Then, I remembered that Shonen Jump had launched a digital subscription almost three years ago.

Digital versions of each volume go for $7 in apps like Amazon-owned Comixology. A good price to check out the first volume of chapters, but pretty expensive to be completionist.

The Chainsaw Man manga is currently at seven volumes, fetching $10 a pop from my favorite non-monopolist book chain. The first thing to consider when jumping into manga is, of course, the printed manga volumes. Dedicated anime streamers like Crunchyroll, Funimation, or HiDive have never once charged my credit card. I’ll watch a series if it’s available on Netflix, Hulu, or HBO Max, but if I have to break out of my service bubble to find the hot new show, I usually pass. I’m what anime diehards (self-identified “otaku”) lovingly call a “filthy casual”. I hadn’t read manga in years but had always kept a toe in the anime world that manga spawned. A few months ago, the hype for the upcoming Chainsaw Man anime from studio Mappa finally got to me.Įager to know why every anime-influencer I follow was foaming at the mouth for this series, I started searching for the most economical ways to acquire its manga before the adaptation started airing.

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