the Shonen Jump subscription, and it's worth it especially with how cheap it is! Even before I had the subscription, there was still plenty of content for me to read as the first free chapters of each series are free. In ongoing series, the most recent three chapters are free as well. They're also very quick with adding new chapters. My only problems with VIZManga are:
1. Not very many titles available, Shonen Jump or otherwise (then again, this is just one translation company)
2. Most chapters don't include the bonus stuff you might find in volumes.
Aside from that, it's a great app that's been keeping me entertained for the past few months. I wish other translators would offer a similar subscription model as well.

It’s happened a few times already I’ve come back to a series and continued the next chapter after the ones I’ve read, and it turns out it’s way ahead than I was. Like 3 or 4 chapters ahead. Takes me time to go back and see which chapter I actually was on. Annoying and I was spoiled by the story opening other chapters I wasn’t on yet..

The amount in here is decent, though I wish a lot more of the volumes were in chapters like some of the older stuff so we can read those too, instead of paying the pretty high prices for them.

Edit: found out that if you download a title and not read it within seven days(even if you reconnect to VIZManga online) it will count it as read. So annoying and dumb when all other services just make it so if you reconnect to VIZManga online it will reset the counter so you can continue reading without being out of place.

There’s no better place to read manga than VIZManga right here. I’ve been using it for over a year now and the very few issues I’ve ever had with VIZManga have been fixed very soon after they came up. For $2/month for the Shonen Jump subscription you get dozens—maybe even hundreds—of quality titles. The best part is that they make the first three chapters of each series free so that you can try them out, as well as making the last three chapters of each series free so people who are caught up to all the series they read don’t have to pay a cent! There’s also a great feature in VIZManga to give feedback to the developers if you have an issue or want to suggest an improvement. I submitted feedback for a slight nitpick I had for how titles appeared when the “Show Dimmed” setting was active, and they actually fixed it! Any manga fans who don’t know about VIZManga are missing out big time.

I’ve been using VIZManga for a few years now, and I’m really impressed with the way it’s been improved over time—it used to take a long time to load after the revamp with the simulpubs for Shonen Jump becoming free, but now it’s much faster. It’s my preferred way to read manga, thanks to the seamless way I can turn my phone or iPad to landscape mode and stitch two pages together. My only suggestion would be to have some mature content available online also on mobile, through the native parental controls filter on the device, like how some shows on streaming apps get filtered off or on through that way. Totally understand if it can’t work that way though, it’s not a dealbreaker by any means because I’m still getting access to FREE, LEGAL manga that officially supports the creators!

I’ve been using VIZManga for a couple months now and overall it is good. I read the latest chapters of One Piece and MHA and, for anyone currently reading fan scans, the official Viz release is so much better and worth a couple days wait. The quality and translations are great; occasionally, a picture won’t load, but reloading the chapter takes care of the problem.

My only real compliant is not really that but a wish for more! There’s so many great titles like Honey and Clover, Lucky Star, Pokemon Adventures...and none of them are available except for preview or individual purchase! I certainly can’t justify spending $7 or so on a digital manga copy (at that point, I’d just buy the physical if I really wanted it). It would be wonderful to have an all-inclusive manga ‘streaming’ service for all these titles beyond the Shounen Jump service (that would obviously cost more)...I would certainly pay for it! Until that hopefully happens though, I’ll keep enjoying my free weekly chapters.

Disclaimer: this is a rating and review of VIZManga not the subscription service (which is worth every penny)

If all you need VIZManga for is to read the Viz manga then VIZManga is a 5 star but if you want to manage your favorites or even browse for viz media publications then VIZManga falls very short.

There is no way to just browse manga with chapters (which is important if you subscribe to viz). Even when you do find something you like you can’t add it to your favorites (you have to do that on the website) ... and when you add to your favorites that manga only shows up on your ribbon of things to read if you have opened a chapter or if they’re new chapters (they should show the oldest unread chapter) I added a bunch of manga as I browsed using the website on my laptop thinking of following up later on VIZManga but nothing showed up on my app because I didn’t open any chapters I just added them as favorites also “read” chapters don’t synch up between app and website so you have to remember what chapter you were on if you’re bouncing back and forth.

The viz media subscription is worth every penny but VIZManga needs a lot of updates

I do enjoy VIZManga as a means to keep up with current manga, however it’s missing some features I’ve come to expect from apps like it. I read on both my phone and iPad, and despite being signed into both, it doesn’t remember where I am or even share the same Continue Reading list. There also isn’t a way to add manga to your list without reading it first. Lastly, there’s no way to choose how you scroll or change pages while reading AND even when the content is free, there’s interruptions every chapter where you have to confirm that you’ll continue on to read the next free or already paid for chapter. I’d love the ability to just scroll through, especially downward like mobile versions of online manga reading work.

Again, the content is pretty good, I just hope we get some functionality updates soon.

I made an account and bout a digital pass and immediately after it kicked me out. When I tried logging back into my profile a message saying information invalid pops up when it’s impossible cause I just made the account seconds before. When I tried retrieving my password through email my email isn’t available. It’s like they made me pay for a profile that I can’t use and I know my profile was created because when I tried making a new profile with the same name I chose it said it was taken. But I’m not spending another dime on VIZManga until I get my profile back. Don't buy anything on VIZManga they just gonna take your money and lock you out your profile so you can’t cancel anything.

For several years I have been using VIZ Manga and I liked it very much. Recently, VIZManga is experiencing lots of latency and having an iPad 3 so that does not explain things. However, while i saw in emails that changes were coming to Jump, at this time I cannot see any old jump chapters and the browse feature just is stuck. I would hate to delete it and reinstall since I have so much downloaded content. Also, what is up with only can have 100 chapters downloaded? What is the problem with more than 100 chapters? Seems like an unnecessary restriction. So the "improvements" have diminished my ability to use VIZManga . I simply cannot use VIZManga . darn.

Ever since their last major update that made that app glitchy and unusable, I’ve been waiting for Viz to fix these issues. Finally, this latest release has done just that. I’m no longer experiencing any lag when reading manga.

That being said, VIZManga is still missing the most basic and absolutely necessary function for a manga reader: Some sort of queue that tracks what I’m reading as well as saves my place in each series. I’m reading multiple series with hundreds of chapters. I have to keep track of my place on an external website and it’s a real hassle.

Also, for Shonen Jump subscribers, there should be a page that lists all series available for us to read. Or even some sort of icon on the list of all titles available that lets subscribers know that that title is available through their subscription.

Let me start with the fact that of the mangas they have listed on VIZManga , only a handful of titles can be fully viewed upon purchasing a membership. While the membership fee is only $1.99 that only applies to the titles that say chapters. If you find something you would like to read but it says volumes on the bottom you will have to make a purchase roughly in the amount of $6.99 for each volume in the series. Getting back into the membership part of VIZManga , you are limited to 100 chapters before you must wait for your daily pass to restart. Perhaps offer a premium membership so people can have unlimited chapters and access to all mangas. If I can’t leisurely read a series because I am limited on the chapters available and the content in which I can spend my “100" chapters then it isn’t worth it for me. There is no free version, only previews of the books. Also the selections of manga to choose from is extremely poor.

When you’re like me, you watch the anime before the manga, and usually, you want to watch/read as much as possible. VIZManga is great, absolutely amazing, I would suggest it to anyone with lots of time (which is everyone nowadays). I’ll get to the point now, I don’t enjoy the fact that you have a 100 chapter limit each day. I didn’t realize this until now, but I feel that it’s kinda unnessesary. Most people won’t read more than 100 chapters, but for some of us that buy the books and borrow them from libraries, we could read hundreds a day. (I speak from experience) but yes, that is my only problem with VIZManga. Thanks for creating VIZManga, I love it, but man, only a hundred chapters although I paid good money. ( there’s no limit on crunchy roll. ☹️🙄)

With a plethora of newer titles to read and sparse classic chapters available to read the viz app gives a decent library for the morally inclined fans to keep up with their favorite eastern comics in clean clear print for cheep the reader could use a little bit of polish but just misses the seamless panel to panel focus of it’s more popular western contemporaries all the same i would recommend VIZManga for any looking to digitize their library of tankobon the full pages shine with the glory of their complete art which usually finds some of the details fall into the gutter of the bond print and for no charge you can read the first few chapters and the last four or so recent releases which gives the curious a chance to sample the genre spanning collections offered for free which is a Jolly good deal :)

No that doesn’t clear anything up. What am I getting for paying the premium then if I can’t unlock volumes? We already get the chapters free without the premium. So am I just paying premium to support the developers? I wouldn’t mind that but I’m not feeling very supportive since I was told with premium I could unlock 100 chapters a day of anything but now I’m being told there are volumes you can only buy even with the premium, which was never mentioned. What is the difference between premium and not premium. I’m not seeing it since you can only pay for “volumes”. Sounds like a scam. But if it’s just for support say that, instead of false advertising that you can unlock 100 chapters of anything a day. No where did it unlock a 100 chapter a day “except for volumes”. Maybe include that also. Smh. Pretty much a scam but it’s only 2 bucks a month but I guess that can add up. Idk, still a good app just awful people running in and making decisions 🤷‍♂️.

All in all, it’s a really good app. It’s probably one of the most extensive ones out there, with lots of popular manga for you to choose from.

However, of course, just because I gave VIZManga a 5 star rating doesn’t mean that it can’t be improved. I know I’d like to see some sort of browsing feature where we can select a genre and look through manga of that sort. It’s very difficult to simply look for a new manga to get into on VIZManga —instead, you have to type in specific titles and such to get the manga to pop up.

Another thing that would be great is if we could have multiple selection for downloading/deleting chapters. It gets exhausting having to select each individual one.

Don’t let these small suggestions get you discouraged from downloading VIZManga! It has a very affordable subscription ($1.99/month for complete access (just a couple restrictions that you can’t get rid of but really are nothing)), fast and non-glitchy system, and a huge library. VIZManga has great features, and I can’t wait for it to improve even more!

I always wish I could buy large manga collection, but didn’t have money or the space for it. VIZManga is like having personal library of manga at my fingertips. Plus, I can enlarge or make it smaller the image to see great detail. Also, can download it for later time when I waiting somewhere can pull out my IPad and read it. Thirdly, I have been discovered new manga I never would find in store shop or online. They usually displayed only most popular books, yet don’t get me wronged I do loved them as well. I like reading something doesn’t become redundant and overly repetitive in mainstream media.

Only giving VIZManga 2 stars because of how bad it runs, leaving VIZManga to answer a phone call or to reply to a text message and coming back to VIZManga will cause it to crash making no chapters available to read requiring you to close and load VIZManga again anytime you want to leave it. I’m paying the monthly subscription to support the manga artists but I expect at least to have a functioning app that I’m paying for, VIZManga is a great reader for manga and has a lot of chapters to read and releases new weekly chapters with high quality scans and has a very nice and friendly UI, my problem previously mentioned however is killing VIZManga for me.

For the price and selection available, it’s really quite a steal! Now I can read as much manga as I want quite comfortably! However, I’ve been encountering an annoying problem, specifically with the Promised Neverland. Every chapter has one-to-two pages replaced with pages from the previous chapter which means I’m constantly confused with what’s going on. Please fix this! I really love this manga and don’t want to resort to other sites to get the same experience.

I downloaded VIZManga to read all my favorite mangas such as Boku No Hero Academia, The Promised Neverland, Naruto, Assassination Classroom, and more. I wanted to read Ouran High School Host Club since I heard that Haruhi and Tamaki got a happy end together. But you only got to preview all of the chapters/books. You didn’t get to read the entire thing. I even have a subscription to Viz/Shonen Jump. I was a little upset when I couldn’t read the entire thing. Other than that, I have no other complaints. The membership fee is very low priced; perfect for people on a tight budget, and they have a wide selection of manga to choose from. I use VIZManga a lot. I’m just a little disappointed that not everything (even when purchasing/owning a membership) is not free.

VIZManga itself functioned better before the big update. Previously, loading times were quick, downloads rarely glitched, and the manga chapters loaded smoothly.

Currently VIZManga gets stuck trying to load the main page, it takes 15+ seconds to acknowledge downloads starting, and the manga chapters themselves have a tendency to get stuck turning pages (instead of smoothly switching from one page to the next, it will frequently be stuck with half of the first page and half the second, like it gets stuck mid page flip). Crashes are also more frequent than in earlier versions.

The service VIZManga provides is great, but the glitches in the recent big update make it frustrating.

VIZManga runs extremely well for me and for $2/month it has everything I want to read, which is awesome. However, it doesn't have bookmarks or a similar feature that tells me which chapters I've read and lets me pick up where I left off (even without downloading the chapter for offline access), which is a necessary feature for a manga app. I want to support manga creators and pay for what I read, but without that functionality it's hard to recommend VIZManga . That is the one thing VIZManga needs to become the #1 manga app, but for now I will have to find another one. I hope bookmarks are implemented soon, because when they do I'll come rushing back to this one.

If you’re going to take all the “main stream manga” off of other platforms (that are free) you should make sure that your platform is just as good if not better, especially if you are GOING TO CHARGE FOR IT!! This is laggy, loading times are insane, the fact that you can batch download or delete is a joke, and I shouldn’t have to close out my app 20 times to get everything to semi work. Capping 100 chapters at a time is pretty lame too. Why can’t I download volumes at a time if I have the space allocated????

Get your stuff together because this is pathetic. Maybe you should have hired the people from Manga Rock to make an app for you. Or you should have made an agreement to let them keep certain manga and have to charge for them. I can’t believe this sorry excuse for an app hasn’t been fixed yet.

Compared to MangaRock where you can read a lot of free manga I’d have to give VIZManga a two because it clearly advertises about free manga which they do have but not very many most manga they have you have to pay for it and that’s not okay unless you’re looking to support your manga artist directly then in most cases you can buy the hard copy at your local manga/anime shop but the quality of the mangas are pretty ill give them that but it’s 6 dollars a pop and when most people start reading I know they want to finish reading all the chapters that’s out so no I really recommend you guys don’t purchase it most of these reviews aren’t telling you what your truly looking for so I hope my review on VIZManga helps

I love VIZManga , it’s a great price to subscribe to the membership. Lots of options to read and it’s really easy to use. The only thing it’s missing is a saved or my favorites section. I’ve never used an manga or reading app in general that didn’t have some way to save my favorites. This one allows you to see downloads and purchases but downloads disappear after awhile so it’s kindve pointless. I find myself forgetting what chapter I was on or even what I’ve been reading (I tend to read several manga all at once). Please add a section for favorite/starred manga.

Pros:
Lots of free chapters of popular manga that are updated regularly. It’s great to support the mangaka! A wide selection of genres to choose from and even so older titles - Absolute Boyfriend, Alice 19th, etc. Ties in with the Shounen Jump app pretty well. I haven’t purchased any manga yet, so I can’t say about prices yet. Manga is good and full of the artist’s blood, sweat, and tears; it’s worth the cost.

Cons:
- Inadequate search: I’d like to be able to search based on genre, not just author/title. What if you only want to see the shoujo/jousei options? I don’t want to have to scroll through everything.
- Bookmarking: There doesn’t seem to be a way to tag which series you’re reading or where you left off somewhere.

These are two key features that mainly keep me from using VIZManga . I hate to say it, but the Mangareader app UI and tools are far more user-friendly than VIZManga. I am suggesting to maybe apply those features to VIZManga in order to make it more appealing.

Pages load well if you have decent WiFi or reception, everything looks good and it is nice to support the authors/artists I enjoy! The real bummer about this ap is the lack of bookmarking, no ability to make a favorites or tbr list, and no reading location sync across devices. Every time I switch from one device to the other I have to cross reference what I was reading and what chapter I was on. Sometimes I even have to do that within one device if I restart. Hard not to compare it with scanlation services with great library and sync support. Really frustrating in what is otherwise a great ap.