Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump (2025) - News and Discussion!

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[Bulju]

All this talk made me curious as to why Panini hadn't announced KGB in Argentina yet, turns out I was so focused on Panini that I completely missed it being announced by Ivrea last month. I think the fact that another publisher managed to snatch it so quickly to where Panini couldn't get to it first, despite securing it everywhere else, really goes to show how popular it is here in latin america.

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

A thing that is surprising me a little is the mild reactions Kagurabachi license is having in Spain at most, but maybe that's just me.

Dunno, between how the main spanish sites indifference (or even some "whatever, I don't like it") behavior regarding Kagurabachi, and the reactions in the chats of the streams and the main Twitter accounts I have the feeling that unlike the rest of the world, the manga isn't being so liked in Spain because almost everybody there just blindly believed the meme stuff and got blinded by both the very noisy fanbase and the very noisy haters the manga has too. Which is a shame tbh, I think a lot of them would actually love the manga if they gave it a chance to discover it.

Again, that's maybe just my perception and I can be wrong. If I recall, the same happened with Jujutsu Kaisen back then.

 

[Tymano]

I quite liked BBBB, but I think the Dandadan OP is w/e aside from the art direction. Tbf, it's probably just bias on my part since I quite like Mashle and detest almost every bit of Dandadan, aside from the art and animation.



See, how you probably feel about EluSam is how I feel about Dandadan. I think Dandadan is awful source material made watchable by a great production. EluSam has been one of my favorites for a while, with the adaptation taking it to new heights for me. It's all taste, EluSam has a more narrow appeal is all.

Dandadan to me feels like a manga that has some fantastic and unique double spread pages but the plot is pretty barebones outside of trying to tie the really cool splash pages together, which makes it way easier to get into since you can post a really cool looking page on twitter removed from context and have people with no knowledge of the source material think it looks really cool. I think it's anime is pretty good at enhancing that but I think EluSam's adaptation does a better job at actually adapting a proper story and actually makes the more meh moments of the manga stand out way more as opposed to dandadan making the cool moments cooler and not doing quite as much with the stuff in-between.

OP wise I think Plan A is way better but I have a dish bias from when they did music for Gintama.

 

[Kiaida]

A thing that is surprising me a little is the mild reactions Kagurabachi license is having in Spain at most, but maybe that's just me.

Dunno, between how the main spanish sites indifference (or even some "whatever, I don't like it") behavior regarding Kagurabachi, and the reactions in the chats of the streams and the main Twitter accounts I have the feeling that unlike the rest of the world, the manga isn't being so liked in Spain because almost everybody there just blindly believed the meme stuff and got blinded by both the very noisy fanbase and the very noisy haters the manga has too. Which is a shame tbh, I think a lot of them would actually love the manga if they gave it a chance to discover it.

Again, that's maybe just my perception and I can be wrong. If I recall, the same happened with Jujutsu Kaisen back then.

Kagurabachi has incredibly annoying discourse around it, but I don't think you have to worry about its popularity anywhere among the not terminally online crowd. Most people don't follow tocs and sales to even be aware of it.

 

[WyldViolet]

What I love the most about Dandadan is its characters and their dynamics. The cast is just kind of perfect imo. I love how each new character is introduced as just a trash human, only to show the nuance to why they are the way they are and have us fall in love with them. I love how they often feel like real teenagers, expressing real raw adolescent emotions and reactions. I love how they interact with each other.

I love the plot stuff too, but I think you guys are being a bit too hard on Dandadan given how well written and fleshed out its main cast is.

--- Double Post Merged, Dec 7, 2024, Original Post Date: Dec 7, 2024 ---

And yeah, Kagurabachi's fanbase can be annoying, but the same can be said about literally every major Jump battle manga that blows up. Kagurabachi's fanbase is a farcry from the worst imo. Just enjoy the source material if you do, and ignore other peoples bullshit.

 

[Hawke]

What I love the most about Dandadan is its characters and their dynamics. The cast is just kind of perfect imo. I love how each new character is introduced as just a trash human, only to show the nuance to why they are the way they are and have us fall in love with them. I love how they often feel like real teenagers, expressing real raw adolescent emotions and reactions. I love how they interact with each other.

I love the plot stuff too, but I think you guys are being a bit too hard on Dandadan given how well written and fleshed out its main cast is.

--- Double Post Merged, Dec 7, 2024, Original Post Date: Dec 7, 2024 ---

And yeah, Kagurabachi's fanbase can be annoying, but the same can be said about literally every major Jump battle manga that blows up. Kagurabachi's fanbase is a farcry from the worst imo. Just enjoy the source material if you do, and ignore other peoples bullshit.

yeah i'm very confused about the dandandan takes in this thread given how much love csm seems to receive, like ddd is a much more palatable version of what makes csm good


and we're lucky on the kagurabachi base being fairly chill compared to other shonen for now, getting constant Ws is definitely inflating community ego but i think having a figure like kagurabachi_brasil is actually so good for keeping people in line. alas, the inevitable anime will make this look terrible when all the mainstreamonly anime people come along — the price you pay for being a big jump flagship battle shonen title

(i seriously do wonder how bad people will be about sakamoto next month)

 

[Reyes]

Not manga related but fuck this is sad.

 

[icrawfish]

Not manga related but fuck this is sad.

I remember hearing about this earlier; very unfortunate, but for a main crew character like him it's good that this was a case of stepping down to retire rather than the VA dying and them needing to scramble to find a replacement. With how many One Piece VA's have died over the course of the show's run I think they've managed to get away with all of them being less recurring characters to the point that by the time the new voice actor premiered people were more easily able to get used to the new voice since they didn't hear the old one as much or for a while.

I imagine they chose now to do it since the anime's on it's first ever actual "break" of sorts, so a lot of viewers will be going 6 months without watching, and when they come back to Egghead in the anime Franky won't have recently been on their ear so it won't be as jarring.

Still, none of this changes the fact that he will be dearly missed and I'll be hard-pressed to imagine Franky's voice ever feeling the same again. I only hope that Oda finishes the story in a timeline such as allows Mayumi Tanaka to maintain her role as Luffy until the end, since his voice changing would be a massive shift for everyone.

 

[Teennitro]

Not manga related but fuck this is sad.

I remember I saw a recent picture of him and instantly knew this news was going to happen eventually. He will be missed

 

[Dogmagril]

Not manga related but fuck this is sad.

They're announcing an replacement at jump festa.


From the message it sounds like he feels like he just can't do frankie anymore. It's honestly depressing,it kinda reminds me of Daisuke Gōri in a way

 

[Zest00]

Not manga related but fuck this is sad.

Sad

 

[Mammo]

is it too late to adjust the new year predictions?

I completely forgot about the existence of Hitoner oneshot (that popular furry manga from Red Sprite/Iron Knight author) and only remembered it now

no way Jump won't serialize him in either WSJ or J+

 

[KrenKren]

-Anime by Cygames "announced"

Still can't believe that actually happened. The wait now for an actual announcement is going to be unbearable.

OP wise I think Plan A is way better but I have a dish bias from when they did music for Gintama.

I actually checked out a few of the Gintama OPs for the first time earlier yesterday and they're so good...
It's a series I've always wanted to start, but I hear it's super long and I wouldn't wanna give up halfway through.

 

[WyldViolet]

is it too late to adjust the new year predictions?

I completely forgot about the existence of Hitoner oneshot (that popular furry manga from Red Sprite/Iron Knight author) and only remembered it now

no way Jump won't serialize him in either WSJ or J+

Idk, Jump+ maybe. but I doubt WSJ proper given both of his serializations were bombs and got horrid reception. Red Sprite imo might be one of the worst Jump battle manga ever serialized. Just an amateur clusterfuck.

 

[Crimson Trickster]

1. Nue's Exorcist 77
2. Syd Craft: Love is a Mystery 3
3. Undead Unluck 233

 

[pennycryman]

1. Sakamoto Days
2. Kagurabachi
3. Akane-banashi

 

[iker_03]

Shoseki Ranking Top 500 (December 7)
1. My Hero Academia #42
3. Blue Box #18
4. Kagurabachi #5
11. The Elusive Samurai #18
16. Mission: Yozakura Family #27
28. Nue's Exorcist #7
36. Astro Royale #3

 

[animeexpert]

I quite liked BBBB, but I think the Dandadan OP is w/e aside from the art direction. Tbf, it's probably just bias on my part since I quite like Mashle and detest almost every bit of Dandadan, aside from the art and animation.



See, how you probably feel about EluSam is how I feel about Dandadan. I think Dandadan is awful source material made watchable by a great production. EluSam has been one of my favorites for a while, with the adaptation taking it to new heights for me. It's all taste, EluSam has a more narrow appeal is all.

Now I wanna know why u hate DDD

--- Double Post Merged, Dec 8, 2024, Original Post Date: Dec 8, 2024 ---

A thing that is surprising me a little is the mild reactions Kagurabachi license is having in Spain at most, but maybe that's just me.

Dunno, between how the main spanish sites indifference (or even some "whatever, I don't like it") behavior regarding Kagurabachi, and the reactions in the chats of the streams and the main Twitter accounts I have the feeling that unlike the rest of the world, the manga isn't being so liked in Spain because almost everybody there just blindly believed the meme stuff and got blinded by both the very noisy fanbase and the very noisy haters the manga has too. Which is a shame tbh, I think a lot of them would actually love the manga if they gave it a chance to discover it.

Again, that's maybe just my perception and I can be wrong. If I recall, the same happened with Jujutsu Kaisen back then.

Time will tell, especially when the anime arrives suddenly every espanolle kagu hater gonna act like they were fans since day 1

 

[Zest00]

1. Nue's Exorcist
2. Mission: Yozakura Family
3. Shinobi Undercover

 

[BelTL]

Are we heading to the "Everyone MUST love Kagurabachi"?