Err...who is Gasper again?
What you're missing, LoS, is that these days in Jump, making it past a year is actually a success. Sure, Magico never sold that well, nor did it ever have a great ToC ranking, but it did quite a few things right along the way. People thought Enigma was such a great series, but in the end, I believe Magico outsold Enigma, plus Enigma ended after only 56 chapters, which is nine fewer chapters than Magico had, not counting the 45 page ending chapter.
Hmm,I don't know if Enigma is a good example. The plot was not as expendable as Magico's and it aimed at a different, more serious readership. Having success with a manga like Enigma is more difficult than with a simple mainstream manga like Magico.
One of the obvious problems from the get go was the actual story, in that it was always going to be just a journey and a series of short adventures, without a large number of returning characters. I always thought that that was a problem. We never saw the second Sage again after that like 10 page battle early on in the series. Magico had potential, but it didn't fully come together.
I personally don't mind that, but Jump manga always have recurring characters, so I guess you're right.
It probably would have helped if OZ's presence was felt from the beginning, even more now that we now that he and Echidna had always been watching Shion since the beginnign.
, but what happened at the end when they all got separated
. Is a good thing they found each other in the end though.
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