Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump [2018] - Discussion and TOC Talk

[Tarot]

With Boruto, Black Clover and Puzzles & Dragons still airing, Bleach will never return. Just give up.

 

[ChocoBar9]

Heroaca is 18 million in print.

 

[DoctorNero]

Heroaca is 18 million in print.

If you gather the sales reported by Oricon in the yearly sales charts you get 19 876 256, so what gives?

 

[MangAniMY]

If you gather the sales reported by Oricon in the yearly sales charts you get 19 876 256, so what gives?

yeah, it is kinda weird tbh

usually it is oricon that is behind print

 

[ChocoBar9]

The spine for volume 20 said it was 17 million in September as well but that was also behind.

 

[DyanSon]

See? Now you guys know what i feel when MHA numbers is always revealed.

 

[Tarot]

They're only counting the initial prints of each volume. That's the only way it'd make sense.

 

[Aipom626]

Hey guys, I finally finished putting together my charts of the TOC positioning for Weekly Shonen Jump, with and without color pages included. As Oricon has revealed, it was another good year for WSJ. However, if you ask the vast majority of new serialization authors, they'd beg to differ. 11 new series premiered in 2018, and 7 of them have already been axed before year end. That number could appear even larger if you take into consideration that 4 of the newest serializations before these were also axed, and Lycopene was transferred out. We also lost 2 slightly older 2017 series (Robot and Spring Weapon), so the time gap in the chronological order of my chart certainly grew this year.

However, not all was bleak for newcomers. The big winner for 2018 was without a doubt Jujutsu Kaisen, being an immediate hit with the Japanese audience. As for the most surprising success is Act-Age, which while t had a bit of a bumpy start, is starting to show some impressive growth and backlog sales. Coming from a team of young newbies and being an unexpected find in a shonen magazine, Act-Age appears to be carving a nice little niche for itself thanks to a strong promotional campaign (enough so that it graduated from the 30K Club!). Respects should be paid for the loss of Saiki and Gintama, whose departure left the future of WSJ's comedy lineup in question. Currently, we have David-kun and Jimoto duking it out to try to fill those big shoes, and I think David-kun may have what it takes to help fill the void Saiki left one day.

As for a few random stats: Dr. Stone had the most color pages with 12 in total. 8 series had perfect attendance (appeared in all 48 issues): Haikyuu!!, Shokugeki no Soma, Hinomaru Zumo, Black Clover, Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san, Kimetsu no Yaiba, The Promised Neverland, and We Never Learn. The series with the lowest standard deviation (lower = position in TOC changes less; higher = position changes more week-to-week) in a positive way was One Piece and in a negative was was Shudan. The largest standard deviation technically went to David-kun and then Jimoto, but since they had so few chapters, I'd declare that Jujutsu Kaisen had the highest one with meaningful results.

So what does it look like 2019 holds in store for WSJ? Issues 1-3 are already premiering 3 new series, all of which seem to have a theme of being dark and edgy. It looks like the editors want another success in the line of Jujutsu Kaisen. As you all know here, I'm a romcom/comedy/SOL reader, so I can't really accurately judge what fans of the action/battle/gory genres want in a series, but perhaps one of these 3 will have what it takes to stick around for awhile. In terms of the old guard, I'd say it may be questionable if Zumo, Shokugeki, and Yuuna survive to the end of 2019. I like Yuuna, sad to see what has happened to Shokugeki, and never read Zumo; so I'd say it largely depends on if any of these newcomers can find success. If not, these 3 may stick around by default. Anime adaptations have already been given to Neverland, WNL, Dr. Stone, and Kimetsu, so it'll be interesting to see what kind of growth these series will have. Hopefully 2019 is a another good one for WSJ!

 

[TxxT]

Gathering the yearly Oricon sales for Haikyu!! you get 33,444,385

Vol.35 also confirmed that the series is at 33 million copies last week

 

[OtterBrigade]

 

[savethecat]

Eeeh

 

[Chuck_Atlas]

No sensei, 0/10 PV

 

[Scruffy8642]

We Can't Animate.

 

[OtterBrigade]

I don't really like any of the voice acting either. All the girls just sound whiny to me.

 

[MangAniMY]

Gathering the yearly Oricon sales for Haikyu!! you get 33,444,385

Vol.35 also confirmed that the series is at 33 million copies last week

those are not including 2012 numbers (vol 1,2, & 3) that adds a minimum of 236,021 known to that total (from only five week out of possible ~24 weeks max)

Spoiler: assumption

and logically/mathematically from how a volume does throughout a given year, anywhere between 370k - 450k for that year

 

[SharkBait]

seems like oricon overreports., unless stores are also selling preowned copies and those get counted as well, which would seem odd but no one specified that, though oricon also doesnt count every store (probably), so its probably better to put more faith in the copies in circulation than in a 3rd part reporting service.

 

[Caiops]

Wow, looks so static.

Disappointed with the animation.

 

[SharkBait]

Surprised Crunchyroll got the BLack Clover jump festa special, is it the only time we've ever got one outside of gintama?

 

[MangAniMY]

seems like oricon overreports., unless stores are also selling preowned copies and those get counted as well, which would seem odd but no one specified that, though oricon also doesnt count every store (probably), so its probably better to put more faith in the copies in circulation than in a 3rd part reporting service.

that is why whenever reporting something it always important to state which tracker is used and is kept consistent. I also think word from publisher the most important source. (I just like tracking oricon personally since it is more fun)

I think Savi mentioned a while back that Oricon only track major retailers and also doesn't includes archive copies and library, and if it is the same as CD they don't count all the international sales of the Japanese version.

 

[Nemesis]

Yeah, PV look mediocre in the animation. The art is better than I expected but still kind of generic compared to the manga which I already expected.

I'll watch to see the character animated as I always do with adaptations of manga that I read but I'm not expecting too much. At least it looks better than Yuna tho