And haikyuu is ending? Did they announce that he's in the end?
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it's just that this is a double-edged sword. can be very right or very wrong.
Not sure if that's true. WSJ probably would want ALL eyes on Samurai 8. It would be counter productive to release other series and take some of that attention away. Samurai 8 is WSJ's best chance at a sure hit and they know that, as you can see with all the promotion.
Then what would be counter productive is to publish and waste time in trying 3 more other series to end up axing or cancelling them all because full focus is directed to Samurai 8. I'd understand it as a bit of both strategies, to get attention and hype thanks to Kishimoto's comeback and create a whole advertisement campaing for Samurai 8, and with all that gained readership, try other potential series with topics not-related to the main point of S8 like, in this case, sports. Even if I still think 3 more series is kind of a high number (maybe just 2 other series could have been okay), I don't think they are only focusing on the biggest series since it really doesnt need any kind of big promotion to succeed (like, lol, licensed already worldwide seems enough for me). It may end up as a complete failure if none of the other 3 series is able to get attention or they all end up being completely non-interesting, but that depends only on the quality they show.
I know, if it was the haikyuu close to finalizing I swear I would agree. But we're talking about hinomaru zumou, which is the least selling manga on the jump, so much so that the second of chainsaw man sold more than zumou.
Toriko volume 1 came out when the manga had 24 chapters. Although it did get 2 volumes out at the same time. Another thing is: normally they would rush to get first volume at 12-15 chapters, so they see what sales it gets and decide it's future. Samurai 8 is obviously immune to early cancellation, so no need to rush. Another thing may be, they know it will be taking more breaks (like OP). Will see, but feels if it was monthy, Kishi would have been doing it himself and not get an artist.
Those previews do look nice, Futari got some clean art, as does Beast Children, just wished it didnt look like fujobait
Please let that be two dudes. We need BL.
What does it say for Kimetsu and Jujutsu?
Not really, might be different for other people but I generally read sports manga for the characters and how they grow first and foremost, the sport comes second. The problem with the recent sports series we've had are that they're just boring and the characters don't feel "real", not the sports themselves. They've just been bad in general.
Good counterargument, but then the question becomes what exactly makes a sport manga feel "real" and thus interesting. Because the interest certainly isn't from speed of the plot, Haikyuu by the end of Volume 1 hadn't even put the protagonist team in a formal match.
What do you mean by "seals in other manga"?
What recent spokons have you had problems with? Personally Eyeshield was enjoyable but many of the characters weren't human enough to empathize fully with.
True. You're actually not wrong. It could be any way tbh. We don't know for sure what WSJ are thinking.