Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump (2024) - News and Discussion!

[monstera11]

Yeesh, that Astro ranking. What were the stats again for a series hitting dead last in its first year and managing a full serialisation, 3%?
Otherwise very pleased with the Shinobigoto placement — holding out hope it sticks the landing and continues keeping its head above water.
And happy for fans of Ichi. The comedy has been landing a lot more for me lately, so I'm fine if it becomes a mainstay.

Kagurabachi managed to survive after hitting dead last, no? The big difference is that Kagura vol 1 was actually a BIG seller.... unlike...

 

[Nuesmoker]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #50 2024
Akane-banashi (Cover and Lead Color Pages)
Ichi the Witch
ONE PIECE
Blue Box
Me & Roboco
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
Undead Unluck
SAKAMOTO DAYS
Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (Color Page)
Shinobi Undercover (First Ranking)
WITCH WATCH
The Elusive Samurai
Hima-ten!
Kagurabachi
HAKUTAKU (First Ranking)
HUNTER×HUNTER
Kill Blue (Color Page)
Mission: Yozakura Family
Nue's Exorcist
Astro Royale
Youkai Buster Murakami (End of Serialization)

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #51 (Preview)
Cover & LCP: Sid Craft no Saishuu Suiri (New Series by Taishi Tsutsui)
Color Pages: Astro Royale; Himaten!; Ichi the Witch

Ok gonna call it now, next issue will announce a Nue color page for the volume release (it's been low for too long man cmon)

Astro has a color page so it should be fine, but Kill Blue's color being THAT low is ao weird to me (especially with Kiyoshi that high. No offense to the fans but you can't make me believe it's doing that well in surveys right now)

Kagurabachi in bottom 5 was unexpected, but I guess they put it there to not bump down too many other series? I don't know anymore.

Shinobi in top 7 for first ranking meana it's still anyone's guess if it will stay or not.

Ichi seems to be a big success for now.

And Hakutaku is plummeting to the bottom soon as expected.

Overall, super weird ToC that makes me wonder about the editorial changes since Saito came in even further.

 

[iker_03]

I just realized how long it's been since Undead Unluck got a color page. Wasn't it the 15th issue? Since we last got UU CP

19 Issues without a color page

 

[Zest00]

19 Issues without a color page

Damn

 

[Qukiqq]

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #50 2024
Akane-banashi (Cover and Lead Color Pages)
Ichi the Witch
ONE PIECE
Blue Box
Me & Roboco
Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Color Page)
Undead Unluck
SAKAMOTO DAYS
Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (Color Page)
Shinobi Undercover (First Ranking)
WITCH WATCH
The Elusive Samurai
Hima-ten!
Kagurabachi
HAKUTAKU (First Ranking)
HUNTER×HUNTER
Kill Blue (Color Page)
Mission: Yozakura Family
Nue's Exorcist
Astro Royale
Youkai Buster Murakami (End of Serialization)

Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #51 (Preview)
Cover & LCP: Sid Craft no Saishuu Suiri (New Series by Taishi Tsutsui)
Color Pages: Astro Royale; Hima-ten! (Good Reception); Ichi the Witch (Great Popularity)

The toc is just random for the sake of being random.

Nonetheless the order that series are in danger is pretty clear to me.

1.Hakutaku
2.Kiyoshi
3.Himaten
4.Kill Blue
5.Chojo
6.Shinobi (could change)
7.Astro Royale
8.Undead Unluck
9.Nue Exorcist
10.Ichi the witch

 

[SunPillar]

At this point with the gap between the color pages for Undead Unluck, I would get Agravity Boys vibes and feel like the manga is really wrapping up. Not that it would be the last one per say, I could definitely see them giving one for the penultimate or final chapter.

 

[WyldViolet]

Was Ishiyama an assistant to Togashi at some point? I'm currently reading Dragon and Cameleon, and there's a character who looks almost exactly like Franklin from Hunter x Hunter. There's also other Togashisms in his art as well that seem apparent.

It's also a shame Ishiyama left Shueshia. I was honestly not at all a fan of his two Jump series, thought they were just super bland and derivative, lacking soul. Tbh weirdly enough, he's exactly how I pictured the real Miyama, who's the antagonist of DaC. (he basically switches bodies with the MC (who seems like he's inspired by Oda) and carries on his manga, while the Oda stand-in MC has to start his career over in Miyama's body.). However, something has definitely changed with Dragon and Cameleon. It's honestly fucking great. Highly recommend if you're a fan of Bakuman. This would've been perfect in Jump.

Also, I love the idea of Jump doing a rookie camp like in the DaC arc. Where they have a bunch of unserialized Jump rookies who've had oneshots in the mag, all living in a house doing different challenges each week, all livestreamed like a reality show. Like completing a manuscript in a certain amount of hours, drawing a new character with a strong silhouette, creating a first chapter of a series based off one of your oneshots, etc. Where the winner of the camp gets a serialization of their one-shot that got them into the competition.

Would be super cool.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Three of Shinuki's fav bottom 3

I would get worried if these series being placed there had any meaning at this point but Astro got a color page literally 2 chapters ago and is getting a new one next week

 

[Nuesmoker]

Youkai Buster Murakami (End of Serialization)

To change topics a little, I'm gonna say a few things about Murakami despite not having read even 1 chapter (so I won't be saying anything about the actual contents)

The treatment this series got was so weird and I really hope they don't do it again. Let us all be honest: it would have been dead last every week without the fixed placement.

I have never seen such a hateful reception online for a series' debut, so much so that even without proper placements everyone and their mother knew that it was gonna die sooner than everything else.

My biggest question is... What was the plan for it?? For it to become an end of magazine mainstay? Why would they get the author to such a huge flop like Shugomaru for it? And besides, they had MULTIPLE gag series that would have done far better in the same spot.

Top it all off with the actually really cool volume 1 cover that is straight up false advertising when it comes to the tone of the series and it just confuses me to no end.

Nobody here is even talking about it ending. Man.

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I would get worried if these series being placed there had any meaning at this point but Astro got a color page literally 2 chapters ago and is getting a new one next week

That's what I'm saying. At this point Toc is becoming too unreliable to guess anything (not that it was perfectly accurate before either but still)

 

[Zest00]

Guess we need Tadahiro and Yabuki return so the magazine can be Weekly Harem JUMP.

 

[monstera11]

Guess we need Tadahiro and Yabuki return so the magazine can be Weekly Harem JUMP.

......I need my yaoi harem manga that is not Kagurabachi

 

[WyldViolet]

Guess we need Tadahiro and Yabuki return so the magazine can be Weekly Harem JUMP.

Tbh, I'd love to see Tadahiro Miura's next manga be a battle manga/harem. While, there were only a couple, when Yuragi had action arcs they were hype af.

 

[Nuesmoker]

Guess we need Tadahiro and Yabuki return so the magazine can be Weekly Harem JUMP.

OH YEAH THE NEW SERIES TOO

I'm wondering if Sid will have a more linear storyline unlike Bokuben or just be a romcom with a detective theme going for it.

 

[Kurama58]

Based on TOC and the sales (the absolute average for a debut) I think Himaten will live long enough

 

[monstera11]

Ok gonna call it now, next issue will announce a Nue color page for the volume release (it's been low for too long man cmon)

Astro has a color page so it should be fine, but Kill Blue's color being THAT low is ao weird to me (especially with Kiyoshi that high. No offense to the fans but you can't make me believe it's doing that well in surveys right now)

Kagurabachi in bottom 5 was unexpected, but I guess they put it there to not bump down too many other series? I don't know anymore.

Shinobi in top 7 for first ranking meana it's still anyone's guess if it will stay or not.

Ichi seems to be a big success for now.

And Hakutaku is plummeting to the bottom soon as expected.

Overall, super weird ToC that makes me wonder about the editorial changes since Saito came in even further.

Kagura not bottom 5. It was bottom 6. Murakami not counted because it is dead last by default

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I would get worried if these series being placed there had any meaning at this point but Astro got a color page literally 2 chapters ago and is getting a new one next week

I know none of them in danger. I just find this coincidence very hilarious.

People can laugh at me next time when Akane, Kagurabachi and Roboco all hit bottom 3 at the same time

 

[Nuesmoker]

Kagura not bottom 5. It was bottom 6.

I'm not counting HxH either tbh

 

[Kurama58]

I’m not worried about Nue or Astro because there is KB being the most underperforming series of the magazine, but above that, Kiyoshi, Psychic policeman Chojo, and newly Hakutaku who are actually not doing well
UU and Yoza are ending too

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Sid Craft no Saishuu Suiri is described as a "Western-style suspense romantic comedy"

Hakutaku and Kill blue will be bottom feeders for the next toc's for sure (kill blue already is anyway..) . Yozakura can go anywhere and won't effect the series. Nue will still perform well regardless. Astro is a weird case but as long newer series doing worse, it won't get axed. Kagurabachi moves like a fish and does whatever it wants (just like the manga), having it on the bottom might only gives more eyes for the other lessen liked series

That's not how it works lol the series just got placed lower this time for whatever reasons, that's it. Also i doubt anyone will suddenly discover a series in the magazine because Kagurabachi got placed near the bottom kkk.

Yeesh, that Astro ranking. What were the stats again for a series hitting dead last in its first year and managing a full serialisation, 3%?

That stats really has no meaning anymore, is mostly based in the time when new series hitting bottom 3 early was basically a direct death sentence.

 

[tirakai]

This ToC is somewhat meaningless since the three series with colour pages are the three that are usually on the bottom. It's nice to see Ichi continuing to dominate though, as well as Himaten and Shinobi Undercover also continuing to hold up.

I wonder if Undead Unluck author just doesn't want to do colour pages at this point, we know the extra effort isn't really worth the pay increase depending on the author's colouring speed. It's been top 5 I think the past 3 issues so it's still clearly popular enough with the magazine readers to justify one (at least for a volume release).

 

[Nuesmoker]

I wonder if Undead Unluck author just doesn't want to do colour pages at this point, we know the extra effort isn't really worth the pay increase depending on the author's colouring speed. It's been top 5 I think the past 3 issues so it's still clearly popular enough with the magazine readers to justify one (at least for a volume release).

I'm gonna believe this to be the case. Since we are heading towards the end color pages are that extra effort needed that could make things unnecessarily harder for Tozuka.

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"Western-style suspense romantic comedy"

Yep as I thought, a romcom. Author sticking to his guns.

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To change topics again, both Nue and Kill Blue are just a few batches away from reaching 100 chapters! Hoping they can get to that milestone safely (for Kill Blue too although I don't read it)