I buy and read a lot of manga magazines every month because if I can follow series from when they serialise, I’m less likely to spend money on full volumes down the road. At least, that’s what I tell myself. But I don’t buy Jump SQ (or Jump Square, as it’s often called) because Blue Exorcist, Seraph of the End and Gokurakugai are already simulpub in English through the Shonen Jump app. And sure, we’re not getting the whole SQ lineup in English, but it feels hard to justify buying it every month when I already fork over money to VIZ for their service and there’s that overlap in titles.

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