it wouldnt lose anything special is what i mean,
That's true, it got its clichés like any other WSJ series as well. But it does some things differently, like having a female MC trying to commit suicide in ch.1 after finishing her Shoujo series with its 101 volumes. Or Andy being a selfish MC unlike most WSJ Mcs which are selfless.
To answer the first question: Very much so with Kei and Chiyoko being the center pieces of the story. Kei who is immensely talented with zero acting education and Chiyoko who got no talent but has an incredible amount of hardwork put into her acting education that she seems like a genius. Another quite prominent female character would be Akira's mother who is basically talent + hard work put into acting and who had suffered due it. The female characters all act on their own desires, beliefs and dreams/goals and not because some male guy is here and there or such crap. Actually I have yet to see one of the main female characters express a romantic interest in anyone, if anything it gets played as a gag sometimes like between Kei and Akira "We are not a couple.". XD
Well, that's not really quite fair considering that all Devilmen in CSM are "immortal" meaning they can survive gruesome and deadly wounds as long as they got blood to recover.
Lol, Denji totally wants to squeeze some boobies. I mean, it was the very reason he fought a couple battles for. XDDD
I thought that part was fine, since it's only the third chapter. You'd need a little bit of exposition in those early chapters to set-up some of the world building. But you also need to pace them out evenly and gradually. Either that, or maybe you'd prefer something like S8? That said, GoTW is, for lack of a better word, boring. From a technical standpoint, the author's fundamentals are passable, at least. Hopefully, he'll take this experience so he can better improve his next product.
You can have exposition, but you can do it in multiple ways.
Silly statement.
And that's why people keep saying the series doesn't fit in the magazine, because they can't even begin to think about a shonen series with a well-built female lead whose dream is about acting, not becoming a magic king or fight monsters.
For me, the real problem was ch.2 which was basically just a retelling of what happened in ch.1 and what the future goal is which was already clear in ch.1 and escaping the city. That's it. An entire chapter that just repeated stuff from its prior chapter and had a dragged out escape.
PE was not in WSJ. In WSJ you don't have that many suicidal MCs or start the series with one of the Main Cast saying "alright, time to end my life". As for Oamagadoke while it was in WSJ the MC was selfish in his reasoning to protect his Zoo animal friends aka fake selfishness, it was all about others. Andy really wants to die, he got no way of doing so till he meet Izumo and hell will rather freeze over before he lets anything happen to her due that reason that is all about himself. He is proper selfish, similar to Denji who also doesn't give a hoot about other people and their worries and what not and is more about living his own life to the fullest with good food, sex and freedom. Right now the latter two are a problem to get but 1/3 of the road is better than 0 or hell 0 would even be better then the situation Denji was in before he became a Devilman.
Do they?
Another thing that stood out were the eyes of the character. For some reason every time I see the lead female of Act Age in a CP, I'm really drawn into her eyes.
They're the two most un-WSJ-like series in the magazine currently, so that's a good call.
SxF is definitely on my list since I want to see what the buzz is all about.
I kinda think that was due to the author's fault for not planning out the chapter well enough. He could've combined 1&2 together, that I agree with. But for some reason, he couldn't. He's still a newbie though, so I'm kind of lenient towards him. It's the next three chapters that's going to determine how he's going to handle the series from there on.
To this day, I still wonder what SxF could've done for the weekly magazine's brand. Along with Kimetsu, WSJ could finally market a new "Big 3", to its audiences.
Kimetsu will end soon tho and a year ago, it wasn't looking like a "pillar" category manga to WSJ. Plus, SxF success was needed for Jump+
See, I’m not sure about that. Spy x Family did really well on Jump+, but I’m not sure if it would’ve achieved the same success if it was running in the magazine proper. It might, but it might not - really depends on how different the audiences are that primarily read each. I feel like if Shueisha thought it would do well in the magazine, they might’ve considered moving it there considering the weird state it’s currently in, but the manga’s kind of been the face of Jump+ for a while now.
Im pretty sure the fact of the series being biweekly plays a lot into what the series can actually offer and what could not if its schedule were weekly.