And yet MHA got 3 covers being Horikoshi the one with the most delicate health. Also, Act-age is author + guionist, so it should be as much work as Neverland or Dr.Stone.
2019.01～2019.45 Covers (by Octavian; I eliminated the double covers spreads)
One Piece 5 (17 28, 34, 35, 44)
The Promised Neverland 4 (8 20 38 45)
Kimetsu no Yaiba 3 (18 29 43)
My Hero Academia 3 (9 33 42)
Haikyuu 3 (12 30 41)
Black Clover 2 (16 32)
Dr.Stone 2 (13 31)
We Never Learn 2 (11 19)
Yuuna-san 1 (11)
Jujutsu kaisen 1 (21)
Act-age 1 (10)
Samurai 8 1 (24)
Chainsawman 1 (1)
Kamio Yui 1 (15)
7 issues left. I'm seeing Black Clover and Dr.Stone getting another cover; Jujutsu and Act-age being as screwed by Nakano as always, and WNL is the big question for me since I was-am expecting a cover this month or next month because anime season 2.
PD: I hope Chainsawman gets the issue 52 for the lulz
1. We don't know if Horikoshi has been having declining health. We know that he's been a few times when he took breaks, but that could mean anything as light as the common cold. he's never spoken on having any serious health issues.
2. Even if Horikoshi was having health issues, just because HE chooses to do extra work despite having health issues doesn't mean that everyone else will suddenly just do extra work they don't want/have to do.
I've mentioned this before, but both Boichi and Pozuka seem to be 2 of the artist in the magazine who are able to get a shit ton of work despite making a weekly manga. Boichi use to being working on two weekly manga at the same time during Dr.Stone's run. And Posuka consistently releases new illustrations to her social media accounts on a regular basis, all while working on Neverland.
We don't know how cover pages and spreads are chosen every week, other than sometimes a series may be given a cover to celebrate and/or promote something(Tv Anime, Film, New Volume, Anniversary, Character Poll, etc.). However I can't imagine Jump or the editors would FORCE an artist to make a color spreads when they don't feel like it, or don't want to. I'm sure the editors of each series likely encourage the creator's of poplar series to make color pages, and Shueisha likely encourages them to make art for the covers. But if the creator of one of their hit series just doesn't want to do color pages like that, what is Shueisha going to do? Cancel one of their big sellers because of that?
TLDR; Anyway, what i was getting at is, my theory for why Dr.Stone and Neverland receives so many color pages and covers is that Boichi and Posuka are just able to pump color pages out with ease, and it's likely just convenient to have two artist who can do that. Everyone on here seems to look at receiving colors pages as high privilege and an honor, and completely ignore the fact that maybe having the extra task of creating color images to your already busy schedule of storyboarding, writing, drawing, and inking a new manga every week, might not be that exciting for a lot of mangaka in the magazine. I'd imagine it's extremely hype in the beginning, because if editorial request that you make a color page it is solid evidence that your manga is doing well. But once you are about a year into the series, it's likely just extra work and more stress at that point, depending on how you handle life as a mangaka.
ah shit, here we go again
