If you just want to read Jujutsu Kaisen for the plot, wait for the official Manga Plus release (it’s free and legal!). But if you want to see Gege Akutami’s raw ink splatters before they are compressed into a $10 volume, or if you want to force yourself to read 10 pages of Dragon Ball in pure katakana —go hunt down those raws.
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"I was tired of waiting three days for a scanlation," says Maria Flores, a 29-year-old graphic designer from Austin, Texas. "I was also tired of reading fan translations where the protagonist sounds like a Californian surfer. So I brute-forced my way through Yotsuba&! with a dictionary. Two years later, I was reading Jujutsu Kaisen raw."