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Viz/Mangaplus only stream Shonen Jump titles. We are currently focused on the thousands of other titles that are out there that aren't getting that level of love. We are here to bridge that major gap so even more is available in English.

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That's fair, and I think it's great to find all of these titles that are just unnoticed in the west. However for me I think your UI is still falling behind these other sites (which do admittedly look like clones of each other) - the images scaling down when you mouse over the menu is honestly quite annoying, the front page is extremely sterile and basic, and it just doesn't follow the standard for the industry (both in the west and in japan) of typically 3 most recent and first 3 chapters are free. Another issue is at the moment you really don't have a lot of titles - 108 sure sounds like a lot but compared to what's out there it's absolutely nothing and there is no way that everyone who signs up will be interested in most of these. And maybe this is also a problem of it being very small in scale, but there is no option to search for more than one tag at a time which is the worst trend in the world and something that was solved on mangadex years ago. I hope you can address these things in future.

Thanks for the feedback on the homepage and reader overlay UI. I can see what we can do about those.

We are planning to add multi-select for the Genre filtering. Our backend supports it but haven't implemented the frontend portion yet.

Free chapter availability are currently limited by the original publisher's rights and we are working on that!

We're also working to add more series and have more coming soon. Adding each series takes time and money unfortunately.

What about Crunchyroll though? They also seem to offer some of the same non-Jump titles as you (e.g. Cardcaptor Sakura CC)? And can I read offline with this?

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