The difference is that nobody is talking that Stealth Symphony will be a failure because the male character is very generic, we just talking that is generic, and not even about appeal, is about design.
I don't understand you at all. You have been criticizing Illegal Rare right before its serialization because you don't like it and because it's "dark" (but the most of users of this thead like it), and now you say that there have to be 'different lead characters of various styles', so, there have to be Illegal Rare into the magazine or not? Because they won't like the "dark" style, but there have been people that will like it (just what you said).
Dude... Western audiences like dark stuff. But STATISTICALLY dark series have not done well in Jump. Especially this decade.
I know, but I said what he said, that he don't like it for being dark and think it would being axed for that (I don't consider that is SO dark), but now he says that is good to have different styles (which "dark" would be one of them).
Well check again!
I didn't see anything problematic about Illegal Rare lead character design. He just needs to smile more, otherwise his design is all the rage these days. Its clear that the lead of Stealth Symphony gives off a different aura than the lead of Illegal Rare, so both are different lead characters of different styles. Both would appeal to different folks, which seems apparent based on the comments in the thread about Stealth Symphony's character being "generic shonen lead #xxxxx" and Illegal Rare possessing proponents from the western world.
Well, I'm not really going to say anything against your opinion about IR, but I think the magazine would be boring if it only filled with just light series.
Maybe they're group deliveries?
Yes, that was what I mean. I think that we have/had similar characters with all of this of the smile and dark aura around them, like Piccolo or Levi, and both have a huge fanbase. I know they are not the same, just a example. But this "dark aura" appeals to AxL, is a vampire, not having it is like Alucard running happily through flowers (now I want to see this xDD). And we only have two chapters. Also, I think WSJ needs a dark-ish manga, or, at least, more mature. Actually a lot of WSJ series are school-based, and with Naruto and Bleach ending soon, the magazine needs something different. My opinion is that Illegal Rare will be successful because of this reason. Or maybe I just want to see something different since I don't like romcoms and school based mangas (with the exception of Sket Dance, Slam Dunk, Rookies and Rokudenashi Blues).
If my irl bf wouldnt mind Id give lots of chocolates to Karma kun in AssClass, Tsuki and Oikawa in Haikyuu!! Takao in Kurobas and Sasuke Uchiha!Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.
Oh, and which Jump character would you give chocolates to? (convention be damned) I'd give mine to Nagisa (from Assassination Classroom), Furuichi (Beelzebub), Shinpachi (Gintama), and Aldini Takumi (Shokugeki no Soma).
I was just commenting the design of the character, nothing else. But yeah, you have a point.
If Jump readers wanted a dark manga in the magazine, then they wouldn't have voted to cancel all of the ones Jump puts out.
Just because Jump readers want the dark series, I don't think they going to vote for the dark series even it is unintersting.
Exactly. Hachi got axed and Iron Knight is in danger zone, but it is not because of they are dark. They are axed/endanger because there aren't interesting enough to catch the readers' attention.
It simply ended. Hachi ended like, "our fight is just begnning," typical battle series' axed ending.