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PPPPPP: 7.5/10. Wobbly beginning, but always interesting, and the art and composition carries a story that sometimes bites more than it can chew but it's consistently fascinating to read. Ayashimon: 5/10. Cool art, decently interesting setting, failed to keep my interest or get any reaction out...

Glüna is in the cover, you can all check it out, It seems to be what the author wanted the name to be, at least.

The metrics we currently have (Amazon rankings) look awful for Smartphone. Of course they don't determine anything, it might not do as badly, but doing well enough to compensate the poor ToC rankings doesn't look possible at the moment.

No, because I created a scenario where it would be true, according to what you said. Akane might very well push way past the 50k of Undead by volume 4. Besides, the most pertinent comparison is with the current volumes, which Akane is already 15k up in the first month, almost definitely higher...

Ok, so, let's go bit by bit. Yes, Undead started pretty decently, as the numbers show. And the award it won got it to 50k on the first month. Great! That's a pretty positive, no complaints there. That does put it around the same level as Akane. But there's two caveats: Akane didn't have an...

Raf didn't skip the middle volumes because it was "convenient". It's just the obvious thing to do, you compare either the most recent volumes (So 11 and 12) to see how each series is selling _right now_ or you compare the series at the same point in time (so the first two volumes for each). And...

An adaptation deciding to changing something on the source material isn't censorship, it's just how... adaptations work. I don't think the western distributor will change the groping scene (or the even worse assault threat scene in chapter 2), if y'all think it's so important to have those in a...

I can't speak for every series you mention, but there are some examples that really don't help your point. And some of the math doesn't really checks out... Summer Time Rendering adapts 8 chapters or whatever because its chapters are half the length of a weekly Jump series. Even the metric you...

Yeah, but Jump's standards shouldn't be the same as other magazines, not when its circulation is three times bigger. Sure, it's the reality right now, and it just proves things got way worse, lol.

If 40k copies in a month after almost three years is anything more than mediocre that just serves as evidence Jump is in really dire straits.

Undead is running this long because Jump 1) didn't have much else and 2) Undead actually started with potential, even winning Tsugi. It just didn't manage to capitalize on it, unfortunately. If an anime is yet to happen, it's probably because it was decided early and there's no reason to stop...

Mashle took a little long, but not that outside the norm. The thing is more that the announcement is a little on the late side when WSJ is in a situation where they should be more agressive (since they don't have much else), so it feels more late than it actually is.

Jump obviously doesn't need us to tell them the popular pirate sites, but it's definitely a funny question to be asked, lol.

Episodic slice of life series are popular everywhere and it's not a mistake for a series like Ruri to just, you know, want to be one of those series. Sure, it's fair to have concerns if a series like that fits within Jump (I also have my doubts), but that's just what the genre of the series is...

I mean, what "genuine" means in this context? It's obviously a promotion being made by the editorial team, but there's nothing cynical about it, it's literally their job. That's what they should be doing. The fan reception seems to be genuine, with good sales, getting out of stock fast, good ToC...