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Issue 48 votes (been busy this week so no thoughts unfortunately): 1. Shinobi Undercover 2. Ichi the Witch 3. Roku’s House of Oddities 4. Nue’s Exorcist 5. Akane-banashi 6. Kagurabachi 7. Hal Formula 8. Witch Watch 9. Someone Hertz 10. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi

Allow me to stir my own crackpot for a second, if you will… What if editorial is taking an approach where they think the better a surviving series is doing on it’s own, the less they’re pushing to market it? Maybe their mindset is that Kagurabachi has reached most of it’s potential audience by...

I have nothing particular to back this notion up, but is it not possible that part of why Hokazono is struggling is that he’s also slowly working on anniversary color stuff while also doing the weekly chapters? I kind of picture him working on both the color spread from the jump press, a volume...

In a way this kinda reads to me like Hokazono writing this the way Kunishige is forging the blades; working himself half to death against the advice of the governing bodies or something like that. Though Shiba might be a better example, who’s been constantly at 1hp and still doing the most with...

Yeah, we’re pretty much on the same page save for Bachi. I think a lot of the current newer Jump heroines aren’t your typical “swimsuit-inclined” characters for lack of a better term, so I don’t know how possible it’d be, but it’d be nice to see something pulled off.

I’d be curious to see the picks for each series’ female rep here… OP: Nami, duh Roboco: Also obvious Sakamoto: Lu’s the default but I’d kinda lean towards Osaragi more at this point? Witch Watch, Akane: both obvious Nue: I’d lean Nue but they could maybe get away with one of the girls Bachi...

The wording here made me think Hisagi was a Kagurabachi character for a sec, which I knew wasn’t correct… though I will take the opportunity to note that Natsuki in KGB has a very similar energy to Bleach’s Hisagi, at least in design.

Issue 47 Votes: 1. Akane-banashi 2. One Piece 3. Ruridragon 4. Witch Watch 5. Nue’s Exorcist 6. Ichi the Witch 7. Shinobi Undercover 8. Roku’s House of Oddities 9. Under Doctor 10. The Ura Files First time in a while Kagurabachi’s been kicked out of the top 10 but this week was just so stacked...

I dunno, Hokazono has a strong aversion to putting Shiba on covers of any kind, judging by Shiba’s bitter run-ins with volume covers… if anything I imagine Hokazono would sooner put Subaru and Akemura on the cover than Shiba, just to keep the bit going. That does make me wonder, if we’re...

To take a moment to snap back to the actual TOC, it seems Ura is succeeding in it's attempts to win people over with the sheer force of cute/hot Oni girl and little else. I can only hope this serves as a stepping point towards making the series more interesting since I know I am capable of...

Oh, that art? To be honest, I never even considered the possibility of taking that art and turning it into a magazine color spread. It doesn't feel at all representative of anything that happened in the past year of the series the way you'd expect such a cover to (to put it more bluntly, this...

Where did you hear about him having already finished a double spread? I haven't heard it brought up anywhere besides you mentioning it these two times now, so I'm curious where you got the intel regarding that. Regardless, they can defer Hokazono's anniversary as much as they want given the...

Full comments and votes before TOC leak of next issue? It’s more likely than you’d think… Issue 46 Thoughts: Shinobi Undercover - This was a solid use of an anniversary chapter to showcase a climactic moment in a battle. I still feel like I need a little better context to understand Kawasemi’s...

Given the context of declining sales this is somewhat reassuring, though the overall numbers still leave concerns, at least for me… it’s certainly not beating either Roku or Under Doctor at this rate, and with nothing else to fall to the wayside after this next batch we might get stuck with the...

For the Nue trailer, I was a little disappointed at the lack of actual shots from the show we got (let alone not getting to see anyone directly talk) but what we saw looked fine, the music was pretty good, and the visuals are nice. I liked the impact frames on him drawing his sword.