Mag Talk JUMP SQ News and Discussion (2014 - 2021)

[Scruffy8642]

Im curious how it does as well with the scandal.

I’m curious how it would’ve done without the scandal as well. Shame we’ll never know.

 

[iceemperor]

Im curious how it does as well with the scandal.

Unfortunately it seems like it'll probably be "fine". I saw quite a bit of reactions where people were either sad or horrified that Watsuki did what he did but they liked the series and thus wanted him to come back and continue it. Personally, I'd rather he didn't come back and honestly not make any money off of Kenshin at all from that point on but he's getting royalties from various merch as we speak.

This volume will probably do a maximum of around 100k.

 

[Heiji]

--- Double Post Merged, Sep 13, 2018, Original Post Date: Sep 10, 2018 ---

I checked the three bookstores near my home, and in all, the first volume of Kenshin Hokkaido is out of stock.

 

[cody]

https://okachi.fr/top-50-oricon-volumes-du-3-au-9-septembre-2018/

Kenshin le Vagabond : Hokkaido #01 - 172,160

Awesome to see Kenshin selling well. I'm still hoping we see an anime remake one day. I mean, it's Kenshin so of course it would sell and Shueisha knew what they were doing when they brought it back, it was the right financial decision whether you agree with them or not. They're reprinting it so I assume it will do over 200k easily.

Shueisha knows that SQ kinda needs some more firepower. I'm not usually the biggest fan of bringing back older series but SQ could definitely use another hit until some of the other more established series from the magazine get anime adaptations. (and I'm especially fine with the Kenshin return if it increases the chances of an anime remake).

I want to reread Kenshin first before I dive into this series.

 

[Tamil]

Unfortunately it seems like it'll probably be "fine". I saw quite a bit of reactions where people were either sad or horrified that Watsuki did what he did but they liked the series and thus wanted him to come back and continue it. Personally, I'd rather he didn't come back and honestly not make any money off of Kenshin at all from that point on but he's getting royalties from various merch as we speak.

This volume will probably do a maximum of around 100k.

Unfortunately it smashed the 100k mark...this is really just sad. It did around the same numbers as Shokugeki.

Do you think they'll follow through with an anime or a few OVA's? I know the likely answer is no given the scandal but the sales seems to tell a different story.

 

[iceemperor]

Unfortunately it smashed the 100k mark...this is really just sad. It did around the same numbers as Shokugeki.

Do you think they'll follow through with an anime or a few OVA's? I know the likely answer is no given the scandal but the sales seems to tell a different story.

Honestly, I know I said it'll do a maximum of 100k but I'm really not that surprised it did 170k. The series was gigantic and the live action movies are among the highest grossing live action movies of all time at the Japanese Box Office. There were seemingly quite a bit of fans that didn't know what he did. The hard fact is that its still making money so they might very well follow through with an anime or a couple OVAs with this story. But they might be cautious though as once its made into an anime, the people that do know will let those that don't and you might end up with a case like that "Second life in another world" series that was canned because of what the author said on Twitter a while back. What Watsuki did is infinitely worse than what that guy did. It really depends on how the appraoch it. I wouldn't be surprised if they did give it an anime but down the line like 5 years from now when seemingly everyone "forgets" about it.

 

[Maxy Barnard]

It’s honestly shameful how many people have decided they don’t care. Or at least care more about getting a Kenshin sequel. Proper dark mark on Shueisha’s publishing record.

 

[tirakai]

Keep in mind what he did wasn't illegal in Japan until I think early this decade. People have different standards.

 

[Maxy Barnard]

Yeah there’s definitely a lot of fresh ground that Japanese law is having to develop with this stuff, and compared to just like a decade ago it’s made progress. But like just morally... man. Just a big old mess of disappointments.

 

[Mammo]

JUST..
Platinum End #1 (198,055)
Platinum End #2 (192,104)
Platinum End #3 (180,577)
Platinum End #4 (172,107)
Platinum End #5 (163,061)
Platinum End #6 (143,269)
Platinum End #7 (112,426)
Platinum End #8 (97,487)
Platinum End #9 (84,644)

 

[MangAniMY]

JUST..
Platinum End #1 (198,055)
Platinum End #2 (192,104)
Platinum End #3 (180,577)
Platinum End #4 (172,107)
Platinum End #5 (163,061)
Platinum End #6 (143,269)
Platinum End #7 (112,426)
Platinum End #8 (97,487)
Platinum End #9 (84,644)

wow...

Honestly that would look great as a graph

 

[cody]

JUST..
Platinum End #1 (198,055)
Platinum End #2 (192,104)
Platinum End #3 (180,577)
Platinum End #4 (172,107)
Platinum End #5 (163,061)
Platinum End #6 (143,269)
Platinum End #7 (112,426)
Platinum End #8 (97,487)
Platinum End #9 (84,644)

Can they please move on?

This can get an anime, but I really wonder how much it's going to help considering how much the manga dropped instead of growing.

wow...

Honestly that would look great as a graph

You know what to do.

 

[MangAniMY]

I could just use the number above, but why not go slightly deeper



Just first 4 week when available

"Fair" LTD:
All volumes with LTD have roughly the same amount of time

Actual LTD:

Volume 1 and 5 are from the first half yearly manga sales

tables:

 

[iceemperor]

Can they please move on?

This can get an anime, but I really wonder how much it's going to help considering how much the manga dropped instead of growing.

I honestly don't want anyone wasting resources on this series but the industry is weird and will make anime adaptations out of anything. Its astonishing the Ohba/Obata duo can make something like this.

 

[cody]

I honestly don't want anyone wasting resources on this series but the industry is weird and will make anime adaptations out of anything. Its astonishing the Ohba/Obata duo can make something like this.

I'm scared it will get a high profile anime. That would add insult to injury.

 

[Nemesis]

I could just use the number above, but why not go slightly deeper



Just first 4 week when available

"Fair" LTD:
All volumes with LTD have roughly the same amount of time

Actual LTD:

Volume 1 and 5 are from the first half yearly manga sales

tables:

Wow, that's quite a fallout. Btw, you still have some current graphs for shonen jump titles? I want some.

 

[MangAniMY]

Wow, that's quite a fallout. Btw, you still have some current graphs for shonen jump titles? I want some.

Sure, I have all the latest one, tell me what you need and I'll it up on the WSJ thread

Spoiler

I did not intentionally try to sound like a dealer... for the most part

 

[Tamil]

Does anyone even read PE? Like how bad is it now? I dropped it early as many others did.

 

[Nemesis]

Sure, I have all the latest one, tell me what you need and I'll it up on the WSJ thread

Spoiler

I did not intentionally try to sound like a dealer... for the most part

Can you post it there for the all the current manga on the magazine that you have? It would be a good help for me.

 

[Scruffy8642]

Does anyone even read PE? Like how bad is it now? I dropped it early as many others did.

I’m reading it. I wouldn’t even say it’s bad, just that it’s painfully average. I still find it more interesting than most of the other battle-type series in SQ though. Slow pacing is probably the biggest annoyance personally.