What's crazy for me though is that even though I totally agree with what you're saying, given the recent serializations, I think Yui Kamio still ends up on the upper half of the ones still going on for me. I just couldn't get into Beast Children, Tokyo Shinobi Squad, or Samurai 8. I like Yozakura and I liked Saiyuki; Double Taisei has been an absolute roller coaster but I've currently liked the last few chapters since they introduced these side characters, Yui Kamio is another roller coaster but I'm currently not loving the serious horror turn and abandonment of ecchi comedy; Mitama is neutral; and the 3 I first mentioned I dropped after 3 chapters.
Gonna give some thoughts on the May serializations because I can:
Honestly, I feel like Samurai 8 has been kinda...forgotten, I guess? Since the series dropped in TOC it has just kinda faded in terms of discussion. Either way, even though I can say it's gotten "better", it still feels...underwhelming, I guess? Like, no matter what Kishi does, it feels like it's always below the standard of the other series.
Double Taisei is a hilarious train-wreck. I have no idea what Fukuda was thinking at any point, but goddamn is it baffling to watch in action.
Beast Children was a complete disappointment IMO. I and I think a lot of other people were hoping it could be the new Jump sports hit, only for it to instead be a generic as hell spoken that copied large parts of Haikyu, along with shaky art and weak pacing. Real shame.
Tokyo Shinobi Squad is...I honestly don't know. It's not especially terrible past the VERY questionable backstory, but it's become utterly directionless. I get that the author wanted to do something along the lines of Kekkei Sensen, but that doesn't really work in Jump, and the scenarios aren't interesting in spite of trying to include social elements.
About Mitama Secureity, is pretty clear that it's a manga aimed more for kids, the humor and how everything was "predictable" make it very obvious, so i will not act like the manga is supposed to cater for me, but said that it was quite a "meh" start, not terrible, some moments were cool but overall it wasn't really funny, it can get better with the next chapters when the mangaka starts to get crazier.
That's a good point but...why? Why would you try getting a manga clearly aimed at a younger audience off the ground when survey data shows that there's likely not a strong enough readership there for it to compete? After I'm From Japan had to move to Saikyo (where it's in a far more appropriate position), you'd think Jump would've learnt their lesson.
Like it or not, it is impossible to deny that we are dependent on the goodwill of the Japanese.
After all, jump manga popularity polls are made by letters, not open to the internet, otherwise there would be many series that would not be canceled.
Speaking of the new series (Mitama and yozakura), I liked both, I think this lot is much better than the previous one, only losing to chainsaw man.
Uh...there
is a digital version of the poll. It's with the digital version of Jump. You know, the one a large amount of the youth readers read from.
