Shonen Jump

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My only problem is that the French edition has already caught up with the Japanese one and now I'm going to have to wait several months between volumes.

It seems that the French already has a leg-up on anime, being many volumes ahead of the English version; for example, the French version of "One Piece" was already up to 20 volumes when I visited Quebec this past March (shame the first 14 volumes were printed western style). I also sampled the "Super Gals" manga (up to 4 volumes in French as of March 2004; English version starts 2/2005), and thought it was pretty good.

I guess if you can't get the gist out of Japanese, French would probably be the best second choice.