Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump [2020] - Discussion and ToC Talk

[Shinuki no Reborn]

MANGAHELPERS "TOC" POLL ISSUE #51 - VOTING!​

The poll for issue #51 is now open, vote for your favorite chapters of the week clicking HERE!

Alongside the release of Sakamoto Days, the extra series this week are:

-Dragon Ball Super 66
-Boruto: Naruto Next Generations 52
-Ghost Reaper Girl 10

Good Votes!

 

[Halloween]

Moderator Notice:
Henceforth, I will be deleting posts that complain about Weekly Shonen Jump having too many/not enough gag/battle/exorcism/sports/etc series.

These posts are not insightful, and do not meaningfully contribute to this thread. Also, this decision is not up for discussion, so posts discussing this decision will also be deleted.~ Halloween

 

[Ryuusei]

Spoiler: 52 TOC & 01 Preview

呪 僕 O マ ブ S C D 破 C B 夜 C 僕 あ 灼 ぼ チ 高 ア 森 A 仄 ぼ 次号カラー ヒロアカ アンデラ 夜桜 約ネバ 道産子 GIGA 岸本先生が描くコラボポスター 爆豪クリアファイル

Spoiler: Issue #52 ToC & Preview

Jujutsu Kaisen (Cover & LCP)
My Hero Academia
One Piece
Mashle
Black Clover
Sakamoto Days (CP)
Dr. Stone
Magu-chan: God of Destruction (CP)
Build King
Mission: Yozakura Family
Me & Roboco
Ayakashi Triangle (CP)
Shakunetsu no Niraikanai
We Never Learn
Chainsaw Man
Koukousei Kazoku
Undead Unluck
Moriking
Agravity Boys
Honomieru Shounen
Bokura no Ketsumei

Issue #1
Cover & LCP: My Hero Academia
CP: Undead Unluck, Mission: Yozakura Family, The Promised Neverland, Dosanko Gyaru wa Namaramenkoi

GIGA Preview
Collab poster by Kishimoto
Bakugou clear file

 

[iamnightwing]

I forgot to add the 2021, I was meaning Fall 2021, after the Olympics.

I keep forgetting the Olympics were moved to Summer 2021... Yeah, I kinda agree they would prevent overlapping with the Olympics and just premiere in the Fall of 2021...

 

[KengANg]

Just a question. Did Jujutsu Kaisen already surpass MHA pre-anime sale? Can someone give a comparison?

 

[yadayada]

Just a question. Did Jujutsu Kaisen already surpass MHA pre-anime sale? Can someone give a comparison?

No, but it is kinda close. MHA would sell about 280k first month before the anime, JJK currently reaches about 210-220k.

 

[NyanPower]

Should we be concerned about this?

Pertaining to Jump, I mean.

I think so.
Japan is taking little to no measures against the virus as of yet, meaning big troubles in the future for the country. The daily cases have also been growing in Japan as of lately.
This manga going on hiatus will probably the first of many

 

[CuriousReborn]

Shoseki Daily Ranking - 4/3

Jump

#1 One Piece 96
#3 Dr. Stone 15
#4 Black Clover 24
#6 We Never Learn 16
#10 Yuuna and the Haunted Hotsprings 21
#29 Undead Unluck
#45 Agravity Boys
#47 Mission: Yozakura Family 2
#268 Zipman!!

Undead is doing much better than I expected, AB is also doing better than I thought. Zipman failing was kinda expected so nothing new here.

MHA finale was something else, gonna keep track of it sale numbers in the upcoming days to see if it gets affected by it.

 

[Halloween]

While I had my concerns about UU early on, I am happy that the series appears to be doing quite well.

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

Undead is doing much better than I expected, AB is also doing better than I thought. Zipman failing was kinda expected so nothing new here.

MHA finale was something else, gonna keep track of it sale numbers in the upcoming days to see if it gets affected by it.

When is next MHA volume coming out? May?

If May, then I see the effect being little (almost 2 months since this finale + coronavirus)

 

[Ryuusei]

When is next MHA volume coming out? May?

If May, then I see the effect being little (almost 2 months since this finale + coronavirus)

June 4th.

 

[Thundercat27]

Should we be concerned about this?

Pertaining to Jump, I mean.

Once again, analog drools, digital rules.

 

[tirakai]

So it seems Agravity Boys is decently popular and is showing good growth potential, which means it's probably not going to end in the next two weeks.

So what're we going to see finish? None of the long-runners seem ready to end in only 2-3 chapters, GIGA isn't getting a finale like with Shokugeki, Yozakura's still doing okay, they're still promoting Mitama with colour pages, and none of the other new stuff is worth cancelling yet.

Maybe they'll just have an extra series for a few weeks? Neverland could probably end in 5 chapters or so if there's no other big twist (or something could get a finale in the 2nd or 3rd GIGA issue).

 

[OtterBrigade]

Now that Haikyuu is over until Summer and MHA is over until I don't know when, what anime do we get this Spring besides Black Clover and One Piece? Is this going to be the first season since Summer 2018 without any seasonal Jump anime?

Food Wars airs this season. Unless you were only counting ongoing stuff

 

[James Rye]

Shoseki Daily Ranking - 4/3

Jump

#1 One Piece 96
#3 Dr. Stone 15
#4 Black Clover 24
#6 We Never Learn 16
#10 Yuuna and the Haunted Hotsprings 21
#29 Undead Unluck 1
#45 Agravity Boys 1
#47 Mission: Yozakura Family 2
#268 Zipman!! 1

Glad to see UU doing well, AB is doing better than I expected it to and Yozakura is stable and holding well. No need to say anything about Zipman but Ripman.
I am curious how high Mashle's first volume will get now as Jump seems to place similar if not higher hopes on it than UU.

 

[pamuchi]

Should we be concerned about this?

Pertaining to Jump, I mean.

Yeah, I read this on her Twitter (;-; she's my favorite mangaka). A wise decision tbh, it's better be safe than sorry.

Many people are taking action on its own. But who knows if jump already took measures and everyone is working from home.

 

[Serinox]

Mangaka working completely analogue should already be the exception these days anyway, so assistants staying at home can be easy for most mangaka.

Though, of course, some older mangaka might have problems, since they are most likely to be stuck on the old way of doing things. And Oda does hate digital drawing too, right? Jump might wanna force him into digital now.

 

[Krono]

Should we be concerned about this?

Pertaining to Jump, I mean.

Impossible for us to say at the moment. We don't know how many Jump mangaka have or haven't transitioned to digital work. The ones that have can likely have their assistants set up to work from home, while the mangaka themself works from home or stays at their studio. Similarly the editors won't necessarily need to meet with the mangaka in person to discuss things.

 

[savethecat]

Impossible for us to say at the moment. We don't know how many Jump mangaka have or haven't transitioned to digital work. The ones that have can likely have their assistants set up to work from home, while the mangaka themself works from home or stays at their studio. Similarly the editors won't necessarily need to meet with the mangaka in person to discuss things.

I mean, as long as they have a personal scanner, which I’m sure most do, it’s pretty simple and easy to draw you work traditionally, scan it, bring it to photoshop, add a levels or curves layers, and then emailing the work to the assistants and then they can add their work digitally on photoshop or clip.
It’s not very hard to seamlessly combine digital and traditional art, especially since they’re all working in black and white.

Even if the mangaka wants everything to be 100% traditionally done, as long as the assistants have a printer, and either Bristol or Watercolor paper, which they should if they’re making comics, the mangaka could easily scan the images, email into the, and they can print out the images on high quality Bristol and just continue working traditionally. And then just rescan everything

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Hmmm, so in America MHA has 5 Million copies in print

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

Welp, I expected more (like 10 million copies).

We can say that worldwide MHA has 33-35 million copies then?

-27 in Japan (very possible that 28 already)
-5 in USA
-I'm pretty sure there should be already 1-2 in Europe

 

[BX-02BLODIA]

Impossible for us to say at the moment. We don't know how many Jump mangaka have or haven't transitioned to digital work.

Speaking of that, does somebody have a list of the ones we do know? I know that Togashi still uses traditional. Miura and Fujimoto do digital, but what about the others? Anyone else know?

 

[lazybones1717]

Speaking of that, does somebody have a list of the ones we do know? I know that Togashi still uses traditional. Miura and Fujimoto do digital, but what about the others? Anyone else know?

Usazaki does digital work too, she occasionally talks about it in her author comments (it also looks like Matsuki does the storyboards digitally based on some of his tweets).

 

[mangalover101]

Welp, I expected more (like 10 million copies).

We can say that worldwide MHA has 33-35 million copies then?

-27 in Japan (very possible that 28 already)
-5 in USA
-I'm pretty sure there should be already 1-2 in Europe

Has VIZ or any publisher in the US released their figures for other series before? Just curious.