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Agreed that it's low-risk, but that's still embarrassing. Takamagahara is one of the worst new series in years.

Blue Exorcist is some good news, though.

I can't say I understand the confusion over Hungry Joker. No disrespect to anyone who liked it, but I found its story painfully average and its art subpar. I'm excited to read Horikoshi's new series;...

Unless you're saying that with any inside knowledge, I'm not sure about that. If it was just the comical bit at the end, sure, but the specific parameters in the first couple paragraphs are too...

The basics, taken directly from their Twitter account:

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Mangastream will once again resume hosting scans of Jump titles with the following two stipulations attached:

1) Scans will be...

For anyone interested, I've written an article regarding this latest hiatus and the plot developments of the last 30 chapters. The article also features some interesting statistics regarding all the...

Wow, I'm surprised Bloody Monday is ending this soon. I'm waiting to read Last Season until more chapters are out (or at this point, I guess I'm waiting until it's all out), so I can't speak for the...

I completely agree. Obviously, the poor ToC rankings were the major problem, but the sales were surprisingly high for a series that had such a short life. In terms of plot, Ane Doki did exactly what...

If you just want Sunday issues rather than all those Shogakukan publications, the link is:

http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/magazines/back_number/_id_081000

As in the Sunday thread, I have compiled the full list of 2010 Shonen Magazine tables of contents, complete with chapter numbers. I've translated all this despite a severely limited understanding of...

The recent ToC post (thanks again, Negative Syndicate!) and revived discussion inspired me to finally get around to assembling, translating and finishing the list of Sunday ToCs for all of 2010,...

You raise a completely valid point regarding the protagonist's motive for entering the prison, but I would consider that to be material worth covering in following chapters, rather than in a one-shot...

I'm very confused by the complaints against Moon Walker. Of the four one-shots that have been translated, it has the best art and best world design. It's paced well, the action is interesting and...

I find this week's ToC pleasingly acceptable. Seeing Enigma so high is refreshing, some missteps from otherwise good series (Beelzebub, Mago) are being appropriately punished, Reborn is finally...

I agree that Jump could use more variety, but I think Sunday and Magazine face somewhat of the exact opposite problem: Too much variety. Whether or not Jump could stand to have a romantic comedy or...

Thanks very much for posting those, Vigo. Small correction, though: Those are from Shonen Jump #42, not #40.

I realize what Ohana posted, but isn't the new series called "Light Wing" and not "Lightning"?

Weird ToC, but not a bad one. Lots of movement, but it's reassuring to see both Bleach and SWOT...

I wholeheartedly recommend JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kaiten. (Well, I recommend it to anyone.) To me, the series is a brilliant counterpart to Fist of the North Star; while Hokuto is all pure, manly,...

People can appreciate history; they just sometimes need to be reminded it's there. I've hosted manga-history panels at anime conventions and a university anime club, and while people tend to come...

Judging from the responses, I think I might not have expressed myself properly. I have absolutely no issue with team sports series; I consider Slam Dunk and Cross Game to be in the handful of...

I think another team sport series is a dangerous choice. Soccer is a brilliant sport, and it can translate well to manga, but it's so team-oriented that it inherently creates accessibility problems....

To be extremely pessimistic about it:

Main character: Rouji (Muhyo to Rouji no Mahoritsu Soudan Jimusho)
Bottom left: Masaya Funebashi (Ocha Nigosu)
Above him: Utsuru Sanada (Lock On!) or...

Thanks to Heiji-sama for translating the ToC, but Inumaru Dashi wasn't translated; it should be between Kuroko no Basket and Nurarihyon no Mago.

I'm curious about the new series, but I can't say...

My understanding is that the OP / HxH hiatus-tradeoff turned out to be a baseless rumor from online communities, so even if HxH does come back soon, it shouldn't have anything to do with a supposed...

In readership. As in, it's the most-read series on that site. You may notice Kayzerd did actually say that already:



Popularity and quality are not at all interchangeable.

On the topic of...

How anyone can call the poster "hentai" is beyond me. Many of the girls in the poster are drawn in far more provocative situations in their respective series than in this poster.

I think it looks...

Jaguar has been absent, but not terribly often.

What a weird table of contents. OP below Mago is strange (though neat for Mago), Sket Dance gets a deserving push, good to see Hokenshitsu moving back up, bad to see Gintama and Psyren (especially...

... and there goes the biggest one of all.

OneManga announces that it is shutting down "early next week," citing now-familiar legal pressure as the reason behind the move.

One tiny positive...

Was there a chapter of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei in Issue 33? It's not listed in the ToC, nor is it listed as absent.

MangaToshokan.com has pulled all titles belonging to publishers in the coalition.

Their statement:

This is another major blow. MT was easily my favorite scanlation site, as they provided (in my...

Interesting first chapter. The art style was a bit odd (the heads seemed rather large), but effective enough. I particularly like the focus on the UEFA Champions League, but it could be a...

Ippo will hopefully pick up the pace soon. This break is right before both color page(s?) and chapter 500, plus the story seems to indicate...

... that we're about to move forward, with...

Somehow completely missed the two series that were joining the magazine.

SWOT was an enjoyable one-shot. I agree with the sentiment that it could be compared to Beelzebub, but it also provides an...

Lock On! has had it coming on its body of work, but it's just a tiny bit unfortunate that the cancellation comes after its first quality chapter (ch. 16). Still, I won't be missing it, and I look...

Wow, Major is ending. Always surprising to see a generational icon end, even considering the length of this one (will end on ch. 747, I believe). I seriously hope the increasing focus on in-house...

Illegally distributing material of any kind is taken far more seriously than downloading. I can't say I'm surprised by this at all, and I don't think this is part of the other recent or planned legal...

Why? That doesn't make any business sense. There's absolutely no reason not to provide their services tomorrow, then go after illegal distribution, especially considering they can make immediate...

The 2001 covers' missing series titles:

Issue 9 - Bremen
Issue 39 - Rising Impact
Issue 43 - Gran Bagan
Issue 51 - Mononoke! Nyan Taro
Issue 52 - Sowaka

I referenced Jump Intelligence...

Chapter 15 of Yotsuya comes out in this Monday's Issue #28 of Shonen Jump.

It can't possibly be difficult or expensive. Collect the files directly from respective mangaka, translate, upload to some proprietary iTunes-style software (or a browser-based / password-protected...

Apparently no lessons were learned from the Napster/RIAA debacle. Offer a legitimate means to purchase manga first, THEN go after these sites. I'd happily pay a reasonable subscription fee to read...

Perhaps Japanese Jump readers share my feelings, that Yotsuya is too similar to Neuro in this early stage? I can't get excited about reading Yotsuya because I feel I've already read something like it...

Tall, lanky, bizarre, manipulative, dominant-personality male with an obsession for mysteries controls young, comparatively weak-willed schoolgirl. The girl is coerced into setting the stage for the...

My rankings, using adjusted formulas I use for power rankings on my site. Essentially, the score is intended to measure enjoyment in relation to time span.

Average of all my individual chapter...

The last information I have is from here, which lists One Piece at 189 million volumes sold, including volume 57. Trouble is, I'm not finding a date at which the tally was cut off, and I've checked...

How is Yotsuya being heralded as an example of originality? It's Neuro Lite.

Pretty good ToC this week. Wish Bakuman was higher and Lock On! lower, but no glaring complaints.

Do you have a source for this?

Er, yeah, I meant same week, not issue. Thanks.

As of the double issue? I thought DD48 was in issue 24. Isn't DD47 in the same issue as Fairy Tail 182?

Hoping I don't have to go back and massively edit my chart.

As of right now (double issue #22-23), both have 47.