Worst for me was definently Reborn's. Made it feel like literally everything the series had done didn't matter and felt like a giant middle finger to Tsuna's growth as a character
Given that anime adaptions for popular JUMP stuff generally happens around the 2 year mark, my guess would be a Neverland anime hits in Fall 2018, and given it's not exactly suited to a daytime slot (and by extension wouldn't have to worry quite as much about how it paces itself), I'd be...
The Funimation listing is probably just a placeholder. Between it's timeslot and who's producing it there's basically zero chance this'll be shorter than 26 episodes
JUMP has been having plenty of success with non-action series. If anything, it could USE another new action series. MHA is the only notably successful one JUMP has right now besides One Piece and it's still hard to say how successful Black Clover or Kimetsu no Yaiba will be in the long run
The fact that her gender isn't highlighted at every turn doesn't mean it's irrelevant (if anything that would be worse). Emma would absolutely be a different character if she was male, and it'd also some of the current character dynamics pretty heavily. Again no one's saying that they're reading...
Never said people are reading it for that reason (I'm certainly not). It's just kind of fascinating to see it's success when paired against JUMP's general track record regarding how it treats female characters.
All of the above comments just remind me that it's something of a wonder that The Promised Neverland is doing so well with a female protagonist. Not that previous JUMP series haven't have any but the two most notable examples before it are kind of hard to count.
They established pretty early that Emma's actual goal is to make a world without demons and get rid of the farm system that's turning these kids into sacrifices. She also
On the subject of Viz and MHA I think it's important to recall that they did run Hokoroshi's previous series only for it to be cancelled pretty quickly. Given that, it's pretty understandable that they didn't go after MHA immediately and I don't think they were all that "slow" in getting it...