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

 

[101nemesis]

The only advantage for Seinen is that you can show frontal nudity and it'll be OK.
Kingdom, Tokyo Ghoul etc all would work just as well in a shonen magazine (not including the nude bits in Kingdom).

Similarly, if CSM was in a seinen magazine, Fujimoto could've probably shown actual frontal nudity instead of tastefully censoring it with angles and poses. And like, that CSM chapter leak which would've been a controversy in a shonen magazine (if it was true). It wouldn't have been a controversy if it was a seinen magazine.

Just things like that.

 

[Serinox]

Kingdom, Tokyo Ghoul etc all would work just as well in a shonen magazine (not including the nude bits in Kingdom).

Before CSM, I would've said the type of violence and the kind of psychological and graphic horror in Tokyo Ghoul would probably be turned by a Weekly Shonen publication (maybe in a monthly like SQ, Gessan or Bessatsu Shonen Mag), but now... maybe not anymore xD

Unrelated side note, but I miss Sui Ishida so much, it's so sad that he got hit with burnout so hard T_T;;

 

[BX-02BLODIA]

So I take it then that Mitama is next...

 

[James Rye]

So I take it then that Mitama is next...

Why Mitama and not Guardian of the Witch?

 

[BX-02BLODIA]

Why Mitama and not Guardian of the Witch?

...you never know...

 

[tirakai]

Mitama's still doing well in the ToC, remember Spring Weapon live for over a year despite sales being only slightly better than Mitama's are now and that was with a lot more long runners ongoing (including multiple gag manga). It'd be odd for Mitama to suddenly end after it climbing up to the top 5 and getting promotion on Jump+, when they're got Guardian and Agravity Boys both looking very dead.

Maybe they'll end it based on sales alone instead of Agravity but I still get the feeling they really want Mitama to grow. Plus it's not like Agravity Boys has brilliant sales itself, the difference is, what, 6k compared to 9k? That's better but still not a hit.

 

[Griff]

Does anyone have the google doc where we can see Oricon Yearly Sales Ranks ?

It looks something like that:

 

[yadayada]

Does anyone have the google doc where we can see Oricon Yearly Sales Ranks ?

It looks something like that:

Credit to ManganiMY.

 

[Halloween]

New poll is up.

 

[Stivie]

It was hard to know when Togashi came back from the hiatus at a normal time.
With the pandemic it gets more complicated, mainly because he is about 60 years old, so he is at risk.
Even with the end of the quarantine in Japan, it doesn't mean that everything is normal.

 

[Serinox]

It was hard to know when Togashi came back from the hiatus at a normal time.
With the pandemic it gets more complicated, mainly because he is about 60 years old, so he is at risk.

Togashi is 54. Of course probably still at risk, but just wanted to clarify that ^^

 

[Bodoro]

Mitama's still doing well in the ToC, remember Spring Weapon live for over a year despite sales being only slightly better than Mitama's are now and that was with a lot more long runners ongoing (including multiple gag manga). It'd be odd for Mitama to suddenly end after it climbing up to the top 5 and getting promotion on Jump+, when they're got Guardian and Agravity Boys both looking very dead.

Maybe they'll end it based on sales alone instead of Agravity but I still get the feeling they really want Mitama to grow. Plus it's not like Agravity Boys has brilliant sales itself, the difference is, what, 6k compared to 9k? That's better but still not a hit.

I thought Agravity was at 12k?

Maybe they will see the sales of Mitama this month to see if they will keep it or cancel it depending on its growth.
Maybe Jump wants Agravity at the bottom because its a gag, and it still did get some promotion on twitter due to its official account.

There is a lot of factors for both of them, and idk which one will survive.

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c5dade1700b37c6cdf294248fa654371bc17b3a1

>The young writers who support Jump, Jujutsu Kaisen, Act-age... the discovery of newcomers in the crisis-stricken editorial department was a success Oricon.
>The two-year-long series has transcended the limits of manga, but it is also the result of the editorial department's efforts to discover newcomers.
>The editorial department unanimously decided to publish the series "Jujutsu Kaisen" and recorded the unusual sales as a new writer. It also mentions that Akutami was born 1992. The editorial department also realistically think the sales will jump from 4.5mil to 10mil with the anime

 

[Azure Warrior]

There is this trend of romcoms/ecchis always having bad endings.

So it shouldn't be too big of a shock regarding the ending for Yuuna.

 

[BX-02BLODIA]

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c5dade1700b37c6cdf294248fa654371bc17b3a1

>The young writers who support Jump, Jujutsu Kaisen, Act-age... the discovery of newcomers in the crisis-stricken editorial department was a success Oricon.
>The two-year-long series has transcended the limits of manga, but it is also the result of the editorial department's efforts to discover newcomers.
>The editorial department unanimously decided to publish the series "Jujutsu Kaisen" and recorded the unusual sales as a new writer. It also mentions that Akutami was born 1992. The editorial department also realistically think the sales will jump from 4.5mil to 10mil with the anime

...same year as Fujimoto eh....that's intesresting...

 

[Tamil]

It was hard to know when Togashi came back from the hiatus at a normal time.
With the pandemic it gets more complicated, mainly because he is about 60 years old, so he is at risk.
Even with the end of the quarantine in Japan, it doesn't mean that everything is normal.

The quarantine hasn't ended in Japan? I thought only some areas have eased out of the quarantine but not all yet. I heard Tokyo is on alert again.

 

[Gilroygladbouy]

As much as I want him to I don’t believe Togashi is coming back. Even if he does it’ll probably only end up being a few chapters. But, I’ll be satisfied if we get even a single chapter at this point.

 

[savethecat]

As much as I want him to I don’t believe Togashi is coming back. Even if he does it’ll probably only end up being a few chapters. But, I’ll be satisfied if we get even a single chapter at this point.

He’ll come back at some point. He himself said that he vows to finish HxH before he dies.

Do I think he’s going to finish it? Nope. But I do think he’ll come back a few times before retiring or giving up

 

[Koni]

Hmm...

Do you think there's a chance for volume extra chapters for Yuuna Volume 24? I mean...Miura has drawn up those before with Koisome Momiji. That's what a few from the Yuuna fandom are hoping, to at least provide more closure.

 

[Stivie]

I don't know if you can put Yozakura as a battle shonen.
In 38 chapters he had no significant fights unlike Mashle who in 18 chapters had 3 significant fights.