I also did check s-manga when I found the news and they didn't upload it, yet. S-manga often makes changes, so they might change in future.
Yeah, I see the information and edited my last post, sorry
What? You got wrong source, dude.
My source is the first page of this thread and I said I use the real rankings. If the rank of the color page doesn't count for the serie itself, I disagree with increasing the rank of the others. Your post clearly shows that it induces a bias. Having Bakuman CP 4th and Naruto 5th is different from Naruto 4th and Bakuman CP 5th. And in issue 7, Gintama rank counts, it only had the cover not the color page.
Yes, he did Kiben Gakuha Yotsuya Senpai No Kaidan.
i must say that you can still his art style and that it suprisignly suit the series, kinda unexpected...
You can't disagree what is fact
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it seems that you are blind.
What ranking are you using? I used the TOCs given at the start of this thread and counted,here's what I got about Naruto.
Have you read/looked the chapter 1?
Well I don't know how you define huge but WSJ has a female readership of 20%. That makes around 600 000 female readers of WSJ.
My personal theory is that Mago simple isn't anything special. It neither generates feelings of love nor hate. It is one battle manga under many. You know how the voting process works in WSJ? You vote for the 3 series you liked the most. I simply believe that Mago is not one of those 3 favorite series for most people and therefore doesn't get many votes. However people like it enough to buy volumes but not enough to vote for it.
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Analyzing Mago's "downfall" in the TOC is not an easy case. It had great ratings until the end of the Kyoto (or Hagoromo Gitsune) Arc, after that the series slowly fell down to the lower half of the TOC and never recovered. I'm not going to be as harsh as Josl, I do think that Mago is something different from other Jump mangas, f.ex. it's pretty dark for a WSJ series. Fact is that the end of the Kyoto Arc was dragged and that a lot of fans got bored with it. It's another fact that it rarely has the quality and the charm of the mid-Kyoto Arc nowadays but the rating often seems inadequate, which leads me to the theory that most fans just aren't as hooked/interested anymore as they were back then, very similar to the trend here on MH were the section slowly died too. The series is still good though so it was able to maintain most of it's (long-term) fans, who are willing to buy the volumes.
It depends on the case but the female readership definitely has influence on the popularity. Series like Reborn attract a lot of female fans because of all the male Bishounen, while Toriko most likely won't have such a big female base because it's portraying men in a very "manly" style. It would be unfair to reduce the female readers to a bunch who only looks after the drawings and the possibility of relationship between "hot" men but it does play a very big role.
