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[Shinuki no Reborn]

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[Phantom RPG]

Anyway, for the sake of something else to talk about, since Nakamura is making a horror comedy series next week. What were some horror related series within the magazine that people are fond of?

 

[FantasticFootno]

There are 3 new series, and HxH is coming back for some chapters, I highly doubt HG will continue.

Nah, hxh is still far away. June volumes just dropped and the new volume is still not listed. So while it could be listed later, it’ll probably not return until June now at the earliest. (July volume listing). This lines up with him probably returning with 20 chapters this time around, instead of the normal 10.

 

[WyldViolet]

You're holding into estimative of less than 500 copies to state who was more popular or not, Ichinose Family was axed while selling around 30k copies, was it more "popular" than some of the other series selling less in the magazine at the time? (Including Nue)

Except Otr got promotion. Even with multiple color pages, page extensions, and a obi rec from Horikoshi, Kaedegami still outsold it.
A series that got zero extra promotion, no extra color pages, no page extensions, no obi recs from other mangaka, and was cancelled before the first volume even released.
Sure, Kaedegami didn't sell well, but it could've sold better if Jump gave it the same treatment as Otr.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Except Otr got promotion. Even with multiple color pages, page extensions, and a obi rec from Horikoshi, Kaedegami still outsold it.
A series that got zero extra promotion, no extra color pages, no page extensions, no obi recs from other mangaka, and was cancelled before the first volume even released.
Sure, Kaedegami didn't sell well, but it could've sold better if Jump gave it the same treatment as Otr.

Otr didn't got a recommendation from Horikoshi, it didn't got multiple color pages, it was a single extra cp in it's entire run lol, page extention doesn't mean anything flop series can get it, and "outsold it", you guys talk like the series sold any relevant number of copies more, when it's a few hundreds of copies at best and from Shoseki estimations which we don't know if its actually more or less in the end, so it's as vague as it gets.

 

[WyldViolet]

Otr didn't got a recommendation from Horikoshi, it didn't got multiple color pages, it was a single extra cp in it's entire run lol, page extention doesn't mean anything flop series can get it, and "outsold it", you guys talk like the series sold any relevant number of copies more, when it's a few hundreds of copies at best and from Shoseki estimations which we don't know if its actually more or less in the end, so it's as vague as it gets.

I could've sworn Horikoshi gave it a rec? If it wasn't on the volume, was it a Twitter mention?
And page extensions do matter and serve as promotion. It gets more eyes on the chapter to see what the fuss is about.
And again, none of us are claiming either series sold well, or that the sales were drastically different. Simply that Kaedegami could've sold more if given the same treatment as Otr, given it already outsold it. That isn't much of a reach for us to make.
Maybe not sold great, but perhaps enough to get the extra round instead of Otr.

 

[Kiaida]

Kaedegami was axed while Otr got a color page after selling 2k copies. I don't know how you can't clearly see the bias there, not sure to what to say even, it was blatant just like the Shinobi infinite color spam.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

I could've sworn Horikoshi gave it a rec? If it wasn't on the volume, was it a Twitter mention?
And page extensions do matter and serve as promotion. It gets more eyes on the chapter to see what the fuss is about.
And again, none of us are claiming either series sold well, or that the sales were drastically different. Simply that Kaedegami could've sold more if given the same treatment as Otr, given it already outsold it. That isn't much of a reach for us to make.
Maybe not sold great, but perhaps enough to get the extra round instead of Otr.

No, it got nothing, it actually should have gotten one from Matsui since Kawaguchi was working as his assistant before Otr.

It doesn't really matter, page extentions are given to flop series from time to time too lol

You guys are just dancing around the imaginary idea that it would have done marginally better if it got some color page or page extention, something that can't be proven, that's the thing, look at Ping Pong Peril, that series was loved online, trended on Japan for consecutive weeks and still had a 1st ranking worse than Ekiden Bros and if wasn't for the author final message going viral on social media the 1st volume would have sold even worse than it did lol

Kaedegami was axed while Otr got a color page after selling 2k copies. I don't know how you can't clearly see the bias there, not sure to what to say even, it was blatant just like the Shinobi infinite color spam.

It got a cp a week before rising out of the bottom 5, not hard to see why that happened.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Jump Comics Volume Release (June)
Witch Watch #26
Akane-banashi #22
Nue's Exorcist #15
Shinobi Undercover #8
Gonron Egg #2 & #3
The Mage Next Door #2
Hero Girl and Demon Lord Call It Quits #2
Under Doctor #1
Kinato's Magic #1

 

[Kiaida]

Sorachi's announcement is going viral in Japan. Hype will be huge for it.

 

[Jay_Senju]

Sorachi's announcement is going viral in Japan. Hype will be huge for it.

I won't be surprised if volume 1 sells extremely well lol.

 

[LogicoftheVI]

Otr >Kaedegami I'm not seeing what is being argued here?

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

Yeah feels like Blue Box is at the point of no return, dropping the manga title like this is pretty much the "it's ending" sign in these cases. Does anyone have a idea of how much is left for Sakamoto? Since every chapter just looks the same with some fighting happening is hard to get a notion of it.

This JK Hero chapter was a sort of green flag towards its survival, introducing her mother and a apocalypse plot is something weird to do when you're literally 2 chapters away from getting axed so i guess there's a chance? I wouldn't mind at all since it turned out to be the most superior series out of the 3.

So i guess for next round we would have JK Hero, Alien Headbutt if flop (which feels very likely) and either Under Doctor or Kinato if one of them flop too or both, but i'm inclined to believe that after 3 consecutive rounds of 3 new series the next one will be 2 new series.

 

[Wookitake]

I think BB will last some 20+ chapters still. I doubt Taiki would lose against Haruto, because it would be too similar to Haryu's loss...to Taiki himself. Therefore, we'll probably get Taiki x Yusa, and only then will Taiki lose, and the manga ends. That's my guess.

There is a strong chance that BB, Sakamoto, AND WW all end this year, and consequently, Akane becomes the 3rd oldest in WSJ, Nue the 4th. That's insane.

 

[FantasticFootno]

Yeah feels like Blue Box is at the point of no return, dropping the manga title like this is pretty much the "it's ending" sign in these cases. Does anyone have a idea of how much is left for Sakamoto? Since every chapter just looks the same with some fighting happening is hard to get a notion of it.

This JK Hero chapter was a sort of green flag towards its survival, introducing her mother and a apocalypse plot is something weird to do when you're literally 2 chapters away from getting axed so i guess there's a chance? I wouldn't mind at all since it turned out to be the most superior series out of the 3.

So i guess for next round we would have JK Hero, Alien Headbutt if flop (which feels very likely) and either Under Doctor or Kinato if one of them flop too or both, but i'm inclined to believe that after 3 consecutive rounds of 3 new series the next one will be 2 new series.

Sakamoto Days has to finish up this current fight (probably 1-2 chapters left), and then Shin's fight (that'll be like 4-5 probably). Then there's a random conclusion to an earlier fight (like 20 chapters ago now) that was left hanging for some reason? Which shouldn't take more than a chapter. And then finally its final boss time, which can take anywhere from 10-20 chapters I feel. Final battles are always the hardest ones to predict. Either way its looking like September/November end.

 

[KrenKren]

 

[Dippy Fresh]

Either Roboco is not ending as predicted or Sakamoto Days has more juice left in it.

Cause Blue Box is prob ending in the 40s serialization round and Sakamoto feels like it could. But that's also the exact timeline of when Roboco would get to Vol 30 and I don't imagine Jump is gonna have all three ending at the same time (tho who knows for certain)

 

[Nuesmoker]

LET'S GOOOO

Andit literally says that Natsuki herself made the searches for the series "Skyrocket", NATSUKI POWERRR

 

[Ebrietas-]

Nah, hxh is still far away. June volumes just dropped and the new volume is still not listed. So while it could be listed later, it’ll probably not return until June now at the earliest. (July volume listing). This lines up with him probably returning with 20 chapters this time around, instead of the normal 10.

That's irrelevant. It's almost never there at first and suddenly appears in the schedule close to return.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

lol WHAT? How we went from 1.3 million in vol 13 to 1.6 million in vol 14??? I get that they probably froze the numbers on vol 13 (1.3m reported), but from vol 11 to 12 it went from 1.2m to 1.3m, so we legit got 300k extra copies added with only 2 volumes? and technically nothing out of ordinary happened to cause this boost specially seeing how the physical sales seems to be slowly declining a bit, that's crazy!

Come on Saito, don't be a shitty EiC and give us the cover & lead cp for the 3rd anniversary and announce the anime already

Obs: Going right now on 5ch to read the comments (The salt is strong as expected lmao!)

 

[Dongus]

For this milestone, Saito will throw Nue's Exorcist into the bottom 5 for the next 3 months. On the anniversary, we will get an Ichi The Witch cover.