Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha

Want to zoom in on this manga?

To zoom in, right-click on the manga volume to raise the Flash control menu. Then click Zoom In. Once zoomed in, you can click Zoom Out as needed, or click Show All to return the volume to its original display size.

You can also read this manga in full-screen mode! Click the Full Screen button (in the reader controls at the top of the volume), and the manga volume will expand to consume your entire display. To exit full-screen mode, simply click the Full Screen button again, or hit your Escape key. The manga volume will resize back to its original position in this web page.

Are you trying to read this comic in the wrong direction?

...Gotcha! In keeping with the original Japanese format, manga are meant to be read from right to left, starting in the upper-right corner.

Unlike English, which is read from left to right, Japanese is read from right to left, meaning that action, sound effects, and word-balloon order are completely reversed... something which can make readers unfamiliar with Japanese feel pretty backwards themselves. For this reason, manga or Japanese comics published in the U.S. in English have sometimes been published "flopped" - that is, printed in exact reverse order, as though seen from the other side of a mirror.

By flopping pages, U.S. publishers can avoid confusing readers, but the compromise is not without its downside. For one thing, a character in a flopped manga series who once wore in the original Japanese version a T-shirt emblazoned with "MAY" (as in "the merry month of") now wears one which reads "YAM"! Additionally, many manga creators in Japan are themselves unhappy with this process, as some feel the mirror-imaging of their art skews their original intentions.

We are proud to bring you manga presented in the original unflopped format. For now, though, click to the left and let the adventure begin...!