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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Mankichi Togawa]

Kino, peak, soul, supremacy

 

[ThisIsIt]

A big name author starting off selling 40k physical then dropping to 20k in under 2 years is a worse sign than a newbie consistently doing 15k with slow growth, even if it's still a better number. The big name's series is likely already known by most of their fans and has a lot less potential to grow than an unknown who just hasn't had their name spread with a more casual fanbase yet.

It's why Samurai 8's performance was so bad despite selling better than most other new series. Everyone already knew about it yet so when it sold below expectations and kept dropping further, there was no potential for it to ever regain those lost sales.

Magazine's different since they seem to place a high focus on keeping veterans around, even if their series aren't all that popular, while Jump generally seems to focus on building up new authors more and will even cancel a big name's new series at the same rate as a newbie's if it performs badly enough.

Jump is the one who still let Kill Blue alive even though series is dead long ago. They are also the one who steal big authors from different magazine instead of giving their own a chance. So miss me with "Jump building new talent unlike other magazines" bullshit.

 

[BelTL]

Astro volume 4 cover

 

[ThisIsIt]

Depending on who is people because there are people that consider even Undead Unluck a failure, maybe since 5toubun was popular in the west the fans consider Ranger Reject a "failure", but i don't really remember any considerable amount of comments online calling it a flop when it got a anime and etc.

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If anyone still didn't voted or forgot to do, do it please

5toubun is arguably most popular romcom manga of all time. It's not just random popular series. So he should've done better than 15k really. People don't call it flop simply because they like the series and don't want to say slightly negative about it.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Astro volume 4 cover

OMG THATS SO PEAK WTF

 

[mapacheko9]

That's really a great cover for Astro royale. Probably the best one. This week there was nothing that I felt was 10/10 so I had to say I loved Hima-ten, simple but enjoyable.Besides that this episode of Kill Blue tells me in general that the series is not yet in danger of axing or anything, but it is not beating the allegations. I also thought it was a great chapter of Blue Box. And of the two new series I liked them, I think I like B more and more. My top 3 this week would probably be:

1.- Hima-ten
2.- Blue Box
3.- Kill Blue

Really a romance week for me

 

[Nuesmoker]

Nue was so fucking good this week like-

Wow.

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Astro volume 4 cover

Easily the best cover in the series so far. We've come a long way since the masterpiece of shit that was volume 1.

 

[coldmess]

Man, Fujimaki really said “ok no one liked those unicorn challenges so we’re just gonna speed run through the plot and get to the good stuff” and I’m not mad at him. Also Noren’s dad is hot.

Although I’m still uncomfortable with the inevitable Juzo and Noren pairing. It’s clearly happening whether we want it to or not.

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Hima-ten has been really fun lately, I know that in the first chapters people were complaining that it looked too much like Nisekoi, but in my opinion i think hima-ten is doing a better job than nisekoi did

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Man, Fujimaki really said “ok no one liked those unicorn challenges so we’re just gonna speed run through the plot and get to the good stuff” and I’m not mad at him. Also Noren’s dad is hot.

Although I’m still uncomfortable with the inevitable Juzo and Noren pairing. It’s clearly happening whether we want it to or not.

I will believe until the end that we're going to have a 3rd act, totally focused on Ogami fighting against Noren's father and the mitsuoka company itself

 

[kakilangit]

Btw, Shonen Magazine started a Diamond no Ace Act.II spinoff and a new original baseball series in the same round lol Jump gotta steal one of these WSM authors to try a baseball one on Jump, maybe this way it can have at least something decent

i dont think jump is lack of talent, and if they want to steal, its should be their stars even if its fail. beside blue lock, i dont think their sport manga ever that popular, mind you they had like a lot sport manga compare it to jump only have 1 or 2 or 0 tittle yearly. jump when get it right, they are rule the genre, even haikyuu and slamdunk still make top 10 sales on oricon latest 2 years (i know that look bad on jump too)...

Jump is the one who still let Kill Blue alive even though series is dead long ago. They are also the one who steal big authors from different magazine instead of giving their own a chance. So miss me with "Jump building new talent unlike other magazines" bullshit.

Jump actually more cutthroat on their vets than other magz, Jump cut S8 even tho its sales relative to hiro mashima manga other than fairy tail. jump also had jump+, that had so many titles.

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sakamoto days vol 21, LQ:

 

[defensor_de_boruto]

Kagurabachi chapter was nice, but i didn't like what the author did with iori...

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

Kagurabachi has been easily the chapter of the week for me, specially because that guy.

 

[KrenKren]

Last page for Star of Beethoven this week was unironically the coolest shit ever. I am unbelievably locked in, please live.

 

[sofiahalbof]

 

[Wookitake]

KGB had an amazing chapter. I was NOT expecting that AT ALL.

Akane super as always. Love it love her!

 

[Hawke]

me to takeru hokazono every week:

lowkey called it though but it's so satisfying to watch this arc unfold


Also Witch Watch this week has one of the funniest one page gags ever, lost it at the combo of Inosuke, Beyblade Phoenix Wing and Donald Trump all being in the same image.

 

[JBC008]

Also Witch Watch this week has one of the funniest one page gags ever, lost it at the combo of Inosuke, Beyblade Phoenix Wing and Donald Trump all being in the same image.

I mostly skimmed this chapter the first time. Now reading it why, why did you do that Shinohara? Why did you need to include, HIM?

 

[galaxy-juice]

5toubun is arguably most popular romcom manga of all time. It's not just random popular series. So he should've done better than 15k really. People don't call it flop simply because they like the series and don't want to say slightly negative about it.

Why do people not realize that there simply isn't any correlation between past success and future success for a veteran. No, it isn't true that he "should" have done better than 15K. A veteran will only carry over a fraction of their original audience even if it is an extremely similar work. Negi Haruba completely switched genres for GGLR. You can't expect that mainstream rom-com audience to transfer over.

15K is completely reasonable for a Magazine series. It's reasonable for a Jump series these days...

 

[Thehoennhippo]

Think I’m dropping Beethoven here. Embers was decently fun this week. I like the new girl in Syd. Kiyoshi was very good, love Nehan and Jack Joe.

 

[KrenKren]

1. Kagurabachi - It's crazy because I kind of called it myself, but a lot of the foreshadowing still went completely over my head — such as Iori being able to intercept Kuguri's attack in the school, and Kuguri only being able to remember three users of the iai white purity style when we saw however many chapters ago that there were four plaque's on the wall. Great stuff. I also love how Ikura adopted Chihiro's scar as a symbol of hope and motivation for him to keep moving forward, and how it took that single piece of Iori's normal school life to ironically and ultimately pull her further away from normalcy and onto the path of being daughter to Seiichi Samura. And speaking of, now that the seal is completely broken I have half a mind to think he's going to show up any second. I actually expected that to be the cliff-hanger this week, but we somehow got something even cooler.

The narration in Kagurabachi is always just such a treat. If they don't keep it for the anime, I'm going to be massively disappointed.

2. Star of Beethoven - I said this earlier, but I really, really liked the chapter again this week. Beethoven ultimately steals the show but I'm more than okay with that if it means getting more scenes of him like this, especially that last one with both his and Yaso's complete inability to give a single fuck about having security called on them if means getting to play and listen to more of his music, dammit. Next week should be really fun; I have extremely high hopes.

3. Ichi the Witch - I got really worried for a moment when I read about more magick hunts since that has been largely the least interesting part of the series for me so far (world-hater aside), but this was a fun start. I don't really care for Desscaras' recaps, though. Maybe I just lack the required whimsy but it got old after the second time.