Recent content by xpolarbearx

I've read chapter 1 so far, and

The closest thing to the arts we've had in a while is Soul Cacther(S). But series with these types of themes tend to center around more realistic narratives, and are more common in seinen magazines. The ultimate art-related manga was Zero: The Man of the Creation from Super Jump. 78 volumes...

Bungo is ok so far. Its about a boy who loves baseball, but must play by himself because there isn't any team nearby to join. He ends up playing for a different town's team and develops a rivalry with the coach's son (no real spoilers, this all happens from chapter 1) The series is still...

As a fan of Soul Catcher(S), I’m rather worried about its chances of survival in the upcoming rounds of cuts. Last summer during that mid-August serialization round near the Obon festival, a whopping four positions opened in the magazine. Two newer flops were cancelled (Koisuru Edison and...

Saiki and Isobe may both be comedy but they are two entirely different things. I've been following Saiki, and there's no indication at all in the story that its ending. Honestly out of the recent 2012 series, I think Saiki has the most potential. Its been introducing new aspects of Saiki's...

It definitely doesn't happen too often. About a year ago, the artist of Kochikame had a oneshot in Jump Next. Going farther back, Jump ran the original Toriko oneshot in an early 2002 double issue, while Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro was still writing Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi.

I've been waiting for what seems like forever for UH Revenge to get back to the Avenge firm storyline, and the recent developments with Rina are great. I'm just hoping this won't be the finale or anything, since the artist seems to be promoting his new manga a lot lately. I was considering...

In Jump I'm enjoying Toriko and Assassination Classroom the most, but World Trigger and Soul Catcher(S) have been getting better lately too. I'm surprised by PSI's rank, the chapters have always been solid, but perhaps a bit repetitive lately. There's a few things in Young Jump I'd like to...

Since there was talk of Kochikame, I thought it would be a good time to bring up the fact that its position in the TOC has been noticeably low over the past few months. While never actually last, its been fourteen weeks since its been out of the bottom five. Its also held the same spot, third to...

The first two Isobe Isobee oneshots were each 15 pages. There were two additional ones after that, both were 6 pages long each and at the very back of the magazine, and one of them was on red bichrome pages. I'm not sure if Isobe Isobee was actually apart of Jump Live, but the two shorter...

PSI's rank is surprising, since going by the eight chapter rule it had a color page that week and the chapter itself was about his father's work, something thats remained sort of a mystery since the series started. I prefer some chapters to others, but I haven't seen any drop in quality in the...

While I doubt they'd translate PSI, I feel like it would do a bit better than previous attempts at bringing over comedy. Much of the comedy revolves around the embarrassing behaviors of Saiki's friends and his humerously dry outlook, with less references to Japanese history and customs than...

I meant "color page" generally, as in all the color printed pages throughout the magazine, since we were talking about printing costs. My bad though, I didn't realize that that page was paid advertising. And I was referring to Kuroko's first season announcement, which was in Jump I believe (I...

The lead color 2-page spreads always have a color page before it, even if it isn't a part of the actual chapter (although they are most of the time, except for One Piece). It could instead be additional info about the anime announcement. If I remember correctly, the announcement for Kuroko's...

The Koisuru Edison oneshot in Jump a little over a year ago was terrible, so I was shocked when I saw it was actually going to be serialized. Honestly, I somewhat enjoyed the first few chapters, but since around chapter 4 or so its just become repetitive and lacking any real humor. The first...