How to read MANGA Plus in your language
MANGA Plus is the best deal in manga: Shueisha publishes chapters of One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia and hundreds of other series for free, legally, the same day they come out in Japan.
With one catch. It publishes them in English and Spanish — and, on part of the catalogue, in a few more. If you read in Italian, French, German, Polish, Turkish or Arabic, the chapter is right there in front of you and still out of reach.
Which languages does MANGA Plus support?
Officially: English and Spanish across the catalogue, with Thai, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese on a subset. That's a generous list by publisher standards, and still a small fraction of the languages people actually read in.
So most readers do one of two things. They read in a second language they only half enjoy — you follow the plot, you miss the jokes — or they go looking for a pirated version in their own language. The second option is worse for everyone, including the authors.
Read the official chapter, in your language
There's a third option that doesn't involve leaving the official site: translate what's on the page, in place, as you read.
The dialogue in a manga page isn't text — it's drawn into the picture. That's why "translate this page" in your browser translates the menus and leaves every speech bubble in English. MangaLens reads the text out of the image itself, translates it, and lays the result back over the bubble it came from, in the right reading order.
You stay on mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp, reading the official chapter that Shueisha put there. Nothing is downloaded, nothing is copied.
Is it legal to read MANGA Plus this way?
Yes — and it's worth being precise about why, because it's the part people worry about.
MANGA Plus is Shueisha's own free service. You're on their site, reading their chapter, and they get the visit. What changes is only how the text is displayed on your own screen, the same way a browser's built-in translation or a screen reader changes what you personally see. No file is downloaded, none is redistributed, nothing is re-uploaded anywhere.
This is, genuinely, the option that treats the authors best: reading a series on the publisher's own platform is what keeps the series funded.
What to expect on MANGA Plus specifically
- Protected pages need a moment. MANGA Plus serves artwork in a way that prevents casual copying — a good thing, and it means the first page of a chapter takes a second or two longer than on a plain image site.
- It translates as you read, page by page, rather than all twenty at once. You start reading immediately instead of waiting for a chapter you may not finish.
- Sound effects are usually left alone. They're part of the drawing; covering them looks worse than leaving them.
- Credit pages are skipped. The author and translator names on the cover aren't dialogue and shouldn't be touched — a person's name is never translated.
- It's a machine, not a scanlation team. More than good enough to follow the story; a human still wins on a pun that only works in Japanese.
Three steps
- Install the extension and choose your language.
- Open any chapter on MANGA Plus as you normally would.
- Read. The bubbles are in your language, in place.
The same works on raw Japanese releases, on Korean manhwa readers and on Chinese manhua sites. And if you're using manga to learn Japanese, being able to read the official Japanese release with a translation one tap away is the whole method.