Good to see another fan. o/ Karura is my favorite with her personality and design in Yunna by far.
why would they do any of that in Giga?
Aah my bad, I don’t know why but I read Jump Festa
JK anime news is saved for Jump festa no?
Removable covers are exactly what they sound like. You see them in Jigokuraku volumes like in here
Ashihara is one of those mangakas who does this whole slow character growth+little world building tidbits very well with secondary characters. Like how with Nasu squad we see one of their meetings at home, the sniper girl crying because her parents decided to leave the city due the invasion. You get to know that this is the last time those girls can fight together as a team. You understand that there are people who can no longer stand the risks living in Mikado city carries with you. You see Nasu lying in the bed the whole time without anyone explicit talking about it but you realize that she isn't as healthy as the other girls. Or his short flashbacks which are usually like one chapter long and which explain why the secondary character is behaving the way she or he is. And other stuff for which we get only one panel, like the moderator girl collecting the whole tournament series someone making a Suwa cube joke or Kazama praising freckles for his growth, etc.
Ehh i'm confused about what exactly you're talking when saying "Toriko was put ahead of Bleach when Bleach was at its peak", this isn't true at all, the first time that Shonen Jump showed to everyone that "Toriko was part of the big 3" was in this cover: http://www.imagebam.com/image/061bf71327992510
It's actually the cover before that when Toriko was ahead of Ichigo and WSJ had a big four for a brief moment. This was before the anime which started in April 2011while this issue was in Jan.
This is why i put that one, because this one is a "big 4" moment when the issue #20/21 is the definite "Toriko is now part of big 3" moment, and after that Bleach was removed from it, i even remember reading comments joking about Ichigo facial expression being like "Yep, i'm out now".It's actually the cover before that when Toriko was ahead of Ichigo and WSJ had a big four for a brief moment. This was before the anime which started in April 2011while this issue was in Jan.
Sure but the context of what we are talking about was how WSJ put Toriko, a series that was two years old without an anime or anything, ahead of Bleach (even in the big four cover) which was a pillar of that era and how that compares the whole KnY replacing HQ thing.
Hell, if we're going by the argument of "Yozakura is a comedy, you're being unfair by comparing it to battle manga", Saiki is a just as valid a demonstration. The first 20 chapters gradually spoonfeeds characters, first establishing Saiki and his parents, then one by one introducing Nendou, Kaidou, Terahashi, Yumehara, Hairo and Toritsuka one after another. The result is that readers slowly get introduced one by one to the characters in Asou's initial plans for the series and how they relate to Saiki himself. This creates a sense of stability since it gets readers used to the set-up and leads people to be interested when Asou expands on both the cast and their dynamics.
This just makes me miss saiki. Truly one of the best comedy manga to have ever come out.
Having more recently gotten into it, I agree. Feels like the one mainstream gag manga this decade which truly made an impact.
inb4 Yabuki does another collab with Trigger, BNA looks interesting
fav: Neko Wappa, Mitsukubi Condor, Ultra Battle Satellite, Shuudan, The Last Saiyuki
I agree, but one would think he's saving the best robot designs to recurring characters/important villains/rivals rather than use them on early canon fodder
interesting, so they're using KnY cards as hook to buy the magazine instead of ending an established title there
Yaiba is now literally the second best selling manga on Japan (by volume), so shouln't be any surprise for Jump to put it in front of Haikyuu. Neverland is probably the editors knowing that would be a really short series and the sales weren't at "that" level to put in front of Haikyuu that has a much bigger name.
I was referring to the MC's robot design as well. In my opinion, it's lackluster.
My issue personally is that the designs feel too simplified. The series is a transparent attempt to emulate Kamen Rider, but the robots shown thus far are rounded simplified shapes with few additional details, when Rider uses much more elaborate designs for both monsters and the Riders themselves. They end up looking like bad Super Sentai villains more than anything else.