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Part 3 incoming... and also we stil didn’t get season 2. I even forgot what was the story on s1 because too much time has passed.
Jump has a serious problem with anime adaptations
Part 3 incoming... and also we stil didn’t get season 2. I even forgot what was the story on s1 because too much time has passed.
Jump has a serious problem with anime adaptations
That's my point. You can't prove it wasn't cancer (or some other unrelated illness), so why do you keep insisting his condition must be caused by his work?
If you're going to claim your assumption is better at mine, you should at least be able to explain why.
It's kinda open secret now but well
So according to an anime background artist, KGB adaptation has been in production
Translation: "It wasn't much, but it's a pleasure to be a part of the upcoming Kagurabachi's adaptation"
Had my doubts, but apparently the man actually has worked with Cypics before and specifically on Hikaru, so I guess he must just not have gotten the memo If the director leak from last year also turns out to be true, this is going to end up the industries worst kept secret.
I saw some cope online that the large gap between volume releases meant we could get something soon but assumed it was for redraws, but maybe after all...
Without going too far off topic I gotta applaud Fujimoto for his consistency on part 2. Every single chapter was just an excuse for Denji to scream "SEX!" or "MY DICK!", down to the very last ones. A true comedic masterpiece. /s
Ruri on the title page is a recreation of Shindo after making it through a single chapter after 6 long weeks lol
Do hope things are going okay with the author though. Volume 5 has already eaten up most of the un-collected chapters so at this rate it could be well over half a year until we see Volume 6 come to fruition.
I would legitimately love to see the ToC on post PT1 CSM, given how middling even those rankings were half the time, but no way Fujimoto ever goes back to weekly.
And talking about former Jump series, Saint Seiya will finally starts the long awaited "Heaven Arc" sequel series on May in the Weekly Shonen Champion!
Masami Kurumada had the Heaven Arc planned as the direct sequel for the original Saint Seiya manga since the 90's but it just never fully happened, so he published the "Next Dimension" series from 2006 to 2024 and now he will finally do what he wanted for 35+ years, it's a pretty big deal for Saint Seiya fans!
And talking about former Jump series, Saint Seiya will finally starts the long awaited "Heaven Arc" sequel series on May in the Weekly Shonen Champion!
Masami Kurumada had the Heaven Arc planned as the direct sequel for the original Saint Seiya manga since the 90's but it just never fully happened, so he published the "Next Dimension" series from 2006 to 2024 and now he will finally do what he wanted for 35+ years, it's a pretty big deal for Saint Seiya fans!
I would legitimately love to see the ToC on post PT1 CSM, given how middling even those rankings were half the time, but no way Fujimoto ever goes back to weekly.
And talking about former Jump series, Saint Seiya will finally starts the long awaited "Heaven Arc" sequel series on May in the Weekly Shonen Champion!
Masami Kurumada had the Heaven Arc planned as the direct sequel for the original Saint Seiya manga since the 90's but it just never fully happened, so he published the "Next Dimension" series from 2006 to 2024 and now he will finally do what he wanted for 35+ years, it's a pretty big deal for Saint Seiya fans!
Yeah for the mainline series he always does the art and will not be "weekly" if he follows Next Dimension format, will be like "Seasons" where he publishes a batch of weekly chapters filling a volume and come back like next year with another batch, basically Togashi but without the illness just him being 72 years old lol
Also Kurumada only publishes full color chapters since Next Dimension but of course is done digitally.
And talking about former Jump series, Saint Seiya will finally starts the long awaited "Heaven Arc" sequel series on May in the Weekly Shonen Champion!
Masami Kurumada had the Heaven Arc planned as the direct sequel for the original Saint Seiya manga since the 90's but it just never fully happened, so he published the "Next Dimension" series from 2006 to 2024 and now he will finally do what he wanted for 35+ years, it's a pretty big deal for Saint Seiya fans!
Continuing my chronological WSJ journey, I just recently finished 1983. My overall feeling is that it's a lesser year than 1982, but with the beginning of Fist of the North Star it officially marks the very beginnings of the Golden Age, which I think won't fully kick in until the year after. The key theme of this time in the magazine is series are often ridiculous. Plot developments, gags, and character personalities are over the top and silly and they either land in their delivery or they feel totally out ridiculous. It's definitely not a time for subtle storytelling. The new serialisations available were mixed bags and quite a few of the long-running veterans at the time were let downs in terms of their developments, but there was still some glimmers of goodness. I'm remain bummed that there's not complete translation of Kojiro of the Fuma because that shit went so fucking hard.
Overall thoughts on these series based on their 1983 chapters:
Fist of the North Star is obviously a big deal, and feels like a big deal. I'm honestly a newbie when it comes to this legend, to the point where I had no idea that iconic moment happened in the very first chapter. There is a chance I might get fatigue if the routine of the fights doesn't shake up soon but I'm seeing the early influences for things like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure here, which is very cool. I suppose it makes complete sense that a series as well regarded as this is actually good enough to instantly become the best in the magazine, which is probably what a lot of readers of the time agreed with.
Captain Tsubasa remains such a fun read. The wrap up of the Elementary School arc was the better part of this year while the beginnings of the Middle School focus on the regionals just didn't work as successfully. The way that characters like Genzo and Taro got written out was really well done but then the reality dons that they're absence is felt in the narrative, so it's hard for it to be as good as it was before that shake up. But I have confidence that their absence will only make their return fonder.
Cobra rebounded after a disappointing showing in 1982, mainly thanks to it sticking with an overarching storyline that feels pretty pivotal to the late game of the series. There's the usual 80s sexism and icky fanservice that never quite feels right but beyond that this was a very solid stretch as far as a space romp adventure goes, where the consequences feel more real and having characters stick around longer than they usually do before disappearing from the page helps a lot.
Iron Don Quixote only had two chapters, but the final one was the best in the series by far (which apparently resonated with readers too, as according to author comments it shot up in the readers survey for that send-off despite being a failure). That's Tetsuo Hara taking up two spots in the top half of the magazine, I guess.
Black Angels, like Cobra, stuck with a longer arc which paid off - lots of serious developments, deaths, and ridiculous plot turns that aren't always successful but at least it's graduated from the Kill of the Week format it was stuck in for too long.
Silver Fang - The Shooting Star Gin - is still in the very early days but these chapters from the first volume are a weird balance of masculine and camp. I mean, a series with talking animals is going to be weird, but this feels like maybe a more grounded beginning in comparison to where it will eventually go based on what I've seen of it. The artwork is often quite visceral, as is the animal abuse...
Stop!! Hibari-kun! ends up being a disappointment for me. The fact that was basically abandoned by the author makes it feel incomplete (duh) but I think my expectations were too high as well. The romance and character dynamics weren't as fun as I'd hoped. In the end it was mainly more interested in being a gag manga that played with the offensive too much for me and, more criminally, wasn't that funny.
Cat's Eye kind of pissed me off. It remains a very competently crafted series, but damn do I hate the growing cast of supporting characters. This year's chapters felt extra perverted and offensive as well - makes me wonder if there was a new editor influencing what felt like a sudden shift in terms of the jokes? Having the main characters be flipping skirts while being cops is just really weird and unfunny. Lots of cases of blue humour that is just gross. And by this point the romance and suspense between Hitomi and Toshio borders on ridiculous and boring. I hope it manages to turn out a satisfying ending after dragging for as long as it has until now.
Ahh!! Bishamon High School's generalist approach to a sports series is... a choice. Not surprised it failed, it just doesn't have the feeling of a hit and staying with each arc for so little time made it difficult to actually care or be entertained by the stupidity of it all.
Dr. Slump goes up a little in my estimated this year thanks to Obotchaman, who serves as wonderful love interest for Arale and gets a good chunk of focus in the first half of the year which ends up being my favourite part of the entire series. Everything else is somewhere between just fine and bad, as usual. This does feel like the year where Toriyama's art style shifts closer to what he's more famous for with early Dragon Ball, which is cool to see take shape.
Wing-Man has elements which I can see in future hits (Yu Yu Hakusho, Death Note, Bleach) but boy does it feel amateurish. It's almost feels like early Nue Exorcist's grandfather in some ways in how it balances the comedy, its female cast, and its action. But even I would say that Nue's Exorcist is a much more enjoyable series!
Kinnikuman remains Kinnikuman. Which is to say: bad. But! It's somehow not the worst.
Cool Shock B.T. shows that a newbie can have a monumentally bad flop and still find success afterwards. It really doesn't feel like Araki was ready for a serialisation at this point in his career; there's little semblance of the sense of individuality and character that later defines him. Maybe one positive is reading this let me jump into the modern remakes and sequels which are actually quite solid, especially those drawn by Posa Deizu. Seeing the characters as old men is quite charming, much more so than the original series with them as annoying kids.
And then back to 2026: It was a pretty good issue overall where most of the magazine is doing decent stuff. The two outliers at the top are Akane-banashi and Ichi the Witch for me. Having this mirroring of the past and present of the duos now with Akane and Kaisei made me weirdly emotional, especially since the past arc has cemented that these two are not as different as they make themselves out to be - at least in a lot of ways, since they have ultimately different paths they're going to take. Seeing them being grouped together and forming a semi-friendship and now being compared to the two legends who no longer can stand together was such a good place to take their characters. And now they get to do an extra performance? Winning chapter.
And then the other winner of the week is Desscaras. She's such a beast but her emotional conviction and fourth-wall breaking acknowledgement of the trope of her comeback was what I'd expect from her - she's suchhhhhh a fun character. I hope she gets the massive fanbase that the overpowered teacher of the MC in the past has gotten in other WSJ series (Urahara, Kakashi, Gojo) once this gets an anime cause she's probably my personal favourite of that group, at least for modern battle shonen.
One Piece actually had a lame chapter this week. Relatively speaking it was still middle of the pack but I don't think I've ever placed it 9th before. On one hand it's cool to see the rest of the straw hats doing stuff but to have Usopp once again be relegated to the least important or focused on member of the crew this arc when this was supposed to be his moment continues to be ludicrous. Good thing I actually don't care much for his character, I can imagine his fans are in the trenches. And then for Oda to invent a way to kill his characters in this situation (and against the final villain) without actually killing them is so typical considering how averse he is to the death of characters in the present. In a flashback? Yeah, you can die all you want. But this kind of stuff is just robs us of seeing some potential brutal or long standing consequences. Meh.
Sakamoto Days isn't hitting in the way I want it to either, especially considering Osaragi is one of my favourites. Annoying. Kinato's Magic rebounded this week, which I'm glad. Hima-Ten! continues to be on a good track (another week of no Kanna!!!). Nue's Exorcist and Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi - both series that are evidently Not For Me - had well-drawn, strong battle chapters, too. And I know it's popular to hate on Shinobi Undercover but this was the best chapter since this house invasion started - this new character is a nutcase, hope he sticks around in the long term.
I'm checked out with Alien Headbutt, I'm afraid. It's just not working for me. Under Doctor remains a missed opportunity, and the trio before it all look like they could wrap up very soon. Throw in all the established titles that could also end too and I would welcome a good few heavy batches this year if Saito wants to go that direction.
Top 5 of Issue #15:
1. Akane-banashi
2. Ichi the Witch
3. Kinato's Magic
4. RuriDragon
5. Kagurabachi
Pretty good:
6. Me & Roboco
7. Blue Box
8. Shinobi Undercover
9. One Piece
10. Hima-Ten!
11. WITCH WATCH
12. Sakamoto Days
Also kinda good, I guess:
13. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits
14. Nue's Exorcist
15. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
16. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
17. Under Doctor
18. The Mage Next Door
19. Someone Hertz
That's 13 names, matching the amount of serialisations we got this year, so I'll stick with that even though I think we'll get 11-12 new titles. And to cap it off with a total wildcard spot for the big-name returnee that won't happen but I'm throwing out there just because: Hideaki Sorachi (Gintama).
I'm going to give myself special points for throwing Hideaki Sorachi's name as my wild prediction of the year. He might not have returned to the magazine (yet) but Dandelion getting an anime has to count for something. There remains hope.
Continuing my chronological WSJ journey, I just recently finished 1983. My overall feeling is that it's a lesser year than 1982, but with the beginning of Fist of the North Star it officially marks the very beginnings of the Golden Age, which I think won't fully kick in until the year after. The key theme of this time in the magazine is series are often ridiculous. Plot developments, gags, and character personalities are over the top and silly and they either land in their delivery or they feel totally out ridiculous. It's definitely not a time for subtle storytelling. The new serialisations available were mixed bags and quite a few of the long-running veterans at the time were let downs in terms of their developments, but there was still some glimmers of goodness. I'm remain bummed that there's not complete translation of Kojiro of the Fuma because that shit went so fucking hard.
Overall thoughts on these series based on their 1983 chapters:
Fist of the North Star is obviously a big deal, and feels like a big deal. I'm honestly a newbie when it comes to this legend, to the point where I had no idea that iconic moment happened in the very first chapter. There is a chance I might get fatigue if the routine of the fights doesn't shake up soon but I'm seeing the early influences for things like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure here, which is very cool. I suppose it makes complete sense that a series as well regarded as this is actually good enough to instantly become the best in the magazine, which is probably what a lot of readers of the time agreed with.
Captain Tsubasa remains such a fun read. The wrap up of the Elementary School arc was the better part of this year while the beginnings of the Middle School focus on the regionals just didn't work as successfully. The way that characters like Genzo and Taro got written out was really well done but then the reality dons that they're absence is felt in the narrative, so it's hard for it to be as good as it was before that shake up. But I have confidence that their absence will only make their return fonder.
Cobra rebounded after a disappointing showing in 1982, mainly thanks to it sticking with an overarching storyline that feels pretty pivotal to the late game of the series. There's the usual 80s sexism and icky fanservice that never quite feels right but beyond that this was a very solid stretch as far as a space romp adventure goes, where the consequences feel more real and having characters stick around longer than they usually do before disappearing from the page helps a lot.
Iron Don Quixote only had two chapters, but the final one was the best in the series by far (which apparently resonated with readers too, as according to author comments it shot up in the readers survey for that send-off despite being a failure). That's Tetsuo Hara taking up two spots in the top half of the magazine, I guess.
Black Angels, like Cobra, stuck with a longer arc which paid off - lots of serious developments, deaths, and ridiculous plot turns that aren't always successful but at least it's graduated from the Kill of the Week format it was stuck in for too long.
Silver Fang - The Shooting Star Gin - is still in the very early days but these chapters from the first volume are a weird balance of masculine and camp. I mean, a series with talking animals is going to be weird, but this feels like maybe a more grounded beginning in comparison to where it will eventually go based on what I've seen of it. The artwork is often quite visceral, as is the animal abuse...
Stop!! Hibari-kun! ends up being a disappointment for me. The fact that was basically abandoned by the author makes it feel incomplete (duh) but I think my expectations were too high as well. The romance and character dynamics weren't as fun as I'd hoped. In the end it was mainly more interested in being a gag manga that played with the offensive too much for me and, more criminally, wasn't that funny.
Cat's Eye kind of pissed me off. It remains a very competently crafted series, but damn do I hate the growing cast of supporting characters. This year's chapters felt extra perverted and offensive as well - makes me wonder if there was a new editor influencing what felt like a sudden shift in terms of the jokes? Having the main characters be flipping skirts while being cops is just really weird and unfunny. Lots of cases of blue humour that is just gross. And by this point the romance and suspense between Hitomi and Toshio borders on ridiculous and boring. I hope it manages to turn out a satisfying ending after dragging for as long as it has until now.
Ahh!! Bishamon High School's generalist approach to a sports series is... a choice. Not surprised it failed, it just doesn't have the feeling of a hit and staying with each arc for so little time made it difficult to actually care or be entertained by the stupidity of it all.
Dr. Slump goes up a little in my estimated this year thanks to Obotchaman, who serves as wonderful love interest for Arale and gets a good chunk of focus in the first half of the year which ends up being my favourite part of the entire series. Everything else is somewhere between just fine and bad, as usual. This does feel like the year where Toriyama's art style shifts closer to what he's more famous for with early Dragon Ball, which is cool to see take shape.
Wing-Man has elements which I can see in future hits (Yu Yu Hakusho, Death Note, Bleach) but boy does it feel amateurish. It's almost feels like early Nue Exorcist's grandfather in some ways in how it balances the comedy, its female cast, and its action. But even I would say that Nue's Exorcist is a much more enjoyable series!
Kinnikuman remains Kinnikuman. Which is to say: bad. But! It's somehow not the worst.
Cool Shock B.T. shows that a newbie can have a monumentally bad flop and still find success afterwards. It really doesn't feel like Araki was ready for a serialisation at this point in his career; there's little semblance of the sense of individuality and character that later defines him. Maybe one positive is reading this let me jump into the modern remakes and sequels which are actually quite solid, especially those drawn by Posa Deizu. Seeing the characters as old men is quite charming, much more so than the original series with them as annoying kids.
And then back to 2026: It was a pretty good issue overall where most of the magazine is doing decent stuff. The two outliers at the top are Akane-banashi and Ichi the Witch for me. Having this mirroring of the past and present of the duos now with Akane and Kaisei made me weirdly emotional, especially since the past arc has cemented that these two are not as different as they make themselves out to be - at least in a lot of ways, since they have ultimately different paths they're going to take. Seeing them being grouped together and forming a semi-friendship and now being compared to the two legends who no longer can stand together was such a good place to take their characters. And now they get to do an extra performance? Winning chapter.
And then the other winner of the week is Desscaras. She's such a beast but her emotional conviction and fourth-wall breaking acknowledgement of the trope of her comeback was what I'd expect from her - she's suchhhhhh a fun character. I hope she gets the massive fanbase that the overpowered teacher of the MC in the past has gotten in other WSJ series (Urahara, Kakashi, Gojo) once this gets an anime cause she's probably my personal favourite of that group, at least for modern battle shonen.
One Piece actually had a lame chapter this week. Relatively speaking it was still middle of the pack but I don't think I've ever placed it 9th before. On one hand it's cool to see the rest of the straw hats doing stuff but to have Usopp once again be relegated to the least important or focused on member of the crew this arc when this was supposed to be his moment continues to be ludicrous. Good thing I actually don't care much for his character, I can imagine his fans are in the trenches. And then for Oda to invent a way to kill his characters in this situation (and against the final villain) without actually killing them is so typical considering how averse he is to the death of characters in the present. In a flashback? Yeah, you can die all you want. But this kind of stuff is just robs us of seeing some potential brutal or long standing consequences. Meh.
Sakamoto Days isn't hitting in the way I want it to either, especially considering Osaragi is one of my favourites. Annoying. Kinato's Magic rebounded this week, which I'm glad. Hima-Ten! continues to be on a good track (another week of no Kanna!!!). Nue's Exorcist and Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi - both series that are evidently Not For Me - had well-drawn, strong battle chapters, too. And I know it's popular to hate on Shinobi Undercover but this was the best chapter since this house invasion started - this new character is a nutcase, hope he sticks around in the long term.
I'm checked out with Alien Headbutt, I'm afraid. It's just not working for me. Under Doctor remains a missed opportunity, and the trio before it all look like they could wrap up very soon. Throw in all the established titles that could also end too and I would welcome a good few heavy batches this year if Saito wants to go that direction.
Top 5 of Issue #15:
1. Akane-banashi
2. Ichi the Witch
3. Kinato's Magic
4. RuriDragon
5. Kagurabachi
Pretty good:
6. Me & Roboco
7. Blue Box
8. Shinobi Undercover
9. One Piece
10. Hima-Ten!
11. WITCH WATCH
12. Sakamoto Days
Also kinda good, I guess:
13. Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits
14. Nue's Exorcist
15. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
16. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
17. Under Doctor
18. The Mage Next Door
19. Someone Hertz
Ehhh, I guess:
20. Alien Headbutt
Gonron Egg:
21. Gonron Egg
Also, side note, but...
I'm going to give myself special points for throwing Hideaki Sorachi's name as my wild prediction of the year. He might not have returned to the magazine (yet) but Dandelion getting an anime has to count for something. There remains hope.
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If the director leak from last year also turns out to be true, this is going to end up the industries worst kept secret. 
