For people assuming he's claiming to "be the source" by not saying anything is indeed idiotic. Maybe he just doesn't care about saying anything and let people think what they want. Maybe if people actually asked him without assuming then it might be different.
In fact, there isn't proof that "Toriyama planned to end the story on the Freiza arc, but he was forced to continue the manga" (really, there isn't a real interview where Toriyama said or implied that he planned the story on Freiza arc).
Toriyama wanted to end the series in the first arc of Dragon Ball. In fact, he wanted to end the series every arc.
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Yeah, that's true.
I think this "push" talk got stronger last year, with all these Advertising Groups (and the fact that "Jump Super Push" is the official name of one of them doesn't help). A few months ago, some people here were surprised by the PVs and subway campaigns for Ziga and Jujutsu, series that had barely released their first chapters. I'm not saying that this never happened (remember the complaints about the amount of color pages for Black Clover?), but now it definitely seems less subtle and more desperate. The line between merit and strategy has become much thinner.
I don't know... Black Clover, Kimetsu no Yaiba, The Promised Neverland, Bokuben, Dr. Stone, Jujutsu Kaisen and now Act-Age are all considered to be "pushed" and all of them have very different circumstances. The Promised Neverland had very good reception and great sales from the start and Act-Age has been struggling to survive, but both are "pushed" and the comparisons between the manga I listed above can continue, because they all have very different circumstances.
Every successful series has been pushed, it's how Shuiesha promotes promising new series and helps them get success. Recently though, it does seem like "push" has caught on as a buzzword for trolls when they want to explain why a series they don't like is being promoted by Jump, but series get pushed because they're successful to some degree, not the other way around.
Okay. Let me say that you're not wrong. Your argument is sound and valid. If this debate was taken to court, you'd win because you're right in the fact that no one asked him and so he has had no need to deny it.
Ah okay. Just curious, is all.
Not necessarily. Jump can easily push something they think has potential as well. It seems to me like people like to defend series now by saying it hasn't been pushed and calling those who say otherwise "trolls". That's not how this works. WSJ's push for BC, KnY and Dr. Stone were visible as day. There's nothing wrong with accepting it. Just means they saw potential. Just like the new generation thing during SnS batch.
This. And quite frankly who cares? To deny the fact that certain series will get special treatment over others is being in denial of their status. Is there a reason why MHA, Haikyuu and Black Clover are on the front cover over the rest? Is they're a reason why newer series are being pushed to the front of the magazine moreso often then older ones? The answer is obvious hell even more obvious these days.
To me it still comes off as discrediting every new successful manga from 2015 and after that and it is disrespectful towards the mangaka.
But it isn't just BC, KnY and Dr. Stone. It's also Bokuben, The Promised Neverland, Jujutsu Kaisen and Act-Age which are "pushed". RxL was also considered to be pushed, but I guess that doesn't count any longer because it was axed?
No. It isn't. In fact, mangaka would be happy to get the push. It means potential was seen.
I didnt see anyone saying act age or jujutsu were pushed until like this week. And tbh you can't tell if something is pushed until a few weeks from now from how WSJ starts advertising these series. BC, YNB and Dr. Stone were part of that push together so in most ads and campaigns, you'd see these three together.
When I say that it comes off as discrediting the mangaka, I mean it in this way. Whenever something new is successful, some people seem to just claim it's because the manga is being pushed, implying it's not because of its own merits. This really seems to have been happening only after 2015, how cute.
Yes, usually for men but lately it's also used for women whose work is recognised by her male bosses or colleagues, IIRC.