diff --git a/src/mangaplus/manifest.json b/src/mangaplus/manifest.json
index 868a3ca..aa0aa42 100644
--- a/src/mangaplus/manifest.json
+++ b/src/mangaplus/manifest.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mangaplus",
-  "version": "1.2.1",
+  "version": "1.3.0",
   "publoader_api": "^2.0.0",
   "runtime": "node",
   "entrypoint": "index.mjs",
diff --git a/src/mangaplus/package.json b/src/mangaplus/package.json
index 6d51455..f14d2ef 100644
--- a/src/mangaplus/package.json
+++ b/src/mangaplus/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "publoader-ext-mangaplus",
-  "version": "1.2.1",
+  "version": "1.3.0",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "publoader extension for MangaPlus by Shueisha (extension API v2)",
diff --git a/src/mangaplus/src/api.d.ts b/src/mangaplus/src/api.d.ts
index c956493..c95a7b3 100644
--- a/src/mangaplus/src/api.d.ts
+++ b/src/mangaplus/src/api.d.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ export interface ChapterInput {
   mdMangaId: string | null;
   mangaName: string | null;
   mangaUrl: string | null;
+  /**
+   * Why an ordinary reader cannot open this chapter, when they cannot.
+   *
+   * Null (or omitted) means freely readable and the chapter is published
+   * normally. Anything else means the publisher still lists it but will not
+   * serve it to a logged-out reader, and the platform publishes it already
+   * carded with wording that says so.
+   */
+  unavailableReason?: "subscriber-only" | "region-locked" | "removed" | null;
+  /** The tier a `subscriber-only` chapter needs, e.g. "MANGA Plus MAX". */
+  subscriptionName?: string | null;
   images?: Uint8Array[];
 }
 
diff --git a/src/mangaplus/src/index.ts b/src/mangaplus/src/index.ts
index f4e8180..e9be47b 100644
--- a/src/mangaplus/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/mangaplus/src/index.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ const CHAPTER_URL = (chapterId: string) =>
   `https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/${chapterId}`;
 const MANGA_URL = (mangaId: string) => `https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/titles/${mangaId}`;
 
+/** What MangaPlus calls the tier that unlocks a subscriber-only chapter. */
+const SUBSCRIPTION_NAME = "MANGA Plus MAX";
+
 /** Stand-in for a missing timestamp, matching the Python DEFAULT_TIMESTAMP. */
 const DEFAULT_TIMESTAMP = 1;
 /** An update is only "new" if it went up within this window. */
@@ -189,6 +192,10 @@ function toChapterInput(chapter: RawChapter): ChapterInput {
   return {
     chapterTimestamp: isoFromEpoch(chapter.chapterTimestamp),
     chapterExpire: chapter.chapterExpire === null ? null : isoFromEpoch(chapter.chapterExpire),
+    // Null for a readable chapter; set, the platform publishes it already
+    // carded and names the subscription that unlocks it.
+    unavailableReason: chapter.unavailableReason ?? null,
+    subscriptionName: chapter.subscriptionName ?? null,
     chapterLanguage: chapter.chapterLanguage,
     chapterNumber: chapter.chapterNumber,
     chapterTitle: chapter.chapterTitle,
@@ -339,10 +346,19 @@ class MangaPlus implements ExtensionRuntime {
       });
     }
 
+    // A dead chapter is LABELLED, not dropped. MangaPlus still lists it and a
+    // MANGA Plus MAX subscriber can still open it -- what the viewer refuses is
+    // the logged-out request this extension makes. Dropping it is
+    // indistinguishable, from the platform's side, from MangaPlus deleting the
+    // chapter, so the removal pass cards it "removed" and tells a reader a
+    // chapter they could subscribe to read no longer exists.
     const dead = await this.findDeadChapters(input, allChapters, updatedChapters);
-    const isDead = (chapter: RawChapter): boolean => dead.has(chapter.chapterId);
-    const liveUpdated = updatedChapters.filter((chapter) => !isDead(chapter));
-    const liveAll = allChapters.filter((chapter) => !isDead(chapter));
+    const label = (chapter: RawChapter): RawChapter =>
+      dead.has(chapter.chapterId)
+        ? { ...chapter, unavailableReason: "subscriber-only", subscriptionName: SUBSCRIPTION_NAME }
+        : chapter;
+    const liveUpdated = updatedChapters.map(label);
+    const liveAll = allChapters.map(label);
 
     // Every fetched series failing is the API refusing us, not a catalogue that
     // emptied itself. Publishing that as a clean run's catalogue would claim
diff --git a/src/mangaplus/src/normalise.ts b/src/mangaplus/src/normalise.ts
index fcc0fe9..63b163a 100644
--- a/src/mangaplus/src/normalise.ts
+++ b/src/mangaplus/src/normalise.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ export interface RawChapter {
   mangaId: string;
   mangaName: string | null;
   mangaUrl: string;
+  /**
+   * Why a reader cannot open this chapter, when they cannot. Null for a normal
+   * chapter; `subscriber-only` for one the viewer refuses a logged-out request
+   * for but a MANGA Plus MAX subscriber can still read.
+   */
+  unavailableReason?: "subscriber-only" | null;
+  /** The tier that unlocks it, carried onto the card. */
+  subscriptionName?: string | null;
 }
 
 export interface OverrideOptions {