The way I interpreted the tweet is that it’s heading towards its climax, and it’s receiving extra pages to commemorate that. But it’s not ending next week
That's a tangible theory. The fact is we'll never know what really happened to this series unless one of them make a big success and let it slip in a interview. Such a shame.
I'm no fan of Phantom Seer, but are we sure this isn't the end of this arc instead of the end of the series? Cause yeah this seems rather abrupt even by jump standards. Of course I could be totally wrong but yeah. Normally axed series just jump right to "The end" rather than having this sort of build up to them? For sure it's not ending in issue 18 like the tweet says I think.
The tweet says it’s unofficial Jump account “entering its Final phase”, not that it’s ending in a week.
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Not that weird. It has a bit of a fanbase at the very least. Series like Higuma were given an extra chapter in Jump+ despite presumably being axed.
I don't see that as likely, unless there are just not enough chapters at this point to fill a volume.
I agree with all of this. I haven't followed Jump artists too much on Twitter and the like but the Sunday ones I follow are pretty open about how the serialization process works and how sometimes they'll even be the ones to request a series end even if it has the potential to be big. From burnout, to illness there are various reasons as to why a series may end prematurely that have nothing to do with poor reception. Unless the artists themselves come out and explain what happens we'll never really know. I've seen it happen a few times in Sunday at least where the artist will flat out say "I thought it was in the best interest of the series to end it here." and such. It is unfortunate (or not based on one's perspective) that editors get a lot of the blame for when a good series goes bad or ends but they're only a part of the equation. Maybe the PS team thought they hit a wall or something. I remember hearing that a series will be at the bottom of the TOC if the manuscripts are late (don't quote me on that) so it might be a sign they were struggling to deliver the product? In any case we'll never really know.
That's the thing, we've seen series get epilogues elsewhere to fill up a volume or as a reward for having some minor popularity before, but celebrating a series getting cancelled with a 'climax' announcement and bonus pages in the magazine itself is very strange. That would be a weird thing to do to a series they've forced to end. I feel like there has to be something else going on here.
We better be getting some solid hits after the horrendous last batch, the veteran mangas have been very weak, there hasn't been a big hiit since Mashle so come on this has to be it
both Sakamoto Days and Elusive Samurai are showing early signs of being hits. Nothing is confirmed until we get solid volume sales figures; but both seem to be doing well as of now.
Colleague stop.
Disagree. Magu-chan adds diversity and uniqueness to the magazine catering to fans of a genre that aren't served by other series. Its comedy mixed with lighthearted drama is a breath of fresh air that other series lack.
Why do you have to bring Maguchan on every conversation about Phantom Seer? Please...
Do people just forget High School Family exists or what??