Recent content by westabyss

I only watched the first three eps of TES and thought it was pretty high quality but even if it was not amazing for you, it is at least above average and better than most of the Magazine Anime I have seen besides Fire Force. You are right that most of the new Jump Anime are not doing much sales...

I find it interesting how WSJ and WSM follow opposite strategies when it comes to Anime. WSJ discovered with KnY that the quality of an Anime is very important for the success of the Manga. Since then, their releases in Anime have gotten slower but very high quality. Even Manga with no real hit...

Like people have already said female Mangaka in Shonen is not anything new nor really that special. I saw a stat years ago that women in total outweigh males in this occupation (for all genres accounted). However I disagree with the notion that a female Mangaka automatically equates to well...

Its good that the Anime for Akane looks capable and solid. If I had one criticism, it's that I don't like the exaggerated aura effects and the lighting in some of the scenes.

There are a lot of factors that play a role in the "decline" of OP. First of all, there is a natural decline. A series still selling a million plus per volume (physically) after almost 30 years is unheard of. Conan had a 2 million print at the height of its power and it has now settled at around...

GGG is the only one I ever thought had the potential to become something bigger eventually. If you had said over 30 chapters, I would have added Enigma but it had gotten boring when it was cancelled, so its not a terrible cancellation. Just a series I really enjoyed when it started.

You are overestimating the promotion effect of a group cover. Even if this was a regular group cover, I don't think seeing a small character somewhere makes people check out the series. The classic Sports Manga story has been done over and over since the 60s. Slam Dunk and Haikyuu are...

Yeah, I've seen Red Blue a lot of times in the top 10 of Sunday Webry. Its actually number 1 right now at this moment. And I see some talk about it on the Japanese side of the internet in threads for sport or fighting Manga, so it's not doing bad at all. Its like when we were talking a couple...

Tabatas color pages are always so amazing. Finish BC and come back soon to Jump

Yeah, like I said Makahari just started out really popular. It fell off somewhere around chapter 50. Apparently the author lost motivation among other things. I mean I am just citing the story that the author told himself because him and Takahashi shared the same editor. But you are right that...

YGO was not really popular until it switched to the card game. That's true. And there was a lot of luck involved with YGO actually getting there. Its just an anecdote but Jump was on its way to cancel YGO. Makuhari is not really known anymore but it was a Gag Manga which was following the Shonen...

One important thing I have noticed on different digital rankings is that Ecchi / Harem / Isekai stuff does way better digitally. Probably because people don't want to have those type of series on their bookshelf and Otakus just being more digitally savvy. Thats why I can imagine Nue having a...

Yeah, this is the difference that Jump still can make. We can talk about how bad the sales are but Akane in Sunday would probably be selling lower than 10k. Especially western fans think that just publishing 20 battle Manga will get you automatically 20 JJK tier hits but thats not how it works...

Don't take it so seriously. Its just one cover and as you said Witch Watch is only this big because of the Anime. I don't expect it to be that big on the next one. Yup this is something that gets lost often in western discourse. There is a lot of 'slop' digital Manga out there which is just as...

I have nothing to read right now in Jump. I paused Akane after the time skip because it hasn't really been engaging to me lately. Feels like its been on autopilot for a while now. I am sure I will pick it up again when I feel like it. Same with Sakamoto. Not a fan of any of the new series like...