Japan now to have two WiiWare manga services

by JC Fletcher { Dec 22nd 2008 at 8:07PM }

Sunsoft's WiiWare manga viewer, through which users can download manga for a fee, is a great idea. At least, Shonen Jump seems to think so. At their Jump Festa event, the publication offered demos of a WiiWare service called Mangaon, branded with the name of Jump's online manga site Jumpland.

Posters indicate that the service, also available on DSi, will have some kind of "game" element -- a 3D world with original characters to interact with. This could be the navigation system for the manga. The real draw here is Jump's stable of manga: One Piece and Dragon Ball were on display in the demo.

Surprisingly, the web version of Jumpland actually includes a site for English-language manga, and, of course, Shonen Jump is outrageously popular in the West, so it's not entirely unbelievable for Jump to consider bringing this service over.

Tags: comics, jump-festa, manga, mangaon, shonen-jump

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Matisyahu Serious @ Dec 22nd 2008 8:48PM

naruto manga on wii?

yes please!

Slick @ Dec 22nd 2008 9:19PM

Death Note > All

kthxbai

Matias @ Dec 22nd 2008 10:06PM

Meh hey wil probably only upload their popular manga like naruto and one piece, i don't read those (naruto, ugh, one piece, passable, but not my thing) the only thing I read from jump is bakuman anyways, and I doubt they will upload that.

Suichimo @ Dec 22nd 2008 11:00PM

If it makes it over here I might use it. But at the moment I'm caught up with the Japaense in what I read anyway. Though it'd be nice if Jump and Gangan teamed up for this service.

I wonder if this means that they will get all their franchises back under them so we can get some good Jump! action on our non-Japanese DS's without having to import, although I already have JUS.