This week marked the first of This is Dan Da’s place anime adaptation, something that people have been looking forward to for a long time. The good news: not only did the audience notice it, Shonen Jump builds on the momentum of the anime by making the opening act of the manga open to everyone, membership or not.
From now until…whenever Shonen Jump says so, the first five chapters of Yokinobu Tatsu’s supernatural romcom are free for everyone to read for a “limited time.” It’s something we saw last year One piece: to accompany the live-action Netflix adaptation, the first 12 volumes of the ongoing series – aka, the entire East Blue Saga – have been made free in almost two languages. Dan Da Dan can only offer so many chapters (this Sunday, it will have reached 169 chapters), but it will give you a good idea of what to expect from the series.
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Dandadan, Chs. 1–5 are now free for a limited time in Shonen Jump! Download the app and experience an experience that is completely out of this world! pic.twitter.com/f9dnPmxJng
– Shonen Jump (@shonenjump) October 4, 2024
If you are trying to determine how much land in the first season of Dan Da Dan The anime will cover, its first three episodes fully adapted to chapters 1-4 of the manga proper, while the fourth episode seems ready to handle most (if not all) of the fifth chapter in November. Shonen Jump clearly hopes that this sample will entice you enough to sign up for their membership and keep busy, or at the very least, pick up the collected volumes as you work your way through the series. And if you don’t want to do any of that, it’s always watching the anime itself and reading about the series ‘ which inevitably changes week by week with everyone.
So if you want to see what This is Dan Da’s place all about, give the first five chapters a picture directly on the Shonen Jump website. While you’re here, tell us what you thought of the manga’s first episode in the comments below.
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