What manga is that ninja guy from? The guy who's second on the left in that JManga image, with the manly eyebrows.

Here's a hint: "......."

for anyone curious here is a list of the manga coming to jmanga note fairy tail is most likely to be on there as well since a image relating to jmanga has natsu on it http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-25/japanese-publishers-jmanga.com-portal-now-in-beta

I hope it will be available to those of us not living in the US

yup i have entered the beta as well. and i can confirm that there are more titles. and the Online reader works well so far. though the cost point is a little more then i would like .

yeeaaaaaaaaaaaa

''North America targeting''... Laaaaame

It's great to hear they can have a launch date now. I wish for the best here. Unlike CR in which I never used the trial period and probably will never be 'not' premium, I don't know if I'll read enough manga to get my money's worth. So I'll probably need a trial first. But I want to support their efforts, so I hope to give some sort of monetary support. Thus far in past experiences (with physical manga) I have appeared to have short attention for manga, but maybe presenting it in this digital format is just what I need to get into it.

If it can get me my shonen jump fix and support the creators as well, I'd sub. I think a lot of people feel the same as I do on this.

So can someone tell me if this is going to work like CR where free members can view an series or new chapter for free with ad-support after a given amount of time? Or will it be premium based only?

Also will they have a snail mail option for those of us who don't have paypal or credit card like the payment system here? Cause it would be a shame if I can't support JManga's efforts because I don't have paypal or credit card.

If I can get it in Canada then they can have my money. I'll be getting year subs just like I do with CR.

I'm kinda off and on with reading manga, sometimes I love it, other times I don't. The only manga that I typically read is One Piece and that's only when I get impatient with the anime and want to know what happens next. So depending on the membership cost and the fact that One Piece is in the picture here, I might sign up.

I would pay a monthly subscription if they launched it for Europe, and also had an iPhone app, so I can legally read manga during travel.

You know, they never do say if the manga will be translated, or just in japanese. I assume it will be translated, otherwise what's the point? But I haven't ever heard anyone specifically say if it will be.

just one more month huh, I wish I could've gotten chosen for the closed beta.

I always buy the physical copy of the manga I read online when it becomes available in my country (USA) no more than a month or two after its release. Either that, or I will buy the Japanese copy even earlier. (There is a Japanese bookstore which stocks many Japanese and English manga books.) I also already have access to many series I read in the North American Shonen Jump magazine, which I have been subscribing to for years. (I do not plan to stop.) I wonder if this will really be worth it for me? I do not want to buy two or three copies of the manga I read. I already support the creators by buying the official books. Why would I pay for a digital copy I can't even hold in my hand or take to the park or on a train? (I don't have an iPad or anything like that.) I'm not sure if this will really be worth my time. I admit I do read scanlations, however, like I said, I always buy the legal copy as soon as possible. So I don't think I'm hurting the creators any. If nothing else, reading scanlations makes me more eager to buy the volumes sooner. But if I am already paying for digital manga on a site like this, I don't know if I'd even bother to pay for physical manga books anymore. And I don't want that. So most likely, I will not use this site. People seem to be hinting at a high price, and since I only read three manga series at the moment, Bleach, Bakuman, and Naruto, I don't know if I will even need this. And in the case of Naruto, the official releases have caught up pretty fast in America. Besides, I can always watch the anime of Bleach and Naruto right here on Crunchyroll. For the amount of manga I read, I did some number crunching, and I figured out that if the price per month is anything over ten dollars, it would be a pretty big ripoff for me. This is taking into consideration that this wouldn't even give us a physical copy, and therefore there would be no printing involved. I certainly will not pay double for the manga I read. If I can no longer read scanlations (even though I do buy the manga whenever it becomes available) then so be it. I can wait. But I certainly will not pay double for the same content, I think that's ridiculous. I've written a lot, and I know most people will probably have just skipped over my comment. I know I probably repeated myself many times. But I did skim other comments, and because I noticed people were saying the price was too high, or whatever, I figured I'd voice my opinion. I think if I were to use this site at all, I would absolutely need it to be a pay per view type of system. And a chapter of a Weekly Shonen Jump manga could be no more than one dollar. Think about it. A typical Jump manga volume has nine chapters. (I have checked multiple books from multiple series. Trust me.) A physical copy of an English translated manga volume generally costs around ten dollars, plus tax. (It used to cost only eight, and I believe some old volumes may still sell for that lower price.) Now if you divide the price of a full volume, by its contents of nine chapters, you will get around a dollar. Now take into consideration that this is just a digital copy, and there is no printing involved, you will see why I am reluctant to pay much for it, since I know I will be buying it later on, anyway. Would you pay twenty dollars for a manga book that you can get just as easily for ten dollars? I know I wouldn't. Apologies for rambling, but I know it wouldn't be worth it for me, unless it was a very low price, like two dollars per month.