Recent content by MushiMan

They did do two one-shots together after it ended (Admittedly, one was an ad, but the spirit photographer one was at least non-obligatory) and released a collection of short stories. I don't think there is bad blood there.

So happy for Sumiyoshi! Hyperinflation didn't exactly have a bad run, but I thought it deserved more. Glad to see him getting this level of mainstream success with Strikeout Pitch.

They will almost certainly be a comedy duo, with the girl presumably being the boke.

I don't understand why the Otr color page is so controversial. If this much of the magazine is newbie axe-bait, you have to do something to salvage the situation. Color pages are promotion and if its going to take you a couple batches to get rid of everything (even more if BB or ES end), it only...

YES!!! LIVE, NICE PRISON, LIVE!!!!!! I don't care if it doesn't become a huge hit; I just want to read it a little longer. Thank you, Saito. Also, thank you to Saito for Akane anime. Can't wait to watch it. Also, Wobbuffet was made as a reference to the rakugoka Hayashiya Sanpei.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem super clear to me that any EiC has that much influence over the types of manga published or their success. I get that the EiC can put their foot down if they really feel strongly about something, but also it's not like serializations are decided in a meeting...

I completely agree. I still remember that Turkish guy who got his fans in Turkey to spam votes so he could get an ultimately pitiful serialization that Japanese readers hated. Honestly, that only makes it stranger to me that J+ keeps indies around at all. If it's obvious to us, it has to be...

Hime Shinjatta is such an incredibly painful read and strange rehashing of Otooto's last indies failure, it makes me wonder why Jump+ still bothers with indies serializations at all. There have been like six that have seen any success at all, and I feel like four of those could have just gotten...

I also predicted Nice Prison to not perform well when it first came out (despite being one of the apparently very few fans of it on the forum), but do we actually have any evidence it's an instant axe level failure? We don't even have its first ranking! From my perspective, its only gotten...

As other users have correctly pointed out, the main magazine has circulation much higher than what most series individually sell, is printed incredibly cheaply, and is subsidized with ads. On the other hand, despite having several times more pages, it only costs ~60% of what a volume of an...

Oh no, I REALLY like Nice Prison. The stupid absurdist humor, the density of jokes, the nonsense character design is all like it was made just for me. There's no way it way it does well. I would be shocked if it didn't get historically trash Jump Plus views, sell like 2,000 copies, and get axed...

Hi, long time listener, first time caller. Oteru is sometimes used instead of hoteru when borrowing from French. See Hôtel Ritz Paris (オテル・リッツ・パリ/oteru rittsu pari). It's also used in cases that aren't hotels in the sense of the English word (To be honest, I know pretty much nothing about the...