Recent content by Thores

Magico's about a decade old at this point but it does actually fill all of Koni's criteria, and it ran in WSJ.

I decided to drop Undead Unluck after the first chapter, and that feels like an especially good call after reading the last page or so of this thread. I wasn’t expecting such a positive reception to Mashle after reading the debut chapter myself! It has some cute stuff going on but feels a...

This is the only week that we'll see two versions of the results, right? If we get to see a version of the results with the discounted votes every week, then I feel like there will still be vote campaigning either way, and the second set of results will be considered the "real" outcome by those...

A manga volume getting an increase in pre-orders immediately after the volume actually gets cover art is less odd than you following its Amazon pre-orders so closely for weeks.

The current environment of the magazine means that SOMETHING has to be at the bottom. Outside of exactly three series (Yozakura, Mitama, S8), everything is either an established successful series, or too new to be officially ranked yet. We probably don’t have to be worried about even the...

How was judging the book by its cover a bad idea, in this specific case? Your second paragraph alone proves that the full series contains the things that several of us have been worried about. Cool premise and likeable characters aside, the finalized chapter still plays off groping and...

None of the other 2019 debuts were even charting with their Volume 3s at this point in their lifespan, let alone their Volume 2s. This is less of an “OUCH” and more of an “Oh”.

Source on the translation?

There's just a lot of really successful series running in the magazine right now, and three series that are too new to be at the bottom. JJK will probably slide back up the TOC as the newcomers slide down.

Gut's telling me right now that the female protagonist is not going to get treated a whole lot better than she was in the one shot. Would love to be wrong, obviously, but. Don't have a great feeling about this.

I don't really get straight gag manga vibes from Undead Unluck as much as I do "action manga with comedic elements" vibes. Like, you wouldn't call Chainsaw Man a gag manga, so I feel there's a chance you're pre-emptively shoving the wrong label onto Undead Unluck here.

They sure don't! None of the Reiwa Era debuts last year got a color page to celebrate their first volume. Not even Samurai 8.

This might not be the actual accurate order of the magazine's second half (since the TOC does creative things with its layout sometimes), but the bottom 3 will probably be the same in the full version of the TOC.

We should have the MH Poll Results for Issue #6/7 by now, right? There were a lot of really interesting chapters and developments this week, so I'm curious to see what we collectively thought.

You have to ignore far more conventions of sports manga than I have to make the “battle manga and sports manga are the same” generalization. To start, sports manga are much more grounded in reality than battle manga, and based off of real life activities and hobbies. Both of these things still...