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The fact that Akutami was allowed that amount of time to recover is definitely unusual. Previously, hiatuses only came if the author had experienced something legitimately serious and long-lasting, not an illness which was recovered from within a month. So I feel like this shift with hiatuses...

It's worth noting that giving authors more breaks was something touched upon in the new Jump surveys, so it could be that this decision was partially motivated by the shift that seems to be happening behind-the-scenes. Perhaps the growing popularity of Jump+ has made it more acceptable for...

Different circumstances. Shindou by my math is barely out of university at best, he'd likely not have the funds to easily support assistants. We meanwhile have no idea what Mapollo's situation is like. It's not like working without assistants is completely unheard of, Toriyama famously had...

Superhero underperformed? That's...surprising.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the best newbie debut of the year, no? With the others being stuff like Hiromu Arakawa manga and Kindaichi? If so, very good win. Happy for both halves of the mangaka team.

What the hell is going on with Jump editorial to where two editors get transferred in less than a month?

Believe it or not, anime is made by human beings, not animator robots.

Question about this debate then, what would you, put in the position of EiC, do to think Jump's situation? Also, may I point out Sakamoto started at about 15k? Just pointing out the "10-20k deadzone" isn't quite an accurate idea.

So, to recap: Sakamoto is trending up, up, up. Witch Watch is trending up. Blue Box is trending about the same. Elusive and Yozakura are trending down.

Out of curiosity, what series of the current generation (Yozakura onwards, basically) would you guys consider part of the "stable" roster?

I know I brought this up before, but do you guys see AyaTri being prepped to end? tend to be pretty finalistic in manga like these.

So Yokai + Yakuza!? Okay, this has got my attention.

Not surprised by Elusive's situation. AssClass had the major advantage of how it appealed to Jump's main readerbase in terms of story content, touching on the systemic enviorment of the Japanese education system and the pressure placed on students, which made it prime material to build a...

Considering that "catch-phrase" was just an attempt to match Naruto's dialogue to the mouth flaps while accounting for his verbal tick, and was phased out early on at that, this is some seriously dystopian promotion. Screw meme culture.

What's the Elusive/Sakamoto/Witch positions compare to the previous volumes?