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  • Its bullshit. If you buy the current issue of Shonen Jump Alpha, You only have it for 4 weeks. Sorry, I dont get rid of my old manga's. Sometimes i like to go back and read past volumes. I think thats the main reason im so against the digital Jump. Though, i've always preferred a physical book over an ebook.

  • wasnt the earthquake in japan this year? ._. 2011*

  • @BAMFBabyBlender Last year.

  • You could always buy volume.

  • WTFShonen jump no they need to keep it the same what

  • I subscribed to Alpha, it's worth it. Better than scanlations which we've all read anyway, even if you "preferred" a physical copy.

  • I have been getting shonen jump for years, since 2004. I cant believe them stopping the print versions. It sucks and rather not have the digital. It may be convenient to some. But I prefer the print version to almost anything hands down.

  • This if f$&@ ridiculous! I love Shonen Jump. It's a great magazine and should not go digital. I love getting an issue in the mail, all brand new. I can't believe that they're doing this. It was the one awesome thing that I could count on every month.

  • it's about time that god awful book died

  • This sucks. thousands people are losing their jobs. its also much more impressive to have a giant shelf of one piece than just a nook with the series on it :(

  • ..Wow, Shonen Jumps are all i ever buy :'(

  • are you rich or something

  • hes upset!!!

  • AGREED! ^__^ i dnt know wat we could do really this is just bullshit really

  • HELLZ NO!!!this is not fair my life is about manga & anime & Shonen Jump and anything manga when i get the money i go and buy Shonen Jump or manga books my life will suck if their no more Shonen Jump manga i can't go buy one of these i pod this f-ing suck man i going to japan then .....i'm going to cry now :,,< life suck's O-DE hard

  • Put ur digital tablet next to a magnet and ur screwed .... doesn't happen with physical copies ....:/

  • when i make my manga im not going to make it digital

  • I was just gonna buy shonen jump then I heard they weren't making physical copies. Now I'm rethinking it.

  • *sigh*...........time to learn Japanese....

  • @Neindus hellz yeah :( ^^

    

  • i can not agree more

  • I think its bullshit i got my this month

  • You could not be more correct

  • I doubt this heralds the end of physical manga. periodicals like magazines work better with a digital business model, the tankobans will probably always sell in physical format in some quantity. You said they aren't listening to what the fans want, but if the fans wanted it it wouldn't be advantageous to switch to digital in the first place. If they make more money in digital format, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot as a company not to switch.

  • physical is a classic, sucks they are canceling them

  • dude its better for the enviroment and opens the oportunity to a larger market. Its better for everyone.

  • TECHNOLOGY HAS TOO MUCH POWER!!

  • @mrforneverworld so if shonen jump is cancelled,does that mean naruto volumes and other manga volumes are also gonna cancel?

  • @Thesonicrushdude he doesnt' know. it's a prediction

  • I sware, i'm not all that big on shonen jump magazines but if manga EVER isn't distributed physically anymore.. oh my god idk what I'll do.. i still have a long way to go on collecting.. i want these books for the rest of my life. i want to read these books when i'm a fucking old man! i barely have any right now

  • I thought the US version of SJ was poor compared to the Japanese version, but it was better than nothing. It was through magazines like Mixxzine (Tokyopop's monthly manga magazine in the 90's) that got me into the medium. The print version is important. I know a lot of people at work who don't have a computer or had to recently give up their internet because of the recession. People like that will be hit hard with this move and with all the piracy going on anyway, I don't see this working out.

  • Manga is destined to fail here in the states. Because everyone who reads manga either downloads it, reads it online, or bitches about people not buying any while only owning 1/4 of one series...

  • @SuperDaiMangaKai I agree with you all the way. I also think that whoever buys a manga is a idiot, why the hell who I buy a book? You know what I mean?

  • If you like a series you should try and support it. Nobody tries to do what it takes to make a series succeed. A product is only as good as the consumer makes it. If nobody "likes" it obviously people will over look it or just hate it based on popularity/sales. Manga and anime don't do well in the USA because...

    1) Dubbed vs Subbed

    2) Internet=Free Everything

    3) People who only like 1 or so series (Usually Big 3 lovers)

    4) People who only love/hate a series & can't have an in between

  • @SuperDaiMangaKai Well I can see why people in the US don't really buy manga and anime. Usually animes in the US don't do good. A good example could be One Piece, Naruto's beginning saga(When Naruto is a kid), plus some other animes. The only animes that have done good in US was Dragon Ball Z and Avatar, both got live action movies due to their popularity and their respect. Naruto will never get there, never! Bleach I hope so, Full Metal Alchemist I hope so, and Durarara.

  • is this new news to u....lol....ps yeah i think its bull shit...but the plus side is ill be able to say i have the final issue of shonen jump....and yeah i was looking at something manga related and now they are doing other cd manga....

  • I forgot to mention I hate digital distribution. This not only applies to books, but to video games. I hate buying full games off of the PSN. Not only does it take a large amount of memory, but they charge the same shit as the physical media. It's a huge profit and its really just to make more money.

  • Wait this is for North America, right? Well yeah they were giving double issues that same length of a monthly issue, it's complete BS. I feel you MrForneverworld

  • damn! i missed this vid when you uploaded it! fuck yeah! fuck viz!

  • I actually agree with you!!! I normaly hate your videos but I agree this time. I have every single freacking issue published and I want to continue to collect them. If I really wanted to read it all Online, I would f%^&*ing read them Online. There are dozens of pirated websites that I can read them. This is fucked...I can read my shonen jumps anytime I want but the new ones you will have to pay a mothly fee if you want to read, and if you don't you can't read any you have already payed for.

  • holy fuck i hate this y would they do that???

  • Only thing that should be in digital are games and videos , I want my printed shit, and same for collectors edition of stuff e.g. I bought dark souls collectors edition thinking I was gonna get some cool physical stuff but I'm not i got some shitty download code digital is becoming a monster

  • they should do both to make people happy im with you i hat not having the physical in my hands if i read a book i want the real thing not a digital copy.

  • Internet taking everything out of reality. Real talk :(

  • Hell yeah I'm mad u cant even read the whole page like u want to on ur screen hate having to zoom in and out.

  • Two words: Region - Blocking

    What's good about physical books is they don't have any of this digital rights distribution BS. The book is printed in America, but my book store can have it or I can buy it online. But with the digital distribution, they won't be able do it worldwide unless the get the rights to do so.

    Last time I checked, it's called World Wide Web. Not American Wide Web. You're not American, blame your fate!

  • this is crazy. its been out since 2002. and they skip months.  i hate this!

  • i know it friggen sucks!!!! i liek a real hard copy because its there i dont like staring into screens i think they should just do digital as a side thing for people who dont want books.

  • No wonder I haven't seen any Shonen Jump D:! Thats horrible! I mean I get it here and there too, but some people (like me) can't afforrd a ipad and maybe we want to have a good manga book than read it off computers or ipads and itouches! Wahhh! That sucks balls and asses! :(

  • i just picked one up, i got December 2011 issue 10 really gonna miss them after 2012.

  • I'm moving to japan or new york (cause they have a japanese book store up there that sells japanese manga) the day that physical manga is stoppped being printed, i love physical copies and stuff i can't stand digital.

  • i think it just might be the fault of ecologist and if i mention the word ecologist you can pull out the whole chain of problems right? you know what is the claim and you know everything so i dont need to explain. so yea...

  • what im worried is that this would end websites like mangareader and mangastream as they are directly competing with viz(shonen jump)

  • well not in japan the physical distribution would end.

  • Noooooo

  • i don't really cair what happens

  • I knew this fucking bullshit was gonna happen. Jump stopped getting sold in the stores I go to regularly, then they stopped producing every month of the year. I can't stand this new world bullshit. Company CEOs might as well be sitting at home with a bag of fucking Cheetos because they aren't doing shit and the goes beyond the anime and manga industry. It's too easy for people to be fucking lazy.

  • Are they absolute idiots! If I wanted to read manga online, I would go to Manga Fox or Manga reader. The biggest reason people bought Shonen Jump was for the cards and to actually own a physical copy.

  • yeah when you want to buy the damn books, think of it like this, why should the company waste money on the chance they wont get paid back, if you want physical copy print the damn papers, i mean seriously they lose so much money when people decide to not buy books, i agree with them

  • WTF!!!!!!!!

  • I totally understand you man. I just hope Viz will get less money from this digital crap. and They better change their minds about cancelling the magazines.

  • Broke my heart when I heard that they are going digital on the Shounen Jump. If they start going digital on manga too, that would really piss off a lot of people and not be very profitable. I like buying the manga so I can physically hold them on my hands, and also as a collectible hobby.

    I mean, if I have to read manga digitally, then what's the point of buying them when I can read them off some website for free?

  • What the hell seriously manga has gone down the drain I'm pissed I have an I pod touch but I want to sit down and read my manga

  • I heard the last issue would be in December.

  • This is old news.

  • It's not worth is anymore. The free cards used to pay for the subscription, but now, I bet that virtually everyone is just going to stick to Mangafox and what not.

  • Wtf! i love picking up the latest shonen jump magazine, reading the new chapters of one piece, bleach, naruto, psyren. and now, its going to be taken away. pissed off i am. i am not happy about this.....

  • I never really bought shonen jump, but they shouldn't take it away. I love the feel of a hard copy book in my hands. I love the smell of new books, too. I hate how books have started going digital these days. This is just really stupid.

  • I want it so You can Have Both (If You Want Digital Get Digital and If You Want Physical Get Physical) Therefore Both Audiences are Happy, Kawaii or Whatever You Want To Say it ^___^

  • @yugiohkid66 AGREED! ^__^

  • @yugiohkid66 i wish it was like that >:( grrr they make me sooooo mad :(

  • never thought ii would say this to shonen jump ...u suck, hw could u , if anything u bettr keep both

  • i like digital because if u purchased it i think u would be able to re download it if u loss ur data like how amazon does for the books on kindal so i hope and think its the same

    flip side to it i would think they would try to get them going around the same time like have it coming out in hard cover and digital then they can see if people like it not get ride of it and go digital

    well thats how i look at it thumb up if u like and if u hate well have a nice day

  • they should have both 

  • dude, now i have nothing to read at the school library to waste time..this is some ass

  • thats not fair when ocg gets legal slifer the sky dragon that means we will never get it screw you viz I hate you!

  • THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO JUMP. the magazine is so far behind it's a bitch(i'm talking about bleach here) instead of waiting a whole month we can wait a week

  • @blackfrench15 I am not very happy damn it shoen jump how the hell can I get my dark drviner why Viz media why?

  • no acid of golem destruction is the last promo shit why!

  • I'm very pissed off about all this. I'm only 14 I can't go out buying expensive shit just to read manga and get news about anime or video games. I'm with you bro. >:(

  • Living in England I've never been able to buy them because they're not released over here, but if I lived in America I would be PISSED!

  • @Zmandox89. No, it is only going to be the monthly magazine, they wouldn't even dare to stop printing the manga volumes :P

  • so even the graphic novels are being cancelled not only the monthly ones? for example like the volumes of manga

  • PEOPLE,this is a great idea!.Most people dont know about manga outside of japan,so it isnt like these companies are making millions.Because of this they have to cut back.And it is a monthly magazine,not even weekly(with only like 10 chpters in each)We have to be radical about it,not just think'Oh no,no more manga to put on my shelf'.YenPress do it so why carnt they and to be closser to the Japanese releases seems pretty awesome to me.Stop the negitivity

    start thinking about the benifits :D

  • which issue of shonen jump is the one with luffy on the cover

  • F$cking bs man. I am always stoked to pick up a copy of SJ, and now that they are all going digital. F&ck. I am with Forneverworld a 100%.

  • im seriously thinking of getting a fucking newspaper printing machine

  • I'm not a fan of moving to Digital releases either. I like to actually hold a physical copy of everything. I like to be able to read things without power. Now we will be held hostage by electricity. Oh and god forbid you have a virus or whatever on your digital device... there goes your stuff. Not cool at all.

  • THE DEAL IS A STEAL FOREVERWORLD BUT I GONNA TO MISS READING A ACTUAL COPY ON MY HANDS WHEN I GO TO SCHOOL (CRYING RIGHT NOW)

  • I completely understand you, But with the aspect of penny pinching your dead wrong for the simple reason that everyone's reading there manga online, Or streaming anime. Is this a bad thing? Yes of course ive been with shonen jump since middle school. But i suppose times have changed. And we can only hope to resurrect physical copies.

  • PICOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Im with you man. T^T Y

  • Fuck DIgital age... manga should be hardcover like always im just like you @MrForneverWorld this is complete and utter bullshit... omg my Shonen Jump is cancelled just like dat... wtf is going on in this world im soo fucking mad.... :/

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  • ME: WHAT DO I DO?!?! WHAT DO I DO?!?!?

    MOM: what, honey?

    ME: Shonen Jump is being cancelled!!! AAAGH!

    MOM: AW, sont feel bad

    ME: Can you give me money to go by some one piece to cheer me up?

    MOM: One piece of what?

  • I hope weekly jump doesnt go digital because I want to be a mangaka so I guess I have to polish my computer art

  • Physical copies replace by digital copies well I can see why they would do this because they are losing money and thou don't want them going bankrupt just because of the fans these companies need tho make money to become better. Just look at the business side of it.

  • I somehow completely missed this video and it was a good one.

    Anyways, I stopped subscribing to Shonen Jump sometime in 2007 because I found the magazine had gone downhill. However, I think its sad that physical copies is ending. I only found out about manga in November or December 2003 by walking into a bookstore looking in a magazine section seeing Yugi on the cover and picking up Shonen Jump.

    Sadly, this won't happen for kids now.

  • If Weekly Jump goes digital, we're all screwed.

  • Shojo Beat and Shonen Jump, RIP :'(

  • This is freaking pathetic, well I feel sorry for my friends who love manga and cant get online.

  • i was so mad when they stop shojo beat.....at first i was like what the fuck and i was really mad. but they will do it it happen to me with shojo beat

  • What! I'm so freakin pissed and i was just about to renew! WTF! I feel like hurting someone i mean having physically in my hand was more preferable so I could read it wherever.

  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THATS IMPOSABLE NO MORE YUGIOH CARD DAM IT I AM REALY MAD I AGREE WITH YOU HARD COVERS I DO NOT HAVE A FANCY EQUMENT THIS IS BULL

  • Yeah with the book stores going away yeah i believe the physical copies of manga will go away cause in the long run they'll be no book stores to get them from

  • shonen jump didn't sell enough for viz to keep producing them. So would should they do, still lose money by releasing them? No! They had to cancel it. Now you get chapter 2 week after their release in japan, and if it's succesfull they definetely gonna try to shorten the gap. Yes I also love the physical copy but you still get the volumes and chapters earlier online, so this is a good step forward.

  • I am so pissed right now that I'm laughing.

  • The hell man dont they know about radioactivity. Mangas are awesome digital age will only give cancer

  • BAKA D:<

  • A tragedy in itself, bad enough they got rid of borders. But little by little everything physical will become apart of the digital age. Which isn't bad but shonen jump is something every anime fan looks forward to, the fact that it is being taken away is just pure penny pinching on their part.

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  • @Fireouch Thank you that makes my rage subside somewhat.

  • I feel exactly what your saying

  • I am in an agreement with you, @MrForneverWorld. I think it's ridiculous the way things are going these day. Granted I love digital, but sometimes I just want to get off of the computer, or take a break from my Iphone for a while, and read an actual book or a magazine. I want to give my poor eyes a break every so often from staring at the bright lights. It's bad enough that my vision is going bad because I'm staring at my monitor too much.

  • Damn it i dont even have a ipad or other shit to buy the digital magna!FUCK THIS PLEASE DONT MAKE IT DIGITAL LEAVE THEM AT PHYSICAL!

  • Fuck reading online i dont care if its cheaper or more faster way of watching or reading anime.What if you got no internet and you love anime!I have internet but others dont!Please dont leave us Shonen Jump dont leave us like Toonami Jetstream did please dont!I still havent even bought high school of the dead volume 4.I did buy the complete set of high of the dead on dvd!So please dont make anime leave us and is sent on digital!For those who dont care about anime get the fuck out of here!

  • i think i just died inside D;

  • A physical volume of manga in your hands will always be 100x better than reading online. it's part of the fun of reading, seeing the covers, reading the special pages. I'm glad I have a giant manga collection, i hope others can get theirs too.

  • fml. I haven't bought one of those bad boys In like a year. Too bad there stopping at that. Everything is now modern day technology ( digitally ) I'm deft pissed off but I'll get used to it in time. I 100% agree with you. They should put petitions up cuz it's craziee

  • I guess you have a good reason to be mad, but business works like that. If there was a potential opportunity to lower the starting cost of producing something, and maximize the profit, it'd be crazy not to take it. Now, whether they will succeed or not, only time can tell. Who knows, they might revert back to physical copies if they failed.

  • Blu Ray Funi & Jump ending. Garbage. All I gotta say is they better offer some kind of renewal refunds & or replace it with something decent.

  • What? That is stupid.

  • i used to get them for the free yugioh cards

  • T.T

  • Shonen Jump shall lose sales in their profits of America. Now they dun fucked up!

  • @D2SSpeedHD looks like 2012 will not be a bright year afterall :(

  • Figures the U.S. would pull this kind of bullshit. Why do they have to do this? whats the point? They were doing just fine as they are now. But noooooooooo they decided to be a bunch of faggots and cancel the WHOLE fucking thing. Damn I knew the U.S. would do SOME kind of bullshit to interfere with me reading manga. I was planning on getting every volume of One Piece at once as soon as the series was over, looks like I cant do that anymore, goddamn U.S and their stupid ideas! FUCK YOU!!!

  • @z3kRL You know they're still gonna release physical volumes.

  • WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

  • It will never be the same reading manga digitally instead of having a physical copy , it won't be collecting any more

  • I buy every issue of the Shonen Jump just for having them and collecting even though I'd have read the all the chapters before.

    There's just that overwhelming satisfactory in owning them, reading them now and then, and just to be there on your shelf or wherever when they're not being read.

  • just read it online what is the argument i mean i live in UK and we dont get any shonen jump but we read it on computer simple!

  • Fornever u not going to do a review of hunter x hunter

  • I don't care it's just the US Japan's still going strong

  • I read manga both as books and here on Net. But I definitely prefer reading it in the big paper mode as I've seen Shonen Jump is published. Sadly though, I don't have enough money to order it's English version here in Finland.. :___( But its REALLY, REALLy sad if the trend now is that everything's gonna be digital soon... It's just not good that you have to buy a GADGET to read.. Sounds like they are goin to make us retards who need some extra help even to read.... Those bastards.....

  • It's actually kinda scary to see ForneverWorld this mad

  • Wow Forneverworld ur mad. Well, to be honest I read manga's online, but in my opinion there's nothing better than holding the real copy of Naruto in your hands. but Shonen Jump canceling is gonna ruin manga because there's no one to pay the authors. Who's gonna pay Kishimoto, his boss? Last time I checked he didnt have a boss, he made the desicions. So no pay check = no manga. Shonen Jump screwed us, and themselves. Thumbs up if u agree and foneverworld let me know what u think @ForneverWorld

  • @MrCream657 The manga volumes will pay him. Also, no one said WSJAlpha is free.

  • these people who came up with this idea are IDIOTS. What the heck.

  • this only realy helps the company with the amount of money they will make off overcharging people for digital tablets

  • *on my knees yelling* ''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

  • D; No no no no no this has to be a mistake. One of the main qualities I love about manga is reading it in a book and feeling it! It's not as alive on a screen I don't like reading on a screen! And Shonen Jump is my favorite company!!

  • does phisical manga mean the magazine or the volumes and the magazines?

  • @kewltyler44 both

  • thats like the fucked up thing I once tried reading manga online its so fucking annoying

  • does this mean people cant read the manga chapters for free every week online? and does this mean that viz manga copies will be gone? I cant afford the freaking technology.

  • Fuck the Digital AGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • My vid will be up soon and yeah I even talk how this country is real lazy

  • Wait.... Couldn't you just read it on the computer? Or is it just going onto the Ipad or whatever?

  • I don't want to live on this planet anymore...

  • Will the Japanese Shonen Jump still be released?

  • WHOEVER THOUGHT OF THE IDEA TO CANCEL THE HARD COPY CAN GO AND FUCK THEMSELFS IN THE ASS!!!!! THATS COMPLEATE BULLSHIT!!!! ALL U GUYS ARE FUCKIN ASS HOLES!!!!!GIVE US OUR MANGA BACK!!! 1ST BORDERS AND NOW THIS!!! FUCK THEM!

  • "If you have an ipod or ipad which i could easily go out and buy" Wow forneverworld i always wondered were you get your money from? I mean you must have a high paying job or something...i mean i thought you were in college or something but i mean you must have/get a lot of money i mean seeing all the cool shit you have in your room and i notice you spend A LOT of it on anime related things which aren't cheap.....just saying

  • I'm pissed to.

  • THIS IS PURE BULLSHIT! Why can't we have some throwbacks man?!

  • I know they want to save money and all but come on... They're taking away that feeling of just sitting down with a book or magazine, turning the pages with your own hands and such. It's just not the same... Nothing can ever replace that feeling

  • It looks like people will have to take their happy ass to itunes or Amazon. Manga Stream and Manga Reader's day's are numbered.

  • Thank god I live in Japan (currently)...

  • I like my hard copies of Shonen Jump if i can't get that I'm not gonna fucking bother reading it on some stupid tablet like to have my collection displayed in my room.

  • :( 95% of the manga I read is already over the internet and now its its going to be more....

  • I don't mind the Manga they sell on the iTunes store for the iPad, I think its kind of cool to read it like that once in a while but they definitely should not stop selling the hardcopies.

  • THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT! First it'll be Shonen Jump and then it'll be the Viz manga volumes we all know that once they take away Shonen Jump they will most likely take away the Viz manga volumes and thats crap personally that is taking away a huge chunk of my childhood basically 95% of my childhood and probably a big chunk of other people's childhood's too. I will be so pissed if i can't buy any more Naruto and One Piece manga volumes uhh i'm so angry i can't stand it!!!!

  • @opnarutofan117 THIS RIGHT HERE. i fucking hate this shitty idea viz pulled out of their asses, i don't wanna read my favorite shonen manga's online where my fucking computer could get a virus and delete everyrthing i've owned (lol i bet they haven't thought that far). why can't viz just make this a seperate thing instead of axing the printable titles?!?!!? god this is the worst move viz has ever done to their subscirbers!!!!! >:(

  • @FullmetalX4 If you don't want viruses on your computer then try mangastream or mangareader, thats where i read my mangas online at.

  • what!?!?!? i like reading it in HARDCOPY! i dont have time to read manga on THE INTERNET/TECHNOLGY!

  • Plus,Internet isn't air.Everyone don't have or need it.Digital only is the worst business idea for a PRINTING company,KEEP both!!!!It's financially smarter & fans won't be pissed.

    I know the economy is bad,but Viz is digging their own graves.It is the Funimation of manga.Viz should ask the fans,who's feeding their pockets before jumping off a cliff.

    April is my birth month,what a troll.

  • Are they still gonna release volumes in America?