This is probably gonna be the last post of the year for me guys and girls, so give it a read, it's gonna be a fun one if you are into weird Shonen Jump trivia, I can promise you that, and it ends with a fun conspiracy theory of mine.
I checked wikipedia and it says that Shueisha was founded by Shogakukan but it was separated the year after that, so that means now Shueish is its own thing, doesn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shueisha
Anyway
@DreamcastDazia let me explain,
@Nemesis your explanation is mostly but I just wanted to point out a minor mistake, regarding titles/licenses like Saint Seiya and Hokuto No Ken.
Saint Seiya:
Saint Seiya as a property wasn't owned by Akita Shoten, it's just that Kurumada decided to publish all its spin-offs in Akita Shoten magazines, e.g. Saint Seiya Episode G and Saint Seiya Saintia Sho ran in Champion Red, Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas, Saint Seiya Next Dimension ran/run in Weekly Shonen Champion, all magazines from Akita Shoten BUT at the same time Kurumada was also publishing Ring Ni Kakero 2 in Shueisha, and Kurumada's original Saint Seiya was republished at least 2 times by Shueisha, once in a kanzenban format and the other in a format I can't remember but it's a format that's basically meant for conbini, I think it's SJR Shonen Jump Remix...
That was prior to January 2019, on January 17th 2019 Akita Shoten got the publishing rights to the original Saint Seiya manga, it only made sense..Every other Saint Seiya manga BUT the original had been publishing under the Akita Shoten imprint for like 17 years.
Hokuto No Ken:
The mangaka that created Hokuto No Ken, along with other Jump authors and former editor of WSJ Nobuhiko Horie founded a new manga editing company Coamix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Comic_Bunch
So most Hokuto No Ken spin-offs and (City Hunter spin-offs) have ran in the publications of this publisher, other than that Hokuto No Ken was republished by Shogakukan and then by Tokuma Shoten..
I don't think anything by the mangaka of Hokuto No Ken or City Hunter was published by Shueisha other than Hana no Keiji, they seem to have cut ties with Sueisha after 2000 (Or a little before that) when they became "renegade" and basically created a competition to Shueisha.
So.. It's kinda weird that former renegades are "allowed" to be included in most Jump celebrations, e.g. be included in games and exhibitions about Weekly Jump, case in point both Kenshiro and Ryo Saeba appearing in Jump Force and the Jump 50th Exhibition.
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There were 2 important omissions in the Jump 50th anniversary event, one was obviously Shaman King which was mentioned, and the other was anything made by Go Nagai.
I have 2 Weekly Jump artbooks and Nagai's artwork can be seen in the 25th and 30th anniversary artbooks iirc (I don't have the 35th anniversary artbook, so IDK about that).. So maybe Shueisha had a falling with Nagai, or they just deemed Nagai's Harenchi Gakuen too unimportant for it to be even included in the main artwork for the old titles of Jump? I highly doubt it.. I could understand not including Mazinger since Mazinger wasn't only published in Jump but in various magazines of the time, but excluding Harenchi Gakuen? It was one of the important titles that debuted in the very first issue of Weekly Shonen Jump.
EDIT: After having written this whole paragraph I just checked on google and Nagai's art
was indeed part of the exhibiton lol
WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP 50th Anniversary Official Pamphlet Brochure Exhibition Vol.1 - $33.99. Description [Information] - Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Exhibition held in Tokyo Official Pamphlet / Brochure! - This is Volume 1. - You can find it only at the exhibition place. Quite a rare item...
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You can clearly see Hige Godzilla, so yeah they included Nagai's avatar instead of actually including Mazinger or another character from its manga..
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Anyway, onto the Shaman King thing.. I have the impression that Takei is I dunno, maybe hard to deal with?
He said on twitter that he had turned down an anime offer... Because they wouldn't use the same Seiyuus..
Still hopes for another opportunity // Shaman King manga creator Hiroyuki Takei commented on Twitter on Tuesday that he turned down plans to make a new Shaman...
www.animenewsnetwork.com
The same author that gave us the Princess Hao ending.
www.comipress.com
He also was probably not too happy about how Shueisha had basically cancelled his new SK manga, he wasn't too happy about Shueisha, so I can only imagine that when he was offered the chance to get Shaman King republished by another publisher (Kodansha) he jumped the train.
There's probably some bad blood between Shueisha and Takei, similar to how the mangaka of Zatch Bell said he wouldn't work with Shogakukan again.
Artist says that publisher lost original color artwork for manga
www.animenewsnetwork.com
In fact pretty much the same thing that happened to Zatch Bell happened to Shaman King, international releases were halted, e.g. the Argentinian release of Shaman King which was a pseudo-kanzenban, a tankobon with color pages, was stopped and IIRC hasn't continued ever since like 2017 when ShamanKing changed publishers, same thing with Zatch Bell, it stopped being released, and even now when Zatch Bell was republished by Kodansha its publication hasn't been continued in US for example.
All in all, I still think that Takei will always have the last word on what Shaman King can appear on and what it can't, so if SK didn't appear in any of Shueisha's promotional materials for Jump's 50th anniversary or Jump Force that's because Takei didn't want it on it, not because Kodansha denied that (I don't think they can actually do that).
Just remember this is a man who turned down an anime offer just because they couldn't use the same seiyuus and music of the old SK anime... Which is something very understandable if we are being honest, for example if it wasn't being made by the same company... How could they use the music another company had made?
I also have this theory that this censored artwork on this shikishi board is Takei's Yoh or something
Creators of One Piece, Naruto, and My Hero Academia got together at friend’s place to get tipsy, created piece of manga history while they were at it.
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Why else would you censor which character is in the left corner?
Only if its a mangaka who has some bad blood with yourpublisher, don't you think?
And infamously Takei was part of the Watsuki-Gumi (a group of assistants to Rurouni Kenshin's Nobuhiro Watsuki: Eiichiro Oda, Hiroyuki Takei, Shin'ya Suzuki, Gin Shinga, & Mikio Itou), you can clearly see all of their art present there, just not Gin Shinga because she passed away a long time ago.
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https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_233) check the trivia on the lowest part of the page for reference.
The other possibility is that this is Miki Itou's (Other assistant to Watsuki) artwork that was censored, which is just highly unlikely..
My other suspect is Kiyu AKA Yuki AKA Matsui Katsunori AKA the God of Cancelled manga
Kiyu has ties to both Watsuki and Takei AND seems like the kind of person that has bad blood with Sueisha too.. But meh, I doubt is his art that's blurred.
It has to be Takei's art, right? It just has to? Like it would be weird to invite everyone in the Watsuki-gang
but Takei..
Funny though that you can be associated with two confirmed pedos but you have to blur out the picture of a dude who had an argument with your higher-ups. Japan, right?